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...breaking ice lately echoed, Alaska last week opened its own centennial exposition and applied to it what sounded like a highway designation: "A-67." As Republican Governor Walter Hickel inaugurated the frosty fiesta on a 42-acre site in Fairbanks (pop. 19,000), the nation's 49th and biggest state was already well into a yearlong shivaree commemorating the 1867 purchase from Russia of what was once derisive ly known as "Seward's Icebox." After a century of erratic growth, it is clear that the icebox is full of goodies...
...sport's biggest bills, television more often than not picks up the tab. And sports of all sorts bring out the best of TV-the imagination of its reporters, the skills of its engineers. Parabolic microphones pick up a quarterback's signal changes; they eavesdrop on conversations between a golfer and his caddy. Other gimmicks such as "instant replay," "stop action," and the split screen help to heighten drama and educate the fan in the intricacies of the game...
Warning of War. The biggest reason for Chullima's failure is the strain of North Korea's war machine on a none-too-viable economy. To support its 370,000-man army (plus an aid program to North Viet Nam that is so far limited to supplying small arms, medicines, tractors, diesel engines, psywar personnel, military advisers and 50 MIG instructors), North Korean military spending will run to a hefty $465 million this year, or 30.2% of the total national budget. To justify it, Kim tells his country that war is imminent with the U.S.-backed "imperialistic dictatorship...
...Parade" at L'Tnnovation, Brussels' second biggest department store, and more than $1,000,000 in American-made goods were on sale at its six-story downtown store and four outlying branches. Bruxellois by the thousands jammed the main store situated on Rue Neuve to examine and buy American household gadgets, costume jewelry, sporting goods and nearly every kind of apparel, including paper dresses. Few paid much attention to picketing by pro-Peking youths or to the anti-U.S. tracts they passed out. To make the occasion thoroughly American, L'Tnnovation officials had splashed red, white...
...Though Eastern Europe continues to hymn the glories of "worker" states and exhort its able-bodied to "work together to build a better life under socialism," the unsocialist truth is that its workers have become just about the world's biggest goof-offs. In Rumania, they cost industry $75 million in wasted time during the first four months of this year. Bulgaria lost 25 million man-days last year because of absenteeism. When Polish factory workers show up at all, says the Communist trade-union paper Glos Pracy, they "work only about 70% of their normal eight-hour...