Navy cuts back on steaks as prices rise in 1972 meals
Navy orders mess cooks to replace steaks and chops with cheaper items amid a 20 percent rise in Navy food costs over six months. Army and Air Force may follow, with goals to curb beef purchases and remove frozen luxury items from chow halls, while menus stay nutritious.
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Washington
Navy
Army
Armed Services
Adm
Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr
Agriculture Department
Zumwalt
Chief of
Naval Operations
Marine Corps
Air Force
Defense Department
Armed Forces
Weather Eases Fuel Crisis Worsening Shortage Contagion
The AP reports a milder January easing heating oil and diesel strain amid high costs and factory cuts. Iowa rationing fuel oil. New York City permits lower grade fuel. San Antonio and Denver face supply gaps. Trucker crews scramble for diesel as winter tightens supply outlook.
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Cost of Living Council
Forrest N. Shumway
Signal Companies
Associated Presse
Midwest
Wisconsin
Rhode Island
Iowa
New York City
San Antonio
Tex
Overflowing Force Waits for POWs
AP Special Correspondent Peter Arnett describes Clark Air Base in the Philippines where crowded beds fill the largest base outside the U.S. and overflow spills into Angeles City hotels. A joint task force, jet crews, and a near-empty hospital await word about nearly 600 American prisoners held by Hanoi and Viet Cong locations in South Vietnam.
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Clark Air Base
Philippines
U.S. Air Force Base
Southwest Pacific
United States
Angeles City
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marine
Hanoi
South Vietnam
Penicillin Dangers and Odd Facts Highlighted by HAL BOYLE
A columnist discusses penicillin deaths from allergic reactions, notes wood’s strength, ancient Turkish timbers, longevity differences between the U S and Azerbaijan, and odd life tips. It also recalls skunk exposure remedies, a saint for skaters Ludwina of Holland, and Kin Hubbard’s quip on sympathizers.
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Hal Boyle
New York
United States
Soviet Republic
Azerbaijan
National Geographic Society
Ludwina of
Holland
Indiana
Kin Hubbard
Wedding Postponed For Father's Return
Jeannie Black and Chris Jenkins planned a Feb. 2 church wedding in Coronado but postponed it as Navy Capt. Harry T. Jenkins, the groom's father and a high ranking POW, is set to be released from North Vietnam. The ceremony will occur when he can attend amid Operation Homecoming's POW repatriation process.
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Coronado
Calif
Jeannie Black
Chris Jenkins
Navy
Harry T. Jenkins
Chris
North Vietnam
Jenkins
Marjorie
Lemoore
Hanoi
Clark
United States
Triple Threat Bomb Secretly Developed by U S Weaponeers
AP reports U S atomic weaponeers are testing a versatile hydrogen bomb dubbed the Full Fuzing Option Bomb or FUFO. The device would replace three separate weapons in SAC bombers, offering air, ground, or delayed detonation modes while keeping same yield as predecessors.
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Washington
Uss
Nevada
Strategic Air Command
Top Atomic Energy Com
Associated Press
AEC
Defense Department
America
Edward Giller
Giller
FDA weighs morning after pill approval amid DES concerns
The FDA will decide in weeks whether to approve postcoital pills already used on campuses. DES linked to vaginal and uterine cancers after in utero exposure, with about two million exposed. Harvard and Michigan doctors cite cases and effectiveness limits. NIH will study estrogens for postcoital use but not DES in trials.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
A.L. Herbst
Harvard Medical School
National Institutes of Health
Drawbridge Spares Four Women High Above Water
Four Canadian tourists aged 74 to 78 were stranded in a borrowed car wedged on an open drawbridge over Boca Ciega Bay in St. Petersburg Florida. Fire crews secured and lowered the women 35 feet to safety as traffic backed up and hundreds watched.
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ST. Petersburg
Fila
Clayton Gignac
Madeleine Dow
Norah Bennett
Margaret Strype
Olive M. Bomb
Boca Ciega Bay
Gignac
Treasure Island
Art Men
Blind teacher to return as Mona Shores reopens classes
Evelyn Weckerly, 31, who won a Supreme Court battle to regain her job, will teach five English classes daily at Mona Shores High School. Principal William Hanichen said she starts Tuesday after the State Supreme Court ordered reinstatement with back pay following prior reversals.
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Muskegon
Mich
Supreme Court
Evelyn Weckerly
William Hanichen
Mona Shores High School
Miss Weckerly
State Tenure Commission
State Court of Appeals
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