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...issue in the crackdown are cab drivers who take advantage of peak airport periods to carry multiple fares at flat rates to the downtown area. Massachusetts Port Authority regulations prohibit both multiple fare trips and the setting of flat rates without metering...
...bitter winter of high national unemployment, Seattle has the unhappy distinction of leading Americas major metropolitan centers with a staggering unemployment rate of 10.9%-almost double the national rate of 5.8%. Seattle's troubles largely have their origin in the troubles of the Boeing Co., which at its peak employed 1 out of 12 people in the Seattle area. But the effects ripple out to touch nearly everyone, as TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager reports...
...companion on the trip, an Israeli reserve officer, started by placing a 9-mm. pistol on the ledge under the dash of our Ford Cortina. His gesture seemed symbolic of the atmosphere along much of the border. We began at Mount Hermon, the snow-covered peak that cornerstones the border between Israel, Lebanon and Syria. There we spotted the first of the yellow bulldozers that are everywhere in the occupied territories, scraping and pushing, widening and straightening, lifting boulers or rearranging sand. It is said that Israel has more bulldozers per capita than any other nation; I can believe...
...commercial paper. In one case, Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend flew to Manhattan and arranged a $400 million increase in the company's line of credit from a group of banks. Many other cash-hungry companies were not so fortunate. Business failures in 1970 rose to a three-year peak of about 10,000, and the sums of money involved reached an alltime high...
...Davidson leads a more settled life now. He makes films for his own Anchorage-based company, Alaska Wildlife Productions, and has published a book, Minus 148, about the first winter ascent of North America's highest peak, Mt. McKinley. (The title refers to the temperature Art and two other members of the expedition withstood when they were forced to wait out a windstorm for several days in an ice-cave near the summit. One member of the expedition died in a crevasse during the ascent; Art was lucky enough to return to Anchorage with the loss of only...