New River Scenic River Victory Halts Dams Plan
The House voted 211 to 74 to set aside 26.5 miles of the New River as wild and scenic from Grayson County into Ashe and Alleghany in North Carolina, thwarting Appalachian Power Company’s twin dam project. Virginia and North Carolina lawmakers backed preservation, while environmentalists and some power advocates weighed in.
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North America
North Carolina
Virginia
Appalachian Power Company
Grayson County
House of Representatives
New River
Ashe
Alleghany
N.C
House
Senate
Interior Committee
M. Caldwell Butler
William C. Wampler
Federal Power Commission
Buller
Smith Mountain
Leesville
Appalachian
Pittsylvania
Bedford
Franklin
Scenic Rivers Establishment
New River Basin
Congress
New River Valley
New
Gold In Those Beetles Fireflies Yield Golden Value
A St Louis firm Sigma Chemical extracts luciferase and luciferin from fireflies for science. The compound sells at about 20 dollars per gram or 560 per ounce, worth more than gold on current markets. Thousands of bugs are gathered yearly across 15 states to supply researchers including NASA.
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Lampyridae
St. Louis
Sigma Chemical Co
National Aeronautic and Space Administration
New York
Florida
Nebraska
Terry Cloth Enters Fashion Fray As Denim Rival Emerges
Terry cloth, once valued for bath towels and robes, gains traction as a fabric for everyday wear. Once tied to Turkish tower origins, its looped pile distinguishes it and it begins to challenge denim, spreading from beaches to shops and nightlife.
Abounding Economic Ignorance and Free Enterprise Defense
The piece argues students misjudge American business profits, citing 1975 4.3 percent and 1974 1.3 percent profits, blaming consumerists and praising Pioneer Bank of Chattanooga and George M. Clark Sr for ads clarifying profits per job created. It warns Humphrey Hawkins bill risks inflation and fewer jobs, urging publicity on how profits fund wages and growth.
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Pioneer Bank of
Chattanooga
Tenn
George M. Clark Sr
Pioneer Bank
Idustry
George Clark
Tis Bank
Secretary of the Treasury
William Simon
Bank
Sword
Humphrey-Hawkins
Sen
Ilubert
Horatio Humphrey
Hare
Humphrey-Hawking
Ohio Supreme Court frees Whisner from charge in private school case
James J. Kilpatrick notes a Columbus ruling dismissing criminal charges against Rev. Levi Whisner and co defendants over the Tabernacle Christian School. The decision rebukes state minimum standards as pervasive and suffocating to independent religious schooling, praising the victory for religious freedom.
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Washington
Defenders of Freedom
Columbus
Ohio
State Supreme Court
Levi Whisner
Tabernacle Christian School
Ward
Brother Levi
Bradford
Aftenson
Goliath and
David
Whisner
Wiz
Frank D. Celebrezze
Celebreze
Board of Education
Christian Tabernacle School
Leonard J. Stein
Thomas M. Herbert
William B. Ball
Harrisburg
Wisconsin
Yoder
Markit
New Racial Crisis Labeled over School Segregation Debate
Sage prose decries Javits and Brooke push on HEW data showing rising minority student presence in schools. The piece argues the term segregation is misused reflecting neighborhood patterns, blasting federal programs as profit engines for social science.
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Republic
Jack Javits
Edward Brooke
Dept. of Heath, Education and Welfare
Gary Orfield
Brookings Institution
Javits
Broke
Staav
Talim
HEW
Javits and
Brooke
Sathern
Britain grants Spain vacation benefit for unemployed workers
Britain allows jobless Britons to vacation in Spain without losing unemployment benefits. Restrictions include a maximum one year stay, returning at own expense if a job becomes available, and limiting holidays to Spain rather than other destinations. The policy draws mixed reactions from Conservatives and locals.
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Britain
Spain
House of Commons
Tis
Monte Carlo
Rio
Parting Shots on Insecurity and Domestic Quiet
A reflective note on anxiety about appearance and changing family life. The piece likens compliments to doubt, notes a parental declaration about simple items like the rubber ducky, and observes the lone remaining sign of familiar routine as children leave home and grocery lists shrink to a single page.
Third party option looms as conservatives push new majority
Washington America's conservatives press for a third party option led by William A. Rusher and independent groups. The American Independent Party and the American Party plan a Chicago assembly August 26-28 to nominate a ticket and coordinate a nationwide ballot push, aiming to influence November despite Reagan Wallace splits and Ford Kissinger incumbency.
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Washington
Ronald Reagan
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Hock
Gerald Ford
Henry Kissinger
Reagan
Wallace
Jimmy Carter
Mr. Ford
Carter
Walter Mondale
Shas
William A. Rusher
Sha
aAmerican Independent Party
William Shearer
California
American Party
Arthur Cain
Ohio
Alexander Hudgins
Richmond
P.O. Box
AIP
Chicago
Conrad Hilton Hotel
ATPS
White House
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M. Stanton Evans
Senator Soaper
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