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Died. George Oliver Curme Jr., 87, pioneering industrial chemist; in Oak Bluffs, Mass. In 1914, Iowa-born Curme began synthesizing a wide variety of chemicals from hydrocarbons. The chemicals-which included industrial solvents, ethyl alcohol, acetylene for welding, ethylene glycol for antifreeze, and synthetic rubber-spawned entire new industries. In 1944 Union Carbide-which profitably developed his major discoveries-named him vice president in charge of chemical research...
Aghast Officials. The gang floated its swag back through the sewers and to the waiting vans in a collapsible rubber boat and on a raft made of inner tubes. A note that the industrious looters left behind, signed with an inverted peace symbol, said simply: "No gunplay, no violence, no hate...
Although the growth of personal income also slowed during June, partly as a result of the rubber workers' strike, the new numbers did not shake the Ford Administration's cheery view of the recovery. During the course of its midyear budget review, the Administration made official its widely reported new estimates for the year. Key predictions: real G.N.P. for all 1976 will go up 6.8%, prices in December will be only 5.3% higher than in December 1975, and unemployment may drop below 7% by year's end (it rose slightly in June, to 7.5%). All these figures...
...that lately has been turning out more peaceful, and no more Inflationary, than might have been expected. It started badly: the Teamsters in April settled a three-day strike with a contract that might raise wages and benefits a high 33% over the next three years. Some 60,000 rubber workers hit the bricks in late April and are still out; an eventual settlement is bound to be costly...
...archives she wrote me that she came across a bit of a problem with documents and the archivist: "Pretty soon the man comes tottering back wiping cobwebs off a sort of cardboard box with hinges. Inside are piles of documents from the 1400s coated with dust and encased in rubber bands, bits of strings, etc. As you look through them the edges fall off--the archivist says 'eh beh' (so?) and shrugs. I couldn't get them all back in the cardboard box so he came and helped, that is, he jammed them all in and jammed the cover...