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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1979
Page
27
CBS drops five programs including Last Resort Struck by Lightning Working Stiffs Bad News Bears and Big Shamus Little Shamus from Saturday night line up amid continued Nielsen slippage. Network plans specials and replacements while no return dates are announced for the halted series.
Alice H. Ramsey of Hackensack New Jersey drove a 30 horsepower Maxwell from New York to San Francisco in 58 days in 1909. Her historic journey, celebrated in an exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum, helped promote automotive use by women and she later led the Women’s Motoring Club of New York traveling worldwide to demonstrate the car’s value for women.
Thursday theater showings span multiple venues including Iowa film billboards and international titles such as When a Stranger Calls Ten and The Seduction of Joe Tynan. Notable entries include North Dallas Forty and Animal House. A 1978 date recalls the Senate Appropriations Committee approving a scaled down public works bill replacing vetoed pork barrelling.
Soviet specialists expect a considerable increase in oil well output from 1981 to 1985 by using steam to aid pumping. Tass reported that the first steam-pumping machine is under construction and will be most effective in Western Siberia, the oil-rich region.
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