Fao reports rising Far East food output slows doomsday fears
The FAO notes total food production in the Far East including China grows faster than population, making Asia the only developing region with per person output rising. Africa and the Middle East show little gain, Latin America stays level, and the green revolution is not yet global.
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Asia
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
FAO
Far East
China
Africa
Middle East
Latin America
Addeke H. Boerma
Netherlands
Tax credit changes ease business expansion push
The House Ways and Means Committee updated Nixon’s investment tax credit plan by setting a 7 percent writeoff for production facilities and making the 5 percent permanent credit more credible. Treasury Secretary Connally voiced mild disappointment but supported the shift. The move aims at long term stability, boosting equipment orders since April 1 and supporting vocational training amid high unemployment.
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House Ways and Means
Nixon
Treasury
John Connally
Kennedy
Draft extension passes after lengthy Senate wrangle
The Senate approved the draft extension by a 55 to 30 vote after a prolonged filibuster, supporting Nixon's plan to withdraw troops on a date certain contingent on prisoner releases. The measure sets transition to an all volunteer Army with $2.4 billion yearly pay, effective October 1, while Hanoi withholds prisoner releases.
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Senate
Nixon
Vietnam
Mike Mansfield
Paris
Hanoi
Maundy Thursday origins and meaning in brief
The term Maundy Thursday derives from Latin mandatum meaning commandment teaching Christ’s new command to love one another. The text notes barnacle larvae hitchhiking on ships and also attaching to whales turtles and even penguins.
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Christ
Man who buys shoes for wife faces fashion shock
In a humorous column by William L. Chaze from Atlanta, a man recounts his wife buying him brown side-zip boots and the social awkwardness of wearing them. He endures compliments at work while trying to return to his drab style and contemplates ditching the bellbottoms she bought.
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William L. Chaze
Associated Press
Atlanta, Ga
Harvey D. Thatcher
Potsdam
Robert Louis Stevenson
Magnetic Poles Defined By World Almanac Facts
The north magnetic pole is where magnetic force points downward and the south pole where it points upward, a definition noted by the World Almanac. The location shifts over time.
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Earth
Hunger vs Green Revolution Causes World Famine Debate
In Medellin a conference on the world food supply contrasts hunger with optimism over the Green Revolution. Officials note rising output from new seeds irrigation and fertilizers but warn technology alone cannot close the poverty gap.
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Latin America
United States
Developed World
Paddock Brothers
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
Kenya
East Africa
FAO
Colombia
Medellin
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
This Day in History September 30 1971
A compact history snapshot marking key events on September 30 across years. Notable entries include Nazi war crime convictions in 1946, the Columbia sailing in 1787, the first use of ether by a dentist in 1846, the Appleton hydroelectric plant in 1882, the US Army reporting 17 airplanes in operation in 1913, Eisenhower naming Warren chief justice in 1953, Nautilus commissioned in 1954, Chou En-lai’s 1961 claim of goodwill, and a 1969 note on Picture-telephone service in Pittsburgh.
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Associated Press
Nuernberg
Germany
Columbia
Boston
William Morton
United States
Appleton
Wis
U.S. Army
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gov
Earl Warren
California
U.S. Navy
Origin of the cocktail tale at Hall’s Corners Elmsford
A barmaid Betsy Flanagan at Hall's Corners Elmsford N Y is said to have created the first cocktail in 1776 by pouring a mixed drink and adding a feather as a decorative touch when a patron asked for those cocktails.
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Betsy Flanagan
Hall’s Corners
Elmsford
N.Y
Matrimony musings and love a world of quotes
A collage of quotes on marriage and romance from L M Boyd touches on men aging after marriage, women needing genius to sustain husbands, and nerves from amiable daily life. It cites Amram Scheinfeld and George R Bach on marriage while noting Elizabeths and cosmetic oddities in ancient Rome. The piece invites letters to L M Boyd for Pass It On.
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Bacon
Balzac
Disraeli
Mme. de Rieux
Amram Scheinfeld
George R. Bach
Elizabeth
Old
Rome
L.M Boyd
P.O
Fort Worth
Texas
Florida primary race tests Henry Jackson in Wallace shadow
Florida observers say a George Wallace bid could cripple Henry M. Jackson's strength in the Panhandle and beyond, potentially aiding Edmund Muskie. Lindsay other liberals show limited Florida taint but attract youth and national recognition, while McGovern's Florida setup remains thin beyond Dade County.
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Miami Beach
Nea
Henry M. Jackson
Edmund Muskie
Florida
Alabama
George Wallace
Wallace
Jackson
Panhandle
Muskie
New York
John Lindsay
John F. Seagge
West Virginia
Hubert Humphrey
Lindsay
George McGovern
Dade County
Miami
Birch Bayh
Indiana
David Kennedy
Fred Harris
Oklahoma
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Barnacles
Pecos Enterprise
Steve May
Manavine
O Ferrall
Paul
FRAN
Georgia Stroud Women's Editor
South Cedar Street
Pecos
Fatester West Terns Press
Associatigg
Boyle
By Gill Fox
Efy
U.S
Medellin Intercontinental Hotel
William and
Paul Paddock
Boerma
L.m.boyd
Pittsburgh
William Browne
Saint Theresa
Florence Nahtingale
Dorothea Dix
Jane Addams
Wiliam Lyon Phelps
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Bruce Biossat
Democrats
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