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The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 9

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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Oct. 1, 1971 Qm 4 Beimre Researcher Plans the Weekend of the Future By AARON TAYLOR It's one of the 50 or so Mon days of 1985 and you're trying to figure out what to do with 7 the three days coming to you wright, Mike Lang, presented skits illustrating futuristic possibilities like: Twenty-four hour availability of leisure opportunities in urban areas, Automated credit, audit and banking services available on a universal basis for money and time transactions; "People containers" travel units that would transport people the way cargo is moved in containers. Hawkins said he also invited the travel agents and other ecutives in the nearly $150 billion a year "leisure" industry to think in terms of human values. Travel Organizations. Persons representing about 350 government and private travel Organizations will meet at the Marriott Hotel through Saturday to discuss ways of helping people spend their free In a workshop Thursday (Hawkins says he would like to cail it a the research professor and a play about leisure and words like "scenario writing" and "synergism" and "sensorium" tumble out.

He is in town this week to provide a "three-day experience in leisure" for 500 people attending a conference on travel. The conference is sponsored by the Discover America towering column of steel and concrete, suggests a leading "leisure" researcher. Or, he thinks, you might just go to the "time bank" and stretch the tihree-day weekend out into a week or so. Donald E. Hawkins is a leisure research professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Ask him at the end of the week. You might want to visit a 24-hour city, get there via multi-destmation containers ami eat, sleep and drink in a pod-like hotel resting atop a t'li is, Jaiiiii '1 1I ft vl 4 Solemn Moment CHARLESTON, S.C. Kimberley Ann Scott, adopted daughter of TSgt. and Mrs. James T.

Scott, listens intently during naturalization ceremonies at U.S. District Court in Charleston, S.C., Thursday. She was one of 21 persons naturalized. Kim was adopted four years ago. (Associated Press Wirephoto) PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Johnny Carson's Son Arrested CRANSTON, R.I.

Richard Carson, 19, the son of "Tonight" TV show host Johnny Carson, was arrested Thursday on a charge of possessing marijuana and released after pleading innocent in court here. Carson and Gary M. Golden, 21, of Levittown, N.Y., were arrested as they drove south of Interstate 95. Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs officers said they stopped the two after they saw them smoking and "certain techniques used indicated marijuana. The officers said they found a number of half-used cigarets and marijuana for 30 more smokes in the car.

Carson and Golden are both petty officers stationed at the Quonset Point Naval Air Station. In New York, Carson said he had heard about the arrest, but was waiting for more information from his son's lawyers. Fisher Beats Russian at Chess BUENOS AIRES U.S. ace Bobby Fisher won the first game of his semi-final chess tournament with Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union Thursday mgnt, scoring tne victory in 40 moves. The owning was a Sicilian defense, which Petrosian played in black.

Petrosian, a formed world champion, played a new move on his lltn turn tnat seemed to rive hdm an advantage but Fischer equalized by ex changing several pieces. In the end game, Petrosian re signed after Fisher forced the win ot a Knight, it was tne first of a 12-game tournament to determine who will meet world champion Boris Spassky for the title. Nixons Hail Retiring AP Reporter WASHINGTON It was quite a day for Robert Cor nell, the Associated Press White House reporter since 1936, who is retiring. President Nixon attended a party in his honor, and Mrs. Pat Nixon announced his engagement to Helen Thomas, the United Press International White House reported since 1961.

They say the best marriages are made in heaven but press marriages are made in the White House," the President quipped. The marriage is planned for Oct. 16. Cornell is 65 and Miss Thomas is 51. Cornell said he had been asked what the high point of his career that spanned seven Presidents was "This is is.

No Presi dent ever gave me a party before, he said. Egg Hits Hirohito Car in Belgium ANTWERP, Belgium As the gray Mercedes Benz carrying Japanese Emperor Hirohito moved along the nar row street, a man threw an egg. It splattered on ths car's roof, but the emperor, accompanied by Belgium King Bau- douin and Queen Fabiola, apparently did not notice it. The police, however, arrested a man and then when another man tried to fre him, police led him away too. But some spectators said the wrong man had been arrested, and the eg thrower had disappeared into the crowd.

Police denied they had detained anyone. "Do you really have to speak about this?" an officer asked. Hirohito is on the second leg of his European tour. AT UNIVERSITY Paper Delivery Irks News Staff 0 students were interested in the idea even though they didn't show any great interest in subscribing After consulting with J. W.

Broadhurst, director of busi 1 i 1 qO ness auxiliary servcies, on the to campus, Armstrong said he decided to allow the door delivery. Zy, Co' Armstrong's office put out a list of guidelines for dorm delivery which included specific bans on door-to-door canvassing by newspaper sales per ye t9 to The guidelines also outlaw door-to-door collection. Last week, the Daily News By BILL JORDAN Conitltirtlon Bntam Writer ATHENS-University of Georgia students here are having off-campus newspapers delivered to their dormitory rooms, a new development that has brought groans from the staff of the student paper The Red and Black. Rex Granum, fall quarter editor of the Red and Black, says the entry of the newspapers is in violation of a Board of Regents ruling that outlaws dormitory soliciting. Granum said a recent local ruling to allow the papers "opens the door for the Girl Scout Cookies and magazine salesmen." Even the man who made the decision to let the papers be delivered on campus feels that problems will arise.

Dr. I a Armstrong, director of housing for the university, said it all started over a year ago when the Athens Banner-Herald and The Daily News asked for permission to deliver on campus. Armstrong said he had a survey made to see if the students were interested in the dorm door delivery. He said the survey showed that the started delivering free copies of a campus zoned edition called the Georgia Daily News to students" doors. The paper is seeking subscriptions at a rate of $5.20 per quarter.

Granum said he and his staff are not afraid of the competition. Now publishing four days a week, with 14,000 free copies of each issue going to stu dents, the Red and Black does not expect the Daily News to cut down on its circulation. Granum does, however, see a possiblity of an overlap in advertising which might hurt Lord Taylor, Phipps flgza, Peachtree Road between Wleuca and lenox Roads-266-0600. Store hoursjMonday through Saturday 9:30 to 5t30, Monday and Thursday nights until 9:00 the student paper..

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