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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1970
Page
2
New York AP column depicts hell facing a New Year slump as sinners reform on Earth. Satan explains New Year resolutions will not curb eternal business, predicting a temporary recession and a surge in temptation sales as fiends brace for overtime.
Hollywood AP reports Allen Funt, creator of Candid Camera, produced a United Artists film titled What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? He uses nude and sexual scenarios to provoke reactions, aiming for humor and psychology. Funt describes funding under half a million dollars and notes the film cost about 85 000 to shoot.
A former South African cabinet minister Albert Hertzog was convicted for refusing to testify publicly before a government commission investigating the Bureau of State Security. He was fined 70 dollars, with the sentence suspended by Chief Magistrate A.J. Mowton.
Pittsburg Kan AP Ed O'Donnell general manager of KSEK announced the sale of KSEK Broadcasting Co a Stauffer Publications subsidiary to Great Plains Broadcasting Co Norman Okla subject to FCC approval formal application to be filed within 30 days Principal stockholders William S Morgan and Robert G Barry known in Oklahoma as the team that produces and handles University of Oklahoma football radiocasts
A sweeping view of 1960s business customer relations notes a widening gap as consumers pressed for accountability. It credits government regulation, rising consumer activism led by Ralph Nader, and broader industry reform as signs of a shifting marketplace. The piece questions whether gains in purchasing power matched price increases and whether business aimed to meet expectations with improved guarantees, servicing, and quality controls.
New currents rise in religion as the 1970s begin with mysticism and institutional revolt. A loose, mobile movement crosses denominational lines through campus courses, underground churches, encounter groups, coffeehouse ministries, and mystical practices. Youth seek sacred meaning beyond science, while overall church attendance and finances dip even as rebel ecumenism grows among laypeople.
A New Year's Day broadcast panorama described as an orgy of football as bowl games and TV combine to dominate viewing all day. The Pasadena Tournament of Roses parade grows more elaborate while networks push their shows, and viewers juggle channels to catch Sugar, Cotton, Rose and Orange Bowls, with other programs fading in appeal.
President Suharto's economic aide Maj. Gen. Surjo faced allegations of involvement in an embezzlement scheme totaling 711000 dollars. Singapore businessmen are named in the case over a 200 ton insecticide order from a Singapore firm for an Indonesian government company that never arrived.
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