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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1971
Page
1
Boston University president Dr John X Silber urges performance reviews for faculty to prevent tenure from becoming a sinecure. He fears tenure may mask poor teaching and research and supports 5 10 15 year appointments while denying removal of tenured faculty.
Maryland delegates Lena K. Lee and Hilda Garden Boswell propose a state law for contracts that set a three year marriage with option to renew. The bill includes alimony, property settlements, and legal fees terms to ease amicable separation and encourage multiple marriages without heavy remainders from prior unions.
Nancy Klein, 23, a Houston lab tech, placed in solitary quarantine after needle exposure while handling moon dust samples from Apollo 14. She was isolating to shield astronauts and crew, with release anticipated alongside the Apollo crew.
Premier Golda Meir told a Tel Aviv meeting that Washington cannot pressure Israel into relinquishing three captured territories. She emphasized a secure Jewish majority and hinted limited refugee return. Nixon’s Middle East remarks drew mixed reaction from Israeli papers and Arab states. Al Ahram noted new elements in U.S. approach while Jordan praised minor border change language.
Patricia Mann and Jessie McBane a North Carolina State University student and a Watts Hospital nursing student planned marriage after Mann finished nursing studies. They were seen at a Valentine party Feb. 12 and vanished before midnight. A surveyor found their bodies bound to an oak tree between Durham and Hillsborough. Sheriff Knight said they died of strangulation with no clear motive.
Jerry Lew receives the 11th annual March of Dimes Man of the Year award at an 8.75 a plate New York fundraiser. James Stewart named Man of the Year by Harvard club. Carol Channing named Woman of the Year earlier. Actress Asty Maynor sues dd Byrnes for divorce in Los Angeles, seeks alimony for their six year old son.
Presque Isle Maine UPI Judge Julian W Turner fined his mother Mrs Marjorie Turner $15 on Thursday for driving without an inspection sticker. The hearing took place in the courtroom on the third floor of a former hospital the judge noted he was likely the only judge born in his own courtroom.
Kansas Attorney General Vern Miller led more than 150 law enforcement officers into Lawrence at 3 a.m. and within three hours 30 people aged 16 to 24 were booked on narcotics charges. Arrests occurred mainly in off campus rooming houses near the University of Kansas. Eleven arrestees were university students. Bond was set at 1000 for possession and 1500 for sales and possession. Arraignments began hours later as searches were conducted with warrants.
Washington (UPI) The Navy's new look under Adm Elmo Zumwalt faced backlash as sailors grew long hair beards and wore work clothes. New orders require neat hair not touching the collar and trimmed beards while dungarees are restricted to duty transit. The reforms known as Z Grams aimed to attract youth but prompted stricter dress rules and disciplinary actions.
Texan ranchers seek about 15000 cattle missing or dead after a severe blizzard in the Texas Panhandle. DPS helicopters and Ft Sill units airlift feed to starving and freezing animals amid massive snowdrifts and drifting debris.
Former Texas congressman George Bush was sworn as United Nations Ambassador in Washington. President Nixon voiced support for U N efforts, noting the world still faces problems while Lodge warned the UN prevents many more. Bush, 46, left Congress to run for Senate and lost to Lloyd Bentsen.
The death toll from the Mississippi Delta tornadoes rose to 102 as officials reported. Federal aid offices open to reduce red tape and speed relief to the hundreds left homeless in Louisiana and Mississippi after Sunday’s storms.
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