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...ECONOMY). He beat back an attempt by the Senate to undercut his foreign policy. He made a startling offer to go before Congress to explain why he had pardoned Richard Nixon. He met with 22 of the nation's mayors and pledged to sign an $11.8 billion mass-transit bill. He reorganized his fumbling White House staff. Though he was obviously distracted by his wife's bout with cancer and visited her every day at the hospital, he also dined with congressional friends, threw a party for retiring members of Congress and was host at a white...
...enough when they were motionless; but when they started to move, and sympathetic vibrations set in, it was more than any warm-blooded male should be asked to take. He was quite sure that at least one serious space accident had been caused by acute crew distraction, after the transit of an unholstered lady officer through the control cabin...
Cloverleaf Visions. Today fumes from the internal-combustion engine and the fuel crisis seem to have America by the throat and pocketbook. Mass transit in most large cities is in a state of near collapse. Assessed with hindsight at such a time, Robert Moses' life and works sound baneful indeed. But as Caro himself points out, Moses was a visionary. He anticipated the onrush of the automobile age long before it came and tried to do something about it. When he started building public parks, nobody else was doing it, and his idea that they should be recreation areas...
...provocative Rand study is based on a shaky hypothesis-that the automakers can create effective antipollution devices and that motorists will maintain them. Doubting Thomas Bradley, mayor of Los Angeles, prefers to back the rapid-transit proposal. "He does not feel he can rely solely on Detroit to clean up our air," says an aide. The net result of the study, besides pointing out that the clean air act's standards may be unrealistically strict, is to prove again to the besieged and besmogged voters of Los Angeles that there are no easy environmental answers...
...year's Forest Hills winner, stayed home in Australia because she recently gave birth to her second child. Superstar-Entrepreneur Billie Jean King has lately been in something of a slump. Thus much of the suspense settled on the question of whether Chris Evert could complete her rapid transit from crown princess to empress of the sport. Grass is not her favorite surface, though that did not stop her from taking the Wimbledon crown this summer. But King's grit could reassert itself, and a number of foreign competitors, including Australia's Evonne Goolagong and Russia...