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...overtime rather than train someone new, because experienced hands give them better work and save them the expense of added fringe benefits for a new employee. The industries with some of the heaviest overtime are autos, where workers spend 5.4 extra hours a week in the plant, cement (6.6 hr.), grain mill products (7.3 hr.), and paper (5.6 hr.). Thus, even with overtime, few workers work more than a 46-hour week...
Screams in the Air. At Lajes Air Force Base in the Azores, the U.S.'s 57th Air Rescue Squadron also swung into action. Shortly after the Lakonia's last message was received, four C-54 rescue planes swung out over the Atlantic toward the flaming vessel, 3 hr. 30 min. flying time away. The planes were loaded with 42 life rafts that could carry 600 persons, 400 blankets, food and survival packages, flares of 300,000 candlepower, and six paramedics who could jump into the ocean to help passengers, if necessary...
Last week, mixing solid business with image-making busyness, Man-in-Motion Johnson was in top form. Although the widow of New York's Herbert H. Lehman had begged the President not to run the security risk, he made a 2-hr. 28-min. descent on Manhattan for the funeral of his ex-Senate colleague, as some 2,500 New York City cops and uncounted federal agents maintained the tightest security precautions in memory. Back in Washington, Johnson sent a draft bill to Congress to put John Kennedy's profile on the U.S.'s 50? piece, wrote...
Ahead of Schedule. Exactly 63 hr. 5 min. after the first Big Lift plane left Texas, a C-130 Hercules touched down at Sembach with the last 60 men of the 2nd Armored, nearly nine hours ahead of schedule. With the last arrivals on hand, the scattered units of the 2nd Armored began assembling for week-long maneuvers at Fulda Gap, a classical invasion route just across the border from Communist East Germany...
...York World reporter, who in 1889 completed the trip in 72 days, 6 hr. and 11 min. to beat the fanciful record of Phileas Fogg, hero of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days...