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...Clair, William R. Perrigo, 46, climbed into the cockpit of his 24-ft. Thunder Jet and rocketed around an eight-mile course to win the International Skeeter Class championship. A printing-company president, former commodore of Wisconsin's Pewaukee Ice Yacht Club, Bill Perrigo sails a 38-ft. Inland Scow in the summers, is an expert on both water and ice. But stepping from one to the other, he says, is a little bit like a glider pilot learning to blast off in a jet. While he was practicing three weeks ago, his Skeeter hit a hidden "pressure heave...
Would the shock waves of East African revolt move inland to plague the wobbly governments of other territories? One vulnerable region was Northern Rhodesia, which is due to get its independence by year's end. But all was quiet last week as thousands of African voters flocked to the polling booths to elect Northern Rhodesia's first Prime Minister...
...Lake. Berliners get together everywhere from the sunny Black Sea resorts of Bulgaria and Rumania to the forested Tatra Mountains of Czechoslovakia. But the favorite rendezvous is Hungary's Lake Balaton, a narrow, 48-mile-long "inland sea" just 56 miles from Budapest. A renowned Central European watering spot since the days of the Romans, Balaton is a pleasant place to visit even without the added incentive of reunion. Its delicate wines-such as the Badacsony szurke barat (Grey Friar)-are eminently sippable, and the shallow, turquoise-blue lake, ringed with breezy cafes and villas, has a bright, Mediterranean...
...because it would even out costs. But changing the regular payment for overtime from time and a half to double time would cost industry $46 million extra a week, and, with today's rapidly advancing technology, would not automatically lead to more hirings. "In the long run," warns Inland Steel Vice President William Caples, "anything that becomes expensive we eliminate-we engineer it out." The risk is that such penalties might provide the impetus for new breakthroughs in automation that would make unemployment even worse...
...QUIET ENEMY, by Cecil Dawkins. These seven longish stories about recessive but exotic people of the inland South have the special power, which usually belongs to poetry, of haunting the mind...