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...base, which doubled in the '60s, is expected to grow half again as big before 1980. All together, some $3.3 billion in construction has been scheduled for the next few years, including a 70-story hotel, six office buildings, a trade mart and a $1.3 billion rapid-transit system approved by voters late last year...
...MASSELL, 44, who took over from longtime Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. in 1970 to become Atlanta's first Jewish mayor. Although he won election against a more conservative Chamber of Commerce candidate, Massell has worked closely with the business community in promoting the rapid-transit proposal. He has also pressed for state legislative approval of a massive annexation plan that would expand the city boundaries to include most of the metropolitan area and, not so incidentally, stem the flow of whites from the center city. Meanwhile, Massell faces a potentially stiff challenge in next year's mayoral election...
Wagner also insists that industrial nations must put more money into mass transit and less into autos. "The car is making our cities uninhabitable," he says. "That may sound silly from somebody who sells gasoline. But better mass transit is mandatory because it does not waste as much space and energy as the car does." Wagner does not always need a gasoline guzzler to get around; he recently bought a bicycle and cycles frequently along The Netherlands' picturesque canal banks...
...family Zhiguli comes to a thickly wooded area about 20 miles southwest of Moscow, he had better resist the temptation to park his car and stroll among the pines and birches. Just to remind him, a NO STOPPING line is painted along the side of the road, TRANSIT ONLY signs prohibit him from pausing in villages along the way, and NO ENTRY notices block all side streets. There is also a forbidding 10-ft. green wooden fence, set back from the road and stretching for miles. If, despite these warnings, he should pull off the shoulder even for a moment...
Elsewhere, the pleasingly plump issue (132 pages) makes for better reading. The critical sections-books, ballet, music, films-are excellent. There is a warm, highly readable story on Philanthropist Louis Schweitzer, an intriguing discussion of world mass-transit problems, and a thoughtful piece on the future of education. Selden Rodman, the Haiti buff, contributes an upbeat piece on life in the Caribbean republic. A photo spread of aerial landscapes shot by Dr. George Gerster, a Swiss science editor, is beautifully laid...