Nixon admin fires disgruntled head of minority business office
The Nixon administration dismissed Thomas F. Roeser, head of the Office of Minority Business Enterprise, after he urged black businessmen to press for more aid and criticized OMBE promotions. Abraham S. Venable was named to Roeser's former post while Roeser remains as an assistant with new duties.
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Nixon
Maurice Hi
Stans
Thomas F. Roeser
Roeser
Abraham S. Venable
Soyers
OMBE
Medico Industries Face Scrutiny Over Mafia Ties and Clearances
Pentagon aides cleared Medico Industries of Pennsylvania for access to secret material after review, despite reports linking the firm to mob figures. The company has held government contracts since 1956 and produced military equipment for the Army Navy and Air Force while its officers underwent security checks.
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Defense Industrial Security Command
Columbus Ohio
Medico Industries
Senate
Russell
Bafatino
United States
William Madco
Mayacer O
Melica Industries
Amir
Bufalino
James Osieco
Wes
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Ostieco
Buefalino
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Medico
Pittston
Pennsylvania
Pocono Mountains
Focal Clarity
Wilkes Barre
Scranton
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lis Ceward
Air Force
Navy
Signal Corps
Halloween Witchcraft Antidotes Feature at Michigan
Ann Arbor reports a professor Marvello Truzai teaches witchcraft history at the University of Michigan. He promotes a book Cauldron Coolery with medieval recipes and formulas for invisibility and werewolf lore. The piece lists crude remedies and spells including cat fat and cemetery lore.
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University of Michigan
Marvello Truzai
Truzzi
Weratolf
Waite
Earth Crack Sends House Toward Sea
A cliff top crack at Paseo del Mar Drive in San Pedro widened sending a house tumbling toward the Pacific Ocean. Police quote the house 30 feet down the cliff and still moving, with water and electricity cut off as residents evacuated. Officials say seven oceanfront properties are at risk as the fissure expands at an estimated pace of three sixteenths of an inch per hour, with several homes already lost and others perilously perched.
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Calif
Apa
Pacific Ocean
Utiiity
Paseo del Mar
Los Angeles
George Smith
Smith
Peace Pumpkins Proposed for Halloween Display in New York
The Vietnam Memoriam Committee plans a pumpkins for peace demonstration on Halloween in New York. A committee spokesman said pumpkins carved with peace signs would replace jack o lantern faces for the holiday, building on the group’s role in the Oct. 15 Vietnam Moratorium Day.
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New York
APD
Vietnam Memoriam Committee
Jack Plantern
Wic
Nixon Seeks War Speech Revisions Amid Vietnam Debate
President Nixon gathers dozens of memos from officials and experts outlining ideas for a Vietnam War speech. Officials warn against expecting world shaking pronouncements while potential topics include Saigon policy, unilateral ceasefire, and U S troop withdrawal plans depending on battlefield progress and Paris talks.
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Nixon
Peazematine
Wamadin
Vietnam
Southeast Asia
Wille
Saigon
Scott
U.S
South Vietnam
Paris
California moves to curb DDT use statewide in two years
California agriculture chief announced a plan to eliminate DDT and DDD from fields gardens and homes within two to three years with regulations phasing out sale for household use and bans on crop dusting. Fielder cited progress in pest control and noted no proven harm at current levels. Conservation groups welcomed tighter control amid concerns about soil and water contamination.
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California
Arciculture
Jerry Wy Wielder
Dixon
State Farm
Fielder
Luser
Art Linkletter joins Los Angeles narcotics board
Los Angeles AP report says television figure Art Linkletter was named a special member of the Los Angeles County Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Commission. Warren M. Dora said Linkletter would serve to alert families to the dangers of drug use after his daughter Diane, 20, died reportedly after an LSD influence.
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Los Angeles
Art Link’etler
Los Angeles County
Warren M. Dora
Linkletter
Diane
West Holwood
Parime Il
Young 22 year old becomes Vassar trustee
Alison Bernstein, a New Yorker and Vassar summa cum laude graduate, is elected to the board for 31 2 years to fill a resigning trustee seat. She plans a career in teaching and says student voices should be heard, while preferring nonviolent dispute resolution.
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Alison Bernstein
Vassar College
Miss Bernstein
New Yorker
Vassar Last
Columbia University
Eastern Girls’ School
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