Black teen unemployment rate sparks concern at Penn
University of Pennsylvania economist Dr. Bernard Anderson warns 65 percent of black youths aged 16 to 19 cannot find work, about 570000 of 880000. He contrasts with 25 percent joblessness among 7.5 million white teens, linking future work prospects to inner city crime and gang activity. Edison patent note appears as a separate fact.
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
America
Bernard Anderson
Penn
Wharton School of Finance and Commerce
Retired Gardener Preserves Vast Unusual Plant Collection
Crete Illinois aged grower Jacob Swieringa keeps a private greenhouse near Chicago with about 20 000 rare cacti and succulents. His passion spans 54 years and includes plants like Mile A Minute Prickly Pear Maternity and Living Stones. He sells many specimens to universities and faculty studying botany and biology.
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Crete, Ill
Jacob Swieringa
Swieringa
Chicago
Australia
Scheringa
Naturalized citizens in Wilmington get Nixon letters by mistake
Thirty five new citizens in U S District Court in Wilmington received congratulatory letters signed by President Nixon instead of Ford. An examiner, Clifford Schaeffer, said Nixon letters were left in a drawer and distributed by mistake, while the correct Ford signed letters were intended for the new citizens.
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Wilmington
Del
U.S. District Court
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Clifford Schaeffer
Philadelphia
Ford
Divers drown after under ice dive at Salisbury Quarry
Three scuba divers named David Niles 23 Terrance Coleman 24 and John T. Cumming 59 died during an under ice dive at Salisbury Quarry Lucas County authorities said. They were part of a 12 diver group.
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Toledo, Ohio
Salisbury Quarry
Lucas County
David Niles
Cleveland
Terrance Coleman
John T. Cumming
Willowick
Congress aims at health insurance but deadlocks persist
Congress unlikely to pass national health insurance this year despite U S push. Key issues split over coverage scope service level and funding with hopes for action by year end fading. Kennedy urges swift move though analysts warn a law would take two to four years to implement.
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Washington
Congress
Ford Administration
al Ullman
D-Ore
House
Ways and Means Committee
National Health Insurance Congress
Ullman
Senate
Edgar N. Duncan
U.S
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FDIC
Palm Beach
Master Charge Bankamericard
Worthmore Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Middletown
Royal Palm Beach
Dacron
Jala
Dacront
Sylvania
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