Plastic future envisioned by Stanford researchers and industry
Seers at the Stanford Research Institute forecast a plastics dominated future by 2000 with plastic cars homes and domed cities. They claim plastic could halve car weight and cut energy use versus metal and suggest domed shopping centers and windows may become common. Ralph L. Harding notes plastics use a small share of total energy today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanford Research Institute
America
Ralph L. Harding
Society of the Plastics Industry
Don Oakley
Metric system may reshape U S food sizes in ten years
An August 6 1973 opinion piece argues a metric conversion could reach the United States within a decade. It notes Congress consideration, Senate action in 1972, and House hearings on a 10 year plan, amid subsidy debates and Bureau of Standards studies urging coordinated nationwide adoption. Esther Peterson predicts consumer life could improve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Congress
Senate
House Science Subcommittee
National Bureau of Standards
Mars
Esther Peterson
Secret bombings raise questions about Nixon secrecy
The Defense Department disclosed at least 3,500 presidentially authorized secret raids by B 52 bombers over Cambodia starting March 1969. Officials say falsified reports were ordered to conceal numbers and aims, drawing broad criticism of the Nixon administration’s secrecy and its impact on U S credibility abroad and at home.
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Nixon
Executive Branch
Defense Department
Cambodia
Prince Sihanouk
Pentagon
U.S
Congress
America
North Vietnam
Vietnam
Hanoi
Richard Nixon
Insurance Warning Against Gasoline Hoarding
A warning from the American Insurance Association cautions homeowners not to store gasoline as a hedge against inflation or shortages. The fire risk is greater than any potential benefit, says president T Lawrence Jones. The piece also notes NAACP recognition for Frank Wills who uncovered the Watergate burglary and cites biblical quotes and other references.
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American Insurance Assn
Association
T. Lawrence Jones
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Frank Wills
NAACP
Christian Science Monitor
Poultry thefts and fire reported in rural Minnesota
Poultry thieves stole about 30 chickens from two farms near Grand Meadow as high poultry prices pressed thefts. A 110 foot hay barn at Emil Hintzman farm near Waltham burned this morning, causing damage.
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Grand Meadow
Emil Hintzman
Waltham
Austin
578-CIO
Eva Sayers
Pickin’s Aren’t Easy But There’s Still Gold in Them Hills
New Pass Mine in Nevada once thrived during the late 1800s gold rush with 1000 workers, shacks, saloons, and a post office. Now the frontier town is reduced to a single family, Donald Jung and his wife with two children, preserving memory of the era.
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New Pass Mine
Nev
Nea
Desatoga Mountains
New Pass
Donald Jung
Informer exposes Mafia finance network led by Zalmanowitz
Victor Riesel profiles Gerald Martin Zalmanowitz, a skilled organizer of crime family finance, now cooperating with authorities. The piece notes an open mob contract on him, his past role in cross border brokerages and bank accounts, and the aim to unravel Meyer Lansky’s fortune to expose the underworld’s financial web affecting legitimate businesses and unions.
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Victor Riesel
New York
Mafia
Gerald Martin Zalmanowitz
Underworld
U.S
FBI
Zalmanowitz
Gyp DeCarlo
Joe Colombo, Jr
Meyer Lansky
Justice Dept
Task Force 18
Operation Financier
Jackson
Wall Street
Bug
Meyer Gang
Lepke
Gurrah
Inc
Miami
Miami Beach
Collins Avenue
Vinnie
Jimmy Blue Eyes
Aloi
Lansky
John
Jack) Pullman
Lausanne
Switzerland
Meyer
Pullman
Las Vegas
Flamingo Hotel
Sen. Jackson
Union Bank of Switzerland
Belgium
P. de Posson de Cherisey
Space age gold rush fuels New Pass mine hopes
The piece profiles Don Jung, owner of the New Pass mine, chasing a profitable vein as gold prices surge. He leases land, secures a $50,000 prospecting loan, and works daily to extract ore, optimistic a rich vein will yield gold through milling and mercury amalgamation, amid a broader boom in gold prospecting nationwide.
Golf Etiquette and Rules Urged Before Playing
A reader recounts a tedious 18 holes due to rule breaking and etiquette lapses. They contrast a well behaved round with a 3 hour 15 minute slog caused by others, urge learning golf rules, and praise courteous play including the use of electric carts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Little
Norm Rasmussen
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Plastic Society
Austin Daily Herald
Bernard Baruch
St. N.E
Minnesota
Edmund EF. Smith
Thomas J. Koeck
Minn
United States
A.P.O
F.P.O
Bustad Addition
By Tom Tiede
Reas
Don Jung
Jung
Nevada Mercury Mining Corporation
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Paul Gemmill
The
Nevada Mining Association
High Sierras
Pop
Fifi
Roger Larson
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