Engineer at Collins Radio quit over plant layoffs
David M. Hodgin, 43, an electronic engineer at Collins Radio Co. in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, says he was told to pick two workers for layoff but resigned himself instead. Hodgin, father of four, disclosed his action at a church service after learning 550 employees would lose their jobs. He plans to form a company based on human dignity and full participation.
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David M. Hodgin
Collins Radio Co
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Chilldren
Hodgin
First Christian
Ile Sail
Singing chipmunks creator Bagdasarian dies at 52
Armenian songwriter and television executive David Seville creator Bagdasarian died at his Beverly Hills home at age 52 from natural causes. He pioneered the Chipmunks singing act with Alvin Theodore and Simon and produced millions of records and merchandise. He survived by wife Armen and five sons and a daughter. Also reported: a Coast Guard rescue on Lake St Clair saved three teens skating near the Michigan shore. Edward F. Fisher, last survivor of the Fisher Body founders, died in Detroit. he rose to GM production chief and helped expand Fisher Body after its 1926 GM purchase.
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Noss Bagdasarian
Beverly Hills
Bagdasarian
Fresno
Hollywood
Alvin, Theodore
Simon
Furry Little
David Seville
William Sareyan
Armen
Coast Guard
Lake St. Clair
Michigan
John Jemnings
Havoki’ Ruck
Bruce Robb
Grosse Pointe Woods
Jennings
Canada
Walpole Island
Huck
Hanoi to brief allies before Nixon visit to China
North Vietnam plans a secret November meeting with Ha noi Viet Cong Pathet Lao and Cambodia’s Sihanouk allies to present a united military and political front before Nixon’s February trip to Peking and talks with Premier Chow Enlai.
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UPI
North Vietnam
Nixon
Peking
Hanoi
Viet Cong
Pathet Lao
Norodom Sihanouk
Cambodian National United Front
Sihanouk
Cambodia
China
Chow Enlai
Chine
Missile exchanges widen clash along Laos Vietnam border
U S and North Vietnamese air forces traded missiles near the Laos border as bombardment and air activity intensified. U S planes reportedly destroyed one missile site and a radar, while a second U S site was hit but not believed to be down. Ground fighting increased in South Vietnam with 20 attacks in the week, one American helicopter shot down and multiple injuries amid heavy B 52 raids in the central highlands.
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Toxlay
U.S. Command
U.S
Laos
North Vietnam
Baw Karki Pass
Demilitarized Zone
South Vietnam
da Nang
Ban Me Thuot
Highlands
Menth
Kontum City
Binh Dinh
Long Cheng
23 Charged in 293 Million Heroin Import Ring
A federal grand jury in New York charged 23 defendants, 2 Americans and 21 French nationals, with conspiring over two years to import and sell about 1,500 pounds of heroin valued at 293 million dollars. The case cites luxury cars as smuggling hideouts and notes several suspects in custody in New York and France.
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Wasiington
UPI
Justice Department
New York
Atty
John N. Mitchell
U.S. District Court
Manhattan
United
Lewis Cirillo
Bronx
John Astule
Cirillo
Miami
Astule
Mitchell
United States
France
Mercedes
Iberia orders three DC10s in 1970s fleet expansion
Iberia Linea Aerea de Espana today announced an order valued above 60 million for three McDonnell Douglas DC10 wide body tri jets to be delivered from the Long Beach plant in 1973 with options on five more. First delivery planned for March 1978 and two more in May 1978, powering Atlantic routes.
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Iberia Air Lines of
Spain
Long Beach
Iberia
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Bullock's
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