Services Growth and Quality Decline in a Service Economy
The article argues that the United States has shifted into a service economy where over half of private work is in services. It notes growth has outpaced efficiency, reducing quality, as firms mechanize and standardize, moving toward economies of scale in medicine retail banking transportation and even newspapers.
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California school financing challenged by Supreme Court ruling
The 1971 California Supreme Court ruling found the public school funding system violated the Fourteenth Amendment. The decision highlights inequities tied to property wealth and location, prompting calls for potential reforms in state taxation and funding strategies, with broader national implications.
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Harold Howe II
The
Saturday Review
Supreme Court of the
State of
California
Howe
Happy Ending in Newark Kidnapping Case
A 3 year old girl Shasah Alston was abducted five months ago by a house painter and later found living with a kind woman who searched for the mother. A newspaper story and photo helped reunite Shasah with her parents, a Christmas joy story.
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Shasah Alston
Newark
N.J
Crib Deaths Spur Research And Public Action
The article notes sudden infant death, or crib death, as a leading unexplained killer of infants age one month to one year. It highlights breakthroughs since 1963, NIH funding of about 1.8 million dollars for research, and the role of the National Foundation for Sudden Infant Death and the International Guild for Infant Survival in advancing science and supporting families.
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United States
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institute
National Foundation For
Judith Choate
National Foundation
Humphrey Rejects Plea to Criticize LBJ Memo
In a private memo Senator Hubert Humphrey rejects calls to review Lyndon Johnson memoirs and air differences over Vietnam. He stresses long friendship with Johnson, says there can be only one official voice in the Executive Branch, and will not participate in any public cut of the former president. Our cloak-and-dagger boys in Hong Kong.
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Hubert Humphrey
Lyndon Johnson
Humphrey
LBJ
Vietnam
Johnson
Hong Kong
D. W. Arrison
Stokes County
North Carolina
Arrison
Social Security
Social Security Administration
Social Security Office
High Point Social Security Office
Lin Piao Death tied to Mao assassination plot in China
New evidence from Hong Kong hawks suggests Lin Piao planned attacks on Mao Tse tung in Shanghai and Wuhsi, fled by jet on September 12 after Mao exposed military officers, and Mao ordered arrests before Lin’s crash in Mongolia. Footnotes caution on reliability.
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Lin Piao
Mao Tsetung
Mao
South China
Shanghai
Wuhsi
Lin
Peking
Russia
Haipien
Local Furniture Firm Expands Plants and Market Shifts
Holt McPherson Co adds the former Burton Upholstery at 2415 English Road to its furniture making empire as Carson Stout expands operations across Crestwood Cardell Patrician and Arthur Gross units. The piece notes Stout’s civic roles and a wave of 1972 market schedule changes in Chicago and Thomasville rail plans. It also covers NC license plates licensing offices and a social security scam warning with local contacts and Duke Medical Center's INTERCOM feature.
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Burton
English Road
Mont Culler
Adams Millis
Roy B. Culler
Carson’s
Tommy
Crestwood
J. C. Hollingsworth
Carson
Cardell
Patrician
Clarence Keever
Arthur Gross, Inc
North Carolina
College Village
Lee Marshal
Department of Motor Vehicles
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