Editorial Page Urges Metric System Adoption in U S
Opinion piece argues the 1970s likely bring metric conversion for weights and measures. It notes most nations use metric, dual usage exists in science, and a Commerce Department feasibility study supports change. Lawmakers may pass enabling legislation after hearings and a metric conversion board could oversee a ten year transition.
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United States
U.S
U.S. Department of Commerce
Congress
Sterilization Debate Sparks Orwellian Fears of Human Survival
Paul Harvey critiques proposals for compulsory sterilization of defective children arguing such plans echo eugenic atrocities and threaten human dignity. He cites medical and scientific voices warning that unchecked reproduction could doom society by the year 2000.
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Yviu
Medical World News
Ernest Breed T
Illinois Medicaliety
Barry Commoner
Washington University
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Breed
Hitler
Germany
HEW
Robert Finch
Teenagers Produce Local TV Show on KCET
Three minutes a day? Actually three minutes a day is replaced by a half hour weekly program on KCET titled Newseekers. Written and filmed by Pacoima Junior High students, assisted by KCET staff, the show covers public affairs with a teenage perspective.
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California
Los Angeles
KCET
Pacoima Junior High
Isor
William O'Fallon
Navy promises women on ships sparks draft dodger fears
The article riffs on promises to assign women to naval ships and draft dodgers eyeing return from Canada. It satirically notes old salts and young sailors, jokes about a girl in every port, and questions space scientists for counting backward.
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East 48Th St
New York
N.Y
Navy
Canada
Sey
Gale Wile
Watergate cash trail ties Humphrey backer to 25 000
Secret testimony links Dwayne Andreas, a soybean oil magnate, to the 25 000 donation used in the Watergate affair. Dahlberg, Stans, and Sloan testify about handling the cash and its path to Barker’s bank account. Investigators press the Florida finance law questions while GOP fundraising struggles widen.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
Hubert Humphrey
Dwayne Andreas
Andreas
Nixon
Midwest
Kenneth Dahlberg
Minneapolis
Dahlberg
Miami
Richard Gerstein
Florida
Seaview
Washington Hilton
Bernard Barker
CIA
Mission Impossible Team
Barker
Macho
Democratic
Watergate Towers
White House
First Bank
Name Trust Company
Boca Raton
Fla
Maurice Stans
Hugh W. Sloan, Jr
Stans
Sloan
Martin Dardis
Gerstein
FBI
Nixon's peace push tests political climate in October
Washington observers report Kissinger met Thieu in Saigon after a secret Paris session with Le Duc Tho. North Vietnamese commanders plan a quiet cease fire while underground cadre prepare for possibly abandoned lines. Hanoi remains adamant on coalition government and full U.S. withdrawal, with Nixon pressured by McGovern prospects and October deadline.
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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
Sen
George McGovern
Europe
Asia
Soviet Union
United States
Drug stocks seen to rise with health care spending push
Babson's Reports analyzes the U S drug industry noting prices near record highs and mixed valuations. It backs holding leading firms like Abbott Laboratories Johnson and Johnson Merck Pfizer and others for long term gains while flagging low yields for income investors. It singles out Morton-Norwich and Pfizer as attractive long term buys amid a slower growth pace and emphasizes government health care spending as a positive factor.
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Babson’s Reports Inc
Wellesley Hills
Mass
Schering-Plough
Johnson and Johnson
Pfizer
Smith, Kline
French
Morton- Norwich
Rover-Arnchem
Frm
Babson's Reports
Abbott Laboratories
American Home Products
Bristol-Myers
Eli Lilly
Merck
Morton - Norwich
Richardson-Merrell
Boreer- Arnchem
Babson
Morton-Norwich
U.S
Babson’s
Simoniz
Mac's World Poll critics columnists by DON MACLEAN
Washington columnist DON MACLEAN ridicules a Connecticut University poll claiming columnists rank sixteenth in public trust. He presents his own in depth informal survey from the National Press Club, ranking newspapermen first, then PR men and lobbyists, while mocking doctors and psychologists.
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Don Maclean
Washington
Connecticut University
Julian Rotten
Donald Stein
Donald
Rotten
Stein
National Press Club
Yunee
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Maine
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