Natural plant alcohol boosts crop yields says MSU study
Michigan State University scientists report a natural plant alcohol called triacontanal extracted from alfalfa hay could raise yields in 10 crops. Field tests show increases from 7 to 22 percent with average gains around 12 percent. The chemical is not a fertilizer and much more testing is needed before widespread use.
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Detroit doctors offer house calls for $40 service
Deborah Korash plans Suburban Detroit Housecall Physicians to provide in home medical visits for 40 dollars. She has lined up about 30 doctors, aiming to launch by December 1, inspired by an Aspen program. her fiance Dr Scott Geller will not be involved. The venture follows a rare trend of in home care, though physicians warn against risky calls and keep to proper patient criteria.
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Sinai Hospital
Geller
Aspen House
Australia
Police say Biko attacked guards before death in inquest
South African Maj. Harold Snyman testified that Steve Biko charged guards after release from naked confinement, throwing a chair and wrestling several officers. Autopsy showed extensive brain damage and kidney failure despite claims of restraint necessity.
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Pretoria
South Africa
UPI
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Maj
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Biko
Snyman
Martinus Prins
Manila hotel fire toll reaches 47 in Philippines
Rescuers pulled three more bodies from the Filipinas Hotel wreckage in Manila, raising the death toll to 47 as Typhoon Kim battered the city. Officials said many victims were foreign tourists, including an American and three Australians identified by the Philippine Red Cross. A Guam airline employee escaped with relatives. The fire spread amid widespread darkness and panic with several guests leaping to their deaths.
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Philppines
UPI
Philippines
Filipinas
Kim
Manila Bay
Philippine Red Cross
Kenneth Charles Eccleston
Riverdale
Ernie Salazar
Guam
Capote escorted off stage amid drunken remarks at Towson
Truman Capote tripped en route to the microphone before about 1,200 students at Towson State University. He was escorted off after babbling and muttering obscenities, with officials deeming the talk unsafe to continue. Capote had been paid 3,500 dollars and said he was a real alcoholic amid admissions of tranquilizer addiction.
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Truman Capote
Towson State University
Maryland
Capote
Towson, Md
UPI
Robert Roll
College News and Publications
Sober minister recounts monster encounter in forest
In Ocala Florida UP I reports Rev S L Whatley pastor of Fort McCoy Baptist Church says he stood eye to eye with a hair covered great creature for about 30 seconds while cutting wood in the Ocala National Forest. He describes a tall upright figure with a flat face dark hair and a flat nose. He notes he has been sober forty years.
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Ocala, Fla
Cleveland Desegregation Hearings Resume Today
Cleveland hearings on the preliminary desegregation plan resume before U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti. The parties met privately six hours to narrow parts of the proposal. The Ohio Board of Education joined Cleveland in opposing a court appointed deputy desegregation superintendent while supporting a September start. State board approved funding for buses to desegregate 363 buses serving about 36,000 students with transportation for 40 percent of high schoolers via RTA buses and trains.
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Cleveland
UPI
U.S
Frank J. Battisti
Daniel J. McCarthy
Ohio
NAACP
Ohio Board OF Education
Cleveland Board
McCarthy
Board of Education
State Board
Columbus
Paul Briggs
Briggs
Clark Gable and the Damn Controversy in Gone with the Wind
The debate centers on whether the expletive damn in Gone with the Wind was a vulgarism or an oath. Oxford English Dictionary guidance suggests rhetoric shaped by period norms, allowing Gable’s use within the film’s historic context.
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Clark Gable
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