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...result was instant chaos. City and county offices in many western towns in the Upper Peninsula refused to change to Daylight Time; federal offices shifted obediently, then moved their office hours up one hour to cancel out the off-phase effect. State-operated liquor stores closed on Daylight, but bars grabbed an extra late hour of business by sticking to Standard Time. The twin cities of Calumet and Hancock could not agree and so divided...
...Israel rally provoked more than a few ironic smiles in Administration circles. Hawkish on Israel, many Jewish leaders have been among the most dovish in the U.S. on Viet Nam. SANE, which had been planning an anti-Viet Nam war rally last week, was forced to cancel the meeting, partly because so many members were out demonstrating for Israel...
Desolate Planet. To cancel out the effects of any water vapor in the portion of the earth's atmosphere still above them, the airborne astronomers had also taken about 1,000 interferograms of the moon, which was close to Venus in the sky during the flight. Although the moon is known to be dry, the lunar spectrograms produced by the Block computers also showed evidence of a trace of water vapor. The vapor, the scientists knew, had been detected not on the moon but in the earth's atmosphere. Thus, by eliminating the same proportion of terrestrial vapor...
...spin the turnstiles far enough to allow carbon brushes to make the contacts necessary to send electrical impulses to the computers Counting attendance. At one point, officials had to send people down to "eyeball" the entrants. Because of the tangle in counting arrivals, Air Canada had to cancel its plan to reward Expo's 1,000,000th visitor with a trip anywhere in the world, decided to wait until the computer-totalizer was working well enough to pick out a 2,000,000th person...
...King and his wife. Last winter, the criticism of the Queen Mother became so strong that in December the government introduced a special law in Parliament extending the lese majesty protection to all members of the royal family, including Frederika. On her part, Frederika voluntarily asked the government to cancel plans to award her a $100,000 annuity lest the action provoke another press storm...