Owls Calling Couple Make Music Across the Land
Lyell and Ursula Johnson of Le Grand Iowa mingle owl calls with music travel and goodwill. The couple, famed for calling owls and composing impromptu tunes, share a philosophy of giving themselves away through helping others, playing harp and piano on roads and at events.
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Midwest
L. E. Johnson
le Grand
Iowa
Lyell
Ursula
Johnsons
Mexico
Guatemala
British Columbia
Rancho Grande
Tennessee Mountain
le Grand Friends Missionary Society
Delaware Continentals Regiment: Haslet Volunteers 1776
Delaware furnished only one regiment organized in January 1776 under Col. John Haslet. The Delaware Continentals were described as the best uniformed unit of 1776 with blue coats faced and lined in red white waistcoats buckskin breeches white stockings and black gaiters. Their hats resembled smaller Bri tish grenadier hats and they carried English muskets with bayonets.
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John Haslet
Delaware Continentals
Traffic fears top list in Japanese survey
In Tokyo a Leisure Development center poll of 1,808 Japanese adults ages 20 to 70 found traffic accidents feared most, with 88 percent citing them as a menace. Other worries include fire 85 percent earthquakes 77 percent inflation 68 percent typhoons and air pollution 62 percent. The survey also notes values of harmony, family interests, and openness in business.
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Tokyo
API
Leisure Development Center
Las Vegas Moves to Curb Vice in Growing City
Las Vegas leaders led by Mayor William Braie wage a campaign to shut massage parlors, escort services, adult bookstores and porn venues amid rising turnout against prostitution. A new group, Nevadans Against Pornography, voices local concern as the city considers licenses bans and even motel rating.
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Las Vegas
William Braie
Robert M. Mathews
Nevadans Against
Supreme Court
Mathews
Nevada
Las
Absent Mindedness Explored as Risk and Wit
London psychologist Dr. James Reason surveys absent mindedness through Chesterton anecdotes and aviation cases. He explains lapses arise as actions become automatic, with four failure types: selection, discrimination, test, and storage. He cites air crashes and humorous recollections involving Lamb and Coleridge to illustrate the phenomenon.
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London
UPI
James Reason
G.K. Chesterton
Market Harborough
Chesterton
Reason
Leicester University
Dr. Reason
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Everglades
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Delaware
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Pacific
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America
Robert Muses
Charles Lamb
Coleridge
Lamb
Hampstead Heath
Pennsylvania House
Bucks County
Concord
Monthur
Amana
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