Conservatives Led Revolution, Expert Says
Dr. John Schutz of USC argues the Massachusetts leaders of the American Revolution were older, conservative figures. He analyzed 2 200 leaders from 1725 to 1776, noting they sought to preserve heritage and home rule against English radicalism, with new republican ideas only emerging as the conflict began.
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Los Angeles
John Schutz
University of Southern California
Massachusetts
Schutz
Harvard
UCLA
Britain
Ohio House and Senate move three Rhodes plans for floor vote
Ohio's Democratic led General Assembly pushed three of Governor Rhodes four economic recovery proposals toward floor votes with a Wednesday deadline to place them on the June primary ballot. The House committee approved a 2.5 billion public works bond and a sales tax rise to 4.7 percent while AFLCIO opposition mounts.
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UPI
General Assembly
James
Rhodes
Ohio
Senate
Oliver Ocasek
Akron
Ocasek
House
Ways and Means
Afl-Cio
Republi
Can
Army foresees Great Lakes as nation’s fourth seacoast
Brig. Gen. Walter C. Bachus of the Army Corps of Engineers said year round navigation of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway could make the region a fourth seacoast by the early 1980s. The Winter Navigation Board will study tech options including bubbler systems buoys booms and ice prediction to keep lakes open. Congress is expected to fund anti ice measures this decade though Canadian ice clearance on the Seaway may delay progress.
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Lansing
Mich
Congress
Bachus
Great Lakes
Bacchus
St. Lawrence Seaway
Canada
U.S. marriage rate falls in 1974 while divorces rise
Government data show 1974 marriages totaling 2,223,040, a 2.4 percent drop from 1973 and a 3.7 percent decline in the marriage rate to 10.5 per 1,000 people. Divorces reached 970,000, up 6.2 percent from 1973, with a record divorce rate of 4.4 per 1,000. Fertility dipped slightly to 68.4 births per 1,000 women, the slowest decline since 1957.
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Washington
U.S
National Center For Health Statistics
Center
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
West South Central
Texas
Arkansas
Missouri
New Jersey
Ohio
Vermont
Wisconsin
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