Solons Attack Press Coverage During Texas Legislative Session
Texas lawmakers criticized the press for bias and misrepresentation during Friday and Thursday sessions. Rep Hilary Doran assailed Houston Chronicle reporter Reid Beveridge over a front page story about vetoes to the Senate tax bill. Sen William Moore blamed media focus on food taxes to derail a vending machine tax bill.
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Heatly Pushes Bill Limiting College Board Veto Power
Rep. W Heatly of Paducah seeks to strip the State College Coordinating Board of its veto over new junior colleges. The measure would allow elections to form junior college districts in counties meeting pupil, property value, and no existing junior college criteria, with judges calling elections on petitions. Governor Preston Smith has not opened the special session to such bills.
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Space ship that lands like airplane urged by astronaut
Thomas P. Stafford, head of NASA’s astronaut office, urged developing a reusable space ship that can take off and land like an airplane. He argued boosters could be recovered and reused, boosting capability and saving millions, at an International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers conference in San Diego.
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Kennedy ties Justice to disqualify from inquest appeal
Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice Paul G. Kirk will disqualify himself from hearing Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's inquest appeal due to ties with Kennedy via his son Paul G. Kirk Jr, counsel to the Senate subcommittee that Kennedy heads. The appeal awaits the full bench after summer recess, while the Edgar town inquest into Mary Jo Kop echne's death remains postponed.
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SDS Enters Rail War as Transit Reform Becomes Cause
New York SDS joins the Long Island and New Haven rail battle aiming for fare-free service and improved city transit. Officials from the LIRR welcome SDS as a challenger to the establishment while SDS leader Larry Hecht says they seek alliances and may fund projects with capitalist money for city subway and mass transit reforms.
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Naval Battle of Valcour Island Ends in Reversal
On October 11, 1776, American forces under Benedict Arnold were defeated by British ships off Valcour Island in Lake Champlain, marking a pivotal early naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War.
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