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...also one of the least visited. The sere, solemn world of Leptis Magna lies 76 desert miles east of Tripoli on Libya's Barbary Coast, reachable only by primitive bus or costly taxi. There are no guards in sight, and visitors often go home with a bit of the Classical Age in their pockets-usually a marble shard. It is possible for a traveler to ramble through this forest of fluted stone and broken stone bodies for hours without meeting anything at all of the present except himself, the burning...
Reflecting Runway. A reflecting paint for airport runways and taxi strips that makes them brightly visible at night is being sold by Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. The mixture, called Scotch-Rok, reflects a plane's landing lights two miles away...
...increased medical costs (up in Atlanta 4.5% over last year) and dozens of minor expenses, e.g., shoeshines (up 10? to 35? in Sacramento) and haircuts (up 25? to $2 in San Francisco). Everywhere, middle-income families felt the pinch of such pressures as rising commuter fares, real estate prices, taxi taxes, pipe tobacco and cigar taxes, real estate taxes, school taxes, gasoline taxes. The state of Washington alone has new tax increases this year on liquor (5%), real estate rentals (.4%), business transactions (10%), and even a brand new thought-earth-moving...
...League, a handy athlete, hard drinker, scholar, and an author with a collection of short stories to his credit before he attains his majority. When he takes his girl friend to Bermuda (this at 17 or so), he does not buy the island, but, next best, he rents a taxi for the entire stay and wins a samba tournament. ''They were something!'' an onlooker reports breathlessly. "She always wore blue, and Lee always wore white. And I've never seen any two people drink so much and hold it so well...
...doing odd jobs. In London, broader-minded officials gave him a permit to study in the U.S., but Njoroge had to borrow passage money (he still hopes to pay back the ?60), arrived in the U.S. in the fall of 1951 with just 3?. A fellow passenger lent him taxi money and $1.50 for a Y.M.C.A. room; the Committee on Friendly Relations Among Foreign Students lent him $70 bus fare to get to California. After a succession of odd jobs and premed studies, he finally entered Stanford University School of Medicine, got his M.D. in 1957, interned at Brooklyn...