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...important to begin your drive to Florida in a sporting fashion, so everyone in the car should predict what song will be heard most frequently on the radio between Boston and Fort Lauderdale. Try beating Glen Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy," which was heard 57 times during a two-day stretch on a trip to Colorado a few years...
...about 100 armed guerrillas in camouflage fatigues, paddling in rubber boats across the river-the border between Zambia and Rhodesia. The Rhodesians opened fire, and Canberra and Hawker Hunter jets soon joined the battle. So began Rhodesia's first admitted "external" (i.e., incursion) into Zambian territory-a two-day raid that destroyed an arms cache and a command camp of Joshua Nkomo's 8,000-man guerrilla army. Rhodesia announced that the "self-defense" raid-"It was a beautiful op, smooth as butter," said one officer in Salisbury-killed 38 guerrillas at the cost of one white Rhodesian...
...wooden doors for a secret debate on the latest hurdle facing the Panama Canal treaties: charges linking Moisés Torrijos, the brother of Panama's strongman, General Omar Torrijos, to heroin smuggling in the U.S. Called at the insistence of Kansas Republican Robert Dole and other treaty opponents, the two-day session attracted as many as 70 Senators, practically a mob in Capitol Hill terms. But when the doors reopened at midweek, after 14 hours of testimony and discussion, the great drug drama turned out to be something of a bust...
...plan that offers a tempting carrot was conceived by Arthur Okun, a Brookings Institution senior fellow and a member of TIME'S Board of Economists. In April. Brookings will hold a two-day closed-door seminar of economists to debate the Okun proposal; an open meeting of business and labor leaders is planned for midyear. Participation in his plan would be voluntary, but companies that held wage increases to 6% or less and price increases to 4% or less would be granted a 5% rebate on their federal income taxes. As an inducement for their cooperation, employees in such firms...
...service for Lowell, who died last September, was part of a two-day observance of his birthday. Lowell, who was the Emerson Lecturer on English Literature, would have been 61 on Wednesday...