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...cars. The old manufacturing centers of the Midwest and East-steelmaking Pittsburgh and Youngstown, tiremaking Akron, glassmaking Toledo, many others-rise or decline along with the fortunes of autos. St. Louis, Kansas City, Wilmington, Del., and dozens more cities are automaking centers. In the Far West (where public transit is grossly inadequate) and the Plains states (where communities are separated by long distances), people must drive or suffer immobility. Of course, they can and must do more car pooling. That is difficult for many: the suburbanite who works the night shift, the construction laborer who moves from site to site...
...Boeing, Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas and other planemakers would benefit. But resorts in South Florida and New York's Catskills would be hit hard because most people go there by car. Roadside motels would suffer, but rents of apartments and values of houses close to city centers and public transit would climb...
...size of Schwartz's fee troubled many Bostonians. A transit authority spokesman noted that Boeing Vertol -and not the M.B.T.A.-had to pay the legal bill. "An outrage," countered influential State Representative Barney Frank. "The size of the fee had to have some effect on the size of the settlement...
Schwartz's defenders note that both in absolute dollars and as a percentage, his fee is smaller than that awarded in a San Francisco transit settlement. Critics, however, see the Boston circumstances as different: Schwartz was involved in the suit for only two months rather than years, on behalf of an agency that depends on taxpayers to cover two-thirds of its budget. As Frank puts it, "When the public sector is as desperately poor as it is, no one ought to get rich...
William H. Bossert, McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and master of Lowell House, called the demonstration "ill-timed and quite inappropriate," adding that Bradshaw "is the only president of an oil company who is for a comprehensive energy plan and for mass transit...