New engine cuts gas use in half in city driving
An official in Chicago reveals a flywheel drive that could cut urban gasoline consumption by about 50 percent and reduce exhaust. Patent 3,870,116 covers the system, which stores kinetic energy to keep a vehicle moving five miles with the engine off in stop and go traffic.
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Washington
Chicago
Department of Environmental Control
Joseph Seliber
Mobile Source
Seliber
New York
Seymour Mann
Aceto Chemical Company, Inc
City College
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Mann
Carlstadt
N.J
Aceta
Arsynco, Inc
Government studies feasibility of oil shale production
The government announced a five year plan to speed up oil shale research aiming for commercially viable techniques. Officials will invite industry nominations for shale lease tracts by June 30 with bids to select two tracts in mid 1976. The program, funded at 19 million next year, could cost hundreds of millions over several years and uses in site production to avoid mining.
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UPI
Ment
Energy Research and Development Administration
Analysis GOP seeks remedy for party split
Washington notes the Republican Party faces a widening rift between conservative purists and base broadeners as polls show only 18 percent of voters identify as Republicans. The piece traces historic splits from FDR era battles to current divisions and questions how the party can unite to regain a majority.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Taft
Fisenhower
Goldwater
Rockefeller
Robert Dole
Kansas
Nixons
Fords
Ford
Supreme Court grants benefits to widowers
The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 0 that widowers with small children are entitled to the same Social Security survivors benefits as widows. The decision, led by Justice Brennan, rejects denying men protection for their families. The ruling follows a 1960s precedent extending similar allowances to women in military service.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
William J. Brennan Jr
Brennan
New Hampshire
U.S. District Court
New Jersey
Stephen C. Wiesenfeld
Marianas to join U S as island Commonwealth
National Geographic notes the Mariana Islands may become a U S territory linking 14 main islands to the United States under a Commonwealth arrangement. Guam anchors the chain. pressed by wartime history, current incomes, self government, and a planned $140 million seven year budget.
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Washington
Amelia Earhart
Mariana Islands
United States
National Geographic Society
Asia
California
Marianas
Pacific
Staten Island
Manhattans
Alcatraz
Guam
Mariana Island
United Nations
Micronesia
Mariana
Magellan
Los Ladrones
Maria Anna
Philip IV of
Spain
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Survival Technology, Inc
Bethesda
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GOP
R. W. Apple Jr
Door
Ronald Reagan
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Barry Goldwater
Maryland
Reagan
Lamlam
Mariana Trench
Germany
England
Japan
Saipan
Enola Gay
Tinian Island
Hiroshima
Tinian Atom
Nagasaki
Adams Pons
Monument Plaza Shopping Center
Main ST
Brattleboro
Sherwin - Williams Company
Sherwin-Williams
Sherwin- Williams Company
Bennington
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