Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tormented Transit. Typically, it all started with notes that Lowry, an inveterate journal keeper, took during a trip to Mexico in late 1945 and early 1946. "By God, we have a novel here!" Lowry cried on first rereading them. Editor Day more accurately describes Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid as "a notebook on its way to becoming a novel." Yet this fragmented, compulsively self-centered, brilliant half book does not at all misrepresent its author. For Lowry was less a novelist than, in Day's words, "a diarist, compulsive notetaker, poet manqué, alcoholic, philosophizing...
...hostile East Germany, West Berlin depends for survival upon its right of free access to West Germany. Last week that right suddenly acquired a price. In a swift move, the regime of Communist Boss Walter Urbricht forced all West German and West Berlin travelers through East Germany to buy transit visas at $2.50 a round trip. After July 1, truckers and bargers will be required to pay new taxes on their cargoes, and after July 15 all West German travelers will be required to carry passports (in the past they needed only identity cards). In all, the East Germans will...
...security, conferred about what to do. The painful decision was to do nothing, aside from making a few perfunctory gestures. Kiesinger flew in a U.S. Air Force plane to West Berlin, where he promised that the Bonn government would pick up the tab for the East German transit charges, and the three allies sent a protest to the Soviets, whom they hold responsible for the maintenance of free access to West Berlin...
...order to reach his plane. Airport access roads are becoming altogether too crowded, and cities are searching for new ways to cover the distance. One is helicopters, but they have generally proved uneconomical to operate. Cleveland this fall will begin service on a 4.2-mile, $18,600,000 rapid-transit spur that will convey travelers by train from downtown to Hopkins Airport. New York is similarly experimenting with buses that can go part of the way to Kennedy by rail. Most cities, however, are unimpressed by fixed-route service, since downtown passengers are now only a fraction of the total...
...loss of Thresher with 129 men aboard, Scorpion's demise appeared to have nothing to do with inadequate shipyard maintenance: she ostensibly got a "Four 0"-i.e., excellent -rating in an overhaul only last summer, and had performed superbly in the Mediterranean. Had she not remained incommunicado in transit but been required to signal her position every 24 hours, the Navy might at least know approximately where Scorpion lies and how she foundered. That information could at least benefit submariners of the future...