Rolls-Royce in Receivership Shocks British Industry
Rolls-Royce, renowned for engines and luxury cars, announced it is going into receivership. Receiver E R Nicholson faces preserving assets as government officials prepare a crisis statement. The firm blames rising costs on the Lockheed Tristar engine project, forecasting large job cuts among about 90,000 staff and potential asset liquidation if needed.
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London
Rolls Royce
British Aerospace and
America
E. Ruper Nicholson
Nicholson
Rolls
Britain
London Stock Exchange
Pratt and Whitney
General Electric
Edward Heath
Henry Royce
Charles Stewart Rolls
Alcock and Brown
Atlantic
Boy's Appetite Tests Food Safety in Market Basket Survey
In Baltimore the FDA uses a 19 year old boy’s diet to test for pesticide residues salmonella and mercury. Five cities collect foods for testing totaling 117 items across 12 groups to gauge safety for the general population.
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Baltimore
Food and Drug Administration
U.S. Department of Agriculture
FDA
Kansas City
Maurice L. Strait
Agriculture Department
Marvin A. Blumberg
Addison B. Sales
Sales
Washington
Boston
Los Angeles
Minneapolis
Study Skills course for college bound students offered
A non-credit University of Missouri Extension course titled Study Skills will be held at Mexico High School starting February 22, meeting Mondays at 7 p.m. for ten weeks. The program, led by Testing and Counseling Service faculty, covers exam prep, note taking, outlining, time budgeting, reading improvement, and counseling. Juniors, seniors, and interested younger students may enroll. pre-registration by February 17 at the University Extension Center, Courthouse, Mexico, with a $25 fee.
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University of Missouri
UMC
Mexico High School
University Extension Center
Courthouse
Mexico
Group Opposes King Holiday in St. Louis
A south St. Louis residents group launched a petition drive to block a city ordinance making Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. birthday a public holiday. State chairman Gerald G. Fischer said 2,200 registered voters would halt the measure, which the aldermen approved on December 18 and the mayor signed on January 7. The holiday would mark King's birthday on January 15 with city employees given the day off.
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ST. Louis
South St. Louis
Martin Luther King Jr
Gerald G. Fischer
American Party
Board of Aldermen
King
New Nonfiction and Fiction Books Added at Mexico Audrain Library
The Mexico Audrain County Library added a large list of new nonfiction titles including Myths of Greece and Rome and Warships of the British and Commonwealth Navies, along with The Life in the Studio and Founders of Freedom in America series. New fiction selections include Tarzan and the Apes and Once a Greek, among others.
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Mexico + Audrain County
Greece
Rome
H. A. Guerber
Tom Wolfe
U.S. Internal Revenue Service
Postal Inspector
Arco, Educational Board
David Kendall
Cassell
Norman Mailer
H. T. Lenton
W. R. R. Hardy
Anders
Edwin Anderson
Elsie Hanauer
Doreen Brookshaw
Carole Frankel
Don Edwards
Larry Griswold
Linton Real
Mark Twain
America
Neal Doubleday
Penny Candy
Jean Kerr
Britain
Gerald Sanders
George Seferis
Harvey Wish
Nancy Hale
United States
David Whitney
Martin van Buren
Robert Remini
Bill Libby
Edgar Burroughs
Elizabeth Cadell
Friedrich Duerrenmatt
Cerdic
Alfred Duggan
John Ehle
Cousin
Peggy Hoffmann
Dell Shannon
Anne Stevenson
Lenora Weber
Barbara Willard
Lawyer at 100 outlives clients in Miami
AP reports attorney Frederick Hudson, age 100, continues to work daily in Miami, outliving clients and refusing retirement. He jokes about not racing peers, praises his vigor, and remains punctual with a strict 1 to 3:45 PM schedule. Colleagues describe him as considerate and diligent.
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Miami
Frederick Hudson
Jeff
Hudson
Ann Schor
Hudson and Campbell
Hazell Bennett
Atlanta
Dean Rusk
Nikita Khrushchev
John F. Kennedy
America
Rusk
University of Georgia
Khrushchev
U.S
Kennedy
Notable Figures Gather For Civic, Cultural Gifts
Martha Baird Rockefeller, 75, left $37 million in bequests to charity in a Manhattan will. Lincoln Center received $10 million, with $5 million each to Colonial Williamsburg, the Met Opera, and related funds. Other $1 million gifts went to Brown University, Riverside Church, and several music colleges.
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NEW York
Martha Baird Rockefeller
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Manhattan
Lincoln Center
Colonial Williamsburg
Metropolitan Opera Association
Power Shortage Looms For Northern U S
Washington AP reports a sharp electricity shortage across the Northern United States with 19 voltage cutbacks since mid January. Commissioner John A. Carver Jr. warns the trend could persist through winter and into next summer, threatening amid routine disconnections and limited service for about 50 million people.
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Washington
United States
Federal Power Commission
Chicago
New England
John A. Carver Jr
FPC
New York State
PJM
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
District of Columbia
Illinois
Commonwealth Edison Co
Carver
Power grid crisis looms as demand outpaces supply
C. F. Carver warns that electric power demand doubles every decade and per capita use grows faster than population, making shortages near inevitable. He cites storage limits, aging equipment, and weather-driven spikes as key factors raising risk for New York, PJM, and Chicago regions this summer and beyond.
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Carver
New York State
PJM
Chicago
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Rolls-Royce Co
A & B Prescription
N. Washington
People In News
Jack Dreyfus
Dreyfus Fund
Citizens’ Research Foundation
Princeton
N.J
Dreyfus
West Germany
Willy Brandt
Georges Pompidou
Allentown
Glenn Olds
U.N. Economic and Social Council
Nixon
Olds
Marianne Faithfull
Erisso
Lord Rossmore
Miss Faithfull
Mick Jagger
The
Rolling Stones
John Dunbar
Jagger
Pete Seeger
Havana
Seeger
Vietnam
Cambodia
Laos
Southeast Asia
Canada
Europe
Carl B. Albert
House
American Heart Association
White House
Albert
Oklahoma
Association
Samuel Bronston
Bronston
Spain
Samuel Bronston Productions Inc
Thomas Kleppe
North Dakota
Small Business Administration
House of Representatives
W. T. Smith
Waco
Tex
American Trucking Association
Secretary of Transportation
John A. Volpe
Smith
Marjorie Carr
Gainesville
Fla
Mexico Post
VFW
Jefferson
Attention Kingdom Telephone Co
Reauxvalse, Missouri
Conservation Service
Rexall
Rexall Alumox
Vai
Logan Pharmacy
W. Mon
iMexico
Audrain Dairy
Chevrolet
FORD
Ferrie
Toby Smith
Ben Bryant
Dean Leverett
Ben Gentry
Bryant JA
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