High Point Furniture Market Seen as Key NC Event
An industry-led push in High Point, North Carolina expands consciousness of the spring and fall furniture market. The Furniture Market Development Committee funds projects, improves visitor services, and gains civic backing, with Patterson calling the market the state’s most important event.
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High Point
Grand Rapids
Chicago
Chamber of Commerce
Furniture Association
Joe Patterson
Market Development Group
Patterson
North Carolina
Guilford Lawmaker Pushes Cafeteria Use Bill For Elderly Meals
Rep Tom Gilmore proposed a bill allowing local schools to let programs feed the elderly and disabled in cafeterias. The measure faced opposition from the North Carolina Restaurant Assn. and was seen as vulnerable to amendments restricting access to low income seniors. Proponents argue the programs provide vital nutritious meals and oppose bureaucratic limits feared to reduce participation and risk federal funding.
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Guilford
Tom Gilmore
North Carolina
Gilmore
Diplomacy in Geneva Looks Routine Yet Hefty in Scope
The Geneva hub hosts over a thousand multilateral conferences yearly with the U S participating in many in the Swiss city. U S attendance is funded by the State Department and arms control agency budgets include SALT II prep costs. The U N committee on disarmament runs from Feb 15 to Apr 23 with a long timetable.
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United States
Geneva
Palais Des Nations
League of Nations
State Department
Office of International Conferences
OIC
U.S
Department of State
Julius Walker
U.S. Arms Control and
U.N. Committee On Disarmament
Elimination of Private Schools Faces Federal Tax Clash
In Memphis a federal class action led by Inez Wright seeks to strip tax exemptions from private desegregated schools. The suit targets academies across several states, aiming to force more integrated education and force private schools to close, affecting 35 000 local pupils and adding substantial costs to the public system.
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Memphis
Tenn
Washington, D.C
Inez Wright
Natchitoches Parish
Boston
Mass
Montgomery
Ala
Cairo
Ill
Prince Edward County
Orangeburg
S.C
Los Angeles
Detroit
Kalamazoo
Harding Academy
Briarcrest Baptist Schools
Southern Baptist School of
Whitehaven
Harding College
Searcy
Ark
Churches of Christ
Bowman Academy
Southern Methodist Church
St. James Parish
St. James
Briarcrest Baptist
Pentagon Asked To Join War On Drugs
Senators Nunn and Percy urge Defense Secretary Brown to supply planes radar sensors and satellites to curb drug trafficking arguing the DoD and other federal services lack adequate equipment. They warn drug abuse costs reach 17 billion yearly with over 5 000 deaths annually.
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Washington
Congress
Pentagon
Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee
Defense
Harold Brown
Sam Nunn
D.ga
Charles Percy
R.ill
United States
Department of Defense
Customs Service
The End Of The World Prediction Recast By H R Block
A humorous recounting of April 15 1977 tax deadline fears as a group hides in a tax shelter. Block later extends the joking prophecy predicting a new end date June 15 1977 with an automatic extension form.
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Washington
H & R Block
Block
Neiman-Marcus
the Four Seasons
CPA
Walter Cronkite
Walter
Rabin
Margaret Trudeau
Eric Sevareid
Congress
Mr. Block
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Joe Brown
Middle East
Rhodesia
Board of Directors
Switzerland
Bern
James J. Kilpatrick
Letelier
Orlando Bosch
Orlando Letelier
Fidel Castro
Bosch
Embassy Row
Henry
Kissinger
Costa Rica
Roberto Carballo
Juan Jose Peruyero
Miami
FBI
Carballo
Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
The
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