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...octopus wrestling are coming increasingly into vogue, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, where the critters grow up to 90 Ibs. and can be exceedingly tough customers. Although there are several accepted techniques for octopus wrestling, the really sporty way requires that the human diver go without artificial breathing apparatus...
Barely Enough. To win a foothold in the $200 million market for cleanup equipment, scores of big and little firms are busy devising new kinds of filters, precipitators, sprayers and sensitive measuring apparatus. Last week in Corvallis, Ore., Governor Mark Hatfield dedicated a new office and research center for the five-year-old MicroFLOC Corp., whose high-rate water-filtration system is one of the world's most advanced, has been bought by 50 communities and industries. General Electric has developed a gas and vapor measurer and a condensation nuclei counter that counts dirt particles...
...that the U.S. has "recaptured the initiative" in Viet Nam and, with its ever-increasing strength, is likely to keep it. If that happens, he added, the war may very well end without a single session of formal truce talks but with the "eventual dissolution" of the Viet Cong apparatus and an undeclared halt to guerrilla activities. Meanwhile the cause of peace can realistically be advanced only on the battlefield...
...gainers. The U.S. demand for Italian shoes, Pucci pants and British woolens has lifted imports of clothes and tex tiles this year by 18%, to $853 million. Purchases of leisure goods-German toys, Japanese baseball gloves, French musical instruments and the like-have risen 20%, to $187 million. Electrical apparatus, notably Japanese transistor radios and TV sets, are up 39%, to $429 million. Among other gainers: Danish cheese, Swedish cars, Brazilian galoshes, Scotch whisky...
Most of the equipment actually exceeded expectations. Cousteau's prototype breathing apparatus, which recycles a helium-based artificial atmosphere supplied from the sphere, en abled divers to work outside the cap sule without any time limit. Inside, a miniaturized mass spectrograph, especially adapted for the experiment, monitored composition of the atmosphere, transmitting the results both to the oceanauts and to the surface so that any dangerous variations would be immediately detected...