Editorial Experience Pays Off In Academic Credit
The article notes a surge in granting college credit for nontraditional learning. Programs like CLEP, Regents External Degrees, CAEL and various industry and civic courses now rewards knowledge gained outside classroom study. Workers and citizens form a growing pool earning credits and degrees without full-time formal education.
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University of New York
CAEL
Educational Testing Service
Princeton
N. J
Warren Willingham
Cabin pressure failure forces jet to make emergency landing
MILWAUKEE AP A Capitol Airways charter jet depressurized from 92000 feet en route from Hawaii to Oakland. The craft descended to 16000 feet after the event. The Sullivan family of Mequon described the scare with oxygen masks deployed as passengers remained mostly calm amid the sudden plunge.
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Milwaukee
Hebert Sullivan
Mequon
Oakland
Calif
Capitol Airways
Hawaii
Annual alien registration drive under way in area
District director David V. Vandersall of the Immigration and Naturalization Service announced that the annual address report program is under way. Reports are required by law and may carry serious consequences for noncompliance. Forms are available at post offices and immigration offices and must be stamped and mailed or dropped in a mailbox. INS staff will be available in all offices to answer questions on immigration matters.
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David V. Vandersall
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Vandersall
Immigration and Naturalization
Kuhlman Undergoes Open Heart Surgery
Kath yen Kuhlman internationally known miracle healer was reported in satisfactory condition after mitral valve replacement in a Falssa Oklahoma hospital. Longtime friend Tink Wilkerson said the operation occurred Sunday. Kuhlman had been in Los Angeles hospital since late November and traveled to Falssa for surgery amid her claim she is an instrument of God not a healer.
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Falsa
Okla
Kathyen Kuhlman
Tink Wilkerson
Miss Kuhlman
Wilkerson
Passengers Aboard Capital Flight Depressurize En Route to Chicago
Ten travelers were treated at two Oakland area hospitals for nausea headaches and earaches after sudden cabin depressurization on a Capital flight bound for Chicago. FAA investigations focus on a burst water line that allegedly leaked onto a pressure valve and froze. Passengers were released in time for the flight’s final leg.
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Oakland Area
Chicago
Bob Faerber
Capital
Federal Aviation Administration
Sullivan
Farewell to 1975 by James Reston
Washington reflects on 1975 as a year of tidy ups, inflation, and unrest with limited political vision. It notes the Douglas resignation, Watergate convictions, international shifts, and cautious progress from Helsinki to Sinai and Suez while democracy faced pressure and doubt.
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New York Times News Service
Washington
Vietnam
Stephen Vincent Benet
William C. Douglas
Supreme Court of the United States
High Bench
Bangladesh
Chad
India
Nehru
Free Nations
Middle East
Sinai
Suez Canal
United States
Canada
Europe
Soviet Union
Helsinki
Galesburg votes reject school tax hike amid cuts
In Galesburg District 205 voters rejected a 35 cent educational fund tax hike 5410 to 5129, after Oct referendum failed. Buckley Loda district approved a levy increase from 1.60 to 2.20 per hundred, citing 81000 debt and monthly borrowing needs to avoid further cuts.
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Associated Press
Galesburg
Buckley-Loda
Galesborg
Illinois
Buckley
Loda
Thomas Vaughn
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