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...forgotten amid America's sudden love affair with the shuttle were its $9.9 billion price tag (at a 30% cost overrun), all those loose tiles, the exploding engines, even the last-minute computer failure, to say nothing of the inevitable jokes about America's "space lemon" and "flying brickyard." Could past scorn actually have increased the passion of this new embrace? The shuttle had become a kind of technological Rocky, the bum who perseveres to the end, the underdog who finally wins. Columbia's success, explained Milwaukee Sociologist Wayne Youngquist, "ties in with so many...
...including Hampton Roads, Baltimore, New Orleans and Mobile, need to be dredged to the 55-ft. depth required by the supercolliers. But congressional appropriations for these projects have been held up for years, while lawmakers wrangle about which port should be first and worry about the multibillion-dollar price tag...
...bulldozer. In sanctioning the outrage afterward, Marchais declared, "We do not want a new Harlem or a new Soweto in the Paris suburbs." By so nakedly exploiting the immigrant issue, Marchais obviously hoped to increase the Communist vote among lower-class suburbanites. But other leftists put a balder tag on the Communist tactics: "Red fascism." -By Marguerite Johnson...
...auto industry, almost without notice, has glided past another ominous milestone. When General Motors two weeks ago raised the price of its cars by about $351, the sticker price for the average GM car climbed just slightly above $10,000. A decade ago, such a five-figure price tag was reserved for fancy limousines and recklessly expensive sports cars. Today it would buy only a modishly equipped Oldsmobile Delta. -ByEdward?. Scharff...
President Reagan, however, has reaffirmed support for Manhattan's Westway, a six-lane superhighway slated to run for 4.6 miles along the Hudson River. The highway, with an estimated price tag of $1.7 billion, would receive 90% of its funding from the Federal Government. New York City Mayor Edward Koch has blocked the project in an effort to get parallel funds from Albany for mass transit improvements or to get Governor Hugh Carey to ask Washington to trade in highway funds for transit money...