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...trucks, telephone poles and paving stones. Traffic in Belfast and most other Ulster towns came to a standstill. Fruits and vegetables rotted in locked shops, and electricity shortages threatened to shut down sewage-treatment plants. In the countryside, farmers dumped thousands of gallons of milk because they lacked transport...
...training camps in Tanzania. Black rule would mean a certain end to the virtual carte blanche that Rhodesian security forces now enjoy to go guerrilla hunting in the Mozambican bush. More important, a new government in the territory's capital, Lourenço Marques, might well refuse to transport Rhodesian goods by road and rail to Indian Ocean ports-meaning economic disaster...
...terrestrial creation. Designed by the All American Engineering Co. of Wilmington, Del., the Aerocrane, as it is called, is an unlikely cross between helicopter and balloon. It should easily outperform both in at least one important respect: the ability to hoist huge weights straight up from the ground and transport them across the countryside...
...earth-moon system cancel each other out.* Any object placed at these points would remain there rather than fall toward the earth or moon. For his first stations, O'Neill proposes two 1,000-yard-long minicylinders for only 10,000 people, which would require the transport and assembly in space of some 10,000 tons of material from earth. These basic components would be ferried piecemeal by successive trips of NASA'S proposed space shuttle and space...
With blue carpeting and simulated yellow-stained-glass windows, pulpit and miniature organ, the decor of the three tiny chapels is Modern Fundamentalist. What distinguishes the houses of worship is their mobility. Semitrailers with lighted crosses on their tractor cabs, they belong to Transport for Christ, a nomadic nondenominational mission to the truckers of North America. The mobile chapels can usually be found parked smack amidst a clutter of oil drums, automobiles and other semitrailer rigs at spots like the Mid-Continent Truck Stop in Mesquite, Texas, or the Mass. 10 Truck Stop outside Boston...