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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1983
Page
9
Soldiers say the new 50 50 nylon cotton fatigues are too hot heavy and wrinkling hard to dry and the Army plans to spend 432 million dollars for 13 4 million sets to outfit hundreds of thousands of regulars and guardsmen despite field complaints including those from Grenada.
A 5 year old American observatory ISEE 3 embarks on a rare moon grazing maneuver to sling toward a direct comet measurement. It will pass within 75 miles of the Moon to gain speed before meeting comet Giacobini-Zinner on Sept 11, 1985, amid power and heat challenges.
The Center for Auto Safety filed suit in U S District Court to compel the Transportation Department to withhold federal bridge repair funds from states failing to inspect and post warnings on deteriorated spans. It accuses the department of lax enforcement, unqualified inspectors, and incomplete inventories affecting 32 states and Puerto Rico with 51 722 structurally deficient bridges not posted or closed. Katherine Hall, counsel for the group, notes widespread inspection failures and undertrained evaluators.
At Stockholm annual meeting the International Bridge Press Association awarded Oswald Jacoby the Charles Goren Award for Bridge Personality of the Year. The piece notes his retirement after 50 years in tournament bridge, his record of early auction bridge success, and his influence as player, writer and theorist. It discusses a hypothetical hand from 30 years ago illustrating his double squeeze and endgame play, and promotes Charles Goren's Four-Deal Bridge book with a mail-order form.
A monthlong NSF study from the University of Arizona finds smokers emit 100 times more particulates than non-smokers up to an hour after returning from a break. Researchers Steven Daniel and Stuart Hoenig report breath samples show dead cell tissue and saliva droplets at higher levels in smokers.
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