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There are, in fact, several such planes -adapted models of the familiar Boeing 707 commercial airliner-that spell each other in eight-hour, all-weather shifts. No one plane lands until another has become airborne. Dubbed "Looking Glass," the plane is manned by a crew that flies a random pattern within radar distance of SAC's Omaha headquarters. The SAC general aboard, one of 50 who regularly pull Looking Glass duty, is the AEAO (for Airborne Emergency Actions Officer). He is in charge of a group of officers and technicians maintaining instant communications with Omaha, the White House...
...found little cause to grumble about the Shriner invasion. The nobles had spent freely on liquor, nightclubs and souvenirs, but had remained the orderly, decent citizens they are back home. In between the public displays of high jinks, the Shriners found time to entertain children in hospitals, mounted an eight-hour display-cum-parade at Shea Stadium, where some 30,000 spectators shelled out $2 to watch wheeling formations of huge men driving miniature cars and a motorized ferris wheel that dunked its four riders in an oversize tub of soapy water every twelve seconds. More somberly, they jammed into...
...unionists want more free time to escape from the noise, perhaps go to the toilet or relax over a cup of coffee. In most plants, auto workers can leave the production line only for their 30-minute unpaid lunch break and two twelve-minute paid periods during the eight-hour shift. Now the union wants to shut down the assembly lines for at least 15 minutes during each shift-making a total of 39 minutes' released time. Says U.A.W. Vice President Leonard Woodcock, who will conduct most of the negotiations with G.M.: "You have coffee breaks on assembly lines...
Hero Worship. There is no question about Valenti's untiring drive. He graduated from a Houston high school at 15, worked eight-hour days as an office boy at an oil company and spent his nights at Houston University, where he wound up a B-plus student. After 51 missions in a B-25 during World War II, he got a graduate degree from the Harvard Business School, eventually opened his own advertising agency in Houston. One of his biggest clients was the Continental Oil Co. Another was Texas Congressman Albert Thomas, political pal of Lyndon Johnson...
Most people will settle gladly for a few hours a night. But how many are really necessary? For centuries there have been six, seven-and eight-hour schools. Healthy men with strong digestions, Robert Burton held, need less sleep than those with weak stomachs; sanguine and choleric men need less than the phlegmatic, and the melancholic need most of all. Thomas Edison claimed that a man needed only four or five hours of sleep a night-but he also took daytime naps. Among volunteers in scientific studies, the natural sleeping time has ranged from about six to more than nine...