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...State William Rogers, a staff of 36 and a mammoth press corps of 260, the President and his First Lady last Saturday flew off to Salzburg, Austria, for two days of rest and sightseeing. On Monday morning, Air Force One was to take off from Salzburg for the 3-hr. 40-min. flight to Moscow. Nixon will spend nine days in Russia, including two days of side trips to Leningrad and Kiev. After that he will fly to Iran for one day and to Poland for another before returning on June 1 to Washington...
...Concorde's small payload over the North Atlantic is the main reason for the airlines' reluctance. Geoffrey Knight, Chairman of British Aircraft Corp.'s commercial division, says that the Concorde will be able to carry at least 100 passengers from Paris to New York in 3 hr. 40 min. But that number assumes a mixture of men, women and children, weighing on average only 200 Ibs. with baggage-a total of 20,000 Ibs. The Concorde, however, is likely to be a businessmen's jet, since they will be among the few people willing...
...attend a synagogue service with 1,500 of Bucharest's 50,000 Jews. "We have problems in Israel," she told them in Yiddish, "but it is better to have problems in your own land than to be without a land of your own." After the 2½-hr. service, Mrs. Meir broke away momentarily from her Rumanian bodyguard outside the synagogue to exchange Sabbath greetings with some of the thousands of Jews who had gathered behind police lines to catch a glimpse...
...demonstrators--members of the African Research Group and HR New American Movement--circulated outside the Club, located at 374 Commonwelath Ave., while the Archbishop of Boston was inside receiving the Military Order of Christ from the Portuguese Ambassador to the United States...
...gross national product. Based on the usual wage rates of housekeepers, cooks, dieticians, practical nurses and other persons who get paid for doing wifely chores (but not those of gainfully employed sexual partners), economists at Chase Manhattan Bank estimate that the U.S. housewife holds the equivalent of a 99.6-hr, job paying $13,391.56 a year. Her remuneration for all that work in the form of food, clothing, rent and just plain fun varies widely according to domestic arrangements. Other pertinent statistics...