Night Train To Leningrad Brings Frets Over Equality
Oakland travel agent Mrs. Edith Abouaf recalls a Moscow to Leningrad night train experience with three Russian engineers. She laughs at the disbelief of friends and family as she recounts the event during a London to Moscow trip.
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Leningrad
Edith Abouaf
Oakland
Calif
Moscow
Sid Dnavepoen
University of San Francisco
University of California At Riverside
Mrs. Abouaf
Japanese Taboos and a Night Train to Leningrad
The article contrasts Japanese superstitions with a traveler’s vivid account aboard an Intourist night train from Moscow to Leningrad. Mrs Abouaf recalls tense moments, cultural gaps, and surprising hospitality from three Russian engineers sharing a compartment.
Britain Faces Fall Test as Welfare State Under Fire
A London scene amid a national election preview shows Prime Minister Harold Wilson facing pressure with local Conservative gains, calls for reform, and a shift as Britain contends with devaluation, EU friction, and empire dissolution while weighing welfare state policies and foreign stances.
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Britain
Labor
Harold Wilson
Wilson
London
America
Ted Heath
Alec Douglas-Home
Commonwealth
European Common Market
Brussels
New Highway Maps Promote South Carolina 300th Anniversary
The South Carolina State Highway Department released its 1970 highway map free of charge for distribution nationwide. The map, carrying a Tricentennial theme, features 51 full color images of historic sites and a revised Primary Highway System with arterial routes for the state's ten largest urban areas. It measures about a quarter larger than prior maps and divides a 300 year timeline into government war and defense, agriculture, industry, education, arts, medicine, science, transport and religion.
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South Carolina
Brantlee Price
Newberry
Highway Department
Columbia
South Carolina State Highway Department
8.C
Senior Citizens May Events In Aiken Area
May activities include a council on aging meeting at St John s United Methodist Church bus trips for Golden Age Club picnic Silver Tea by the Senior Citizens Club and a Senior Citizens Sunday across Aiken area. The Cinema Theater offers reduced admission for 65 plus passes. Displays at Farmers and Merchants Bank Library and Health Department roving through outlying drug stores.
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Aiken Area
Council On
St. John’s United Methodist Church
Golden Age Club
Graniteville Senior Citizens Club
Senior Citizens Club
Aiken
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Aiken County Public Library
Aiken County Health Department
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Aiken County
SPCA
Banks Mill Road
McManaway
Copley News Service
Eileen Jackson
Yokohama
Japan
United States
Czechoslovakia
Intourist
Maer
Piccadilly Circus
Strand
Congress
Far East
Africa
Persian Gulf
South Africa
Rhodesia
Cuba
Greece
Europe
Frigidaire
Pk Ae
Skee
Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers’ Standards
Model Dan
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