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...place to live or visit. Known as Roosevelt Island (for F.D.R.), the 2.5-mile-long sliver of granite in the East River-formerly Welfare Island -served as a malodorous dumping ground for the wicked, the incurable and the insane. Today the islet is a burgeoning new community, only 300 yds. from Manhattan but psychologically light-years distant. This week convenience and mystique came together with the opening of a $6 million aerial tramway -the first ever used for urban transit in the U.S.-that can waft 1,500 passengers an hour across the water...
...also be active. The researcher bases his thoughts about the dynamism of Venus on observations made by others through the huge radio telescope at Goldstone, Calif. One series of shots of Venus' surface shows a vast, troughlike depression about three-quarters of a mile long and 200 yds. wide; another shows, on an otherwise smooth plain, a cluster of 15 to 20 peaks in a pattern strongly reminiscent of volcanoes on earth. A third view further strengthens suspicions that Venus, whose high temperatures (around 900° F.) suggest a medieval theologian's idea of hell, may possess...
...mountain resort Aley, Leftist Leader Kamal Jumblatt one day last week sat in his temporary headquarters, directing the siege of the nearby Christian stronghold of Kahale. Suddenly, a mortar shell whistled through the air and exploded 50 yds. away with an ear-splitting blast. Aides jumped to their feet; one suggested running for cover. "Shells like that don't do much damage," said Jumblatt calmly. He remained unruffled when an assistant rushed in to tell him that the explosion had damaged his black Mercedes. Replied he coolly: "We shouldn't park our cars over on that side of the street...
...President tired visibly toward the end of the trip; yet in Kweilin, a city famous for its landscapes of jagged hills and misty waterways, he was able to walk up some 300 yds. of steep stone steps to visit the Reed Flute Cave, apparently with no ill effects...
...companies extract half of the coal by surface mining, using gigantic 20-story shovels that can crunch 120 cu. yds. of earth in one bite, exposing the coal veins for an army of other machines to attack. Mechanization has come to underground mines, too. In the big ones, miners no longer loosen the coal with explosives and pry it from the seam with pickaxes; they work continuous mining machines that cost $200,000 apiece and look like a cross between a chain saw and a lobster. The machines nose up to the coal vein and rip out ten tons...