GM offers air bags or automatic seat belts as options
General Motors will offer air bags or automatic seat belts as options on new cars before federal mandates. Beginning with 1979 models, automatic seat belts will be available on three lines, and air bags on full sized cars starting with 1981 models. GM aims to let buyers express safety preferences while gathering field data.
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Edward S
Lechtzin
Transportation Department
Thomas A. Murphy
Murphy
Transportation
Brock Adams
Joan Claybrook
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Washington
Adams
Volkswagen
Ford
Scrap Backlog A National Tragedy Prompted By Massive Scrap
Washington UPI reports a 636 million ton backlog of ferrous scrap may meet U S demand for years, while 100 million tons rust away. Morton B Plant calls the stockpile a national tragedy and notes recovery rates range from 3 percent for containers to 99 percent for aircraft, with rail rails at about mid single digits.
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Washington
UPI
Morton B. Plant
Metal Scrap Research and Education Foundation
Robert R. Nathan
Elvis Presley wealth grows from memory after death
Elvis Presley may generate more wealth as his memory fuels record sales. Copies of the Aug. 17 Memphis report sold out and resold for over 200 dollars. Across the country, record shops report increased Elvis demand and prices for original 45 rpm records.
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United Press International
Memphis, Tenn
UPI
Elvis Presley
Presley
Memphis
Atlanta
Lance's Clean Bill Questioned By IRS
IRS investigators are told a Georgia bank examiner was steered to issue a clean bill of health for Bert Lance's Calhoun bank in 1976. The bank had prior overdrafts linked to Lance's campaign, and Tarleton ended restrictions days before Lance's nomination as OMB director.
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Washington
UPI
Internal Revenue Service
Comptroller of the Currency
Atlanta
Bert Lance
Calhoun
New York Times
Donald Tarleton
Ashley Lee
First National Bank of Calhoun
Bank
Lance
Lee
Tarleton
Carter
Office of Management and Budget
Times
Repot
Calhoun Bank
Senate
The
IRS
National Bank of Georgia
John G. Heimann
Comptroller’s
the Times
Jody Powell
Powell
John Moore
Waylon Jennings Held On Cocaine Charge In Nashville
Country star Waylon Jennings and his secretary Lori Evans were arrested after a package containing cocaine was received. Jennings, 40, was released on his own recognizance and had earlier been nominated in five major country music categories.
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United Press International
Nashville, Tenn
UPI
Waylon Jennings
Jennings
Lori Evans
Elvis Presley did not die of drug overdose says doctor
Dr George Nichopoulos told the Memphis Commercial Appeal Presley did not have a drug problem but had a history of accidental drug use. Presley died August 16 of heart failure with autopsy not yet complete and officials noting hypertension and cardiovascular disease as possible causes.
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Memphis, Tenn
API
Elvis Presley
George Nichopoulos
Memphis
Presley
Nichopoulos
Elvis
Lems
Shelby County
Jerry Francisco
Francisco
UPI
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