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...20th anniversary celebration, and the Boys have ambitious plans of their own for the big Two Zero. Mike Love has told reporters the band will play in Copenhagen, London, Washington, Los Angeles and Honolulu, all on the Fourth of July next. Sounds like they'll need a Concorde for transport between shows. Is sonic boom surfing just around the corner...
...matched on the other side, although it deteriorated when the Dallas Cowboys' cheerleaders came to visit a U.S. Army observation post last March. "They can tell when we have visitors at the o.p.," says one squad leader, "and it usually takes them ten minutes or so to get transport and come up opposite for a closer look. On the day the girls were here, they made it in five minutes flat, with broad smiles to boot...
...favorite of backpacking students and budget-minded businessmen. Americans going to Europe did not mind if flights often had long layovers at the windswept airport in Reykjavik, Iceland, or if they landed only in backwater Luxembourg. Since Icelandic was not a member of the fare-setting International Air Transport Association, the "hippie airline," as it was nicknamed, hopped the Atlantic for as much as $153 less than major carriers...
Neither sermons, warnings nor concessions, however, appeared to sway the workers. On Wednesday, 30 new factories were struck in Wroclaw alone, including the massive PAFAWAG State Rail Transport factory. Walkouts also shut down the H. Cegielski heavy-machinery plant in Poznan. The next day, new strikes also spread to factories in Slupsk, Bydgoszcz and Grudziadz. By then the unrest had reached virtually every part of the country. Apart from the willful stoppages, the interruption of transportation links and the consequent lack of parts and raw materials forced many nonstriking factories to close down...
...report also describes the scene at Desert One, even before the crash of an RH-53 into a C-130 transport plane, as one of confusion. The reason: lack of precise operating procedures, because there never had been a full dress rehearsal. The main reason for that, again, was the planners' understandable but overdrawn concern for security...