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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1975
Page
27
A dense OCR of a Thursday to Friday TV guide shows numerous channel identifiers, show titles, times, and partial program notes across networks including Nashville, Des Moines, Rock Island, and Des Moines areas. It lists news, game shows, dramas, comedies, and movies with multiple overlaps and partial entries.
Dick West reports on a Soviet politburo inquiry into KGB schemes against leaders including Spiro Agnew Nixon and Lyndon Johnson. Tactics cited include tampering with Agnew golf clubs and a chewing gum trap for the nuclear button, with dog-ear hoax failing due to weather forecast errors.
Thirty-two prison guard cadets spent two days in Middlesex County jail as part of an eight week training. They rode from Framingham to Cambridge and endured prison clothing meals shakedowns and stern treatment during the simulated confinement.
The Federal Election Commission checks three Democratic presidential campaigns for matching payments, valued at about 400000 for Henry Jackson 300000 for George Wallace and 100000 for Morris Udall. The agency had no standard proof until last summer and now requires photocopies of all checks.
A Dallas reader recounts buying a fuel saver gadget claimed to boost mileage by 20 percent. After costly installation and dialed attempts, the car’s economy remained 14.3 mpg city and 15 mpg highway, yielding no savings and prompting a return. The piece mocks miracle ads and notes skepticism about long life spark plugs.
The common sailor in the British navy faced harsher conditions than an enlisted army man. Impressment forced recruitment from the streets to meet quotas. Sailors endured typhoid, typhus, and often scurvy, with punishment such as lashes for complaints.
The British warship Fowey under Capt. George Montagu captured the armed vessel Washington, the first American warship taken by an enemy. Washington's captain Sion Martindale and 70 crewmen were sent to Boston as prisoners to England.
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