Heroin drives teen deaths in New York City
AP reporting from New York shows health officials citing 210 youths ages 15 to 19 dying from heroin this year, with about 250 deaths in the 20 to 24 bracket and a forecast of over 900 total heroin deaths by year end. Assemblyman Hanlan Jack criticizes the Board of Education after a 12 year old overdosed. Vandermeer, a Harlem narcotics victim, was the city’s youngest recorded case.
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New York
Michael Baden
Baden
Lan Jack
Manhattan
Board of Education
Walter Vandermeer
Harlem
British physicist 29 wins 1969 Research Corp Award
New York AP reports British theoretical physicist Brian D. Josephson, 29, receives the 1969 Research Corporation Award for fundamental work on superconductivity done in his 20s at Cambridge. The award cites his youthful insight preceding Nobel Prize contenders like Gell-Mann and Einstein notes.
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New York
Brian D. Josephson
University of Cambridge
Josephson
Research Corporation
Nicholas Samios
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton
N.Y
Murray Gell-Mann
California Institute of Technology
Wasa
Jacobson
Albert Einstein
Oil firm delays pipeline work to protect nesting falcons
In Hampshire England an oil company agreed to pause a $2 100 pipeline stretch to avoid disturbing two rare peregrine falcons and their brood. Work will resume once the birds depart.
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Fawley
England
Hampshire
Pilot error cited in most U S aviation accidents
The National Transportation Safety Board reports pilot error as the main cause in 1988 accidents 84.32 percent where determinable up from 81.91 in 1987 and earlier years. The review notes rising accident rates and cites 658 fatal accidents in 1968 with 24 million hours flown, equating to 2.86 total accidents per 100000 hours versus 2.72 in 1967.
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Washington
United States
National Transportation Safety Board
U.S
Doctor Develops New Oxygen System For Everest Attempt
Dr. Barry Hagen, 31, unveils a solid-chemical oxygen system for an international Everest expedition planning a 1971 ascent. The doctor says the setup will replace heavy compresses currently used by climbers.
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Kimberley
B. C
Barry Hagen
Mount
Everest
Nixon presses Congress to cut spending to curb inflation
President Nixon warns his inflation fight is in danger and must rely on Congress cutting federal spending despite political costs. He cites a $6 billion gap from rising costs and argues tax reform actions threaten the economy while Congress debates tax cuts and appropriations for the current year. The letter stresses responsible fiscal policy as House action grants the Fed broad anti inflationary powers over credit.
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Nixon
Congress
John M. Pearce
Associated Press
Washington
House
Senate
Budget Bureau
Federal Reserve Board
J. Dewey Duane
Italian-born veteran becomes citizen after Vietnam service
Alfie Leone, 23, the Italian born soldier who lost both legs in Vietnam, was naturalized in a ceremony at Valley Forge General Hospital led by Chester County Judge John M. Kurtz Jr. Leone stood on artificial legs, received cheers from about 70 hospital staff and patients, and planned to go home for Christmas. He had joined the Army May 13, 1968 and endured two hearings for citizenship after surviving a booby trap in Vietnam.
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Phoenixville, Pa
Vietnam
Chester County
John M. Kurtz Jr
Valley Forge General Hospital
Leone
Dellecatere
Haly
The pygmy owl and a weight loss ad
A brief note compares a pygmy owl to larger relatives and includes an advertising blurb for Odrinex weight loss tablets. The ad promises no dangerous drugs and a money back guarantee from Grimm Drug Store at 130 East 2nd with mail orders available.
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Grimm Drug Store
East 2Nd
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Dial
Metzel’s
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