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...bombers come mostly from Utapao Air Base in Thailand, which last week opened its gates for a conducted tour by newsmen for the first time since it was built in the mid-1960s. Correspondent Cloud, who accompanied the tour, reported that "there is no hint of war here. The 8,000 airmen work an eight-hour day and then are free to loll at poolside or watch a movie. For the most part, they appear uniformly clean-cut and middleclass. 'It seemed a good place to learn my job and advance my career,' said Captain Claude Hamilton...
...current tactics are tied significantly to the U.S. presidential elections. "The U.S. assumption that the North Vietnamese leaders are worrying primarily about whether to deal with Nixon or wait for the outcome of the election seems chauvinistic from here," reports TIME's Saigon Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud. "It misses the point that the North Vietnamese military position in the South is vastly better than it was a year ago and is virtually unchallenged in Laos and Cambodia...
...greater killer, on the average, than hurricanes or tornadoes, causing hundreds of deaths each year in the U.S. alone, and sets off the majority of forest fires. The ancients believed that lightning bolts were hurled from heaven by wrathful gods. Modern scientists know that thunderheads, like all clouds, contain a hodgepodge of ions (atoms or molecules with either a surplus or deficiency of electrons). But for reasons that are still not fully understood, the ions in storm clouds begin to separate according to their charge, with the negative ions settling to the bottom of the cloud and the positive ions...
About the only cloud over the industry's growth is the prospect of federal safety regulation. Last week the Department of Transportation issued rules that beginning on Jan. 1, will require both pickup-truck and camper manufacturers to print in their owner's manuals pictures showing what size units can be safely fitted to truck beds. In the past, oversized campers mounted on pickup trucks have caused handling and braking problems. The department is expected to issue other safety standards in the next few years. Forcing recreational vehicle makers to add new safety equipment would increase production costs...
...however, many scientists and social reformers have begun to regard perpetual economic growth as malignant. Their increasingly fashionable fear is that production increases will destroy civilization, either by stripping the earth of natural resources or by choking humanity in a cloud of pollution. Sicco Mansholt, outgoing president of the European Common Market Commission, has remarked that in Western Europe, America and Japan, gross national product "has been thought of as something sacred-but G.N.P. is diabolical." Walter Heller, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, complains that a speaker who ventures a good word for rising output...