Pittsburgh professor experiments sunflower oil fueled cab fleet
Carnegie Mellon professor Dwight Baumann, president of Peoples Cab Co, bought the bankrupt cab company for experiments. He tests sunflower oil as a gasoline substitute to run a fleet of under 50 cabs, aiming for cost efficiency and large scale fuel production from sunflowers on marginal lands near Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Pittsburgh University
Dwight Baumann
Peoples Cab Co
Carnegie-Mellon Univerity
Cab
Baumann
Two women deliver healthy babies after abdominal pregnancies
In Plainfield New Jersey two women beat extreme odds and a 91 percent infant death rate to give birth to healthy babies Loren Velez and Gloria Lynn Locos were carried by Karen Velez and Virginia Locos respectively. Abdominal pregnancy is a rare condition where the fetus develops in the abdominal cavity rather than the uterus. Doctors did not know in advance that the pregnancies were abdominal and mothers described similar symptoms to normal pregnancies.
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Plainfield, N.J
UPI
Kenneth Weisman
Muhlenberg Hospital
Loren Velez
Gloria Lynn Locos
Karen Velez
South Plainfield
N.J
Virginia Locos
Piscataway
TV Cartoonists Draw Picket Line Hollywood Strike
TV cartoonists from Local 839 of the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Union walked off their jobs at five major studios led by Hanna Barbera. The 1600-member union, after rejecting the final offer as unacceptable, called for a boycott of programs from studios using cheaper foreign artists. Bud Hester urged viewers to turn off their TVs to protest job losses to foreign animators.
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Hollywood
UPI
Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Union
Hanna-Barbera
Bud Hester
Hester
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