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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...store in downtown Portland, Ore. His store's sales have dropped by one-third in the past twelve years and, like many other doyens of downtown, he argues that the central shopping districts will tumble into deeper trouble unless local governments provide more parking space and better mass transit. Adds Dexter Ware, a senior vice president of Detroit's Hudson Co.: "At some point, major cities must recognize that if they want to save the downtown stores, they will have to provide tax relief." Hudson's recently started closing its downtown store earlier at night because...
...judge would silence him and order the remarks stricken from the record. Finally, Dan burst out to tell the packed room that he would neither eat nor drink until he was back in Danbury, as a way of protesting the brutal treatment given to prisoners who are in transit from one jail to another. He had been taken from Danbury on Tuesday, and was not told where he was going or for what he was being taken away. He spent three days and nights either traveling or in solitary confinement, never permitted to mix with other prisoners in the jails...
...strain the capabilities of the most resourceful journalist. Nineteen TIME bureaus from Los Angeles to Beirut contributed to this week's cover story on the subject. Practically all the correspondents found it a frustrating assignment; primary sources tended to be underground or in jail, or in quick transit from one to the other...
...come under a regulation that makes campaign contributions nontaxable. The bus drivers may not have to pay income tax on their shares of the money, either, since legally it is a gift. Federal planners have worked out any number of ways to subsidize mass transit, but chances are that Fasi's dodge never occurred to them...
...steward, travel nonstop for up to 200 miles and arrive at their destination with nearly the speed of air travel (counting the drive to and from the airport). To save suburbanites the trouble of traveling into the city to catch a bus, Greyhound built satellite terminals near mass transit systems on the edges of Chicago and Cleveland-an idea that it plans to extend to other cities. As a lure for passengers from abroad, Greyhound sells a $99 foreign-tour ticket that allows non-Americans to travel anywhere on the system for up to 30 days. Meanwhile, the line...