Oddball Notes and Quirks From Around The World
Hal Boyle shares brief curiosities from Sweden to Japan, noting three weeks vacation law, a fish hospital, and a new GE Hardiman assist device. He mentions the Texas Barbed Wire Collectors, a dog kennel named Afghan Hounds of Grandeur, and shifts in banking toward women, plus trivia on money circulation and popcorn as a rising delight. The piece ends with Henry Thoreau’s remark on the value of letters.
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New York
Sweden
General Electric
Hardiman
Texas Barbed Wire Collectors Association
Japan
General Moetors
Car
Ling Yutang
United States
Henry Thoreau
Heat Wave Strains Atlantic City Bars As Ice Runs Out
During a long holiday heat wave Atlantic City endured 100 plus degree heat driving ice shortages for hotels and more than 200 bars and nightclubs. An employee at Rendez vous bar described customers leaving in frustration while staff tried to cope with high demand and rocky service scenarios.
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Atlantic City
Soviet Romanian truce breaks down at Bucharest talks
The Soviet bloc summit in Bucharest stalled as a breakdown in negotiations over control of the Warsaw Pact armies emerged. Brezhnev and Ceausescu led the remaining talks while other delegations departed. Moscow seeks centralized command, Romania pushes for greater small member influence.
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Bucharest
Romania
Red
Warsaw Pact
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Soviet Union
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Nicolai Ceausescu
Andrei A. Grechko
Microcircuits poised to remake consumer electronics
AP Business News reports engineers forecast tiny electronic circuits, smaller than a period, entering consumer products. Clock radios by October, phonographs and portable TVs by year end, tape recorders next year, with GE stating all consumer electronics will use microcircuits by 1970. Sales may rise from 130 million this year to 400 million by decade end. potential for electronic jewelry to replace traditional devices. Robert C. Wilson of GE predicts limitless possibilities for the new tech.
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AP Business
NEW York (Ap
Mets
Dodgers
James Bond
General Electric
Radio Corporation of America
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Hal Boyle
Rendezvous
U. S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
Kremlin
Paine
Pratt & Lambert
Nuzman Lumber
Sizzler
Peoples National Bank
Fey
Peoples National
Ottawa
Ottawa Herald
A.M. On
P.M
Ottawa Savings and Loan
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
Ottawa Savings and Loan Association
East 2Nd Street
F. R. Bennett
Wm. W. Wallace
Milo M. Hewitt
H. J. Henning
Dean Berlin
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