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...Bloody Mary $10. But as one sits on the eastern terrace of the Deux Magots in a spring sunset, looking out toward the medieval church spire across a newly installed array of lilacs, tulips and apple trees all in flower, one can hardly help feeling that such a vista is worth almost any price...
...power company have proposed a radical solution to the problem of powering electric cars: electrify the roads. Last week they announced a $2 million demonstration project in which electric cables will be run under 300 meters (1,000 ft.) of roadway in a west Los Angeles development called Playa Vista. Electricity from the cables would be used both to power electric cars and to recharge their batteries for travel on conventional roads...
Electrifying even a few short stretches of roadway could increase the range and effectiveness of such voltswagens dramatically. Developers in Playa Vista hope to wire the subdivision's two-mile main artery and service the neighborhood with all-electric trucks and vans. Edison's Reeves dreams of extending the network until it crisscrosses the state. Electrifying one or two lanes of a freeway, he says, might be enough to keep fleets of buses and cars charged up. People wedded to gas-gulping cars could still drive on electrified highways, but they might get dirty looks from the new breed...
...sting came after repeated investigations into broader corruption among Barry associates had failed to snare the mayor. The FBI's inability to pin a charge on Barry bolstered the belief among some in Washington that Hazel Diane (Rasheeda) Moore lured the mayor to the Vista International Hotel only after authorities pressured...
After the Lewis incident, Barry is said to have joked among friends that they would never again see him in a local hotel. Why he went to the Vista to visit Moore remains a mystery. For now, however, Washington's mayor is checked into a very different residential facility. For 28 days, his routine will be filled with exercise, tough-love group therapy and chores such as vacuuming and mopping...