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...year's Bordeaux are perfumed, full-bodied and richly colored. They should be drinkable in three or four years; further maturing will make them memorable. Most Bordeaux tripled and quadrupled in price in the early 1970s; then their cost was halved. Now they have recovered, and the '76s will probably maintain the current level...
...Near the top of the world, at Alaska's remote Campion Air Force Station, two three-story radar domes have been painted white, with blue and red stars and red '76s...
Ford has no entirely new cars this year, but is stressing the more efficient engines in all of its 1976 models. Ford claims that its '76s will deliver 25% better gasoline mileage than its '75 cars, which produced a lackluster 13.5 m.p.g. average in Government tests. If the public proves to be as sold on fuel economy as the automakers profess to be, Detroit's prospects could be brighter than they have been in some time...
...Front. The early drama focused on the north, where the Communist onslaught swirled around some names familiar to many American G.I.s: Camp Carroll, Camp Fuller, Camp Ann, Alpha Two, Alpha Four. It also added something startlingly new to the war: heavy Soviet weapons, including tanks (ranging from light PT-76s to heavy T-54s of World War II vintage), artillery (up to modern 130-mm. guns with a 19-mile range) and even SA-2 missiles. By week's end, as the northern fighting settled down to a wary probing of defenses around Quang Tri city...
...explains that Pakistani tanks have been probing the border near Boyra since Nov. 17. On the night of Nov. 20-21, he said, a number of tanks were heard approaching Boyra. The tanks reached and began firing on Indian positions. A squadron of 14 Indian tanks (Soviet-made PT 76s) crossed into East Pakistan to outflank the Pakistani squadron. The battle raged four or five miles into East Pakistan. When the smoke cleared, three Pakistani tanks had been trapped in India, and another eight were reported destroyed. The Indians claimed a loss of only one tank...