Night shoppers fill Columbia stores as hours expand
Columbia stores report a shift to after six pm buying with managers at K Mart and Appliance and TV Center noting half or more sales occur post 6 pm. Burnside Dodge observes daytime peak while A and P sees limited Friday night business and Aileys Quick Check Market reports 30 to 35 percent of weekly sales at night.
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Columbia
South Carolina
A. C. Landis
K Mart
Kerns
Landis
Jake Jacobs
Burnside Dodge
Trenholm
Ailey
Aile’s
Christmas Frigid Divide Splits Berlin Across Wall
In Berlin, Christmas 1965 arrives with a cold mood as East Germany bars most West Berliners from visiting loved ones across the wall. Only about 7,000 hardship passes monthly and roughly 50,000 West German visitors are allowed to East Berlin, while West Berliners largely cannot travel West to see relatives. A 9 year old West Berlin patient notes the daily impact, with his 12 year old brother in an East Berlin hospital.
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Berlin
East Berlin
Walter Ulbricht
Wall
West
Top Officials Back Dixie View On School Law
Nixon administration officials align with southern critics of federal action on northern and western school segregation. They cite lack of Supreme Court mandate and congressional discouragement as reasons federal steps have been limited. Panetta argues de facto spans masks de jure bias, while Finch notes de facto segregation remains unchallenged without a clear court ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nixon
Supreme Court
Congress
Leon E. Panetta
Office For Civil Rights
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
South
Panetta
HEW
Robert H. Finch
John Stennis
D-Miss
Finch
High Court
Congress Clears Spending Authority Amid Civil Rights Clash
The 39 to 29 roll call secures continued appropriations for Health Education and Welfare, Labor, and foreign aid, avoiding payroll gaps for three agencies. The Philadelphia plan aims to boost minority employment on construction contracts, though Comptroller Staats deems it illegal. the Senate retreat delays a court ruling while projects continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Congress
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Department of Labor
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Nixon
Spiro T. Agnew
Capitol
Philadelphia
Elmer B. Staats
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Local Shops Highlight Gift Ideas and Prices
A friend recalls Fulmer's fruit baskets starting at $5.00 while Cloud Seven Country Store showcases glazed mugs jewelry and stationery. Elliott Office Supply lists scented candles 25 to 40 cents each and Photocraft Camera delivers an electric slide sorter for Europe slides.
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Cloud Seven Country
Elliott Office Supply
Europe
Photocraft Camera Company
Laurens Street
S.W
RX Toys
Movies Have Gone Too Far Says Former Glamour Queen
Virginia Mayo, star of the 1940s and 50s, criticizes modern film as too explicit and immature. She recalls she often wore modest coverings in bath scenes, notes a decline in talent, and cites Gone With the Wind as better entertainment. Mayo, now in theater, questions audience demand for explicit content and defends earlier, higher quality productions.
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Miss Mayo
Virginia Jones
St. Louis
Sam Goldwyn
Hollywood
Goldwyn
Warner Bros
Gone With the Wind
Bob
Alice
Joe
Ethel
Calcutta
Bette Davis
Global Political Battle Takes On A New Look In 70s
AP Special Correspondent describes a shifting Cold War landscape with shared global challenges. New realities emerge as East West tensions persist yet common goals arise, from Vietnam to European security and arms control. Moscow signals toward Bonn. Washington toward Beijing.
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Vietnam
Asia
China- Russia
Middle East
Europe
Germany
European
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
Rich Texas Santa Arrives In Bangkok
Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot lands in Bangkok amid plans to deliver two plane loads of Christmas presents to about 1,400 U S prisoners of war in North Vietnam. He aims to meet officials in Laos or Cambodia to advance a 180000 pound aid shipment.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Texas
H. Ross Perot
North Vietnam
U.S
Perot
Hong Kong
Dallas
Tex
Laos
Cambodia
Moscow
Paris
United States
Vietnam
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Baxter Kerns
Five Points
Jacobs
A and P
G. F. Streblow
Rose's Stores, Inc
B. L. Ross
Aiken Roses
E. R. Bryant
McManaway
Dixie
North
Aiken
Fulmer’s
Rogers Tire & Battery Service
Richland Avenue, W
Chesterfield Street
Barnwell Avenue
Bertha P. Williams
Union Street
Aiken Lions Club
Salvation Army
Lions
Virginia Mayo
Fort Utah
Mayo
Las Vegas
Thunderbird Hotel
Thousand Oaks
Calif
Michael O'Shea
Mary Catherine
Eastern
Western Europe
Atlantic
Soviet Union
West Germany
Bonn
China
Peking
Santa
Vientiane
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