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OREGON. A logger jubilee on the banks of the Flushing River. Husky lumberjacks like "Big Bad John" Miller saw and chop through giant timber in jig time, logrollers joust each other into the amber waters, and a death-defying treetopper climbs a towering Douglas fir to do the Charleston 110 ft. up-without...
...expected this week. > Raised, in a 48-to-21 Senate vote, the national debt ceiling from $315 billion to a record $324 billion for the coming fiscal year. >Authorized, by a 78-to-3 Senate vote, a $5.2 billion space budget. Before the final vote, a move to chop 10% from the Apollo man-on-the-moon program was narrowly defeated 43 to 38. The surprising strength shown by opponents of the Apollo program, led by Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright, indicated that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration may run into trouble when the time comes for Congress...
OREGON. For city slickers who think they' ve seen everything: a logger jubilee on the banks of the Flushing River. Husky lumberjacks like "Big Bad John" Miller saw and chop through giant timber in jig time, logrollers joust each other into the amber waters, and a death-defying tree-topper climbs a Douglas fir to do the Charleston 110 ft. up-without...
Most of all, Lewis restored central management to a company whose dozen divisions once traveled in separate directions. Says he with a smile: "We used to have a so-called management board-but, oh boy, that's all gone." Lewis, who likes to chop wood on weekends to release some steam, hacked away heavily at the loose hierarchy and put his mark on almost every important activity. Though many business theorists contend that a top executive should have no more than eight men reporting directly to him, Lewis deals face to face with 24. He writes no memos...
Scoop, Slurp & Chop. Looking beyond Europe, the Agrnesis plan another aggressive campaign in Japan, which, curiously, is second in world pasta consumption, and in Australia and South America, which have sizable Italian-descent populations. Aiming also for the big U.S. market, Agnesi hopes to overcome the American complex about weight by stressing that hard-wheat spaghetti contains only 300 calories a serving and is rich in B and E vitamins. Agnesi hopes to prove that it is also so filling that Americans, who can be distinguished at the table by their knife, fork, spoon, twirl, twist, scoop, slurp, and even...