Company president pays staff for quitting smoking at Spring Grove plant
Intermade Inc. boss Jim Miller offered a yearlong betting window to his 700 employees in Spring Grove IL. Fifty participants signed affidavits that they quit. 25 reached the year. Miller paid 2815 to winners and 1000 to be split. About $700 from bets by those who failed went to the American Cancer Society.
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Intermade Inc
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The
American Cancer Society
Graham says moral awakening needed not censorship
Billy Graham argues censorship fails to stop pornography and urges a moral spiritual awakening. He opposes censorship, predicts producers will change voluntarily, and notes the issue persists after Larry Flynt's case. Also quoted on supply demand in pornography and mannequin rental prices by Jack Mueller of Display House Spokane.
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Billy Graham
Skeads Graham
4 Today
Crusade Today
Cincinnati
Justter Magazine
Larry Flynt
Jack Mueller
Mueller
Spokane
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Polanski ordered to explain Munich party photo to judge
Roman Polanski must tell a Santa Monica judge why he was photographed partying in a Munich beer hall while claiming to work on a Tahiti film. His lawyer says Polanski will testify that he was in Munich on business and discussing film distribution, after being granted special permission to finish Hurricane rather than undergo psychiatric testing. Ford: after 1978 elections he will decide on presidential run. comments in New Jersey during campaign for Bateman.
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Roman Polanski
Santa Monica
Munich
Tahiti
Polanski
Douglas Dalton
Ford
New Jersey
Raymond H. Bateman
Sammy Davis to go smoke free for one day on Nov 17
Sammy Davis says he will quit his t no pack a day cigarette habit for one day on November 17 as part of the American Cancer Society Great American Smokeout. He admits a fruit bowl of cigarettes sits on his dressing-room table and his pledge comes amid broader anti smoking efforts.
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Sammy Davis
Davis
American Cancer Society
Elvis Presley death ruled from heart disease not drugs
Memphis medical examiner Dr. Jerry Francisco said Elvis Presley died August 16 from hypertensive heart disease with coronary artery disease as a contributing factor. He stated toxicology found no illicit drugs and the medications present were prescription.
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Tenn
Elvis Presley
Jerry Francisco
Eric Muirhead
Baptist Hospital
Elvis Pressey
Francisco
Pressey
Envoy to South Africa recalled amid crackdown protests
The United States recalls Ambassador Bowdler to Washington for consultations over South Africa’s ban on 18 black groups and detention of more than 40 Black leaders. Secretary Vance ordered the move as Vorster dismisses U.S. policy reviews as irrelevant amid arrests and newspaper bans.
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State Department
William Bawdler
South Africa
Carter
John Vorster
Bawdler
Cyrus Vance
Bowdler
Vorster
Johannesburg
United States
Freed hostages recall ordeal on Frontier jet hijack
Five men and 18 hostages were released after a Frontier Airlines hijacking from Grand Island to Atlanta. Hostages described a tense nine hour ground wait in Atlanta with hijacker Thomas Michael Nannan who, after releasing the last group, killed himself. Passengers recalled no threats by Nannan and spoke of a calm demeanor despite the crisis.
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Liqier
David Jelinek
Grand Island
Neb
Jelinek
Frontier Airlines
Atlanta
Delta Air Lines
Donald
Thomas Michael Nannan
al Strong
Anyy
Michalek
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