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Workers in the tent are busy with wood, linen and airplane dope making a new flying tab-the movable vertical control surface-for the 49-ft.-high rudder. Not long ago, rain and wind invaded the tent and damaged the rudder, which seems to have been repaired once before, since it bears an inked notation saying that it was worked on in April 1954. A few months before that, Soderberg says, floodwaters surged across Terminal Island, and the Goose was knocked loose from its tie downs, and the tail was damaged. The night of the flood, more than 25 years...
...program in history": the interstate highway system. Now in its silver anniversary year, the 42,500-mi. network is only 94% finished, but 8,000 miles of pavement are so badly worn that they must be rebuilt. Though the U.S. Government has picked up 90% of the $79 billion tab for interstate construction so far, it has given the states almost no money for maintenance and state legislatures have been slow to provide funds to keep up the highways. To make matters worse, Congress in 1974 lifted the truck weight limit on federal highways from...
...hero-in Shelby, N.C. Teen-age actors play at deadly gang wars-in Boston. The radical political spirit of the northern frontier is put on film-in Crosby, N. Dak. A company of actors turn 30, and another young man makes a movie about it-in North Conway, N.H. Tab Hunter and a 300-lb. transvestite named Divine enact a suburban passion play-in Baltimore...
...many people ankle up to a bar and ask for a lemonade? Fools is a lemonade play. It has a homey flavor, and it is not altogether unrefreshing, but it lacks the comic belt to command Broadway's current tab of $25 a shot...
Public transportation is in hot demand again, but today no one wants to pick up the tab. A decade ago, to lure people back to mass transit, city and state officials made the mistake of holding fares to unrealistically low levels. From 1970 to 1975, while inflation was rising nearly 40%, fares were not increased at all in many cities; in some, they actually decreased. Mass transit was the closest thing to a free ride...