Union City Eyes Underground Power Lines Over BART
Union City aims to place PG and E power lines underground to cross the BART route, aligning with state policy trending toward eliminating overhead poles. California PUC officials in Sacramento outline a long term objective to remove visible utility poles nationwide, urging no compromise on modernizing the Bay Area crossing.
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Fremont
Newark
Union City
Pg&e
John Geoghegan
California Public Utilities Commission
PUC
A. W. Galey
John R. Gillanders
Bart
Sacramento
California
PUG
Bay Area
Sweet Victory Over the Computerized Gas Bill
A British regional gas board installed a computer to bill subscribers but did not program for non users. A man away a quarter year received 0 0 0 bills and a final demand. He sent a triple zero check to placate the computer, which led to the bank manager face to face with a burnt out machine and a joke about smoking computers. The Guardian noted no follow up.
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Manchester Guardian
Britain
Guardian
Gaz Board
Insurance claim links miniskirts to fewer car crashes
An insurance firm asserts that miniskirts reduce a woman driver’s chance of a traffic accident but gives no details on other potential issues. CIA chief Hess suggests money could curb the arms race as defense costs rise, implying economic factors may reshape global threats.
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CIA
Hess
U.S
Russia
Principal’s Transfer Sparks Taxpayer Alarm Over Policy
Voice Of The People objects to Mission San José High School principal John MacDonald for transferring Mrs. Paul Conley after her marriage to another teacher. The letter claims no written married-couple policy exists, notes six couples still work at Fremont high schools, and argues the transfer wastes taxpayer money while harming student education.
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Edidor
Fremont
Mission San José
Mission
Paul Conley
John McDonald
Leslie
Mission San Jose High
Conley
MacDonald
Conleys
R MacDonald
Frenant
Fremon
John MacDonald
Paul Conley Fremont
Berkeley Braced by Guard as faculty ideologues loom
Emergency measures by the National Guard, California National Guard, and police occupy UC Berkeley amid protests. Critics blame a faction of professors for eroding academic order and freedom, urging removal of radical factions to restore peace and Western civilization teaching.
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National Guard of California
University of California At Berkeley
Talleyrand
University of Chicago
Berkeley
Telegraph Avenue
National Guard
Academy of Lapatlo
Roger Heyns
Lighter FBI Tales Highlight Odd, True Delights
A Federal Bureau of Investigation bulletin shares offbeat vignettes from law enforcement including a visiting minister misquoting prayers at a penitentiary, a tire theft chase ending with a submerged suspect, a car theft brought to a halt by pursuit and rescue, and a dog crash landing in an attic that terrifies a startled secretary.
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Washington
FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
PBE
California
Loyalty and flexibility in a courtier of power
A commentary on political flattery and loyalty as applied to John Kennedy and the Wiesner affair. It argues that Dr. Jerome Wiesner shows dangerous loyalty flexibility by censoring his views to please unnamed parties in the Soviet Union while advising U.S. leaders. The piece likens this to a courtier serving two masters and warns of the risks.
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Bob Kennedy
United Nations
China
Bob
U.N
U.S.A
JFK
Jerome Wiesher
Kennedy
Sen
Ted Kennedy
Wiesner
Richard Whalen
ABM
Whalen
Dr. Wiesner
Soviet Union
U.S
Russia
Maclean's Microscoop insights and stray musings
The passage offers fragmented satire on deans deceiving students about schedules, a provocative line about exchanging ICBM duties with Russia, a remark on England's limits over Northern Ireland, a jab at student understanding of the world, and a minority view on the President at a baseball game while fans boo.
Notable historical events on this day
This day in history highlights John Winthrop entering Salem harbor in 1680, Calvin Coolidge receiving the Republican nomination in 1824, Medgar Evers assassination in 1963, and the 1967 Supreme Court ruling against bans on interracial marriage. Plato is quoted on virtue and evil.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Winthrop
Salem
Calvin Coolidge
Cleveland
Teader Medgar Evers
Jackson
Miss
United States Supreme Court
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