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...organizations: environmentalists like the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and Mobilization for Survival, antiwar groups like the War Resisters League, consumer groups like Ralph Nader's Public Interest Research Group, and economic activists like Tom Hayden's Campaign for Economic Democracy and William Winpisinger's Machinist's Union. Says Friends of the Earth mid-Atlantic Representative Lorna Salzman: "What we have here is a grass roots movement, one that includes students, farmers, engineers and the middle class." Noticeably lacking, however, have been the poor and minorities...
...factor in the election, however, may turn out to be the X chromosome. Will Margaret Thatcher lose votes because she is a woman? In Leicester, Button Machinist Betty Poynton confessed, after Thatcher's visit to her shop floor: "I don't fancy a woman as Prime Minister. It's a fellow's job." Others may well agree. Thatcher, however, thinks her sex may be an advantage. "There's an air of excitement," she says, "about the possibility that we're going to have a change of this kind." Later, in a mood of introspection...
DIED. George G. Blaisdell, 83, founder of the cigarette-lighter company from which he received his nickname, "Mr. Zippo"; in Miami Beach. An oilman, Blaisdell noticed a wealthy friend using a cheap, efficient Austrian cigarette lighter and realized that a demand existed for such a gadget. Blaisdell, a trained machinist, marketed his own windproof model on which he gave a lifetime guarantee and, persevering through several years of poor sales, became enormously successful during and after World...
...spokesman said last night the indictment alleges that Machinist and Dipietro sold four of the paintings on October 19, 1976 at Machinist's home...
Richard Bates, special agent in charge of the Boston office of the FBI, said in a statement that Dipietro was arrested yesterday and held on $7500 bond. Maggio surrendered yesterday, and Machinist plans to surrender today, Bates added...