Word: overcrowdedness
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Federal forces have encircled Biafra, the former eastern region of Nigeria. They have occupied its major cities, blockaded its coasts, and pushed an already-overcrowded population of more than 8,000,000-among them 4,500,000 refugees-into a patch of bush and swampland that is one-fourth the...
But for the crowd on Rio Branco, and for most of the country, a big cause of the current unrest is the government's arid educational policy and the rough police treatment of students protesting it. In the past three years, education's share of the national budget...
¶The airline industry has already reached a peak-86 billion annual passenger miles-that was not anticipated until at least 1971. The result is that the Federal Aviation Administration is giving serious thought to closing down smaller airport control towers, shifting traffic controllers, and even limiting the flood of...
"Sure, we badly underestimated our growth factor," admits Deputy General Manager Robert C. Davidson. "But no one could accurately forecast the fantastic growth that air travel has experienced in the past six years." He has a point. In 1959, the first full year of commercial jet travel, 51 million domestic...
Even without jumbos, airports are straining at the seams. Chicago's O'Hare, the nation's busiest, handled 27 million passengers last year, and has just about reached saturation. A $200 million expansion program is under way to accommodate the 40 million travelers expected by 1975. Washington...