Industry slow to adopt new tech hinders U S business
Cromley notes high steel costs due to limited tech adoption abroad. He cites Japan West Germany and others advancing production methods while the Navy shipyards textiles cement and other sectors face higher prices. Risk costs, patent issues, environmental rules, and union opposition deter major tech shifts. He warns agencies and courts slow to embrace innovations. He argues government lacks worker displacement safeguards guiding costly transitions. The FBI and CIA lag in adopting new electronic tools.
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Banl Cromley
Washington
Japan
West Germany
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Energy Research and Development Administration
Jacob Rabinow
Institute For Applied Technology
National Bureau of Standards
Checks and balances in American government system
Speaking Freely argues that unwritten checks among Congress the Supreme Court and the executive ensure minority rights. Justice Powell defends dissent as vital to court vitality and guards against arbitrary decisions. The piece contrasts American checks with British parliamentary dominance and notes OPEC oil market pressures and rising drilling costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Oakley
Congress
Supreme Court
Lewis F. Powell Jr
Justic Powell
American Bar Associaton
Montreal
Powell
Uct
Jail Escape Plot Foiled Sheriff Survives Attempt
A planned jail delivery aimed to strike Sheriff John Malcolm with a metal stair post and unlock his cell. The scheme involved crawling through a hole behind shirts on the northwest cell bars and escaping via stairs to the outside platform after lights out. The thwarted plot halted by morning inspection.
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John Malcolm
Malcolm
Emil Kramp
Robert Cook
G.C. Murphy Company
Veterans Count Club
Elders Ridge
Calvin Cooper
Eldersidge
Kay Mucci
Lucerne Mines
Indiana County United Fund
Brush Valley
W.C. Leasure
Houston
Texas
Clymer
Indiana
James S. Mack
Nixon Daley praised as a patriot amid Beltway rancor
Washington-Nixon once dubbed Daley a patriot for supporting the country during crises while private alarms over 1960 Chicago vote manipulation simmer. the report also details tainted FBI transcripts and errors in the Hall-Taylor bribery case, exposing systemic mistrust in federal proceedings.
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Nixon
Dick Daley
Chicago
Jim
Justice Department
Daley
Hizzener
House Intelligence Committee
FBI
Otis Pike
D.N.Y
Tim Oliphant
Dick Vermeire
Taiwan
John Rogers
Hall
Rogers
Mooney
Rogers Fatty
Taylor
Fred Daugherty
U.S
William Burkett
Inside Labor New Pearl Harbor Near
Washington sees Soviet moves to buy 20 million tons more of U S wheat as a strategic price shock. Victor Riesel reports Kremlin agents seek to push inflation and force higher meat costs, while Ford pressures Meany and Gleason to avoid a waterfront strike. The piece ties farm politics, labor power, and maritime diplomacy to a looming economic crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Riesel
Washington
U.S
Ussr
Moscow
Afl-Cio
Robert J. Blackwell
Igor Averin
Foreign Relations Department
Soviet
Ministry of Merchant Marine
Ford
Teddy Gleason
International Longshoremen’s Assny
Blackwell
Cook Industries
Memphis
Tenn
Labor
George Meany
Teddy
Dunlop
Jerry Ford
Meany
Soviet Union
Hing
John Kennedy
Lyndon
Last names frustrate American youth culture
Washington reports on a playful yet pointed debate as parents fret over kids who cannot name peers by last name. The piece catalogs students and adults alike, from Ellen and Mitzi to Randy and Steve, highlighting the social quirks around last names and personal identity. Ellen finally reveals Randy from Virginia is Steve Jackson, ending the staged crisis.
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Art Buchwald
United States
Zinnier
Ellen
Bensy
Therese
Randy
Steve
Betsy
Virginia
Baltimore
Tina
Mitzi
Karen
Nag's Head
North Carolina
Chris
Zinnser
New York
Bruce
Jim
David
Steve Jackson
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Persian Gulf
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Eureps
Sanday
Legal
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Les Whitten
Richard Nixon
Richard Daley
John F. Kennedy
Illinois
Key Biscayne
Fla
H.R. Haldeman
John Ehrlichmann
Charles Colson
John Mitchell
Mitchell
Kevin Mooney
New Pearl Harbor
Gleason
Harry Truman
Farm Belt
New York State
Meany and Company
Seafarer
Paul Hall
John Dunlop
Samson
Gleason and Hall
Jesse Calhoon
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