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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1968
Page
8
Cassandra Young, 15, barred from joining El Kadetts drill team amid objections by some mothers who claim she is Negro. She had practiced with a training group and the drillmaster rated her performance impressive.
Seattle journalist Orman L. Vertrees testified before the Senate Commerce Committee that minorities and workers such as aircraft crews, longshoremen, and service staff face higher auto insurance rates. He cited a Safeco manual warning against nicknames and haircuts in underwriting, plus a Seattle high‑risk case and unequal rate patterns between white and minority areas.
New York reports on Arthur Clarke predicting a century where most current work is done by machines and humans pursue education and leisure. He envisions large-scale machine labor, genetic engineering of apes for chores, and lifelong education as society shifts to knowledge, research, and entertainment.
Ames researchers Hodgson and Ponnamperuma report creating porphyrins in a lab simulating Earth's early atmosphere. The experiment suggests chlorophyll could arise spontaneously, supporting a view that life began with basic carbon based molecules activated by energy and sunlight.
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