Plane built in bedroom escapes landlord notice
Los Angeles AP report on Tom and Nancy Valentine who secretly built a life size Wright Brothers replica with a 40 foot wingspan in their apartment over 18 months. The couple, now consultants for NBCs The Winds of Kitty Hawk, kept the project from their landlord and later moved to a hangar.
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Los Angeles
Tom
Nancy Valentine
Smithsonian Institute
Kitty Hawk
NBC
Valentines
North Carolina
Nancy
Valentine
Tom Valentine
Wright Brothers
Philadelphia
U.S
Tullio Leomporra
Dou
Rhidhener
Ka Aeenedboar
Norman Johnston
Elkton
Johnston
Carol
Norman
Susan
Richardson
Chester County
Johnstons
Obstruction of Justice
David Johnston
Kennett Square
Lehigh County
Mob Attack on Pepsi Plant in Iran Leaves 40 Dead
In Shiraz suburb of Saadi Iran Shiite Moslems attacked a Pepsi Cola plant and Bahai homes. Army soldiers killed 40 attackers and wounded many as Bahai families fled to a mountain village. The violence marked a surge in political unrest across provincial towns.
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Pepsi-Cola
Iran
Tehran
Thursa
Shiraz
Saadi
Army
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Bahais
Iran Air
Ali Mohammad Khademi
Khademi
Oil cartel to raise crude prices at winter meeting
OPEC oil ministers meet in Abu Dhabi to set a new base price likely up 5 to 10 percent, potentially adding about a half cent to a cent per gallon in U S gasoline. The move aims to recover oil revenue lost to inflation and a weaker dollar amid an oil glut and strike pressures.
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Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates
World Oil Cartel
Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Persian Gulf
Emirate
Carter Seeks 3 Percent Defense Increase for 1980
President Carter reiterates NATO pledge and plans a 3 percent real growth in defense outlays for fiscal 1980, totaling about 123 billion dollars. The proposal implies cutbacks in other programs as inflation provisions boost military spending while total federal outlays shrink.
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Washington
Syts
Gman Oas
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Carter
G. William Miller
Federal Reserve Board
Breezy and Mild Weather Across Delaware County
Partly sunny and breezy today with highs in the upper 40s. Increasing cloudiness Saturday brings near 50. Sunday should be partly cloudy with mid 40s to near 40s. Air quality is satisfactory in Chester and Philadelphia as ozone remains the top pollutant in Chester and nearby areas.
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Delaware County
Chester
Philadelphia
Wilmington
Lottery results from Pennsylvania Delaware and New Jersey
AP reports the December 14 daily lottery numbers for Pennsylvania 5 8 5 in Pittsburgh. Delaware’s daily numbers draw produced 633 in Wilmington. New Jersey’s weekly draws show Millionaire 56416 Contingency 023247 and Weekly 203247 with the 14th results.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Wilmington, del
Delaware
Trenton
N.J
New Jersey
L M Boyd Tidbits of History and Wit
A collage of curious facts and quips from L M Boyd about currency marks in wartime Hawaii and North Africa, legal terms like scot free, death penalty trivia in Europe, church naming in Toronto, a Thoreau quip on peace with God, and a cheeky classified ad from Iconoclast magazine. The piece ends with a copyright notice for 1978 Crown Syndicate.
Woman Reinstated After Loyalty Oath Firing
Lois Levin, Ardmore, reinstated to Montgomery County payroll after refusing to sign a loyalty oath. County commissioners acted to restore her position until February end, following federal court action and a planned Dec. 22 hearing.
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Philadelphia
Lois Levin
Montgomery County
Ms. Levin
U.S. District Court
Louis Pollack
Ardmore
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Burt Shulman
Hyde Park
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Delaware County Daily Times Times
Central States Publishing, Inc
Mildred Ave
Primus
Cittton Heights
Springfeld
Cittion Heights
L.M. Boyd
Hawaii
U. S
North Africa
D. Kupp
Harvard
Ann
Dred Scott
France
St. James Bond United Church
Toronto
Ian Fleming
St. James Square
Henry David Thoreau
Louisa Dunbar
God
Thoreau
Iconoclast Magazine
L. M. Boyd
P. O
Crown Syndicate, Inc
Regular County
Booth's Corner Farmers Market & Auction
Booth's Corner
Thurs
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