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...class postal rates, which affect magazines and newspapers, will take effect. This increment is the first installment of a 40% rise to be spread over the next 28 months. It comes on top of a fiveyear, 145% rate hike begun in 1971. The new increase, being imposed on a compound basis, means that periodicals collectively will have to pay at least 242% more to use the mails in 1976 than they did in 1971.* Some predictions are even grimmer. Richard J. Barber Associates, Inc., an economic counseling firm in Washington, D.C., says that accelerating Postal Service costs will actually force...
...generations Western sheepmen have reserved their deepest wrath for the coyote (Canis latrans), a wily cousin of the wolf with a healthy appetite for mice, rabbits and, according to the wool growers, lambs. Since 1972, when the Environmental Protection Agency flatly banned the most effective coyote poisons - Compound 1080 (monofluoride acetate) and the M44 (a spring-loaded tube containing sodium cyanide)-sheepmen have been howling loudly. They claim that a burgeoning coyote population is threatening their already risky business (which operates on a 2% profit margin) with ruin. They have begun attaching bumper stickers to their automobiles with legends like...
...motion sickness shortly after liftoff. Pressing hard to keep up with their heavy work load, the astronauts bungled several experiments and misunderstandings arose between crew and Mission Control. That, in turn, raised concern among NASA officials about the ability of the men to endure prolonged isolation and weightlessness. To compound those troubles, one of the space station's three stabilizing gyroscopes broke down and another periodically faltered -threatening the photographic studies of sun and earth, which require an extremely stable vantage point. Finally, the crew grew so edgy that Skylab Commander Carr asked for a full-fledged appraisal...
Guggenheim and the five students began their work at Sangha, a village of 5000, and after a short period of orientation began to work on a single, unusually large granary in the chief's compound...
...through the tight cordon and were caught on the airfield just before Tanaka's arrival. A powerful array of riot police and troops in battle dress saw to it that Indonesian President Suharto and his guest arrived on time at the white Dutch-colonial guesthouse in the spacious compound of the President's official residence. At that point hardly anyone could foresee that for the duration of his stay, Tanaka would be a virtual prisoner within this compound, guarded by hundreds of tough commando troops and armored cars...