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...country has kept The Club busier or given it more nightmares than Britain, whose economy has palpitated in maddeningly regular intervals through a dozen sterling crises in 18 years. The pattern soon became all too familiar: a period of expansion leading straight to the brink of bankruptcy for sterling at $2.80, then a rescue loan to buy time while the government damped down the economy. Once a spell of austerity built up Britain's reserves anew, governments invariably felt politically impelled to relax restrictions and let the whole expansion-to-the-brink process begin again...
When the need for reruns runs out, Ampex may be busier than ever. At the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Chicago last week, Ampex engineers showed off new gear that promises to greatly expand the versatility of television. Most impressive of the items is a $65,000 combination camera and videotape recorder (VTR) that will enable a single roving newsman to record news events on tape for immediate broadcast. The 50-lb., battery-powered pack can tape up to 20 minutes of black-and-white action on a single reel, does away with the gear-laden truck and crew...
Even the l.V.S. girls are busier with handiwork than homework. Blonde, leggy Sondra Williams, 27, a Texas Tech graduate who was an NBC secretary and served two years in the Philippines with the Peace Corps before joining l.V.S., teaches sewing and cooking at Ban Me Thuot, 160 miles northeast of Saigon, once made a crash landing in a Communist-held paddyfield when the helicopter in which she was bumming a lift lost power. "I don't think any of us over here have our head in the clouds," she says. "Maybe before we came...
Senator Hart is determined to introduce a bill, not yet drafted, to regulate interstate laboratory business. How to control the labs inside those 47 unregulated states, no one knows. Leaving them unregulated, says Hart, "will keep the undertakers and the cemeteries busier than usual, earlier than usual...
Malign Planets. Last week the seers were busier than ever making their forecasts for the new year, and, as usual, their admirers could take their choice. France's Madame Frederika, voted most reliable voyante of 1966 by a poll of Paris newspapers (on the basis, among other things, of her prediction that two French scientists would win the Nobel Prize), predicted that Germany would make significant advances toward reunification and that Russia might land on the moon. England's Maurice Woodruff foresaw a turnabout in England's fortunes, the fall from power of both Castro and Lyndon...