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...secrecy vanished when a fortnight ago a sign went up on the toughest part of Route 19; WELCOME FIRST AIR CAV, it said; PASS SECURED COURTESY A CO 2ND BN ABN 502ND. The "First Cav" is the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) Division, and it calls itself the "First Team"-the proud boast of a unit lineage that extends back through Korea and the Philippines to General Custer. Last week, by helilift direct from the U.S.S. Boxer and by road convoy from Qui Nhon, the First Team arrived in full force along Route...
Moreover, automation has already brought workers more leisure. The trend is to reduce the time that men work through longer vacations, sabbaticals, earlier retirement. Such benefits constituted nearly half of last fortnight's steel settlement. The United Auto Workers operate under a contract granting them bereavement pay, funeral leave and Christmas bonuses. Their "supplemental allowance" scheme is known to members as the Honeydew Project-because the men can retire earlier, go home, and hear their wives say, "Honey, do this-Honey, do that." Senior auto and steelworkers get 13 weeks' annual vacation. The United Brewery Workers are contractually...
...fortnight ago, the number of U.S. servicemen in South Viet Nam soared past the 100,000 mark. Last week another 7,500 "combat-support and combat-support service personnel" landed from two troopships, bringing the total to nearly 108,000-a fourth of them front-line marines and infantrymen. And at week's end the 15,800 men and 424 helicopters and planes of the Army's 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) Division began to disembark at Qui Nhon...
...have to reduce its perilously small majority by filling the non-voting post with a Laborite. But last week Sir Harry dropped dead on a London street, and to Labor that seemed a bit much, coming as it did in the wake of a Labor M.P.'s death fortnight ago, which trimmed Wilson's edge over the Conservatives to a mere two votes...
...about physics, chemistry and biology; today they deal with the likes of biochemistry, bioengineering, exobiology and biophysics. In 1950, chemists produced 558 articles every two weeks for their publications; in 1965, in the field of chemistry alone, those learned explorers are turning out-and publishing -6,700 articles every fortnight. Small wonder that the U.S. Printing Office is drawing up plans for a new building with 40 acres of working space-six acres bigger than the Pentagon; or that Yale, if it were to continue using its obsolescent card catalogue, would need eight acres of floor space by the year...