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High Prices. With Sam Ervin's committee still in recess, local preoccupations could get a hearing. Los Angeles and Denver laid plans for new mass transit systems. California's legislature voted to restore the death penalty for eleven specific categories of offenses, ranging from killing a policeman to causing a fatality by willfully wrecking a train; the state thus hoped to meet the Supreme Court's objections to indiscriminate capital punishment. South Dakota and Missouri debated ways to make their state governments more efficient. Portland, Ore., talked of saving electricity by eliminating high school football games...
Airtrans. To move people round the airport there is Airtrans, a 13-mile system of automatic electric-powered tracked vehicles that ride on a cushion of air. The system can carry 9,000 passengers, 6,000 pieces of baggage and 70,000 lbs. of mail every hour. Even though transit passengers may have to cover more than three miles from one plane to another, they can reach any point in the airport in about ten minutes...
...presumed to be prostitutes, Danner gets herself arrested. At her trial the next day, the barely mussed carefully made-up liberated lady is so stupefied by her night in jail that she is unable to open her mouth, whereupon hubby gallantly wins the case for her. Sic transit Gloria Steinem...
...warfare between the President and Congress has not been total, however. Nixon has signed 25 major bills passed by Congress. They include a new farm program that provides payments to farmers when prices fall below a certain level; a highway act that allows cities to finance mass transit from the Highway Trust Fund; an economic stabilization act that continues for another year the President's authority to impose wage and price controls; and a boost in Social Security payments. Despite his tough rhetoric, the President has also shown a willingness to compromise on bills extending public health services, providing...
...shoot. They set deadline after dead line for the arrival of the plane and their departure, and each time one deadline expired they set another. About 27 hours after they entered the embassy. Syrian Arab Airlines had provided a Caravelle jet and the French government had arranged for safe transit...