Blind Puerto Rican teen draws on vanishing point method
Pedro Colon Rodriguez, 16, born blind, quickly sketches a highway from a roadside perspective under instructor George Wally at the University of Puerto Rico. Wally says he discovered a micropoint or vanishing point enabling congenitally blind individuals to form visual concepts, a breakthrough debated by medical staff.
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UPI
Pedro Colon Rodriguez
George Wally
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Natural Sciences
University of Puerto Rico
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Rosa E. Fiel
Puerto Rican Medical Association
Medical
Medical Journal
Paramount and
Roxie
New York
Caguas
World Research Center For the Blind Inc
FEC set to approve first $2 million in campaign funds
The FEC, after a Supreme Court injunction request failed 4-4, plans to disburse about 1.5 million to nine or ten presidential hopefuls and 700,000 to Republican and Democratic National Committees for party conventions. Payments arise from a tax checkoff pool, with Ford receiving 374,000, Bentsen 492,000, Sanford 214,000, and others 100,000 each.
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Democratic National Committees
James Buckley
R-N.y
Eugene McCarthy
Ford
Lloyd Bentsen
D-Tex
Terry Sanford
North Carolina
AMA vows to fight FTC antitrust charge over doctor advertising
The FTC accuses the American Medical Association and state societies of restricting doctor advertising to curb competition. The complaint targets pricing and service disclosures, potentially impacting fees for medical services and patient choice. AMA leaders defend the ethics code as patient best interest guidance.
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FTC Bureau of Competition
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Raymond Holden
AMA
Max Parrott
Judge orders release of Agnew case materials
Federal Judge June Green ordered the Justice Department to disclose the evidence used against Spiro Agnew after law students filed a freedom of information suit. She will review the materials privately to decide on public release, amid six months of government resistance.
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Phoenix, Ariz
Roy Baldwin
Lincoln, Neb
George Washington University
Law Center
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Five Philadelphia men indicted for aiding IRA arms
A federal grand jury indicted five men from the Philadelphia area for purchasing and exporting arms to the Irish Republican Army. The defendants Cahalane Conlon Byrne Duffy Regan allegedly conspired with two co conspirators to supply 378 rifles and 140000 rounds to Northern Ireland. Counts detail transport without state department licenses.
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New York City
Boston
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San Francisco
Daniel Cahalane
Newtown Square
Neil Byrne
Warrington
Auto Agency
Daniel Duffy
Upper Darby
Vincent Conlon
Thomas Regan
Ireland
William McNichol
Marjorie Palace
United States
United Kingdom
Great Britain
Cahalane
State Department
Conlon
Byrne
Regan
Northeast gets white Christmas
Northeast snows blanket New England and New Hampshire amid a white Christmas. Up to 21 inches in parts. schools close. five dead and two missing from twin storms. Florida sees cold snap with temperatures in the 20s and frost warnings reach Miami.
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