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...this produced the most vigorous security efforts in aviation history, measures that will now largely become a permanent part of U.S. air travel. At the direction of the President and the Department of Transportation, airlines from now on must increase the guarding of access to parked planes, tighten baggage and passenger scrutiny and make more strenuous efforts to prevent guns and explosives from being taken aboard commercial aircraft. The new procedures and equipment will cost the airlines dearly, and doubtless annoy and delay travelers. But there is no alternative to a menace that, unchecked, could cause serious disruptions...
...economic jolts. When a Swede cannot work because of sickness, he is insured against lost wages. When he is too old to work (over 67), he can collect up to two-thirds of his salary annually. Cities are sparkling clean, and police and fire services are excellent. Rail transport is modern and efficient, as are the highways. A monthly ticket on Stockholm's smooth-running subway, good for unlimited rides, costs...
...February issues of the Archives of Dermatology and Archives of Internal Medicine, the articles ask for assistance in finding Roberta Brent Smith, 27, who is under indictment for conspiracy to transport illegal explosives across the Arizona-California state line. There is a detailed physical description and explanation of why the request is being directed at physicians: Smith suffers from severe, chronic acne that may cause her to seek medical attention...
Eventually, Lufthansa-or the West German government, which owns 74% of its stock-paid $5,000,000. "Had it been only the plane, I wouldn't have given a penny," said West German Transport Minister Georg Leber afterward. By paying the blackmail, though, Leber had established a rather ominous precedent...
...poem, his right hand arched upwards into the smoky spotlight air in a mighty gesture of evangelism. Yet the cosmopoet was always stagebound, always in his political poems, judging the audience's response. A nervous sense of commercialism shackled his ascent. The sublime, that mostly mystical state of imaginative transport, eluded him and certainly his audience. And certainly one can not expect to find his highest excellence of art in the nuts and bolts of topical evanescence in the bump and bulk of rush-hour urgency...