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When he was a younger man, it might have occured to Harris that he should simply quit politics. He has a promising future as a lobbyist for the Southeastern Pennsylvanian Transportation Association (SEPTA), the local mass transit network. He wants to spend more time with his two sons. But at 39, Harris knows that he will not quit, despite the reapportionment or whatever comes next. Making a machine work is what he enjoys most. "It gives me an opportunity to serve," he says. "Plus, I enjoy influencing things around the township. People come to me to ask for things...
...chief architect-planner, calls "a rural-urban balance" throughout the city. Nowhere in MXC will there be skyscrapers ("Psychologically alienating," says Pinney, who used to work with Los Angeles City Planner William Pereira). In their place will be "megastructures" complete with their own housing units, streets and transit systems...
...Highway Trust Fund, which now finances only highway construction, to provide money for new mass transit systems...
...unlimited flow of tax dollars into such seemingly impractical schemes as a manned mission to Mars and the construction of giant new atom smashers. Instead, many Americans want scientists to turn their energies and ingenuity to the solution of pressing national problems-pollution, say, or the inadequacies of mass transit and the spread of drug addiction. Indeed, the same pressures have also come from some scientists themselves, especially the young radicals who have been staging the noisy "science for the people" demonstrations at professional gatherings. As a result, Nixon and some of his most bitter foes have suddenly become unlikely...
...Rhodesia were forced into an uneasy cohabitation by economic necessity. Zambia needed Rhodesia to transport half of its copper to the Indian Ocean port of Beira in Mozambique for shipment to world markets; Rhodesia needed the $25 million a year that the copper shipments brought its railroad in transit revenue. The arrangement-a triumph of pragmatism over politics-has now been scuttled by a series of guerrilla attacks by exiled black Rhodesian rebels who operate under an umbrella organization called FROLIZI (Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe-the African term for Rhodesia). After a particularly bloody outburst during the Christmas...