Dear Abby columns offer gift ideas and retirement advice
A reader suggests gifting to an older mother in law who has everything, Abby advises personal inscriptions and letters over store bought items. Another writer credits Abby with inspiring her retired husband to volunteer for handicapped transport, praising the impact of Abby’s guidance.
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Helmet use low among US bicyclists in Bell study
Bell Helmets 1980 study shows about 75 percent of fatally injured bicyclists suffered head injuries and over 500 000 accidents required ER care. Only about 0.5 percent of American riders wear protective headgear. helmets reduce head injury risk though cannot prevent accidents. On this date in 1970 Biafran regime surrendered ending the Nigerian civil war.
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Cher saved from choking during Broadway rehearsal
Cher revealed she choked on a large vitamin pill and director Robert Altman resuscitated her with the Heimlich maneuver. After bread failed to dislodge the pill, Altman transported her to facilities before she coughed up the pill en route to care.
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Powell joins Dallas Times Herald as national political columnist
Jody Powell former press secretary to President Carter becomes national political columnist for the Dallas Times Herald. The 38 year old will write a twice weekly column appearing Sundays and Thursdays opposite editorials and distributed worldwide by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate from Washington.
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Margaret Trudeau details romance with Jack Nicholson in memoir excerpt
In a newspaper excerpt from Con sequences, Margaret Trudeau describes an affair with Jack Nicholson in summer 1978 ending as he loved Angelica Huston. She recalls flirting in his Daimler and notes prior jet set with rock musician Tom Sullivan and leaving Bruce Nevins.
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Abbie Hoffman Granted Parole After Drug Case
Former Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman, who served 10 months for selling cocaine to an undercover officer, is granted parole effective March 25. He will serve two years supervised parole in New York City with work release at Veritas Therapeutic Community Center in the Bronx.
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