Global art decay sparks museum alarm at climate talks
At an Rome conference on cultural property preservation, art experts warned moisture heat and pollution imperil masterpieces and archeological items across the Mediterranean. They urged stronger climate control and funding as central heating and energy crises accelerate damage to wood panels bronze disease and cracked sculpture.
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Piocess
Bernard Feiden
Internationall
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Garry Thomson
London
National Gallery
2Th Center
Simon Levie
Amsterdam
Ryuksmuseum
Europe
Daher
Maden
Prade Adingrad
Hermitage
Valicat Museum
Robert Matthai
Charman
American Association of Museums Energy Committee
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Matthi
New York
Museum of Natural History
Coffin trailer spurs road safety message in Wisconsin
John Bass, a 27 year old car salesman from Janesville, drives a blue coffin trailer at 55 mph to remind motorists to slow down. He endured severe injuries in a 1972 crash and now uses the coffin as a personal statement on traffic safety and burial planning.
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Janesville
Wis
John Bass
Bass
AL Hels Lee
Parks legislation swaps lands and funds urban recreation
The omnibus bill, praised by environmentalists, swaps federal lands in Montana for private parcels and funds urban parks projects with 650 million dollars. It blocks development at California's Mineral King Valley and advances plans for a Tocks Island Dam on the Delaware River while denying a Disney ski resort.
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Montana
Carter
Burton
California
Mineral King Valley
Tocks Island
Pennsylvania
New Jersey Pine Barrens
Walt Disney Productions
Addieg
Gealoulng Sequiie National Park
Army Corps of Engineers
Delaware River
Mississippi
Maryland homicide tied to robbery at farm bureau scenes
A man found shot to death in a garage bay near a tow truck, with about $900 stolen, is identified as Culb, an accounts supervisor at the Maryland Farm Bureau. The case marks the year’s third homicide and second businessman death in two years during robberies, amid a separate July 8 1976 liquor store murder near New Market. The Maryland lottery announced the daily Number Game draw as 730.
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Culb
Maryland Farm Bureau
National Trail Liquors
MD. 144
New Market
Cascade REACT to host third annual November coffee break
Cascade REACT Team 2833 will hold its third annual November coffee break on Sunday November 12 at the Wayne Heights Civic Center near Waynesboro Pennsylvania. The event runs noon to 6 pm to raise funds for field activities of the public service group. Dean's Duo performs and displays from A&S Enterprises and The Sign Man of Annapolis will accompany food and drinks sold by Cascade Junior REACT. Charles Magin of the FCC Enforcement Bureau will attend to present on enforcement and take questions, with FCC equipment on display.
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Cascade React Team
Wayne Heights
Waynesboro
Dean's Duo
A&s Enterprises
Sign Man of
Annapolis
Cascade Junior React
Charles Magin
Enforcement Bureau
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Hughes backs removal of Maryland mortgage rate ceiling
ANNAPOLIS AP Gov elect Harry R Hughes will back legislation in the 1979 General Assembly to remove Maryland's 10 percent ceiling on mortgage loan rates. He said in a post election interview that rates should float with the money market to avoid halting homebuilding. The issue has recurred since 1968 and 1974 when ceilings rose and pressures grew amid rising rates tied to national policy.
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Annapolis
Harry R. Hughes
Baltimore Evening Sun
Hughes
National Association of Realtors
General Assembly
Virginia
Carter
Maryland
Teen-aged sisters leap to deaths in Manhattan tragedy
New York police report two teen-aged Chinese American sisters, Betty Hwang seventeen and Jean thirteen, jumped from the roof of a five story Manhattan apartment building. Betty leaped first shouting goodbye then struck a parked car and fell to the street. Seconds later Jean teetered on the roof edge, saw Jenny below, and hurled herself to the concrete.
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New York
Manhattan
Betty Hwang
Jean
Bellevue Hospital
Jenny
Frederick County Commissioners Meeting Agenda November 13 1978
Officials meet in Frederick Maryland at the Commissioners Auditorium to discuss administrative business including storm water design acceptance for Fairfield Heights and routine bid approvals for county motor fleet. Items cover water charges, vehicle purchases, and public works contracts with notes of a workshop and a noon Council of Governments meeting.
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Commissioners Auditorium
Winchester Hall
Frederick
Maryland
Fairfield Heights
Lawrence W. Johnson
Sheriff's Dept
Teutha
Patricia Throne
Commission On
William Fout
Council of Governments
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Weizman
Thegun
White House
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New Jersey
West Virginia
Matthai
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Ciovanni Schicchilone
Italy
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Jay Formey
Esi
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