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...against air and noise pollution caused by Logan Airport, and her support of Congressman Udall came after his strong condemnation of the decision to allow the Concorde to land in the United States, and his strong support for full federal support of a Northeast passenger rail system and mass transit...
...hardly the kind of New Year's celebration that Spain's King Juan Carlos had in mind. Early last week 3,800 workers in Madrid's rapid-transit system called an illegal strike, leaving the capital without subway service and causing giant traffic jams. The strikers demanded half of a recent fare increase as a $600-per-person wage raise. Thousands of workers in other industries staged sympathy demonstrations that police broke up with tear...
Richard L. Strout '19, who writes under the column-head TRB for The New Republic (Strout says the title is the reverse of the initials of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, hastily improvised under deadline years ago) says of the Peretz-Harrison arrangement, "I don't see how any same person would have thought it would last." The arrangement for Peretz to be Harrison's apprentice but also owner of the magazine was an "artificial situation with a built-in conflict," Strout says...
Feisty headlines are an old fixture at the News, which has long delighted straphangers with such morning eye-openers as SICK TRANSIT, INGLORIOUS MONDAY after a brief subway snarl-up, HE'S BARISH ON AMERICA when a young stockbroker went streaking on Wall Street, and BOOLA BOOLA, MOOLA MOOLA over a story on the earning power of Yale graduates. Inside, however, much of the News these days is new. After decades of preoccupation with ax murders, "sexsational" divorce cases and other tabloid staples, the Noo Yawk News is going respectable...
...bill makes physical interference with "federal government functions" a felony. Virtually any kind of civil rights or peace demonstration could at any moment by prohibited under this provision. Similarly, a vague redefinition of sabotage as anything that interferes with public transit could have jailed thousands of anti-Vietnam war demonstrators...