Editorial Page In Our Opinion On The Metric System
The editorial discusses a likely shift to the metric system in the United States during the 1970s. It notes familiarity worldwide and partial adoption in colleges and sciences with dual usage in some fields. A Commerce feasibility study found metrication would work and Congress may establish a ten year conversion board once hearings proceed.
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United States
U.S
U.S. Department of Commerce
Congress
Sterilization Debate Spurs Narrowing Human Breeding
Paul Harvey notes a controversial proposal by Dr. Ernest Breed to sterilize defective children before puberty to prevent genetic flaws. Critics warn of eugenics fears while scientists argue over population pressures and future survivability, referencing Hitler and policy pushes from Washington.
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Paul Harvey
Medical World News
Ernest Breed
Illinois Medical
Cety
Barry Commoner
Washington University
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Breed
Hitler
Germany
HEW
Robert Finch
Young Californians produce own TV show on KCET
Three minutes a day? No, three minutes a day of work yields a half hour weekly program on KCET called Newsseekers. Fifty Pacoima Junior High students write, edit, and film the show with KCET staff handling lights and direction. The project promotes self help and communication.
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California
Los Angeles
KCET
Pacoima
Navy promise draws draft dodgers back from Canada
As the Navy pledges to allow women on its ships and crew, draft dodgers contemplate returning from Canada to enlist. The change sparks renewed interest in joining the service and serving at sea.
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Navy
Canada
Sailors Forge Seafaring Bonds in Wartime Spirit
A fragment hints at sailors and ships uniting across generations. The tone recalls old salts guiding younger crews while preparing for conflict, with marching talk of discipline and camaraderie as they plan for upcoming naval duties.
$25,000 traced to Humphrey backer in Watergate tale
Secret testimony links soybean oil magnate Dwayne Andreas to the $25,000 used in the Watergate bugging case. Kenneth Dahlberg, Meyer Nixon fund raiser, says Andreas delivered the cash in April, later routed through Bernard Barker and tied to a Watergate raid.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
Hubert Humphrey
Dwayne Andreas
Andreas
Nixon
Midwest
Kenneth Dahlberg
Minneapolis
Dahlberg
Miami
Richard Gerstein
Florida
Seaview
First Bank
Boca Raton
Hilton
Bernard Barker
CIA
Mission Impossible
Barker
Macho
Democratic
Watergate Towers
White House
Maurice Stans
Hugh W. Sloan, Jr
Stans
Sloan
Martin Dardis
Gerstein
FBI
Mac's World Poll Unfair to Columnists by Don MacLean
Washington columnist defends newspaper writers against a Connecticut University poll ranking columnists sixteenth in trust. He dismisses the study as biased, notes researchers Rotten and Stein, and claims a personal poll at the National Press Club rates journalists as top trusted, with doctors, ministers, and psychologists elsewhere on the list. The piece critiques poll ethics and media trust.
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Don Maclean
Washington
Val Truth
Connecticut University
Julian Rotten
Donald Stein
Donald
Rotten
Stein
National Press Club
Nixon faces choose on peace talks as election nears
Washington observers report Kissinger met Thieu in Saigon before Paris talks with Le Duc Tho. North Vietnamese leaders press for a coalition with Communists, U.S. withdrawal, and end to aid. Nixon faces pressure from McGovern’s momentum and may shift toward a settlement or maintain firmness.
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Ray Cromley
NEA
Washington
Henry Kissinger
Saigon
Paris
Vietnam
Thieu
South Vietnam
Kissinger
Hanoi
le Duc Tho
U.S
Indochina
Nixon
Aigon
White House
Sen
George McGovern
South
Ing
Europe
Asia
Soviet Union
United States
Drug stocks See Growth As Health Spending Rises
Babson's Reports says health care spending supports drug shares with profits rising 10 percent in 1972 and continued growth. Pfizer Morton-Norwich Abbott Johnson & Johnson Merck Smith Kline are named among top firms. Morton-Norwich and Pfizer favored for longer term gains while others face lower yields.
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Babson’s Reports Inc
Wellesley Hills
Mass
Schering-Plough
Johnson and Johnson
Pfizer
SmithKline
French
Morton- Norwich
Rover-Arnchem
Frm
Babson's Reports
Abbott Laboratories
iAmerican Home Products
Bristol-Myers
Eli Lilly
Merck
Morton - Norwich
Richardson-Merrell
Boreer_Arnchem
G.D Searle
Smith Kline
Sterling Drug
Syntex
Upjohn
Warner-Lambert
Babson
Morton-Norwich
Ancommevnenwa
U.S
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Piddeford
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Maine
Hy. Casavant
P. Ingalls
Dept. Onesignen
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AP News
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