Education must extend beyond class says Dr Scribner
North Adams Mass Dr Harvey B Scribner chancellor of education for New York City told 283 graduates at North Adams State College 75th commencement that education must widen beyond the classroom to include an active concern for mankind Academic training alone should not be the full measure of education The New York City educator received a doctor of laws from college president James T Amsler who also honored Charles Keller and Will and Ariel Durant The Durants could not attend Scribner warned graduates of a nation both fearful and hopeful and urged attention to internal threats to democracy He recalled riots assassinations and campus killings and warned that the country’s soul is being tested
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Bennington
Vermont
Air West DC9 collides with Navy fighter near Mt Bliss
A DC9 carrying 43 passengers and crew of five and a Navy Phantom F-4B collided over Mt. Bliss in the Angeles National Forest killing 49. One Marine lieutenant survived, parachuting free as wreckage scattered. The survivor, 1st Lt. Christopher E. Schiess, was treated for minor injuries. The crash halted by fog, authorities planned a dawn recovery.
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Allegheny Airlines crash at Tweed New Haven Airport
A propjet with 31 aboard crashed on approach in fog at Tweed New Haven Airport. At least 20 people were killed with potential to rise to 38. A Convair 580 also struck overhead wires and toppled into five unoccupied waterside cottages after the collision. The flight was from Washington D.C. to Connecticut.
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Nixon Readies List Of Chinese Trade Exports
President Nixon returns to Washington from Camp David to decide how far to ease trade limits with Mainland China. A forthcoming list of non strategic items, possibly including diesel locomotives, is under review as officials weigh risks of war material reaching Hanoi. Nixon travels to the White House with family amid preparations for Tricia Nixon’s Saturday wedding.
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Inside the Days of Prohibition and Air Fare Cuts
Columnist Gerald Raftery recalls Prohibition era law versus human behavior while Russell Baker argues in favor of cutting Europe air fares for parents and leaving students behind. Federal air rules face early challenges from the Federal Power Commission amid other critics. Manchester opens a Day Care Center and Williams screens two Nobel laureates for its Commencement. Harvard Lampoon jokes on Love Story. Twenty four towns unite against Miller s state aid. Bennington Special Olympics delegation returns with ribbons.
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Biologist warns Williams graduates nature to slow growth
Rene Dubos, Pulitzer-winning biologist, told Williams College’s 182nd commencement that quantitative growth will give way to qualitative concern. He urged reforms in energy use, urban planning, and social justice, predicting a near 2000s shift to a steady state and warning against a new dark age from overdevelopment. The ceremony conferred 288 degrees, including seven first female graduates. valedictorian was Joan F. Hertzberg.
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Soviet cosmonauts establish first manned space station
Three Soviet cosmonauts docked Soyuz 11 with the orbiting Salyut, entering the first manned orbital scientific station. Dobrovolsky and Volkov joined Patsayev aboard Salyut to begin long term studies and orbital operations.
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Students must vote in hometowns under new law
Albany UPI reports the state Senate approved a bill 37 to 18 to require newly enfranchised students to vote by absentee ballot in their home towns rather than at their colleges. The measure moves to Governor Rockefeller for signature and aims to prevent college towns from being governed by student majorities.
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State treasurer halts Moulton travel expenses in Vermont
Vermont state treasurer Frank Davis ordered Elbert Moulton cut off from cash advances for travel after finding expense accounts improper. An UP I investigation found just over $2,000 spent on meals and entertainment for Moulton, his wife, and guests in the first 10 months of the current fiscal year. Moulton defended the charges as justified and noted prior out-of-state travel while serving as development commissioner.
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