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Partly because Camp Alpha is about as cheerful as a bus depot, there is no great sense of liberated joy among the troops in transit. "I guess that we are all happy inside," said one airman last week, "but the outside is still numb...
Riots aside, poverty and urban disintegration looked much the same at the beginning and at the end of the Johnson years: inadequate welfare, no public housing to speak of, mass transit crumbling while highways and airports were expanding, lousy schools and low-paying, deadening jobs for the people of the center cities. (Unemployment was lower in 1968 than in 1963, because of higher war-related employment--a solution to the problem which was neither attractive nor permanent.) In the Johnson years Dick Gregory remarked on the government's failure to institute rat control: "They claim they can't kill...
Other cities do not have to go to the extreme of gas rationing, but their own transportation plans will undoubtedly change old, freewheeling ways. In general, TIME found in roundup interviews last week, the cities count on three simultaneous measures. They will improve mass-transit systems (mainly bus) by buying new equipment and reserving highway lanes for express buses to the suburbs. They will require that old cars be "retrofitted" with devices to reduce exhaust emissions. Finally, they will encourage car pools by incentives such as free trips through toll gates...
...Boat Builder Ken Mobert of San Rafael, Calif., is played on a Y-shaped board with 108 squares and 18 irregular quadrilaterals. Six of the quadrilaterals -which are located in the triangular zone, or interface, where the three sectors of the board meet-are colored red and called "transit points." As in traditional chess, each player starts out with a regulation army of 16 pieces -red, black or white-which move in the standard way, unless they land on a transit point. Then strange things can happen. A bishop, for example, can transfer from a diagonal row of white squares...
...doesn't know how to get out." So a Belgian priest complained to the management of Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Intercontinental Airport, less grandly known as Fiumicino (Little River). Infernal it is. On an average day the 22,000 passengers who land, take off or transit at Fiumicino on 62 different commercial carriers participate in a drama worthy of Dante...