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...Blue Angels and the R.A.F.'s Red Arrows performed dramatic aerial acrobatics. But the real stars last week at Transpo 72, the $10 million Department of Transportation show at Dulles International Airport near Washington, were little vehicles that will never leave the ground: the Personal Rapid Transit systems, or PRTs...
JOBS. Conceding that his proposed 40% cut in the defense budget would temporarily cause some unemployment, McGovern is trying to convince California workers that steadier jobs would be created if defense and aerospace industries shifted to such peacetime needs as mass-transit facilities, housing and environmental cleanup. During the conversion, he proposes that laid-off workers be paid up to 80% of their salary for one year...
Europe's most elaborate duty-free shops are at Shannon airport in Ireland and Amsterdam's Schiphol. Visitors to the ould sod-even those in transit-can browse through huge quantities of bulky hand-knit sweaters ($19.75 and up), Connemara blankets ($9.75), Royal Tara china and linen. The same merchandise is taxed up to 17% outside the duty-free area, but occasionally it can be found on sale for less than airport prices. Amsterdam's 25-store operation is a veritable shopping center, offering unset diamonds, a large selection of Dutch silverware, typewriters, electronic calculators and film...
Friends of the Earth, an environmental group, has filed complaints against three New York TV stations for refusing to counter automobile and gasoline advertising with ads that extol mass transit and show the evils of auto pollution. The environmentalists have argued, with support from a federal appeals court, that stations must run such commercials under the fairness doctrine. But most broadcasters are resisting on the grounds that such requirements are a threat to the autonomy of commercial broadcasting...
These days, Anthony reports, "there are a growing number [of young people] who do not view themselves as passengers in transit through a phase of development but as persons who have arrived at their destination and are not interested in going any further"-certainly not in the direction set by materialistic, achievement-oriented parents who expect youngsters to perform like adults. "Nothing is more aging than this constant pressure," Anthony believes. The problem, then, "is to get the parent off the adolescent's back" so he can have fun while he is young and choose his own goals when...