Car Industry Urges Federal Vehicle Safety Standards
Ford Vice President John Bugas told a House committee that automakers support a strong federal role in setting legally binding vehicle safety standards. He noted U S built cars are the safest yet urged nationwide uniform standards and state involvement in development and enforcement. He opposed broad penalties and favored a gradual federal role with states contributing to standards.
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Washington
Automobile
John §. Bugas
Ford Motor Co
House
Congress
House Commerce Committee
Bugas
U. S
Secretary of Commerce
Secretary of Transportation
Senate Commerce Committee
Healthy Market as Furniture Buyers Circulate in High Point
Enterprise staff writer describes a strong spring Southern furniture market in High Point with buyers driving, taxiing, and using courtesy cars to visit factory showrooms. Attendance matches prior years as orders surge for the next six months. Kenneth Sherwood and Alvin Hudgins of Peters Furniture NYC report busy days shopping in High Point and nearby towns, noting a growing presence of Negro dealers.
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Robert Marks
High Point
Southern Furniture Exposition
Kenneth N. Sherwood
Alvin C. Hudgins
Reters Furniture
New York City
Thomasville
Lexington
Red s Newest and Fastest U S Jet Claims First Mig21 Kill
An American supersonic fighter shot down a MIG21 65 miles northeast of Hanoi in a brief dogfight. The F4C Phantom used Sidewinder missiles to down the newer Soviet built jet, marking the first MIG21 kill in the Vietnam War with two Phantoms and two MIGs exchanging fire nearby. The pilot of the destroyed MIG was believed to eject before the crash.
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Saigon
North Viet Nam
U.S
Asia
Hanoi
Viet Nam
U. S
Meteor Fireball Lights Eastern Sky Across Nations
A vivid meteor flashed from the Carolinas to Ohio and Toronto, its glow seen across the East. Dr. Nicholson called it an exceptionally bright meteor with a multicolored vapor trail, perhaps 35 miles per second and several hundred pounds, while others deemed it a bolide or smaller meteor that disintegrated before landing. Researchers from Smithsonian and Naval Observatory weighed in, noting it was not a man-made satellite and likely burned up during entry.
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New York
Seaboard
Ohio
Thomas C. Nicholson
Ihhairman
Hayden Planetarium
Carolinas
Toronto
Nicholson
Fred. L. Whipple
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Cambridge
Mass
U.S
Naval Observatory
Washington
Artificial Heart Patient Marcel DeRudder Dies in Houston
Marcel DeRudder died five days after a partial artificial heart implant at Methodist Hospital Houston the autopsy cited a pulmonary rupture as the cause. Dr. Michael E DeBakey attended the operation during which a left ventricle by pass pump supported the heart. A clot in the left middle cerebral artery prevented recovery after surgery.
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Houston
Marcel DeRudder
Methodist Hospital
Edna DeRudder
Chicago
Westville
Ill
DeRudder
Presbyterians Vote To Join Talks On Union Of Churches
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U S voted to join exploratory talks for union with eight major denominations including a Negro church. The move expands the Consultation on Church Union to about 23 million members and keeps the denomination in the National Council of Churches.
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Egua
Methodist
Episcopal
African Methodist Episcopal Church
National Council of Churches
General Assembly
United Presbyterian Church
United Church of Christ
Disciples of Christ
Evangelical United Brethren
Dallas
Texas
Church of Jesus Christ
Round-The-World Odyssey Nears End
Jacquelyn Carr a 43 year old San Mateo teacher travels with her children Linda 10 and Michael 8 across 60 countries in a year long odyssey ending in May They left June 1 last year on sabbatical selling their home and taking half pay while visiting Europe the Soviet Union Spain and Asia The trip combines education and travel with lessons for her students and a noted defiance of fear and curiosity
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Tokyo
Jacquelyn Carr
San Mateo
Calif
Kawaii
Linda
Michael
Hillsdale High School
Cancer Swap Patient Fails To Survive
Harry T. Griffith a 63 year old Flourtown Pennsylvania former baseball player died after an experimental cancer swap operation at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo New York He suffered from osteogenic sarcoma and exchanged malignant tissue with Robert F Allen a 29 year old from Tucson Arizona Griffith said I’m not a quitter after the operation on March 4 Doctors hoped the procedure would extend his life but he did not survive the battle with cancer
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Philadelphia
Harry T. Griffith
Griffith
Flourtown
Chestnut Hill Hospital
Roswell Park Memorial Institute
Buffalo
New York State
Cancer Research and Treatment Center
Robert F. Allen
Tucson
Ariz
Severe Earthquake Strikes Tashkent in Uzbeckistan
A severe earthquake hit Tashkent causing hospital, home, and school destruction with early reports of four deaths and 150 injured. Two follow up tremors occurred. Brezhnev Kosygin and a strong delegation arrived by plane to organize relief efforts.
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Moscow
Tashkent
Tass
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
Testimony Heard In Moors Case In England Trial
An all male jury heard day six of the Ian Brady and Myra Hindley trial as the court played tape recordings and shown photographs including undressed images linked to the three murder cases. Prosecutors allege a perverted sexual element in the killings of Edward Evans Lesley Ann Downey and John Kilbride. Hindley faces an extra count as an accessory after the fact. The recordings captured screams and a child’s pleas as the voices discussed harm and home.
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Chester
England
Ian Brady
Myra Hindley
Edward Evans
Lesley Ann Downey
John Kilbride
Miss Hindley
Evans
Brady
Lesley Ann
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Don McKee
Associated Press
Montreat
N.C
General Assembly of the Pressbyterian Church
The
Odyssey Nears
Ior College
Netherlands
Belgium
West Germany
Scandinavia
Carr
Japan
Russian
Uzbekistan
India
Pakistan
Rosystin
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