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Approval of a plant stress and water conservation lab was granted late Friday by the U.S. Senate, according to Senator Lloyd Bentsen’s agricultural assistant, Marty Clayton.
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Reduced long distance telephone rates for most evening station-to-station calls after 9 p.m. within Texas will be introduced by Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. June 15, John Whitcomb, division manager of the company, had announced.
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