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...chairman of the 1,200-unit chain of Holiday Inns. Having opened its first European inn two years ago at Leiden, The Netherlands, the company is building 15 more in Belgium, England, Austria, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Greece and Luxembourg; it is also drawing plans for an additional 47. Esso Motor Hotels, a subsidiary of Jersey Standard, already has 41 outlets in Europe and expects to have 70 soon...
...Bonanza series into short stories because of their "proven popularity." To save on paper, the Post is shaved in 1966 by one-eighth or an inch along the top and bottom and one-sixteenth along the sides. Ackerman, faced with the possible loss of $400,000 in Ford Motor Co. advertising, suddenly tells the Ford representative: "You know, I really can't understand why you'd take all your advertising out of this issue when we're going to have Mr. Ford's picture on the cover. I mean, Mr. Ford might not like that." Ackerman...
...supply of air begins to deplete, a cascade of falling pitches and fading sounds engulfs the listener in a musical-mystical doomsday. "It sounds," says Kagel, "as if the organ were exhaling her soul." For Ligeti's equally iconoclastic Etude No. 1, Zacher hooked a vacuum-cleaner motor to the organ pipes to achieve a tiny flow of air and precisely the "pale, unearthly and strange" tone color specified by the composer...
...named "R." Pham Hung, as he is otherwise known, is a Ho Chi Minh protégé who has been headman at COSVN since 1967. It is no surprise that "R" is hard to find; he is said to travel constantly between COSVN's different units by motor bike. Two weeks ago, U.S. troops came close to capturing an important element of the headquarters. Acting on a tip, two infantry battalions raced to a bunker complex near Mimot, only to find the place all but deserted. One wounded Communist who had been left behind told about the staff...
Jones was inspired to invent his tester by highway statistics, which show that half of the drivers involved in fatal accidents have alcohol in their blood. But the device−which is designed to screen drunks by testing judgment, visual acuity, short-term memory and coordinated motor response−will also weed out drug users and those who are mentally or physically deficient. To satisfy the demanding gadget, a driver must be able to read the relatively small lighted numbers, memorize them, recall them, and punch them into the keyboard in a coordinated response within a few seconds...