Safer School Buses Face Cost Over Safety Tradeoffs
The National Transportation Safety Board criticizes current school bus design favoring low production costs over crash safety. Most buses with body on a truck chassis lack secure attachment, according to the NTSB, which urges two to five times as many rivets bolts and welds to secure the body to the frame for occupant protection. The NEA's emphasis on low costs is cited as encouraging unsafe shortcuts.
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National Transportation Safety Board
National Education Association
NEA
Federal Safety Agency
NTSB
The Bald Eagle Under Threat From Pollution Data
National Audubon Society reports a sharp decline in bald eagle reproduction tied to pesticide residues and mercury. Maine aerial survey shows eggs with high DDT limits and low fledgling rates, signaling potential species collapse without action.
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America
United States
National Audubon Society
U.S
Maine
Eugene Knoder
Alaska
Wisconsin
Frank Ligas
Florida
Verse Echoes on Vine Parable in Modern Text
A devotional note urges living in alignment with the divine to bear fruit, citing a biblical image of the vine and branches. The text blends scripture, faith reflection, and a reference to the New Testament in a compact, exhortative tone.
Not Everybody Gets Killed on Holiday Driving
New York columnist Bob Considine critiques holiday driving safety rhetoric and car crash harm. He argues that traffic injuries outpace war deaths, mocks the complacent driver, and urges listeners to truly drive carefully instead of relying on slogans.
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New York
National Safety Council
Caesar
Attila the Hun
Scripps Booth
Point Mosquito
N.J
Watts area social reform programs and corporate job drive
Mayor Yorty notes Watts riots aftermath shifting to a sane approach as the Watts Labor Community Action Committee under Ted Watkins runs two service stations a poultry ranch a credit union a grocery training center and a supermarket chain. An Economic and Youth Opportunities Agency has placed about 4000 Watts youths this summer. The Economics Resources Corp a Chamber of Commerce backed nonprofit created a six acre Watts community industrial park. Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
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Watts Labor Community Action Committee
Ted Watkins
Economics Resources Corp
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Watts
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Lockheed opens Watts plant for L 1011 parts
Article notes Lockheed California Division moved into a 25 million Watts plant to manufacture parts for the Tri Star L 1011 jet. It touts new negative standards for employment, recruiting 290 previously unskilled workers, and claims a highly motivated workforce. It discusses subsidies for C 5 A freighters and broader Watts programs, plus social and urban implications of wartime policy and migration patterns.
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Watts
Lockheed
Middletown Journal Subscription Rates Notice
Public notice lists daily newspaper subscription prices for Middletown Journal subscribers. Local, suburban, and mail rates are shown with weekly and yearly amounts. rates vary by region and delivery method.
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The
News Journal, Inc
First Ave
Middletown
Ohio
Heperboy
City
USA
South Of The Border Traveler Charla Saylor
Charla Saylor, Ohio University journalism grad student, spent three months in Costa Rica gathering material for Reader's Digest. She traveled alone from Costa Rica to Mexico, noting locals’ hospitality and a late night serenade incident in Mexico City. A column also discusses chauvinism and a plastic heart transplant concept, offering speculative future bioengineering ideas.
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Frances Saylor
Central Ave
Costa Rica
Reader’s Digest
Ohio U
Mexico
Charla
Karen Valentine
Resaurant
Mexico City
Madrid
D.D
Reporter's sharp critique of schools and teachers in America
Jim Bishop delivers a caustic column on U.S. education, unions, and politics, railing at boards of education, teachers, and students. He laments declining standards, biased textbooks, shifting math, and troubled families, arguing the system rewards dysfunction while dodging accountability.
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Howard Hughes
Charles Schwab
Lehman Brothers
Joe Kennedy
Mao
China
Stalin
Soviet Union
Boards of Education
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Bob Considine
Free World
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John Chamberlain
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Kerner
Sam Yorty
Los Angeles
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Yorty
the Journal
Charla Saylor
Random House
N. Chauvin
P.D
Jim Bishop
Spiro Agnew
Asia
Agnew
Vietnam
Korea
Dwight Eisenhower
Wth
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Vienna
Comet
John D. Rockefeller
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
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