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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1976
Page
2
New York stocks moved higher in early trading as gains outpaced losses on the NYSE. The Dow rose 5.57 to 942.57 as ITT led active issues with a 4 percent climb. Analysts cite technical factors following recent declines and caution about upcoming GDP data.
Fragmentary financial page shows numerous company names numbers and dates mixed with legal notes and dividend terminologies. Entities include UniTech Chrysler Coca Cola Kraft Heinz ConEd Dow Jones and Xerox among many others with scattered figures and annotations about dividends ex-dividend and stock splits.
An NBC spokesman said about 70 million Americans watched the first nationally televised vice presidential debate between Bob Dole and Walter Mondale. The figure, based on Nielsen projections from 2 million New York area homes, trails the 94 million who viewed Ford Carter debates.
Three Americans won 1976 Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry, giving the United States a clean sweep of the science awards. Burton Richter of Stanford and Samuel Ting of MIT shared the physics prize for work on a heavy elementary particle, a discovery linked to the "J Particle" and the charm property. William Lipscomb of Harvard received the chemistry prize for borane studies illuminating chemical bonding.
Associated Press reports President Ford and Jimmy Carter easing pace this week to rest before Friday's debate and the last 10 days before the election. Ford stays in the White House until Thursday then travels to New York for the Smith dinner and Williamsburg for the final meeting with Carter before voting in Grand Rapids on Nov. 2. Carter rests at Plains after Sunday school and a quiet weekend, reading the Bible and praying for those who have hurt him, including Ford and Dole, but he does not confirm names.
In Soweto 700 blacks rampaged after the funeral of 16 year old Dumisani Mbatha who died in jail. One black was killed and two hurt in a fire in New Brighton Township. Rioters burned 10 government vehicles and damaged 17. Police said a report of officers firing on rioters could not be confirmed.
Defense lawyers move to bar Patricia Hearst from testifying at Wendy Yoshimura’s trial on explosives and weapons charges. Jury selection began amid motions challenging Hearst’s credibility and competence to observe and tell the truth.
Sharon Donovan 32 recalls inventing Herstory, a feminist parlor game, and notes she rarely wins. The game educates on women in history, using questions about figures like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and features cards and squares reflecting gender roles and trades.
Washington AP reports rising U S tank production and an Army shift toward accepting new sales to Israel. Pentagon officials foresee 120 monthly M60 output by 1978, with 80 monthly kept for U S buildup and a residual for foreign customers, amid a four year path to 14 000 tanks total including XM1 development.
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