Budget Cutters Target Spending For Research
The Associated Press reports lawmakers debate where to trim the 17.69 billion dollars in proposed research and development for the new year. Major spenders include Defense 7.67 billion, NASA 5.3 billion, Atomic Energy Commission 1.64 billion, HEW 1.18 billion, and Transportation 321 million.
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Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Congress
Defense
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Atomic Energy Commission
Lion
Health, Education and Welfare Department
New Transportation Department
Government science funding debated amid red ink concerns
Lawmakers weigh the value of widespread government supported research as military and space programs command large budgets. NASA plans 358 billion for manned space flight and 600 million for related programs while the AEC's anti weapon research totals 265 million for nuclear weapons and 256 million for underground testing. NIH funds on deadly diseases total 874 million and NSF grants to 400 institutions face district level resistance.
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Defense
Space Agency
AEC
Congress
National Institutes of Health
National Science Foundation
Airman Bellerose Selected for Technical Training
Airman 3 C Ronald G Bellerose, son of Mrs Rita Bellerose of Biddeford and Conrad Bellerose of Westbrook, has been selected for technical training at Shepard Air Force Base. A June graduate of Biddeford High School, he recently completed basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio Texas.
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Tex
Ronald G. Bellerose
Rita Bellerose
King St
Biddeford
Conrad Bellerose
Westbrook
Biddeford High School
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Welcome To The Fold Local births listed in Biddeford Saco Journal
Welcoming newcomers lists multiple births and family details from the Biddeford Saco Journal including Heather Moody at Wells Beach and Patrick Lars Flannery in Kennebunk among numerous newborns with dates in October. It notes general deer facts at the end.
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Ronald Moody
Webhannet Drive
Wells’ Beach
Heather
David Flannery
Mousam Road
Kennebunk
Patrick Lars
Donald
Gorham
James Donald
Roger Blow
Hollis Center
Lisa Marie
Robert Gagne
Cottage St
Biddeford
Pearl Marie
Maurice Bergeron
Laurier St
Raymond Rousselle
Imperial St
Old Orchard Beach
Ralph Croteau
Gertrude Ave
Karen Ann
David Shaw
South St
Ferry Road
Saco
Philip Herman III
Pasadena Art Museum as Unlikely Beneficiary
A quirky exchange imagines a Pasadena resident leaving a Rembrandt to the Pasadena Art Museum. The idea provokes humor about cultural institutions and local character as neighbors in a city with storied museums.
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Pasadena Art Museum
Demetrion
Pasadena
Ocean floor resources split over international agency plan
Malta seeks an international body to govern ocean floor resources for peaceful use and shared profits, while the United States opposes. U S officials brief industry and science groups and say no proposal yet. Also in Washington press: Salmonella Sam linked to food poisoning risk and Typhoid Mary comparisons. NASA reports older lunar orbiters crashlanded to free radio frequencies. Orbiter 5 adjustments noted. Capitol Footnotes covers Rep Findley calls for Vietnam troop halt until M16 improvements. Senate passes bill criminalizing dangerous acts on trains.
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Washington
Malta
United States
United Nations General Assembly
U.S
State Department
Industry
National Academy of Science
The
Academy of Engineering
American Bar Association
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
James N. Goddard
Food and Drug Administration
Sam
Goddard
Nutrition Today
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Paul Findley
R-illl
Vietnam
Senate
Percy Quote on Saigon Streets and U S World Role
Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois criticizes U S foreign policy claiming Americans cannot claim moral superiority while streets in Detroit and Newark lie in rubble and warns about imposing a great society on Southeast Asia if conditions at home do not improve.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Saigon
Detroit
Newark
Charles H. Percy
R-Nl
Rats blamed for flood damage in India 1967 monsoon
In New Delhi during the 1967 monsoon floods, rats were blamed for weakening canal embankments. Irrigation Minister K L Rao toured an affected area where a breached bank flooded a large region, attributing the failure to rat holes.
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New Delhi
India
K.L. Rao
Cambridge freshmen warned on drugs at Trinity College
Prince Charles and 220 Cambridge freshmen at Trinity College were told drug use is banned and would lead to expulsion for possession or aiding supply. The college echoed Oxford’s recent drug discipline actions as campuses confront marijuana.
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Associated Press
Cambridge
England
Prince Charles
Britain
Cambridge University
Trinity College
Charles
Oxford University
Oxford
Swedish students fund drive faces leftist boycott in Lima
Swedish students take a day off to raise money for education in Peru while leftist youth groups threaten to boycott the drive claiming insufficient knowledge of conditions there. Gosta Lettersten, organizer in Lima, notes Peru is developing with roads, housing, and 87 new schools built recently due to Swedish participation. A second AP item notes a 660-pound meteorite found near the Yasachnaya River in northeast Siberia by Tass.
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Stockholm
Peru
Gosta Lettersten
Lima
Swedish Students Central Organization
Lettersten
Moscow
Yasachnaya River
Siberia
Tass
Meteorite Find Reports Second 110-Pound Rock
Tass reports a second meteorite of about 110 pounds found within 20 yards of the larger meteorite. The two meteorites are being sent to the Soviet Academy of Sciences for examination.
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Tass
Soviet Academy of Sciences
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