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...combat helmet as a hammer for tent stakes, a shaving basin and a stew pot -as well as, of course, a means of protection. But the old "wobble pot" is also literally a pain in the neck. It comes in only one size (with adjustable liner), feels like a ton (actual weight: 3 Ibs. 4 oz.) and a soldier has to hold it on when he runs. At last, relief is in sight. The U.S. Army Research and Development Command at Natick, Mass., is field-testing a new design. Made of a high-strength organic fiber, it features a flattened...
...workers) since 1959. Executives have also begun squabbling among themselves. Last week Armco Steel not only refused to go along with an industry price boost of 6% on structural steel, but announced that in the lower Midwest and Gulf Coast regions it would offer deeper discounts: $50 a ton, v. $30 formerly, off the list price of $320. Armco moved to match prices of imported steel, and its action points up the biggest trouble of all. Foreign competition is so intense that E. Bradley Jones, executive vice president of Republic Steel, says: "Basically, it gets down to whether...
...most Americans, the diesel engine calls to mind a smoke-belching locomotive or 20-ton truck. But in Europe, diesels also power some Mercedes sedans and Peugeots-and this week those cars will get a U.S. rival. General Motors will bring out the first U.S.-made diesel passenger car. It plans to offer the diesel as an optional engine on 50,000 Oldsmobile 88s and 98s in the 1978 model-year...
...Economic Advisers, the State Department, the Defense Department, the Office of Management and Budget-are against the bill. They fear it would aggravate inflation by forcing the use of more expensive U.S. ships with highly paid crews: it costs $14,300 a day to run a 90,000-ton U.S. ship, v. $9,700 for the same size Liberian-flag freighter. Further, critics say the bill is protectionist special-interest legislation, antagonistic to free trade and potentially disruptive to U.S. treaty relations with perhaps 30 other nations. But Carter is for the bill. Wooing labor support during the campaign...
Lufthansa's new in-flight Bonn-ton program, which aims to relieve the frazzling effect on passenger extremities produced by prolonged jet travel, derives directly from the mini-gymnastics devised for cramped U.S. astronauts on flights to the moon. Explains Jürgen Palm, the German airline's fitness guru: "The problem of long-distance airline passengers is the same as that of astronauts: how to keep the muscles from going all slack and the blood from settling in legs and feet and to keep the joints from becoming stiff. For people who are not in shape, getting...