Classic Pennsylvania highway that goes nowhere tale
Editorial highlights a Pennsylvania case where 13 miles of a planned six lane highway cost 72 million dollars since 1956. Only a 2.5 mile segment is used once a year as a golf tournament parking lot, with 1 million spent on an environmental study to decide if it should be completed and potential total costs reaching 144 million.
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Pennsylvania
Carter
Philadelphia
Bawl Street Journal
B.S. Journal
Distaff Side Humorous Snippets Review and Satire Notes
A collection of quirky remarks and light satire touches on a farmer, jokes about a satirical publication The Bawl Street Journal, a spoof film Loch Jaws, and a farmer with a Farrah Fawcett puzzle. Mentions Franklynn Peterson and a minister’s bills drawer, plus a Chinese proverb about happiness and mischief.
Iranian Justice Crisis Mirrored by American Bar, Burger Warns
Washington notes Shah of Iran sought to modernize village justice while Chief Justice Warren Burger warns the American legal system is overrun by lawyers and burdensome laws. He cites court backlogs, high fees, and unequal access, with 28,000 new law graduates entering a crowded market.
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Washington
Iran
Warren Burger
Shah
Burger
United States
American’ Bar Association
Idi Amin carried by Britons in 25 mile trip rumor
Art Buchwald reports a satirical tale about Idi Amin planning to be carried in a litter from Entebbe to Kampala for a budget address. The piece mocks international drama around the leader and British bearers, noting contingency plans and safety ideas as a humorous press exchange.
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Washington
Uganda
Idi. Amin
Entebbe
Kampala
Amin
Idi Amin
Basics win in teaching study says U S Education Office
Washington report on a three year follow through study of 9 200 third graders shows that traditional basic instruction outperformed more modern open style methods. The article notes the Distar system at Anacostia and an Education Development Center approach, highlighting general declines in literacy despite tens of millions spent.
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James J. Kilpatrick
Washington
U.S
Office of Education
Art Associates
Cambridge
Mass
Ing
Nichols Avenue
Anacostia
Morgan School
18Th
California
Education Development Center
Tonight's TV Highlights Thursday Programs
Television guide lists CBS The Waltones tale of a calf sale to fund truck axle repairs and the women’s bid to buy it back. NBC movie night includes The Million Dollar Ripoff and Panic in Echo Park. ABC Welcome Back Kotter features a career day disruptions. ABC What's Happening includes When Daddy Cones Marching Home. CBS Hawaa Five O plots a forger’s sting against the Five-O unit. ABC Barneys Miller sells a recluse and Fish group home episode The Neighbors. CBS Barnaby Jones follows murders tied to a mental institution case. ABC Streets of San Francisco Hang Tough involves a narcotics informant in a murder probe.
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Walton
NBC
Echo Park
ABC
Kotter
Chicago
Daddy Cones
Roger
Thomas
Hawah Five-O
Five-O
Abcbarney Miller
Bernice
Fish
ABC Fish
Barnaby Jones
Barnaby
San Francisco
Mike Stone
Public TV Thursday Cable TV listings and programs
Television schedule notes for Public TV and Cable TV Channel 1 feature topics on the Age of Uncertainty and Lenin's era during World War I, plus a Brubeck reunion concert performing Take Five and Blue Rondo a La Turk. Also airing a Northern Ireland discussion titled Another View with Davidson and McNicholl, criticizing peace advocates.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Soviet Russia
Cpm
Dave Drubeck
Jaz
Dave Brubeck
Patricia’ ‘Davidson
Mary McNicholl
Northern Ireland
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