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With this system, the passenger himself is the only one to handle his baggage. He stows it aboard a kiddy-car-sized plastic cart and picks up a claim ticket. At the check-in counter, a clerk inserts the ticket into a sensor, sending cart and luggage along a track onto the proper airplane. At his destination, the passenger again inserts his ticket into a slot, whereupon the laden cart obediently trundles to his side. Estimated average time for the loading or unloading operation: three minutes...
...lessons in Buddhist love. Though hippies*consider any sort of arithmetic a "down trip," or boring, their own estimate of their nationwide number runs to some 300,000. Disinterested officials generally reduce that figure, but even the most skeptical admit that there are countless thousands of part-time, or "plastic," hippies who may "drop out" only for a night or two each week. By all estimates, the cult is a growing phenomenon that has not yet reached its peak-and may not do so for years to come...
...nothing to suggest the Athens specified in the text. William and Jean Eckart have designed a set of six tall white poles, to which are added holed panels, like cheese slices, and fluted sails for the court scenes. When affairs shift to the woods, a trainload of glittering white plastic streamers hangs down like so much Spanish moss...
...nothing to suggest the Athens specified in the text. William and Jean Eckart have designed a set of six tall white poles, to which are added holed panels, like cheese slices, and fluted sails for the court scenes. When affairs shift to the woods, a trainload of glittering white plastic streamers hangs down like so much Spanish moss...
University Police Chief Robert Tonis urges all Summer School students to protect themselves against theft and fines. The number of bicycle thefts has increased recently, and the University police recommend metal link chains--rather than those flimsy plastic-coated cables--to foil would-be bicycle-nappers...