Free book program stresses Reading Is Fundamental
In San Francisco Anza School fourth graders collect two million free paperbacks as part of Reading Is Fundamental. Margaret McNamara promotes the program, which started in 1968 with Ford Foundation support and Smithsonian sponsorship. The local Friends of the San Francisco Library launches a $20,000 effort to give 28,000 books to 7,000 youngsters in Western Addition.
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Duston Harvey
SAN Francisco
UPT
Anza
RIF
McNemara
Naional Rif
Smithsonian Institution
Ha Child
Menamen
Anza School
Western Addition
McNamara
Washington
Ford Foundation
Soviet view favors growth over ecological limits
A Soviet official argues that rapid economic expansion is compatible with environmental protection, contrasting Western anti-technology sentiment with Moscow's push for large scale projects. He cites a million kilowatt reactors, a long gas pipeline, and a billion-dollar water pollution program as evidence of state-led science guiding development.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
United States
U.S
Mikhail D. Millionshchikov
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Communist Party
Millianshchikov
Millionschikov
Milliokshchikov
Volga
Ural
Millionshchskov
Academy of Sciences
Kremlin
Transport Department faults inexperience in Colorado bus crash
Washington reports the Transportation Department blames a 23 year old Colorado school bus driver for a September accident near Gunnison that killed nine. The novice driver had two weeks with school buses, no formal training, and never drove this bus, with brakes fading as the bus sped down Monarch Pass at high speed into a gas station.
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Colora Washington
UPI
Transportation Department
Colorado
Gunnison
Colo
Monarch Pass
Medical supplies shipped from Boston to Belfast relief effort
A BOAC jetliner carrying 25000 dollars in medical supplies departed Boston for Belfast to aid wounded in Northern Ireland. The shipment, organized by Holyoke’s Dr Raymond T McClean Humanitarian Fund Committee,Funds hospitals and pharmacies to serve all religious and political groups. The effort, aided by the British Consul General in Boston and U S Customs, faced customs delays but was expedited with assistance from the Massachusetts Port Authority.
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Boston
Belfast
Holyoke
Northern Ireland
BOAC
Raymon T. McClean
Raymond T. McClean
Dr. McClean
Roger F. Breen
Belast
U.S. Customs
Massachusetts Port Authority
Logan
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