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...outskirts of Atlanta, just off Interstate 285. It smells of diesel fuel and looks like a giant J.C. Penney complex, but it is the nearest thing to trucker's heaven yet invented. In it, tired truckers by the hundreds can fill up their 150-gal. tanks, take saunas, wash their clothes, grab a few hours of shuteye, get a quick clutch overhaul and eat their fill. The place has 24 computerized fueling stations that can pump 3 million gal. of gas a month...
...everything from change a 100-lb. tire in 20 min. to make an oil and filter change in 40. There are four en closed repair bays, and sometimes the big rigs are lined up three and four deep waiting for service. At another bay, an automatic truck wash with 16-ft. brushes scours the outsides of 55-ft.-long tractor trailers in eight minutes at a cost...
...under its new (since April 1977) chairman, A. Daniel O'Neal, 42, the ICC is now solidly for deregulation. A soft-voiced, informal lawyer (he wears short-sleeved shirts even in January) from Bremerton, Wash., O'Neal learned the ICC's operations as a consumer-minded staff member of the Senate Commerce Committee. He was named to the then eleven-member ICC (since reduced to six) by President Nixon in 1973, but it was not until Jimmy Carter made him chairman that he drew a bead on the set of regulations that had almost stamped out price...
...Tech and dine with several Governors and other dignitaries. Next, in Houston, Teng may call at the NASA Space Center, look at some specimens of the latest oil-drilling technology, and sample a Texas-style barbecue. Finally, he will probably be shown the Boeing 747 assembly line at Everett, Wash., before heading back to China...
...began cool and overcast, but by early afternoon the skies were a wash of bright blue. In Tehran, the throngs were filling the streets to begin once more their daily demonstrations. If the protesters had looked upward, they would have seen a blue and white Boeing 727 swing over the city, circle once and turn away. The pilot of that plane was Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, taking a long, perhaps last look at the capital of his realm. For years he had lived under the illusion that he was a monarch beloved by his 34 million subjects; for years...