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...good climate and cheap labor (skilled factory workers make $6 a day). The government would allow raw materials to enter the zone and finished products to leave it with virtually no taxation. To the south, along the canal on Lake Timsah, Osman has dreams of building a $125 million tourist resort. "The investment could be recouped in four years," he optimistically told TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn...
...There's hordes of characters who fit the general pattern, and some wild ones too. There's a guy who lives between St. Augustine and Jacksonville who looks like Dan'l Boone, with buckskins and beard, and lives in an abandoned tourist camp. He's an old time musician mebbe 37-years-old, been giggin for 15. He carries a sawed-off shot gun and has a herd of goats runnin through his yard and a chicken house and a coupla hogs. He's real reclusive and don't want to meet nobody and he certainly knows the pleasures...
...Governor's Task Force for Economic Growth, a $25,000-a-year post to which he was named in 1972 by Governor John West. It calls for Westmoreland to handle a wide variety of projects aimed at expanding the state's business and industry, from promoting its tourist attractions to Canadians, to seeking investment capital from visiting Japanese businessmen, to spreading the word to farmers about new agricultural methods. As usual, the general is double-timing on his new job. Driving alone in his Ford Capri or accompanied by a retired Army colonel who serves as an aide...
Santiago's raucous night life has been snuffed out by an 11 p.m.-5:30 a.m. curfew. Restaurants other than those in tourist hotels no longer serve dinner. "Bando 28" bans all gatherings during curfew hours, thus thwarting attempts by fun lovers to get around the curfew by holding their parties from dark to dawn...
...Lines figures to save 19 million gal. of jet fuel a year just by replacing 747s with DC-10s on its Honolulu runs. Many of the cabin luxuries and ticketing options that passengers have taken for granted will disappear. First class may give way to all-economy seating, and tourist accommodations may become more crowded as cabins are fit ted with extra seats. Last-minute reservations and changes of flight plans will become far more difficult to arrange as more flights depart with every seat filled. Nonstop service may turn to one-stop and two-stop, even on long flights...