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...biggest problem is the airport's vaunted Airtrans, a 13-mile computer-controlled system of tracked trams designed to transport passengers around the terminal perimeter. Because the system was apparently oversensitized, the cars grind to a dismaying halt if even a light bulb fails. The trains often skip stations or fail to open doors after stopping, while passengers inside bang on the windows to get out and those waiting to board bang on the glass to get in. Houston Industrialist Howard Purvis says that he was recently trapped aboard Airtrans "for two complete circuits. Finally, I got off close...
Already in September the University had spent $30,000 to initiate a shuttle bus service. Egged on by the protests of many, including Radcliffe students who were often too frightened to attend evening meetings away from the Quad, Harvard leased two buses on an experimental basis to transport students, free of charge, between the yard, the Business School and Radcliffe, from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. every day. After a slow autumn, when the buses were usually empty, the program began to gain momentum. By February what seemed like fleets of old rattling buses were careening all over the campus...
Arab Tilt. Some key offices have gone to dependable veterans: Rabin's old comrade-in-arms Yigal Allon, 55, becomes Foreign Minister as well as continuing as Deputy Premier, while former Transport and Communications Minister Shimon Peres, 51, takes over Defense from Moshe Dayan. But Rabin has appointed others, including five newcomers, who may tilt Israel's new government toward more flexible dealings with Arab nations. Perhaps his most controversial Cabinet choice is Mrs. Shulamit Aloni, 45, head of the dovish Citizens Rights Movement, who advocates the return of most occupied Arab lands in exchange for a Middle...
...safety lecture, often featuring state highway patrol movies of bloody and fatal accidents. The films serve a dual purpose: a caution against careless driving and a reminder of impending eternity. At a truck terminal in Dallas, Chaplain Mahlon Martin followed a film by giving the assembled drivers a typical Transport for Christ pitch: "People who say that one of these days they'll get it straightened out with the Lord might find that tomorrow is too late." Besides regular services, the two-man chapel crews also offer counseling to lonely or depressed drivers...
...Transport for Christ-and its blend of safety and salvation-was a trucker's idea. It was founded by a Canadian, James W. ("Chaplain Jim") Keys, now 43. Keys, who had driven out of Toronto from the age of 13, was a veteran of a trucker's pleasures. "I wasn't such a great drinker," he says, "but women were a source of evil for me." He had also narrowly escaped death from a flash fire while fueling trucks. "At the ripe old age of 20, I was coming apart." A chance visit to a Toronto church...