Capitol West Front Repair Debate Ends In Study
Washington lawmakers settle 11 year clash over repairing or extending the Capitol West Front. A new Commission on the West Central Front will study restoration versus extension, with drawings by March 1, 1978 and bids after approvals. No immediate action planned.
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Washington
UPI
George Washington
U.S. Capitol
Capitol
House
Senate
Washington Monument
George White
Congress
Supreme Court
Library of Congress
Walter Mondale
White
George Shipley
Ill
Commission
Senate Appropriations Committees
Traffic and pedestrain dangers in Leningrad scratched from notes
The report outlines dangerous street conditions in Leningrad with frequent pedestrian vehicle clashes. It cites rising auto ownership from 1970 to 1976, high casualty estimates, traffic rules gaps, and driver pedestrian tensions amid poor road maintenance and aging heavy vehicles.
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Leningrad
Soviet Union
Freddie Laker’s rise from junkyard to airline magnate
The profile traces Freddie Laker’s wartime beginnings in Rochester and his ascent to owning about 100 aircraft. It covers his 1953 Channel Air Bridge, leadership of British United Airways, launch of Laker Airways in 1966, and his stance on Concorde. It notes his censure of US opposition and remarks from officials about his aggressive, admired persona.
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Freddie
Laker
Shorts Aircraft
Rochester
London
Royal Air Force Transport Auxiliary
British European Airways
Britain
British Airways
British Overseas Airways Corp
Channel Air Bridge Co
Europe
British United Airways
British United
Laker Airways
BAC
North Atlantic
Pan American
Trans World
United States
Transat
Lantic
Skytrain
Freddie Laker
Frederick
Burns
Clinton Davies
Pronunciation Clash Over Arkansas City Name
In Kansas, residents insist on Ark-AN-saw for Arkansas while Arkansaw is used elsewhere. The Arkansas City debate flared after a 1970 Rose Bowl invite, with local leaders resisting a name change to Ark City despite confusion with Arkansas and Arkansa residents.
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Wichita, Kan
Kansas
Arkansas
State of
Mary Ann Wortman
Arkansas City
Oklahoma
Arkansaw
Arkansas City Band
Pasadena
Calif
Arkansas City Chamber of Commerce
Ark City
The
Arkansas City Traveler
Oscar Barahona
Jim Foster
Wichita Chamber of Commerce
Arkansas City Chamber
Ark
Barahona
Foster
Washington
Most Use Cars To Get to Work
Detroit AP says private cars or trucks carry 86 percent of workers in the 1975 Census Bureau survey across 21 metros. Public transit accounts for 12 percent, with 2 percent using motorcycles bicycles or other means. Since 1970 public transportation ridership fell 21 percent.
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Detroit
Urge Greater Uranium Use
In Lynchburg Virginia the Babcock and Wilcox nuclear division states a 1000 megawatt plant needs over seven million uranium pellets. Each pellet holds energy comparable to four barrels of oil and could save about 10 million barrels annually. Uranium reserves may equal 245 billion barrels of oil, urging expanded use.
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Lynchburg
UPI
Babcock and Wilcox Company
Melvin Sankovich
B and W
Nuclear Fuel Department
U.S
Americans Lead in Foreign Travel, BankCard Study Finds
A BankAmericard Visa study based on hotel registrations shows Americans traveling abroad more than any other nation. Canadians, Germans, French and British follow in order, indicating a strong U S interest in international trips.
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San Francisco
United States
BankAmericard-Visa
Barbs on Diplomats and Icy Pastimes
A wry note compares a diplomat to a guide who sways you with promises and recalls a bygone era of stealing ice from horse-drawn wagons. It muses on water shortages and a hypothetical where children wash voluntarily, hinting at social contrasts.
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Tion
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D-N.y
Stratton
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Bolshoi Prospekt
Germany
Haberdasher
William E. Woodruff
Arkansas Gazette
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