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...weekend in the seaside resort of Vung Tau-a prized opportunity for revelry and relaxation that comes only once every 45 days. The company has no barracks, no dress uniforms (they are stored in boxes at Bien Hoa) and no personal possessions (letters are the only personal items allowed in the field). The Vung Tau weekend, which the men enjoy in fatigues, is the only break in an endless cycle of ten-to 15-day patrols and three-day rests on a fire base with no hot showers and few other amenities...
...that. After British Show-Jumping Star Harvey Smith publicly remarked that European Horse Trial Champion Anne was "nowhere near Olympic standard," he got a fast telegram from Meade-not exactly challenging him to a duel, but offering to bet him $600 that he would beat Smith at the Badminton three-day horse trials in April, and another $600 that Smith would not win the event...
Jones recently attended a three-day conference of the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington. He said the major concern of the visiting deans of the nation's leading graduate schools was the precipitous loss of millions of dollars in Federal fellowships and trainee programs...
...three-day meeting at Loyola University is billed as an "emergency conference for new voters." It was organized by the National Association of Student Governments and has the support of 100 student body presidents...
...four-day schedules become a national routine, presumably various three-day "weekends" will have to be staggered throughout the week to ease pressure on already overburdened recreational facilities. In an increasingly secularized society, what began as the Sabbath will be turning into Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday "weekends...