Scientists chase hurricane eye on NOAA flight
Aboard NOAA 410 over the Atlantic Dr. Robert C. Sheets leads Project Stormfury as Gladys passes the 15 mile eye of the hurricane. The team records wind and ice data with radar and instruments to study cloud physics and plan future seeding in 1977 to cut storm damage by up to 30 to 40 percent and save up to $100 million annually.
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Stanley M. Brown
Atlantic
UPI
Its
Robert C. Sheets
Gladys
National Oceanic and Atmos
Noaa 410
Project Stormfury
Stormfury
Sheets
Pacific
United States
Law seeks interest on checking accounts in new bill
A proposed bill to ease federal controls would allow banks savings and loan associations and credit unions to offer paying checking accounts and raise ceilings on interest rates. The measure would phase out interest ceilings by 1981 and includes a 1.5 percent tax credit for mortgage investors with at least ten percent of assets in housing loans.
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Mike Feinsilber
Washington
UPI
Ingovernent
Bank Slores
Federal Reserve
Savings and Loan Associations
Congress moves to lift arms embargo on Turkey vote
Congress agreed to lift the arms embargo on Turkey, urged by President Ford, despite a Senate backed measure to release 185 million in arms Turkey paid for before the February 5, 1975 embargo. The bill allows use only to meet NATO commitments and awaits Senate agreement and White House discussion on opium controls.
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Washington
UPI
Turkey
Ord
Senate
Withey
United States
White House
NATO
U.S
Seoul
Grant firm seeks to reorganize finances in bankruptcy
W T Grant & Co the 17th largest U S retailer with 1200 stores is in bankruptcy after a 1974 loss of 175 million and a 1.03 billion liability gap. President Robert H Anderson said assets lag liabilities by 1.3 million as the chain cuts costs and defers debts while reshaping operations.
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Richard Hughes
UPI
New York
W.T. Grant & Co
Grant
Lynn
Mass
William T. Grant
Robert H. Anderson
U.S
Anderson
W.T. Grant
Special Watch list names surfaced at hearing before late 1973
The testimony revealed a partial list of about 8 000 individuals and 3 000 organizations reportedly on the IRS Special Watch lists before 1973. Named groups include the ACLU, ALA, Ford Foundation, NAACP, UNC, AJC, Common Cause, Ramparts, Playboy, and several officials and writers. Airlines note nearly 800 daily flights to Virginia airports National and Dulles with 12 and 16 carriers.
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Washington
UPI
Internal Revenue Service
The
American Civil Liberties Union
American Library Association
Conservative Book Club
Ford Foundation
NAACP
University of North Carolina
American Jewish Committee
Associated Catholic Charities
American Law Institute
Legal Aid Society
Americans For Democratic Action
John Birch Society
Common Cause
Women’s Liberation
Cuba
North Vietnam
North Korea
Virginia
Richmond, Va
Viray
Wash National
Arlington
Dulles International
Fairfax
National
Dulles
Virginia Division of Industrial Development
Lighter side: Going against the grain
In a satire on Soviet grain policy, Brezhnev is depicted urging voluntary conservation and price increases to boost wheat supply, with humorous misrenderings of the WIN program and criticism from Politburo members about price signals and big wheat producers.
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Columbus, Nebraska
Columbus Telegram
Dick Wes
Washington
UPI
Soviet Union
U.S
Moscow
Russia
Kremlin
Communist Party
Brezhnev
Ussr
Politburo
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House
VRA
Ane
Holiday Inn
Innational Reading Association
Robert Manley
Ted Nebraska
Nquet
Frances Inness
Kathy Nelson
Columbus
Virginia Martin
Dee Tison
Howells
Debndringer
Fleischer Rexall
Rogers-Riley Motor Company
Pinto
Pony
M.p.g
Landau
Ford
Ford Country
Rogers- Riley Wae Company i
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