Fire Likely Caused Death of Actor Jack Cassidy
Los Angeles AP reports a smoldering cigarette may have sparked the blaze that swept through Jack Cassidy s West Hollywood penthouse after a party. The 49 year old singer actor was found dead with his body charred beyond recognition, the result of an accidental fire investigators say. The building was crowded with cigarette butts and a fly from a late night gathering. Cassidy fathered David Cassidy and was once married to Shirley Jones. An autopsy was planned, with dental charts confirming the victim. Cassidy s career spanned Broadway films and television including WC Fields and Me and She Loves Me.
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West Hollywood
Cassidy
David Cassidy
Shirley Jones
County Fire Department
Rod Smith
Stuart Heller
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
John Barrymore
WC. Fields and
Two die as Allegheny commuter aircraft crashes at Cape May
Allegheny Airlines Flight 977 from Philadelphia to Atlantic City crashes while landing at Cape May Airport killing a crew member and a female passenger. Eight passengers aboard were injured and taken to Burdette Tomlin Hospital as rescue crews and police reached the wreckage in a wooded area.
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N.J
Allegheny Airlines
Allegheny
Philadelphia
Atlantic City
Burdette Tomlin Hospital
Biggest Windmill Project Aims For World’s Largest Turbine
Government initiates plan to build the largest windmill in history within the next two years to study traits of massive wind turbines as a new energy source. Key agencies will oversee design, testing, and potential deployment.
New rabies vaccine hailed as major breakthrough
Philadelphia physician reports a French produced vaccine as a major breakthrough for humans exposed to rabies. It requires about half as many injections, minimizes side effects, and showed protection in 45 people in Iran. Developed in human cell cultures by Institut Merieux Lyon, tested June 1975 to January 1976 with six injections plus rabies serum.
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Koprowski
Journal of the American Medical Association
Chicago
Institut Merieux
Lyon
France
Iran
Bomb disarmed at Needham Union Carbide building
Dynamite bomb found at a Needham entrance was disarmed by bomb squad. The device contained 20 sticks of dynamite, a watch and a battery and the building was empty. An anonymous caller claimed the Sam Melville Unit as responsibility, linking to other New England bombings and demanding prison news conditions.
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Mass
Union Carbide Administration
Louis Roman
Sam Melville
New England
Suffolk County
Boston
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Lowell
Walpole State Prison
Slide Prevention in hillside developments
The danger of land sliding can be greatly reduced on hillside developments if construction practices are aided by strict subdivision and grading ordinances and building regulations.
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Wister Institute of Anatomy and Biology
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Manouchehr Mohammadi
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A&a Carpet Cleaning CO
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Oncouraget Burgers
Disston
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