Mexico's Atomic Energy Drive Under Mexican Direction
Editor Gobind Behari Lal tours the Mexican Atomic Energy Commission near Mexico City. He observes the Triga Mark III reactor, its uses in cancer treatment and research, and the Van De Graff accelerator. Dr Amada and Dr Mazzari outline plans for power production in six years as Mexican universities expand physics research led by Moshinsky. The piece notes about 600 physics graduates and growing Latin American prominence.
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Gobind Behari Lal
Mexico
Gobind Beharilal
Pecos
Mexico City
Mexican Atomic Energy Commission
Anulfo Morales Amada
University of Michigan
General Atomics
San Diego
Calif
Amada
Marco Mazzari
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
van de Graff
Mazzari
Mexico City General Hospital
Science Department
University of Mexico, I
Marcos Moshinsky
Physical Society
Princeton University
Albert Einstein
Bertrand Russell
Moshinsky
Latin America
University of Mexico
Church School Aid Needs Are Studied
A look at the improving outlook for church run schools amid fiscal strain. States adopt or weigh aid measures including secular services and salary supplements, with many more considering auxiliary support and transportation aid. The Nixon commission and governors push for relief to prevent collapse of parochial education.
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Michigan
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Rhode Island
Iowa
Wisconsin
Maryland
Linois
Richard Ogilvie
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Nixon
Polly's Pointers Repairing Holes Left by Stitches
Readers discuss methods to mend fabric after seam alterations. Techniques include threading back stitches with a fine needle, dampening with vinegar or water and brushing, using an ice cream stick to scrape stitching, or adding a braid from underarm to hem to cover let out stitches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polly
New York
Life Inside Danbury Prison A Reporter’s 10 Day Visit
Eugene J. Brown details rehabilitation efforts at the Danbury federal prison under Warden Kenton. Inmates describe frustrations with confinement and the need for outside life, while programs push job training, education, and work release. Therapy groups with a prison psychiatrist illustrate ongoing treatment for addicts and aim to reduce recidivism.
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Eugene J. Brown
Danbury
Conn
Brown
Ottaway News Service
Danbury News-Times
Danbury, Conn
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Frank Kenton
Federal Prison
D. A
Kenton
Margaret Lindner
Agnew's Hometown No Dissenters in Gargalianoli Greece
In Gargalianoli Greece a conservative town of 7000 locals show loyalty to government. Spiro Agnew’s family roots are here and a town hall oil painting honors him while a cousin recalls his possible visit. The town honors tradition with strict dress and behavior norms and a new high school built in 1939.
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Gargalianoli
Greece
Spiro T. Agnew
Spiro Anagnostopoulos
Theofrastos Anagnostopoulos
Theofrastos
United States
Gargalianou
Angew
Peloponnesus
George Papadopoulos
Dionysios Panagopoulos
Agnew
Today In History May 18 1970 Associated Press
On May 18 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of France. In 1860 Chicago Republicans nominated Lincoln for president. The Civil War siege of Vicksburg began in 1863 and The Hague hosted an international peace conference in 1899. TVA creation occurred in 1933 and Monte Cassino fell in 1944. UN HQ moved to Manhattan in 1951. The Soviet Union sought a UN Security Council meeting over U S reconnaissance flights. Queen Elizabeth II visited West Germany in 1955. Apollo 10 astronauts were launched in 1969 to orbit the moon.
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Associated Press
Napoleon Bonaparte
France
Chicago
Abraham Lincoln
Vicksburg
Miss
Hague
Netherlands
Monte Cassino
United Nations
Lake Success
N. Y
Manhattan
Soviet Union
U. N. Security Council
U. S
Russia
West Germany
Germany
Norwegian carpenter builds world spinning robots for export
Ole Molaug, a Norwegian who started in his father's carpentry shop, created an electronically controlled robot for painting bathtubs. After early funding troubles and hours of work, the device moved from factory use to public sale with a world waiting list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arvid Byrne
Associated Press
OSLO
Ole Molaug
Norway
Molaug
Boyd
Traufa Nils
Molan
Trallia
Farmers See Largest U S Food-Dollar Share In 15 Years
AP reporting from Washington notes the Agriculture Department says farmers captured 41 cents of every consumer food dollar in January through March 1970, the highest rate since 1955. Meantime FCA announced farm credit investment bonds for farmers and system members. Watermelon supplies for late spring are down 11 percent year over year with Florida marketing expected to rise and California harvest near.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Farm Credit Administration
Federal Land Bank and Production Credit Associations
E. A. Jaenke
FCA
Florida
California
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Robert L. Watson, Jr
Austin
Texas State Historical Survey Committee
Barney Hubbs
Watson
Sleeves County Historical Survey Committee
Harold Lindley
Science
George W. Cornell
By Polly Cramer
Lucille
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
By Philip Dopoulos
Goodyear
U.S
Don Kendall
Jaenke
M.R. Roger
Box
Big Spring
Texas
Jim Brown
George Kennedy
Fredric March
Panavision
Metrocolor
Rod Steiger
Richard Burton
Oscar Beck
Donald J. Shields
Beltone Hearing Service
Beltone
EL Paso
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