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...compartments is the road to environmental disaster. Americans must view the world in terms of unities rather than units. To recognize the interdependence of all creatures is to see all kinds of follies?from the one-occupant cars that choke highways to the tax policies that discourage mass transit and land preservation...
Flamboyant O. Roy Chalk has made millions in Manhattan real estate, but as a transportation magnate he has sometimes spun his wheels. He failed in a bid to buy the New York City subway system some years ago, and the deteriorating bus service provided by his D.C. Transit System has annoyed Washingtonians. He founded Trans Caribbean Airways in 1945, and has since run it as a family company: his wife is secretary and interior decorator, his brother-in-law is executive vice president, and a son-in-law is a director. The line lost money heavily last year, and Chalk...
...auto. Students are demonstrating to ban everything from pesticides to offshore oil wells. Well versed by now in the techniques of protest, they are even turning to the courts for help. A group of Washington law students recently brought legal action to force the capital's transit authority to muzzle the fumes from its diesel buses...
That is an increase of $1,259 in just two years, and it fails to take into account this month's 50% increase in the transit fare. Nearly three-quarters of the city's population live in families that earn less than $11,236. The bureau's "lower standard"-a subsistence budget allowing for only $1,022 beyond taxes and the utter necessities of life-is now up to $6,771. Yet the average wage for a production worker in the New York region last year amounted to only $6,527. In free translation, the Government...
...Authority is very pleased with the new cars," said MBTA general manager Leo J. Cusick. "And incidentally, these cars are the first aluminum transit cars to be built in United States...