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Boron, found next to carbon on the periodic chart of elements, has unusual binding qualities which could have new technological uses, Lipscomb said...
...bonanza for budget-conscious vacationers, ABCs are the latest addition to the confusing alphabet soup of special fares with which the airlines have been wooing cost-conscious travelers (see chart). Ironically, ABCs came into being last fall because of politics as much as economics-specifically, Gerald Ford's election-year advocacy of reduced Government regulation. The CAB yielded to pleas by the charter airlines to allow all carriers to offer, through travel agents, a more flexible plan: seats booked 30 to 45 days in advance, but no prepaid hotel accommodations and minimal restrictions on length of stay...
...better to lure would-be suitors. In Epirus in northern Greece, a bride goes to her wedding on horseback, carrying jewels in a casket; in Crete, the dowry often follows her on a mule train. In Athens, a monthly newspaper called Arranged Marriage provides a kind of form chart of the financial attractions available in the marketplace of love. (Sample entry: "Woman, 38, with moral principles, dowry of 200,000 drachmas cash and 300 olive trees, wants someone of 45-50 years...
...report concedes that the Federal Government will never be able to match salaries for comparable jobs in private industry. Nor is such parity desirable. To a considerable extent, public service should be its own reward. Thus the salary boosts urged by the commission are substantial without being stupendous (see chart). Because Cabinet posts are much sought after, their salaries would advance only 7%, to $67,500. Judges, on the other hand, would get a better break because most serve until retirement and are unable to make up for financial sacrifices with fat salaries in later years. The Chief Justice...
Historians have enough trouble with these questions. Laymen are usually bewildered by synoptic accounts of dynasties and empires. For both professionals and the purely curious, Archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes (The World of the Past} now provides a brilliant series of answers- a chart of all the ancients whose past is our prologue. Along the way, she illuminates a great many contemporary geopolitical attitudes...