Buyers Yell But Still Buy High Priced Food
New York AP analyzes rising food costs and stubborn demand as beef, pork, and chicken consumption climbs despite higher prices. It cites beef use up from 60 pounds in 1920 to 118 pounds this year, notes subsidies and processing limits, and highlights efficient production gains over time. It also notes a television series Black Omnibus with James Earl Jones and planned guests. In England, Lincolnshire police uncover a car trunk body revealed to be the driver’s wife tapping a faulty gas pump.
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America
ConAgra
U.S
James Earl Jones
Jones
The
Nite-Liters
Jim Brown
Baltimore
Ray May
Brown
Black Economic Union
Los Angeles
KTTV
Carmen MacRae
Lou Rawls
Bernie Casey
Spalding
England
Lincolnshire
Centenarian odds rise with marriage and outdoor life
National Geographic survey links longevity to happiness in marriage, outdoor activity, low calorie diet, and mountain living. Americans show rising booze costs but lower hard liquor consumption than early in the century, averaging 149 annually per adult for 22 gallons of booze in total. Authorities flag arson as a growing concern, doubling every decade with eight percent of fires suspected. Seven motives seen, including fraud, revenge, terrorism, and riots. Notables weigh in on television and oddities, from Wright to Allen, while owls’ daytime vision is debunked and harpist Gerald Goodman stresses dishwashing for hand strength.
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New York
National Geographic Society
United States
Frank Lloyd Wright
Fred Allen
Gerald Goodman
Soa
Baudelaire
Optacon aids blind reading with fingertip camera device
A Stanford team led by Dr. John Linvill unveiled Optacon, a pocket knife sized camera that photographs printed letters and translates images into vibrating needles felt on the fingertip. Users read about half as fast as Braille readers, with plans to simplify to one handed use and expand production.
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Los Angeles
Stanford University
Stanford
Optacon
John G. Linvill
Electrical Engineering
Dr. Linvill
Science Writers
Research To Prevent Blindness, Inc
New
San Diego
Linvill
Big Cotton Sale To China Sets Record Exports in 1973
United States cotton enters a landmark sale to Mainland China with 400000 bales valued at about 78 million dollars. The Plains Cotton Cooperative Association in Texas handled the order, boosting projected 1973 U.S. exports to China to 300-400 million dollars and signaling a strong trade balance with China increasing purchases of grain and other goods.
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Washington
China
United States
U.S
Agriculture Department
Plains Cotton Cooperative Association
Texas
North Vietnam Eyewitness Truce Notebook Report
A reporter from Tokyo files a firsthand account from North Vietnam in the days after the cease-fire agreement. Louise Hickman Lione of the Philadelphia Inquirer provides observations on the halted fighting, civilian disruption, and local reactions as the armistice begins to take shape.
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Tokyo
Louise Hickman Lione
Phila
Democratic Federation
Nguyen van Thieu
Viet Cong
Hanoi
Navy
Joseph Kernan
Rockville
Air Force
Pete Callaghan
Long Island
Charles Jackson
Denver, Colo
Tax reform seen as moral issue by former policy maker
Washington AP report notes Stanley Surrey told the House Ways and Means Committee that loopholes disguise public spending and that public outcry would rise if all facts were known. The piece also covers Tet in Hanoi, war damage, and a Kissinger visit timetable. It mentions Nixon's proposed 81 billion defense budget and describes prisoner of war accounts from Hanoi with three U.S. officers.
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Surrey
House
Ways and Means Committee
Hanoi
Huang Tung
Nhan Dan
Henry Kissinger
Washington
Huang
Vietnam
Kissinger
Nixon
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