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...among the marginally skilled blacks of the ghettos is three times that of the city's whites. Although it boasts one of the world's busiest airports and a rail network that feeds the Southeast, Atlanta's commuters creep bumper to bumper in rush-hour traffic unrelieved by mass transit. Within minutes of downtown is bucolic countryside?but Peachtree Creek and the Chattahoochee River are badly polluted. Inexorably, Atlanta moves toward repeating the environmental and demographic mistakes of older cities. Neon and tacky developments push the city's fringes across the landscape, and unified planning is just getting under...
...What is the name of the stop on the "L" transit in Chicago if you want to see the game at Wrigley...
...oats," says one angry veteran of Gan. "I'll be married three months after I get off this island. I'm ripe for picking by the first bird who comes along." Others haunt the airport lounge in the hope that the next load of passengers in transit will include a girl they can talk to-or even just look at. Most flights passing through carry the R.A.F. equivalent of a stewardess, known technically as a loadmaster or quartermaster and to the men on Gan as "quartermattress" or, simply "Q." Proof of conquest is almost impossible; the only...
...required levels, big cities like New York would have to vastly increase their use of low-polluting natural gas, which is already in short supply. Most cities would also have to cut or even ban peak-hour auto commuting-and make up for it by building new, nonpolluting rapid transit systems. Unfortunately, the Government is unlikely to share the cities' staggering costs. Nixon's budget request for the Urban Mass Transportation Administration was $400 million, $200 million less than the amount authorized by Congress. The upshot is that few Ruckelshaus standards will be met on time. Yet some...
...million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority will permit construction of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library to begin in June...