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...important to the Skylab 3 crew. At week's end, NASA was considering extending Skylab 3's mission-scheduled for launch Nov. 11-from the 56 days originally planned to 70. That would give the astronauts more time to observe the newly discovered Comet Kohoutek-perhaps the brightest of the century-as it makes its fiery pass around the sun in December and January...
...Campbell's fine showing was only the brightest spot in a strong team effort...
Watergate has spawned a veritable cottage-cheese industry of humor, parody, songs and stories, all looking for the bright aside on one of the nation 's darker episodes. Perhaps the brightest and best of the topical genre appeared last week in the New Republic, written by Chicago's Judith Wax, 42, a humorist best known for her annual summaries in verse of the year's news in Playboy. Her model was Chaucer, who would surely have understood Watergate as well as any other bygone man, and her mode mock Middle English, including pseudoscholarly footnotes...
...BENIN. Benin's history was once the brightest of all the African kingdoms': its famous bronze sculptures are collector's items across the world. Today, the 450,000 members of this Nigerian tribe are led by Oba Akenzua II, 74. Like the Oni of Ife and the Alafin, he receives a stipend of about $10,000 a year from the Nigerian government; in addition, he has extensive landholdings that produce considerable extra income-just how much, no one will say. His successor is Crown Prince Solomon Akenzua, 48, who retired from the Nigerian civil service in June...
...others on study. Both paths work. Gentlemen do not believe in the strict merit system, they hire friends because they know and trust them. Gentlemen also enjoy competence, and hire the best new crop of lawyers or MBAs. And if you are one of the best and the brightest, why not work for the wealthy and the powerful and take the fringe benefits...