Noice Behind the Wheel warns of weekend highway risks
The Travelers Insurance highway fact book says nearly half of 1970 traffic deaths and injuries occurred on weekends. It cites 55,200 deaths and 5,100,000 injuries in 1970, notes a drop from 1969, and points to alcohol and fatigue as major factors. Drivers under 25 account for over one third of accidents while making up only a fifth of licensed drivers.
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Travelers Insurance Companies
Noice
Alchohol
Press right to publish Pentagon Papers sparked haste
Washington argues the Supreme Court erred by rushing to a decision on prior restraint, splitting six to three instead of nine to zero. Dissenters say the process was unseemly and frenetic, with inadequate facts and briefs. Separate anecdotes touch on aging, a milk truck incident, and quips about blood donations.
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Roscoe Drummond
Washington
Supreme Court
Pentagon
Warrren Burger
Burger
District Court
Court of Appeals
Justice Blackmun
Justice Harlan
New York Times
Times
Lenny Bruce remembered five years after his downfall
A reflective profile recounts Lenny Bruce as a brash comedian who challenged hypocrisy with dirty words and real law confrontations. It traces his arrests, religious spoofing, Miami Beach scam, four month jail term, and the lasting impact of his defiant act. The piece notes Garbus's Ready for the Defense and Bruce’s posthumous influence on modern culture.
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Lenny Bruce
Wil
Mr. Bruce
Dorothy Kilgallen
Sausalito
Bruce
Lennie Bruce
Martin Garbus
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Garbus
Cysts in kidneys and stool color concerns to Dr Thosteson
Dear readers ask about a kidney cyst size and management. The doctor explains cysts enlarge slowly, surgery targets the cyst not always the kidney, and no medicine reduces cyst size. Another reader asks about black stool and potential bleeding. doctor notes meds foods can color stool but high GI bleeding must be tested.
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Dr. Thosteson
Life as a cliché poem by Hal
A playful apologia listing common sayings and life clichés from light to fate. The piece riffs on familiar phrases such as crossed a bridge before I came to it and paid the piper while pondering meaning and living with humor. It ends with a rhetorical question about starting to live.
Five men swept into the bay by sudden gale near Chambers’ mill
A breeze tossed five men from a sailboat into the green Father of Waters in front of Chambers’ upper mill. They clung to the hull until help arrived from shore rescuers.
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Chambers’ Upper Mill
Camus
R. J. Hittle
Chicago
J. E. Havercamp
Woodlawn Avenue
Fire damages and social notices in Muscatine area
Fire crews acted after a dump fire on East Fifth Street at 3 12 p m with one hose line in use The article notes street repairs at Clifford and Orange Streets and Spruce Street between Seventh and Eighth Streets with repair costs of 2500 each It reports a July wedding announcement for Clara Louise Bloom to Harvey Chase Westcott and a dinner party shower at Hotel Muscatine for the bride and hosts Mrs J W Castle and Misses Marian Roth Jeanne Ruthenberg and Katherine Carver Rev Ervin Eden is installed as pastor at Atalissa Zion Lutheran Church on a Sunday in July
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Clifford
Orange
Spruce Street
Seventh
Eighth Streets
F.E. Tewksbury
East Fifth Street
Clara Louise Bloom
Harvey Chase Westcott
Collins
Town
Hotel Muscatine
J. W. Castle
Marian Roth
Jeanne Ruthenberg
Katherine Carver
Today in history highlights of July 12, 1971
Recaps key past events on July 12 across centuries. Julius Caesar’s birth, Hamilton’s death, Madrid’s 1808 king, Thoreau’s birth, WWII Stalin Line advances, Aga Khan leadership, Khrushchev on Monroe Doctrine, TiROS 3 launch, Gandhi-Vietnam talks, Heyerdahl voyage to Barbados.
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Associated Press
Julius Caesar
Alexander Hamilton
Aaron Burr
Harvard University
Prince Karim
Nikita Khrushchev
Latin America
Cape Canaveral
Fla
India
Indira Gandhi
Moscow
Vietnam
Thor Heyerdahl
Barbados
West Indies
North Africa
Judiciary committee seeks federal jail term review
Senate Judiciary members push a bill to allow review of federal sentences to promote uniformity. Senator Roman Hruska notes wide district disparities, citing a bank robber case with 68 to 184 month ranges and an average of 140 months. The plan lets appeals courts reduce, not raise, sentences after review.
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Judiciary Committee
Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Hruska
Chinery
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Florida
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K.ae
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Boyle
Atalissa
Ervin
Eden
Atalissa Zion Lutheran Church
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