Congress Keeps Pacing Work Amid Debates and Reforms
Washington Window notes Rep Edward Koch says protests cannot halt Congress which continues to push major actions since January 21. Highlights include a 10 percent Social Security raise retroactive to January, a draft bill and pay raises, welfare reform efforts, 150000 public service jobs funded, and continued public works and supersonic transport debates.
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Tribute to Clarke as Smith Praises Ricks College Leader
Joseph Fielding Smith commends retiring Ricks College president John L Clarke during a May graduation ceremony in Rexburg Idaho. Clarke retires after 27 years at the Mormon junior college to lead the LDS Church New England Mission.
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Dollar Crisis Hits London Foreign Exchange Floor
In Barclays London room the dollar flagging amid crisis as dealers race to swap dollars for marks and francs. Frank A. Russell, Barclays chief dealer, says confidence in the dollar wanes as U.S. spending abroad fuels a growing foreign payment imbalance.
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France
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Pakistan
America
Naturalist Dr. Macan wins NSF fellowship at ISU
Dr Thomas T Macan 61 deputy director of the Freshwater Biological Association has received a $7630 National Science Foundation fellowship to Idaho State University to lecture and conduct research January through June 1972 He is an English native and honorary lecturer at the University of Lancaster since 1966 and serves as vice president of the International Limnology Association.
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U.S
Idaho State University
G. Wayne Minshall
ISU
Louis Armstrong requests cash for children instead of flowers
Jazz legend Louis Armstrong, hospitalized in New York for a heart condition, asks fans to donate cash to Milne's Bay Home in New Orleans or the New York Foundling Home or any day care center, saying he loves kids more than flowers. The Beth Israel Medical Center spokesman confirmed the appeal.
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New Orleans
New York Foundling Home
Family endures says sociologist at Washington State University
Washington State University hosted sociologist Reuben Hill who argued the family, in some form, will endure despite modern critique. He noted high US marriage rates, rising birth rate after a decade of decline, and that affluence adds stress while enabling more family experimentation and adaptation.
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Wash
Washington State University
Reuben Hill
International Sociological Society
United States
WSU
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Child and Family Studies
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Family Study Center
University of Minnesota
Plane Crash Kills 12 in Coolidge Arizona
In Coolidge Arizona an Apache Airlines DeHavilland Dove with 12 aboard crashed into a cotton field during an emergency landing attempt. Eyewitness Ramon Flores reported the aircraft was coughing and sputtering at about 200 feet before striking the field 300 feet from the intended landing site. Pilot Ted Huntington had taken off from Tucson about 20 minutes earlier.
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Coolidge
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