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...times and keeps them safely separated. Theoretically, Ford says, the computer makes it possible to leave as little as two-second intervals between cars operating at 30 m.p.h. Last week the company announced that it would install its first PRT system in Dearborn, Mich. The two-mile loop will connect Ford's headquarters with another office complex, a shopping center and a hotel. Later, Ford intends to install a larger system in a 32-acre redevelopment tract in downtown Detroit...
...Boeing system, also wheeled and computer-operated along guide-ways, will use 21-passenger cars and is already being installed in Morgantown, W. Va. When the 31-mile circuit is opened for full operation late in 1973, it will connect the downtown area with three campuses of West Virginia University. Riders will be whisked along at 35 m.p.h. and will have to wait no longer than 27 minutes at any of twelve stations. Guideways can be warmed by circulating hot water to keep them free of snow and ice during winter...
...most ambitious Harvard Square development, currently underway, consists of changing a sizeable garage at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Boylston Streets into a shopping mall. The mall, tentatively to be called "The Garage," will house specialty and craft shops, and cover half a block. A pedestrian thoroughfare will connect Boylston St. to Duster St. Work on the Garage has been in progress since last winter, and the mall should open for occupancy sometime next year...
...four, John House man (then Jacques Haussmann) had spent two birthdays on the Simplon-Orient Express. It is an image with which to connect the 70 years that have gone into this urbane, fascinating and graceful memoir. Houseman was and is a restless, slightly exotic voy ager through life and drama...
...connect the end of May 1970 with the quiet dog days in Cambridge that followed the lifting of the barrier of final exams, or even if you connect it with some summer refuge from the uneasy aimlessness that attended those Cambridge days, then your path has crossed Jeffrey Golden's. He has ridden the elevators up and down Holyoke Center, and he has walked quickly past the panhandlers who command the brickwalk bottleneck between the J. August storefront and the subway entrance on Mass. Ave. But in May 1970--wandering around an almost deserted Harvard and realizing that an organization...