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...Ghettos. By June 30, VISTA officials expect to have 2,000 volunteers in training or on assignment around the U.S., with 5,000 at work a year later. So far, VISTA has announced 49 projects in 20 states, has promised a total of 239 volunteers to work in Job Corps training camps, migrant-worker camps, on Indian reservations, in big-city ghettos, and mental hospitals. Last week's graduates, including a 57-year-old divorcee from Columbia, Mo., a former personnel supervisor for the Chrysler Corp., and a 19-year-old California co-ed who had never before been...
...year. Instead, it is now expected to amount to nearly $800 million. Reason: despite all the subsidies, exports have kept falling and production has kept rising, meaning that the Government has had to buy up still more cotton for its already bulging inventories. By last week the Commodity Credit Corp. owned a record 7,372,000 bales at a cost of $1.2 billion, on which storage charges alone run another annual $30 million...
Electronic Collision. So frail that it can hold its shape only at weightless, airless altitudes, that wide wing is the working element of a satellite, built by Fairchild Hiller Corp., for detecting micrometeoroids. Pegasus' 208 rectangular panels are covered on both sides with thin sheets of copper and aluminum separated by plastic. The metal sheets are electrically charged, but normally no current flows between them. When a micrometeoroid penetrates the aluminum, it will punch a hole in the plastic and fill the hole with metal vapor that is a good conductor of electricity. Although the gas will dissipate quickly...
Shake-Up. Until four years ago, the intellectual life was as placid as the setting. Then former Governor William F. Quinn fired the entire board of regents, appointed an energetic new group headed by Dole Corp. President Herbert C. Cornuelle. This board brought in Hamilton, who began a ten-year development program that strives for particular excellence in those fields in which Hawaii enjoys natural advantages. Hamilton sees these as the behavioral sciences related to the area's multicultural citizenry, those cultural disciplines in which "the East-West dialogue is best promoted," and natural sciences tied to Hawaii...
...Mills will bring out knit shirts with the numerals 007 embroidered on them. Spatz Bros, of New York is making a new 007 trench-coat with secret pockets, throws a plastic Beretta into the bargain. Weldon Manufacturing is planning his and hers pajamas with secret pockets, and Harry Diamond Corp. is making 007 swimsuits and sports shirts. Angostura Bitters has begun pushing an 007 drink-gin or vodka with lemon juice, sugar, soda and two dashes of bitters-served, naturally, in a Baccarat highball glass. . For younger Bondsmen, Multiple Products plans to market a toy attache case, complete with...