Seven time Oscar winners Tom and Jerry blocked on TV rights
Animation creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera say their classic Tom and Jerry cartoons are deemed too violent for modern television. ABC ordered new seven minute Tom and Jerry episodes, promising friendlier plots while preserving the slapstick humor and rivalry that defined the duo.
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Colonial Congress Acts on Trade and Warfare Measures
In Providence Rhode Island on August 2 1775 the colonial congress voted to bar pilots from guiding British warships in and out of local waterways and set an official ceiling of three shillings per pound for gunpowder imported after April.
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Television Listings for Davenport to Des Moines Market
Television schedule fragments list shows across Davenport Des Moines Waterloo and Rochester with morning to late night programs. Notable items include Captain Kangaroo Days of Our Lives Let's Make a Deal The Waltons News Weather and variety segments featuring Ben Vereen and Nashville music.
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Cedar Rapids City Council Acts at Regular Meeting
The Cedar Rapids city council, with Safety Commissioner James Stenbeck absent, approved numerous resolutions and ordinances. Actions include demolition contracts at 1403-05 Vernon Road SE and 1310 K Avenue NE, a claim for liquidated damages against Zinser Inc. for an urban renewal shortfall, a quit claim deed to Cedar Christian Church, and first readings for a Pioneer Village management ordinance and taxicab license qualifications.
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Johnson Avenue
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Sargent
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The Cinch to Make a Diamond Contract in Bridge
South can force a diamond contract by leading a diamond to dummy, letting East keep the ace. After the 4-2 break, South plays low from dummy to exhaust East’s honors and gains the entry to cash the remaining diamonds. The safe plan relies on counting chances and the common 4-2 diamond break.
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Armstrong to lead new medical engineering institute
Neil Armstrong will head a new medical engineering institute focusing on heart assist devices and pumps. The group aims to advance artificial heart technology and related pumps, with Armstrong providing high profile leadership and guidance.
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Neil Armstrong
Bid guidance in bridge hand with clubs and spades
A Kansas reader asks if we should lead the ace of clubs against six spades with a given hand. We’d like to see all bidding but generally this hand’s best slam chance is to play the ace and hope. Opponents are unlikely to make a grand slam.
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Axk
Report Faults Revenue Sharing Over Discrimination Bias
Four public interest groups charge the federal government with failing to withhold revenue sharing funds from state and local governments that discriminate in employment. They urge shifting enforcement authority to the justice department as Treasury defends its record amid ongoing discrimination cases.
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Center For Policy Review
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Office of Revenue Sharing At Treasury
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U S Grants East Coast Offshore Drilling Tracts
The Interior Department picked 154 offshore tracts totaling 1 370 square miles from Delaware to New Jersey for the first East Coast oil and gas lease, about 27 percent of the top sites. The choice aimed to mollify coastal state concerns while keeping sites offshore from visible shorelines. ON THIS DATE in 1943 the United States halted World War II lend lease operations.
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Ford cannot lose GOP nomination says Callaway
Howard Callaway asserts President Ford cannot lose the 1976 Republican nomination and urges party unity. He cautions that Reagan supporters should back Ford if they want to move the country toward Reagan's goals, stressing the need for a united party at the convention.
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Lee Judge J R Leary Dies at 73 in Fort Madison
Lee county District Judge JR Leary, 73, died in a Fort Madison hospital after a two week illness. The Fort Madison native served as a judge since 1936 and remained on the bench until a month ago. He is survived by a daughter and two grandchildren. Funeral services set for 10:50 a.m. Friday at St Joseph's Catholic Church.
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Iowa
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Chain Collision Fatal to Six in Bourges France
A chain collision and fire on a highway near Bourges France killed six people and injured about twenty others. A truck stopped for repairs or struck by a second truck blocked the lane, causing a backup. A third truck collided into the line and fire spread through compacted cars.
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