Calculating future use of pocket electronic calculators
The piece notes a 1642 start by Pascal and rapid price drops to under 200 dollars due to microelectronics enabling pocket sized models. It highlights household benefits from budgeting, shopping, painting, dressmaking, and math education, with North American Rockwell Microelectronics predicting major social impact akin to the power saw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blaise Pascal
Sam Carlson
North American Rockwell Microelectronics Company
Trial Lawyers Are On Trial at Convention Speech
J D Lee of Tennessee addressed the 26th Annual Trial Lawyers Association convention in St Louis. He urged the 27000 members to defend consumers against corporate and insurer power and to push for justice and dignity, while Virginia Knauer argued no fault insurance threatens a $1 billion annual gain for lawyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trial Lawyers Association
St. Louis
J. D. Lee
Tennessee
Virginia Knauer
Consumer Affairs
Sadat's gambit tests Moscow as Egypt shifts burden
Washington dispatch notes the rapid evacuation of Russian personnel from Egypt signals no Soviet withdrawal. Egypt remains armed and dependent on Russia for maintenance, with 600 jets, 2,000 tanks, and 800,000 men under arms. Sadat sought offensive weapons and sole-use timing, but Moscow refused a blank check, using the move to avoid war and cast Russia as scapegoat while Egypt seeks a bold, war-avoidant path.
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Ernest Cuneo
Washington
Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Mediterranean
Russia
U.S
Moscow
Sadat
Aswan
Israel
Middle East
Kremlin
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Suez
Facelift Advice From Dr Lamb Shows Limits And Timelines
Reader asks about facelift changes safety downtime and risks. Dr Lamb notes vanity can drive the choice but aging skin limits how much improvement is possible. He describes techniques recovery times two weeks for lower face one year for full effect and cautions eyelid surgery may delay normal function while recommending professional consultation.
Nixon's slow road to Vietnam peace debated in 1969 documents
Classified papers reveal North Vietnamese signals to pursue peace after 1968, but Nixon viewed them as military redeployments. Kissinger favored a two track approach, while Nixon pursued Vietnamization to delay a communist takeover, aiming to protect political standing ahead of 1972 election. The CIA and NIE warned against overconfidence but acknowledged Vietnam would test U.S. credibility in Southeast Asia.
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Washington
Nixon
South Vietnam
White House
Henry Kissinger
Hanoi
Kissinger
U.S
National
Johnson
Laos
Cambodia
Peking
South
Moscow
Soviet Union
Southeast Asia
Vietnam
CIA
Office of National Estimates
Saigon
North Vietnam
Baytown Sun Editorial and Publisher Listings
The Baytown Sun masthead lists Hartman as editor and Jain Wadley as publisher with Paul Putman as general manager and Ann B. Pritchett as office manager. The page includes editorial department heads Preston Pendergrass and Finley with Wanda Orian as managing editor and Daight Mendy as advertising director.
Heat Drives Hell's Kitchen To A Summer Day Of Death
Heat waves grip Hell's Kitchen as three youths are killed in a Harlem-adjacent rooftop shooting. Residents, including a shoemaker and a windowed dancer, describe the heat as a trigger for violence and misery in the West Side neighborhood. A 13 year old boy pays heed to a fire hydrant while cop chatter and shuttered tenement life frame the summer tragedy.
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Harlem
Hell's Kitchen
Madam Rosa’s
Mario
Shoeman
mid-Manhattan
West Side
Nicky Petrola
Willy
Puerto Rico
Coocoos
New York
George Raft
Tony Curtis
Hell’s Kitchen
35Th Street
46Th Street
Nicky
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Lamb
Dr. Lamb
County Medical Society
Mewspaper Enterprise Assn
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Christ
God
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Texas
Congress of Marchi
Frimay
Sunda
Daytown
Susuevan Press
Associated Press
NEA
9Th Avenue
Madam Rosa's
la Primadora
42Nd Street
Rosa's
Madam Rosa
Rosa
Yo-Yo
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
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