Ford urges delay of tougher auto emission rules
President Ford urged Congress to extend the current auto emission standards to 1981 citing health concerns from catalytic converters that emit sulphuric acid. He warned tighter 1977 limits could raise car prices and lower fuel efficiency while not delivering clear environmental benefits.
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Associated Press
Washington
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Windmills reimagined by tunnel scientists
Dr Pasquale M Sforza of the Polytechnic Institute of New York leads a novel vortex augmentor wind turbine using delta shaped wing principles to focus wind into small areas. The concept promises eight times the power of similar sized rotors and can operate at low wind speeds. NSF grant of 108400 funds further development toward a larger prototype.
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New York
Polytechnic Institute of New York
America
Pasquale M. Sforza
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Polytechnic
National Science Foundation
Plum Brook
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Sandusky
Ohio
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Science education shown less effective nationwide
J Stanley Altmann of the National Assessment of Educational Progress reports a national decline in science education. NAEP results indicate a six month loss in learning compared with three years earlier, across ages 9 to 17 in science, math, English and government tests.
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Palo Alto
Calif
J. Stanley Altmann
National Assessment of Educational Progress
Coal industry plans expand mines to add 578 million tons by 1985
A National Coal Association study presented to the Federal Energy Administration shows new or expanded mines adding 43.79 million tons and total capacity rising to 577.8 million tons by 1985. Corcoran of Consolidation Coal cautioned that six assumptions must become actions, including policy enactments, funding, and transportation, to realize these gains. State figures detail east region capacity by Alabama to West Virginia.
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Washington
National Coal Association
NCA
Federal Energy Administration
John Corcoran
FEA
Corcoran
Consolidation Coal Co
Bryce doctors cleared of contempt charges
Three Bryce Hospital doctors and a former director of the state mental institution were cleared of contempt for allegedly defying a federal court order by using electroconvulsive therapy without patient consent. Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. found insufficient evidence of a wrongful state of mind beyond reasonable doubt, though he noted questions about the order’s clarity and the doctors’ intentions.
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Bryce Hospital
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Morris
Thompson
Clelland
Second car often a truck in American families
Akron Ohio AP Good year reports that in sales potential for light truck radial tires one in six American families now drives a pickup as the second family car.
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Akron, Ohio
Goodyear
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