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Science fiction is once again rearing its preposterous head. The Time Tunnel (ABC) meanwhile provides a new dimension for last year's Lost in Space. Project TicToc headquarters is housed 800 floors below the Arizona desert and is developing capability to thrust explorers into any time period, past or present. The first human test pilot is propelled back five decades, finds himself in the Atlantic on the Titanic. The captain naturally thinks his visitor is some kind of nut and locks...
...Jersey Turnpike has done well enough to pay for the early redemption of $136 million worth of its bonds. Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Bridge near Annapolis carries more than double the original estimate of traffic, the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel 20% more. Maryland authorities are looking for ways to build second crossings for both links. Kentucky, Oklahoma, Ohio and Texas turnpikes all earn two to three times more than they need to pay interest on the bond issues that built them...
...biggest and newest toll in trouble is the $200 million Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. With a trestle highway broken by two bridges and two tunnels, it covers 17½ miles between Norfolk and Cape Charles, across the stormy mouth of Chesapeake Bay. It is an engineering wonder that cuts the old 1½-hour ferry ride to 25 minutes of scenic driving. But traffic is only a little over half of what the experts predicted. As a result, revenue is not enough to provide the interest on the $200 million in bonds issued by the bridge-tunnel. Interest charges...
...TIME TUNNEL (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Two scientists surmount the barriers of the past and future in an adventure series starring James Darren and Robert Colbert...
...that the mayors often do not have the full authority needed to cope with them. In New York City, for example, Mayor Lindsay must go hat in hand to the state legislature for money, is unable to fuse the income of the independent Port Authority and Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority into the city's finances. Atlanta's Mayor Allen, like many other big-city mayors, is hampered by the intransigence of a rural-dominated state legislature. And, though Sam Yorty may have more authority than he cares to exercise, the fact remains that his power is severely...