Nicknames Vital at Ninth International Jim Smith Society
NEW CASTLE New Hampshire AP At the ninth annual International Jim Smith Society gathering nicknames and middle initials mark members as all are Jim Smiths. The Camp Hill Pa founder recalls the idea from 1969 and says membership grew to 653 by this weekend. The three day festival features an all Jim Smith softball game and a hotel run by James Barker Smith.
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Washington Parents Seek Good Schools for Kids in Capital
An AP report notes how elite Washington families use private schools to preserve status. Teddy Kennedy’s nephew, Mondale’s son, and others attend prestigious institutions like St Albans, Holton Arms, and Georgetown Prep. The piece contrasts private schooling with Carter’s public-school pledge and cites St Albans headmaster Mullin on the role of outcomes over name dropping.
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Harvard
Mark Mullin
America
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Secretary of Health Education and Welfare
Joseph A. Califano Jr
Georgetown Preparatory School
John C. Danforth
Rmo
St. Patricks Episcopal Day School
Richard L. Ottinger
D-N.y
Sidwell Friends School
Carter sees Berlin Wall and town meeting in Berlin
President Carter visited the Berlin Wall where East Berlin workers had freshly painted over anti-communist graffiti. He told about 1,000 Berlin residents that the Communist government cannot hide the wasteland of human spirit and compared the struggle for rights to JFK’s Berlin moment.
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Carter heads to Bonn summit to push energy plan
President Carter travels to Bonn to join six other industrial powers as talks open on Sunday and Monday. He seeks steps to curb energy use after a widening US trade deficit driven by oil imports, aided by a Byrd promise of Senate approval for energy measures enabling coal conversion.
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Carter rebukes Young over prisoner's remark
President Carter told U N Ambassador Andrew Young that his statement claiming hundreds or thousands of political prisoners in the United States was a mistake. White House aide Jody Powell said Young apologized for the embarrassment and that Carter would not have accepted Young’s resignation if offered.
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Weather outlook mostly sunny with scattered showers
Partly cloudy conditions with a 30 percent rain chance today and 20 percent tonight. Temperatures in the mid 80s, with lows in the 60s. Monday shows sun and warmth with mid 80s highs. The extended forecast through Thursday remains similar.
Concrete mix blamed in Willow Island cooling tower tragedy
West Virginia cooling tower construction halted after 51 workers died when scaffolding failed. Research-Cottrell Inc. says concrete used in the ring was mixed improperly with wrong admixture quantities slowing curing, and the firm had no control over the mixing process.
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Research Cottrell
Woman crafts one of a kind jewelry by Maggie Moschell
Margaret Moschell of Hampton Place creates original accessories and does not fear duplicates in the market. The University of Cincinnati graduate’s story appears on Page 17.
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