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Whether or not the various periodicals involved in the printing of articles by Charles Hansen and Howard Morland are guilty of disseminating classified information on the hydrogen bomb [Oct. 1], it would certainly seem possible to convict them of publishing obscene material. Surely nuclear holocaust and the means of bringing it about are without redeeming social value. Making such information public can serve no positive purpose...
...dive left investors with some $55 billion in paper losses and sent the Dow Jones industrial average plunging a total of 58.62 points to a week's close of 838.99. In terms of points, that was the Dow's second steepest one-week decline ever; during the week of Oct. 16, 1978, when prices were hammered by news of a sharply falling dollar abroad and worsening inflation at home, the Dow sank by a half point more, but on a much smaller volume of trading. The number of shares that changed hands last week, some 250 million, was the largest...
...presenting a "final" constitutional proposal: it guarantees 20% of the parliamentary seats to Rhodesia's white minority of 212,000, but strips it of its effective control of the military, judiciary and civil service. While avoiding the word ultimatum, Carrington insisted on the accord of both parties by Oct...
...Oct. 21 a crowd of scientists, industrialists and other celebrities will gather amid the historic buildings at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Mich., to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Edison's banishment of darkness. In Edison's laboratory-disassembled in Menlo Park, N.J., by his good friend Henry Ford, then crated and shipped to Dearborn along with seven railroad cars full of the clay soil on which it sat-the audience will watch a re-enactment of the scene. Madeline Edison Sloane, the inventor's great-granddaughter, will throw the switch that opened...
Above all, Edison invented the first practical electric light, and a power-distribution system that put it cheaply into every home. Like much else about Edison, the precise date is in dispute, but the inventor himself remembered Oct. 21, 1879, as the day on which he began the test of the first successful light bulb...