Stores Push Thumbprints To Validate Checks In San Francisco
In San Francisco stores adopt a thumbprint system to verify checks using a fingerprinting device called an Identi cator. Trial results in Redwood City show a 32 percent drop in fraud with about 10 000 in savings. Some retailers like Sears permit refusal with ID or a mug shot.
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Identicator
Oscar Pieper
Identicator Corp
Redwood City
John McDonald
Leary
McDonald
Pieper
Sears Roebuck and Co
Steve Belavich
Sears
Christmas Ghosts Haunt PWs Home From Hanoi
AP report recalls four Christmases spent by Navy Lt. Mark Gartley Navy Lt. Norris Charles and Air Force Maj. Edward Elias as prisoners in Hanoi with families at home in Florida and Tampa. Their release in September sparks reflection on those still held and hope for peace.
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Peter Arnett
Navy
Mark Gartley
Gartley
Hanoi
Florida
Air Force
Edward Elias
Elias
Georgia
Norris Charles
Tampa
Fla
Charles
Olga
Sen
George McGovern
Maria
Department of Defense
Minnie Lee Gartley
Mark
Clearwater
Maria Charles
North Vietnam
Norris
Moody Air Force Base
Valdosta
Doctor Sues AMA Over Kennedy Evidence Access
John Nichols a KU medical center pathologist sues the American Medical Association seeking 100000 in actual damages and 400000 in punitive damages. He alleges the AMA violated his rights by blocking publication and access to unpublished material on President Kennedy's fatal head wound after the Supreme Court rejected his lab access request.
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Topeka, Kan
John Nichols
University of Kansas Medical Center
American Medical Association
John F. Kennedy
Nichols
U.S. Supreme Court
Kennedy
AMA
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