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TIME Associate Editor Frederic Golden met the pilots and their escorts in Copenhagen and flew with them aboard their SAS flight to New York. During the eight-hour flight, Gartley said that a North Vietnamese Army officer had been the first to tell him of his impending release. "At first I didn't believe it," Gartley recalled. "But since the officer was a stranger and began talking very seriously, I knew something was up." A P.O.W. for four years, Gartley described the treatment he received as "quite good...
...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, 28, of Waco, Texas." Asked about...
...factory make more money than others, then they are not really serving the people." Despite the lack of financial incentive, the workers appeared content. The plants are generally clean and the pace of work intense but measured. There are periodic breaks for tea, food and exercise during the eight-hour day. At one Shanghai machine-tool plant, I saw a woman nurse moving among the lathes, distributing vitamins and asking the workers if they had any physical complaints...
Lincoln maintains a teacher-child ratio of 1 to 5. Teachers are college-trained for their jobs, put in an eight-hour day, and are occasionally aided by mothers. Open from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m., the center offers activities such as storytelling, dramatics, creative arts and simple scientific demonstrations. Parents are enthusiastic. A black mother says: "This school is marvelous. It deepens your involvement with your own children." Adds a white parent: "It's not just a baby-sitting factory. We have a real sense of community...
Once in the water, men as well as machines need something like black magic to survive the punishing eight-hour Havasu marathon. Topping 100 m.p.h. on the straightaway and jouncing through treacherous wakes, the streamlined craft are, as Driver Bill Muncey says, "delicate mechanisms that run on the ragged edge of blowing up every minute." Indeed, by the halfway mark in last week's race, crackups and conk-outs claimed 26 of the 94 starters...