Reader Queries and Answers on Home Safety and Movie Posters
A 1951 style Action Line Q and A covers door to door film demos and fire detector licenses, poster availability for Gone With the Wind and Long Ago Tomorrow, and finding handle replacements for garden tools. Authorities caution about licenses and distributor rules limit poster sales to theaters.
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Motion Picture Theatre
Bowman Gray Stadium
Nascar
Bowman Gray
Alvin Hawkins
Eloise Hawkins
Joe Hawkins
George’s
Route 1
Kernersville
N.C
Rosey
High Point Phone Push Buttons Delayed by Costs
North State spokesman says switching to push button phones in High Point would require costly modifications to dial equipment. Heavy investments are not justified by expected customer demand or revenues. The company continues to survey the issue as services expand and priorities shift.
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North State
High Point
British Take Control Of Northern Ireland
The British government suspended home rule and took direct control of Northern Ireland for a year in a bid for peace. Prime Minister Heath announced a reform plan including greater Catholic input, with William Whitelaw to lead the new cabinet post. Northern Ireland’s leaders and Protestant factions reacted with hostility amid fears of renewed violence.
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Northern Ireland
London
Brian Faulkner
Edward Heath
Heath
House of Com
Whitelaw
Ation
Faulkner
Stormont
Ulster
Irish Republican Army
Ireland
IRA
William Craig
Craig
Frazier Agnew
Belfast
Young Unionists
Edward MacAteer
Westminster
Northern
Irish Republic
Britain
Edward VIII
United Nations to appoint Chinese undersecretary general
Diplomatic sources say the UN plans to appoint a Chinese undersecretary general to head the department handling trusteeship and nonself-governing territories, with the post likely expanding to cover colonialism and related issues. The move follows China's push to join the UN secretariat's top ranks and align with the Third World.
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United Nations. N.Y
United Nations
China
Kurt Waldheim
Peking
U.N. Secretariat
Rhodesia
South Africa
United States
Security Council
Soviet Union
France
Britain
Waldheim
People’s Republic of China
Ralph J. Bunche
Nixon reshapes Pay Board amid resignations and layoffs
President Nixon considers firing four businessmen to balance union defections as the Pay Board undergoes a shakeup. Leonard Woodcock and AFL CIO leaders quit, leaving Frank Fitzsimmons as the lone labor voice. The seven member board will include public members and selected business representatives with no labor presence.
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Washington
Public’’ Pay Board
Nixon
United Auto Workers
Leonard Woodcock
Woodcock
House Banking Committee
Wright Patman
D-Tex
Teamsters Union
Frank E. Fitzsimmons
Organized Labor
Fitzsimmons
White House
George Shultz
Office of Management and Budget
Costa Living Council
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Meany
Stevenson Demands Nixon Withdraw Kleindienst Name
Sen Adlai E Stevenson III urged President Nixon to withdraw Richard G Kleindienst from consideration for attorney general. He argued a full Senate Judiciary Committee inquiry is needed after an out of court ITT antitrust settlement linked Kleindienst, then deputy AG, to questions of character and fitness. Gurney defended hearings and accused opponents of pre judgment while Stevenson accused officials of lying about McLaren's quick judgeship bid.
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Washington
Adlai E. Stevenson III
D-Ill
Nixon
Richard G. Kleindienst
Stevenson
Senate
Kleindienst
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
Richard W. McLaren
Chicago
Justice Department
Edward J. Gurney
Rfla
Judiciary Committee
Gurney
San Diego
McLaren
Russians Launch Cosmos 476 Spy Satellite
U S and space experts say Cosmos 476 launched March 1 marks a new generation of Soviet electronic intelligence satellites. The "ferrets" are designed to eavesdrop on radio traffic and monitor radar, recording signals for later ground analysis.
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Washington
U.S
Soviets
United States
Cosmos
North Carolina Primary Seen Minor Clinton Significance
North Carolina's 1972 presidential primary is seen as minor due to Sanford Wallace and a strong Ohio Florida showing. Sanford leads Duke University while Wallace gains shape, making the Tar Heel vote secondary to Ohio and Florida. Muskie and Jackson pull back their NC efforts.
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Washington
North Carolina
Terry Sanford
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Sanford
Duke University
Wallace
Florida
Ohio
Miami Beach
New York
Shirley Chisholm
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Henry M. Jackson
Tar Heel
Muskie
Jackson
Sanford and Wallace
Mrs. Chisholm
North
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Rodney Pinder
Associated Press
Red
U.N. Post
William Whitelaw
Nixa
Con
Gregg Herrington
Robert W. Scott
Scott
Raleigh
Carolna
Carolina Television
Winston-Salem
Asheville
Charlotte
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