Rent-a-fax opens new speed for writers in 1975
A Tucson columnist describes renting a compact fax machine by Exxon to transmit his column and receive sources quickly. He notes no installation, portable use, and hope for rapid, paperless communication with New York, Chicago, and beyond, as a shift in media workflow.
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Stewart Warner
The Fax Takes a Tremendous Leap Toward Homes
Sylvia Porter explains how $10 a month enables plugging a fax into ordinary outlets with standard 84 by 11 inch paper for sending and receiving. The system requires a phone call, a cradle placement, and button sequences to transmit copies to distant offices, signaling a move from business use to home adoption as prices fall.
The Fax Machine Dream of Faster Letters and Health Links
The article envisions fax machines duplicating letters at offices and backing up communications. It imagines branches and secretaries transmitting important papers to out of town managers. It also foresees medical uses for sharing cardiograms and a postal service network to speed correspondence, all while the author dreams of reducing a golf handicap.
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Elizabeth Taylor Portrays Death as Favorite Topic
Pauline Stone quotes Laurence Harvey’s widow saying Elizabeth Taylor often dwells on death, calling it her favorite subject after diamonds. The remark appears in Miss Stone's memoir One Tear Is Enough My Life with Laurence Harvey. Taylor, a friend, visited Harvey before his death from cancer last November.
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Nuclear stockpile grows threaten world warns SIPRI
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute says global arms budget reached 210 billion dollars in 1974 despite NATO and Warsaw Pact cuts. Frank Barnaby warns continued nuclear stockpiling risks imminent world destruction as major weapon trade to third world rises 40 percent from 1973 to 1974. By 1980 plutonium stockpiles could reach 770000 pounds with 20 nations able to produce detonators. over 30 by 1980.
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National unit elects Tucsonians
Two Tucson Public Safety officers were elected to NASIPO posts. Mark Pettit, senior public information officer at Pima County Sheriff's Office, was chosen president. Sgt. Robert Moreland, Tucson Police Department Community Resources Office, was named regional director for Southwestern states. The vote followed a three day Milwaukee seminar.
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Portraits of Mao rise in Manila China town scene
New portraits of Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung are being displayed in Manila's Chinatown following the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the Philippines.
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Mistress’s fake kidnap tale shocks Rome
Giuseppe Bove returning from Boston claimed his wife held him for ransom after a supposed 30 million lire withdrawal. He later confessed the plot to hide his American mistress who vanished with the funds, while Italian police note rising kidnap schemes.
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Preparation H offers relief for hemorrhoid itching and swelling
An exclusive formula soothes burning pain from hemorrhoidal inflammation and infection. Tests in New York City Washington DC and a Midwestern Medical Center show prompt temporary relief and swelling reduction. Marketed as Preparation H in ointment or suppository form with lubricating soothing action.
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