Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from here to there has been a challenge to man since his time began. Today transportation is a greater challenge than ever; more than a huge industry, it is the plexus of modern society, the maze that makes the system go-or causes it to break down. In this issue, four stories in our U.S. and WORLD BUSINESS sections look into one aspect or another of transportation-safety devices becoming standard equipment on American cars, a Soviet attempt to emulate capitalist mass production of autos, the huge freighters of the future, and a set of far-out projects reported...
...cover these and other stories, TIME reporters themselves were moving about in a variety of vehicles ranging from the pedestrian to the exotic. Working on the whooshing-machines story, Munich Correspondent Franz Spelman sedately surveyed an international transport show from an electronically guided monorail that circled the grounds at a majestic six miles an hour. On the same story was the Tokyo Bureau's Sungyung Chang, who went to Nagoya to have a look at a model of a new 600-m.p.h. "sonic gliding vehicle." On his way there, Chang traveled on a train that moved at a mere...
...press was not welcome at the funeral of Porfirio Rubirosa, the Paris Bureau's Robert Smith dressed in black, hired a black-capped chauffeur and a black limousine and set out to cover the story. He had no trouble. Naturally the most varied and militant types of transport were put to use by our Saigon Bureau staffers, all out on this week's coverage of Viet Nam. Their means of travel included jet, helicopter, truck, taxi, rented car, jeep, armored personnel carrier-and, of course, jungle boots...
What caused the phenomenon is, of course, the invincible development of an industrial supereconomy, which created U.S. prosperity along with the tireless machines, the miracles of transport and communication, the manifold service industries that perform many of the functions once performed by servants. The same is happening in Western Europe; only backward countries are still without a "servant problem...
...earth to share with them the excitement and thrills you experienced," said Johnson. Still smiling, McDivitt and White-accompanied by their wives-hurried off to the Paris Air Show, where the Russians had captured all eyes with Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, and a huge 250-ton transport. Vice President Hubert Humphrey escorted the U.S. space twins and was himself scheduled to meet with Charles de Gaulle. No sooner had the group landed at Le Bourget airfield, where Charles Lindbergh touched down after flying the Atlantic in 1927, than the astronauts went through their umpteenth press conference...