Public Interest Spotlight on HEW in Student Loan Scandal
Texas Attorney General John L Hill leads a probe into federally guaranteed student loans alleging HEW complicity in a nationwide fraud. The piece cites banks and private for profit schools, with calls for tougher audits, penalties, and personal liability for officials.
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Austin
Tex
John L. Hill
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Texas
Congress
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Senate
Hill
U.S Office of Education
Advance Schools, Inc
Texas Attorey General's Office
Dallas
U.S
Washington Hill
Monopoly battle over who created the game
California professor Ralph Anstach, creator of Anti-Monopoly, challenges Parker Brothers claiming Monopoly was not Darrow's sole invention. He alleges origins trace to Elizabeth Magie in 1904 and to Atlantic City Friends School teachers, with trials slated to test trademark ownership.
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California
Anstad
Parker Brothers
Amstad
Charles Darrow
Philadelphia
Monopoly Board
Darrow
Atlantic City
Anstach
San Francisco State University
Dar- Ton
Elizabeth Magie
Virginia
Finance
Indianapolis
Hich
Rainer Barton
Berkeley
Sweet smell of success fuels Olfactory Corp rise
Fred Block, a former flower child turned 30, holds a sample of incense that earned Olfactory Corp over 2 million dollars last year. He began the firm in 1967, marking a long journey from its early days.
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Fred Block
Olfactory Corp
Gasoline trees proposed to solve fuel worries by chemist
Nobel laureate Melvin Calvin urged planting experimental gasoline trees in arid Southern California to produce fuel from Euphorbia latex. He cited potential yields of about 25 barrels per acre annually, noting the need to reduce hydrocarbon molecular weight from near one million to around 50,000. He discussed milkweed and rubber tree analogs and methods to remove water from hydrocarbon-rich milk.
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San Francisco
UPI
Melvin Calvin
California
Calvin
American Chemical Society
University of California
United States
Immortals in Space Could Shape Humanity’s Future
Boston reports on Dr. Frank Drake proposing that immortals in the cosmos may hold the key to humanity’s destiny. He suggests immortal beings would seek safety, avoid interplanetary risks, and likely spread their immortality to developing nations, increasing signals detectable by our sensors.
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Boston
Jules Verne
H.G. Weiss
Frank Drake
National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center
Cornell University
Technology Review
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Drake
Arecibo
Puerto Rico
CB radios seen as long term safety device and market
Los Angeles reports Pathoom Inc president Thomas cites a growing citizen band craze and a projected FCC expansion of airwave channels in January 1977. He envisions CB sets becoming universal safety tools for motorists, emergency aid, and weather updates, with millions already in use and six million licensed operators.
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Los Angeles
UPN
Witham
Thomas
Federal Communications Commission
United States
Metal man built from Detroit Forge Plant parts in salute
Joanne Kowal tunes a metal figure dubbed Mr. Scrap built from about 500 original equipment and service parts at Chevrolet's Detroit Forge Plant, a creation by plant workers decorating a Chinese hat from a rear end differential.
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Chevrolet
Detroit
Joanne Kowal
Creative commute turns travel time into learning
Readers can repurpose daily drives into learning sessions with educational tapes. Vendors offer series on motivation, mood control, literature, and language study. Commuters can also listen to taped prose, poetry, or author discussions to expand knowledge without extra cost.
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Learning Dynamics
Boston
New Rochelle
N. Y
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