Newsreels Return in Theater Sponsorship Era
The near forgotten newsreel format returns as sponsored shorts for theaters. Association Films outputs Theater Cavalcade, a 15 minute showcase featuring five four to five minute shorts on the 1976 Winter Olympics, Viking Mars probe, Alaska Pipeline, modern railroading and energy, plus an amateur magician tale.
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Think metric, don't fight it says University Park expert
Penn State mathematician Anton Glaser notes the metric system is slowly penetrating the United States and urges practical adoption. He offers a six lesson correspondence course and a textbook Neater by the Meter as guidance. He cites industry auto makers and sectors like computers and health care moving toward metric usage. He advises thinking metric in everyday life and learning meter gram and liter with three prefixes kilo cent milli, while downplaying hecto deca and deci.
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Poll finds cigarettes and cars top dislikes in elementary poll
In Stanley Elementary School survey of third to sixth graders 70 percent say cigarettes should not have been invented while 60 percent oppose cars due to air pollution and traffic risks. Others oppose airplanes 30 percent alcohol and drugs 20 percent and television matches and dishwashers 10 percent.
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