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...airport is called, will be completed in three stages: the first ending Oct. 28 of this year, the second in 1985 and the third in 2001. Larger than Manhattan Island, the prairie complex was designed to meet virtually every known airport problem. Its spacious runway system, planned to be tripled in capacity, will easily handle peak loads well into the 21st century...
...Biscayne, Fla., and San Clemente, Calif., are announced in advance, and provision is made for correspondents to bring along their families (at their own expense, of course) on the chartered press plane. When the newsmen reach their sunny destinations, reports Fischer, "The press lodgings are usually splendid and spacious, but they are many miles from either of the presidential residences...
...Harvard you will live in a spacious room. You will have the greatest university library system in the world. You will have comfortable leather chairs. Your textbooks will be authored by your professor...
Refugees cram the city's once spacious environs, building their temporary houses of wood and palm leaves along the boulevards like so many hot-dog stands on the way to the Rose Bowl. But this is not a game. About 3,000 wives and children of the richer families have already fled to France and their European bank accounts. Yet Phnom-Penh is far from chaos. The Khmers do not panic easily...
Bujumbura, the seedy capital (pop. 75,000), where spacious villas dot rolling green hills overlooking the vast blue expanse of Lake Tanganyika, has become virtually a Tutsi town. The few Hutus left are keeping a low profile. "The Hutus will never stop grasping for power, and the Tutsis will fight to the last man to keep it." a Belgian businessman told me. "I honestly cannot see any end to the killing. I only thank God that they are leaving the whites out of it." Elsewhere, the Tutsis and Hutus seem to be living together without trouble-at least...