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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1977
Page
11
Sam Shulsky explains that discount bonds are not special and that brokers may not handle them for various reasons. He notes discount, par, and premium prices depend on coupon and maturity, with examples from AT&T bonds. He urges readers to write questions for his column, including a SASE for replies.
In a quarterly column Sumner Cotzin relates a teaching moment as a pupil correctly leads against a slam. South should lead clubs and West holds the queen. West wins with the ace and a follow up, while Sumner notes the pupil’s aggressive dum my lead. Also mentions James Roche turning 71.
The Conference Board reports Black student enrollment rose from 520000 in 1970 to 1100000 in 1976. White enrollment climbed from 7.4 million to 10 million, and women’s enrollment grew from 3 million to 4.7 million.
Two Boston radio stations WBZ and WEEI-FM removed Randy Newman’s song Short People after audience complaints. Stations cited listener calls and letters as justification, while Newman defends the track as satire addressing prejudice.
Ford Motor Co plans a $500 million transmission plant near Cincinnati creating at least 3,500 jobs by the mid-1980s. Gov. James Rhodes praised the project saying no state could offer a better Christmas present and predicting 6,000 to 8,000 jobs eventually. Also notes the 1899 birth of English actor Noel Coward on December 16.
An Aborigine police unit attacked a rebel camp 50 miles north of Ipoh in Malaysia killing three guerrillas including a woman and wounding two others, officials said.
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