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...SOUTH VIET NAM or, more convincingly, THE ENTIRE PEOPLE WELCOME THE CEASEFIRE. Yet there was no rejoicing, not even a sense of relief. Sunday, cease-fire or no, President Nguyen Van Thieu had decreed that all South Vietnamese civilians should go to their jobs as they would on a workday. The idea was to show that there was little to celebrate and that little had changed-a point Thieu made repeatedly in a combative TV address to the nation. "There is no peace yet," he said. "This is only a standstill ceasefire. If the Communists commit small cease-fire violations...
Enough air crewmen were brought in from the U.S. to keep the number of missions per crew to a level of about three per week. Each mission involved a 17-hour workday, including twelve hours in the air as well as pre-and postflight briefings and debriefings. Meals were taken on board: some flyers preferred the older D models because they have a small stove on which a TV-style dinner can be cooked. On the Gs, cold box lunches are the rule. Crews are rotated home after a maximum of 179 days under a program code-named "Bullet Shot...
...language for communicating with computers (called BASIC); he pioneered in the development of time snaring, a method by which many people can use a computer simultaneously. The computer even became his chief form of relaxation. In the small hours of the morning, after what is often a 20-hour workday, Kemeny frequently plays simulated games of chess, poker and football on a computer console in the study of his home. For Dartmouth's football coaches, he created a computer system to help keep track of scouting data...
...streets, thereby increasing production. The problem was that on his schedule, lunch breaks came between 10 and 11 a.m., and the populus didn't cotton to the idea of seeing their tax dollars parked outside restaurants at 10 a.m. eating lunch. So it was back to a 7 a.m. workday...
Janet Sue Epperson's workday begins with a thorough reading of the Wall Street Journal. As a trust officer of the City National Bank and Trust Co. of Kansas City, Mo., Janet is only too aware that her good looks will not help her if her clients are taking a beating in the stock market. They rarely do; in the six years since she graduated from the University of Kansas, Janet has become one of the most respected bankers in Kansas City. "It's an ideal industry for a woman," she says. "You either make money for people...