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...second homes. Spending for leisure and travel will rise anew, in part because of the increase in three-day weekends that begins this year with the switch of four federal holidays to Mondays. Outdoor recreation will be increasingly popular, lifting sales of boats, ski equipment, picnic and camping gear. If the four-day work week wins a foothold, it can only reinforce all these prospects...
...spacecraft to withstand pressures of 150 earth atmospheres and temperatures in excess of 1000° F. They also redesigned their parachute (probably made of steel mesh) to enable Venera to descend more rapidly to the surface. To allow for the higher landing velocity, they incorporated a shock-absorbing landing gear...
...Crimson faces Dartmouth in Hanover tomorrow night, and its impressive win over Navy should give it a good shot at defeating the Big Green again. Dartmouth, which is experiencing difficulties getting its largely-sophomore squad into gear, has dropped its last seven games and is 0-3 in the Ivy League...
ASIAN SELF-DEFENSE. Almost every nation is racing to become more self-reliant in conventional military capability, usually with the help of U.S.-supplied equipment. South Korea asked for $3 billion in new aid over a five-year period, settled for half, and will get patrol boats, radar gear and a $26 million M-16 rifle plant. Taiwan has already begun to manufacture its own helicopters under a contract with Bell. U.S. advisers are also training the Nationalist Chinese to repair trucks, tanks, personnel carriers and other equipment damaged in Viet Nam, with the hope that Taiwan will eventually become...
...civilian clothes on a base when off duty, opened a pilot program to allow first-class petty officers to carry any kind of clothes they wish aboard certain ships and to wear them when on liberty. The rule requiring dress uniforms when a ship arrives in port (when greasy gear and dirty lines must be handled) was eliminated. At least half the crew of a returning ship must be granted 30 days leave, and even when at sea, at least 5% of. a ship's crew must be allowed to remain ashore on leave...