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Vacations are growing more strenuous?occasions more for doing than for sightseeing. It takes an odd mixture of the Spartan and the hedonist to "relax" by boating, hiking, backpacking, climbing, jogging, bicycling, hang-gliding or white-water canoeing. As measured by spending, leisure-time activities have grown to be the chief U.S. industry. Americans are expected to spend more than $160 billion on such leisure and recreation in 1977, and by 1985 the total will probably climb to $300 billion...
...great rushing, rhythmic, onomatopoeic piece of machinery, the roller coaster distills our emotions and describes our physical boundaries. The achingly slow climb to the top, the high-speed plunge to the bottom; a moment of weightlessness at the crest; an instant of contorting heaviness from the G force in the valley; terrified anticipation when it begins, and grateful relief...
...compensation experts, tend to go to business leaders who, in addition to being crucial to the turning of profit, also demonstrate the capacity to take risks (this even though students of corporate gamesman ship say that those at the top often survive by not risking too much along the climb). Certainly the biggest blue-collar pay goes to workers who have most effectively improved their competitive position by organization - and recently blue collars have won ascendancy over poorly organized white collars in average salary. In all systems, the factor of supply and demand is at work as an influence...
Spring Happening. By the time he had climbed about ten floors, Willig had created a cheerful springtime happening. Down below, spectators were flocking to cheer him on. Television crews arrived. And so did the cops, but they too became caught up in the spirit of the climb. A couple of cops mounted a window washers' scaffold and rode along with Willig for half the way-close enough to be of help if he wanted any. He didn...
...practically and economically may well be the most complicated technological venture ever attempted. Says Physicist Gerald Yonas of New Mexico's Sandia Laboratories, a federally supported atomic research facility: "It's the most exciting area today in science. Fusion power is a mountain we have to climb...