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Under construction in landlocked Switzerland, of all places, Oxy is the brainchild of a Swiss electronics engineer named Jean-Claude Protta, 32. An avid ocean sailor, Protta took a 15-month, 12,000-mile cruise and came home in 1971 with a headful of ideas about new electronic equipment for navigation. He brought his plans to Oxy Metal Industries International (O.M.I.I.), a division of Occidental Petroleum, which was looking for new applications for metal oxide semiconductors (MOS)-the tiny components that engineers use to cram extremely complex circuits onto silicon chips less than a quarter of an inch square...
...relatively, prices for Americans spending weakened U.S. currency are even higher. A single room at such hotels as Amsterdam's Hilton and Cologne's Inter-Continental now cost at least $50 a night, v. as low as $35 18 months ago. A modest dinner for two in Switzerland-cheese fondue and a bottle of wine-can run to $30. In Paris, peaches from Southern France sell for the equivalent of $8 each, and a cup of coffee rarely costs less than...
...Olympics, scheduled to be held in Montreal. Strikes and stoppages have so slowed construction of a new 70,000-seat stadium and other Olympic facilities as to raise a question of whether they can be ready in time. Last week, while the International Olympic Committee, meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, received assurances from Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau that the games would be held on schedule, construction workers in Quebec and at the Olympic construction site struck yet again, this time mainly to protest a blunt, 603-page report on corruption and crime in four Quebec Federation of Labor unions. The Quebec...
...border. Michel stops the car next to a field and walks off, announcing that he is going to search for his past. At this point, the action cuts into the color film, which concludes with the escape of Michel and his family from the Germans to safety in Switzerland. When Michel returns to the car, the student is gone and the credits follow, without Michel's coming to any conclusion about the relationship of his childhood to his present life...
...things did not go so smoothly for Radcliffe at the nationals in San Francisco, as the eight lost to a powerful Vesper boat by a length of open water, placing second in the final. The only consolation was the fact that Vesper's eight, which went to Lucerne, Switzerland after the event, was not a collegiate one; instead it was a group of women from many other colleges who banded together after the regular season to form an unbeatable crew...