Beware Encyclopedia Salesmen by Virginia Lawrence warning of door to door pitches
Virginia Lawrence warns Vermonters about encyclopedia salesmen offering a free Florida vacation and a 20 volume library, noting the trip is only four days and three nights with extra costs. She details sales tactics, the promise of free gifts, the risk of long term contracts, and advises checking contracts and cooling off laws before buying.
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Burlington
Florida
Vermont
Industry Urged to Lead Urban Blight Cleanup Effort
Washington scene as McGraw-Hill official challenges industry to form a permanent commission uniting builders, engineers, architects and labor to tackle city poverty and housing. The plan includes reforms to housing financing, building codes, tax allocations, and job programs, with strong emphasis on ghetto rehabilitation and coordinated public-private action.
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Washington, D C
Wallace F. Traendly
McGraw-Hill Information Systems Company
Building Products Executives
I. Ae
Traendly
McGraw-Hill Information Systems Co
F. W. Dodge Co
Botanist Frank Seymour Completes Flora of New England
Frank Conkling Seymour of the Pringle Herbarium at the University of Vermont has finished The Flora of New England, a 596 page manual detailing 8 200 species across 66 608 square miles. At 73 he plans a Nicaragua expedition to collect plants for two months with a team including students. he aims to expand botanical work rather than retire, emphasizing precision and peer use of his specimens.
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Burlington
Frank Conkling Seymour
Pringle Herbarium
University of Vermont
New England
Nicaragua
David Moore
Woodstock
Seymour
Pringle
Belmont
Mass
Harvard
Union Theological Seminary
Massachusetts
Wisconsin
UVM
Lincoln County
Wisc
Richard Evans
Economicay
Botanical Museum
Harvard University
Seyour
Benjamin
Truth in lending rules aim to spell out mortgage costs
The Federal Reserve Board proposes broad truth in lending rules covering credit cards and mortgages to make borrowing terms clearer. It dictates what finance charges include and requires clear disclosures, including loan down payments, installments, and repayment periods, with rules on type size and disclosure clarity.
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Washington
UPI
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Committee
Fluidics Gates Air Power To Run Machines
A Harvard Business School study forecasts fluidics will spawn markets of hundreds of millions in the 1970s as air streams perform control functions. Giants like General Electric, Honeywell and Westinghouse invest heavily. applications span Fiat plants, General Foods, Schaefer Beer, railroads, and aerospace. The Coanda effect underpins fluidic switches. the Army labs and moon programs touch fluidic tech, including helicopter stabilization.
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New York
UPI
Harvard Business School
General Electric
Honeywell
Westinghouse
Turin
Italy
Fiat
General Foods
Schaefer Beer
Alfred Perlman
Penn Central
Stamford, Conn
Hyman Hass
Applied Fluidics, Inc
Father Brennan Urges Yale Gifts For Vietnam Aid
Captain Gerard M Brennan, first principal of Bennington Catholic High School and Air Force chaplain in Vietnam, leads Operation Wiseman to urge Christmas packages for South Vietnamese people. Local residents are asked to send under 30 pound PAL mail parcels with diapers food or other light-weight items to APO San Francisco 96316. Deliveries arriving by Christmas are hoped for, though late gifts remain useful for ongoing aid.
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Gerard M. Brennan
Bennington Catholic High School
Air Force
Vietnam
Tuy Hoa
South Vietnam
Father OU Eteenan
San Francisco
Father Brennan i
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