Whence Cometh The Mail and Unhappiness in Brief
A collage of reader notes lampoons postal changes citing canceled stamps and ZIP codes while Columbia State and Charleston News and Courier reflect on vacation questions. A Lexington tale mocks ethno methodological experiments and a Rhodesia tribal ban on miniskirts ends with fines and a goat raid joke.
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Postal Corporation
Uncle Sam
Columbia
S.C
Rhodesia
Musama
Birmingham
Ala
Space Shuttle Value Is Emphasized
NASA chief Dr. James C. Fletcher says the space shuttle will be half military payloads, stressing dual civilian and military use. He outlines bids by December, contracts next spring, first manned flight in 1978, and full reusability by the 1980s.
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Washington
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
James C. Fletcher
NASA
National Security Industrial Association
Fletcher
IMF meet eyed for mild action on currency reforms
Washington AP says finance ministers and central bankers from 118 nations will gather with little likelihood of bold policy moves. U.S. aims for a $13 billion balance of payments reversal via a broad currency revaluation, possibly around 15 percent, but expect behind the scenes talks and potential SDR discussions as a path to replacing gold as the value anchor.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
United States
International Monetary Fund
U.S
Sheraton Park Hotel
IMF
Missile Base Becomes Underground Ecology Center Site
In Lincoln California a hillside missile base is being transformed into the Earthside Missile Base Ecology Center. Robin Cranston son of Senator Alan Cranston will direct the project run by Experimental Systems Ecology founded by Leslie Stevens. The site once housed Titan missiles and cost 70 million to build, later sold for 35,000 to Stevens group.
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Robert M. Shaw
Associated Press
Lincoln
Earthside Missile Base
Leslie Stevens
Sacramento
Placer County
Steven
Stevens
Experimental Systems Ecology
Julie Nixon Eisenhower Walks After Cast Removal
Washington AP reports Julie Nixon Eisenhower is walking gingerly after her left leg cast was removed. She fractured a toe five weeks ago while vacationing in Atlantic Beach, Florida, where she was assigned to a teaching role at an elementary school.
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Washington
White House
Julie Nixon
Eisenhower
Atlantic Beach
Fla
Royal Couple to Visit Winnipeg for Art Gallery Opening
Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon begin a four day visit to Winnipeg with the official opening of the Winnipeg Art Gallery valued at 4.5 million dollars. The trip is designed as a low key affair with minimal government involvement.
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Winnipeg
Man
Margaret
Lord Snowdon
Manitoba
Discipline drive at Cummins Prison Farm reforms women unit
Mrs. Helen Carruthers, a 12 year Army veteran and acting superintendent, enlists military discipline at Cummins Prison Farm women’s unit. She raises morale, doubles the daily clothing quota, assigns tasks to incentivize better work, and plans classes and activities though space limits hinder progress. Hurricane Irene then causes over $1 million damage to Costa Rica’s banana crop, threatening exports.
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Kathy Gosnell
Pine Bluff Commercial
Cummins Prison Farm
Ark
Helen Carrothers
Women’s Reformatory
Women’s Army Corps
Reformatory
Carruthers
San Jose
Costa Rica
Britain Expels 90 Russian Officials in Spy Crackdown
London orders the expulsion of 90 Soviet officials with diplomatic passports and bars 15 more from returning, accusing a KGB defectors’ detailed espionage outlines of plans to sabotage and infiltrate Western targets including the Concorde project. The move, one fifth of Britain s Soviet staff, heightens East West tension and could sour relations with Moscow.
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Ronald Thomson
Associated Press
London
Britain
KGB
United States
Europe
Moscow
Kremlin
Narodny Bank
Soviet Intourist Travel Organization
Aeroflot
Bristol
Northern Ireland
Oldest Heart Transplant Recipient Plans October Weight Loss
Louis B. Russell Jr., an Indianapolis teacher and the world’s longest surviving heart transplant recipient, will mark Heart Month in October by losing weight. He will speak to Indianapolis Weight Watchers, which will donate $1 per pound he loses and a penny per pound by its members to the Heart Fund.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Louis B. Russell Jr
Witness Testimony in My Lai Missing Report Hearing
Lt Col Henry Lowder, once linked to a missing My Lai report by Lt Col Frank Barker, is called to testify in a hearing tied to Col Oran Henderson's trial. Brannen testified Lowder spoke of a thick paper file. defense argues Barker's report could exonerate Henderson. An Army investigator suggested the report may exist but lacked direct soldier statements.
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FT. Meade, Md
Henry Lowder
My Lal
Oran K. Henderson
Frank A. Barker
My Lai
Henderson
Barney L. Brannen Jr
Americal Division
Pentagon
Lowder
Brannen
Barker
Army
Schh
Weirdo the Pet Wolf Runs Free at Newport Area Home
Steve Middlebrook, 12, of Tupelo, raises Weirdo a four month old wolf cub near Newport. The wolf, part of a litter found last May, now roams the farm, greets Steve after school, and plays with family dogs. A stray injury to its left hind leg chilled its boldness toward strangers.
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Weirdo
Newport
Mike Masterson
Newport, Ark
Steve Middlebrook
Tupelo
Steve
Sammy Middlebrook
Middlebrook Farm
Middlebrook
Sam Middlebrook
Newport Special
H L Black Dies Early Saturday
Washington AP retired Supreme Court Justice Hugo L Black died in his sleep at Bethesda Naval Hospital at 1 am EDT eight days after stepping down from the court. He was 85, cited by officials as dying from inflammation of the arteries and a stroke.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Hugo L. Black
U.S
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Black
Hart Warren
Warren
White House
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Marshall Harlan
Nixon
High Court
Nursing Home Care Tied to Welfare Payments
Arkansas Nursing Home Association warned that without higher welfare payments, care standards may fall. Executive secretary Charles A. Stewart told the Social Services Board that nursing home costs rose 125 percent over four years while welfare payments increased only 49.5 percent, leaving uncertainty on any large-scale relief.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Nursing Home Association
Charles A. Stewart
Association
State Social Services Board
Stewart
Board
Roger Best
Social and Rehabilitative Services Department
Dalton Jennings
Nursing Home Association
Baby Born Aboard Eastern Jet Flight Over Georgia
A Miami to Detroit Eastern Airlines jetliner delivered a baby boy midflight over Augusta Georgia as Bonnie Wilson an Atlanta based stewardess served as mother and carrier. The mother asked for anonymity per airline spokesman.
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Atlanta, Ga
Miami
Detroit
Eastern Airlines
Bonnie Wilson
Atlanta
Augusta
Arline
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Our Daily
Alex. H. Washburn
Charleston
News and Courier
Lexington
Washington, D.C
Herald
K Hope
Patricia Pree
Debbie Barham
Cosy Burke
Rev
Gordon Renshaw
Hope High School
Renshaw
Unity Britist Church
Kiwanis Chih
Council On Drug Education
Julie
Carrothers
Cummins
Cummins Reformatory
H. L. Black
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