Normandie fire recalls amid wartime salvage tale
UPI recounts the 1942 Normandie disaster as it was refloated and later scrapped, noting the blaze caused by an acetylene torch, one death, and hundreds injured. It traces delays, Navy oversight, and eventual sale for scrap, while mentioning Livingston County jail pursuit and a separate lighted city milestone in De Kalb? No.
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Mansfield Choice Backed By Kennedy
Senator Mike Mansfield heads toward Florida with Democratic leadership backing and a presidential endorsement shaping his forthcoming promotion. The trip follows Kennedy era support and signals strong party alignment ahead of critical votes.
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Sargent and wife tied to Florida escape bid caught
Read as Thomas Sargent and Brenda Ann Sargent of Highland Park faced a restraining search after a pistol linked incident near Kennedy's Florida visit. The case involved U.S. politics, jail security, and aTrans-American Unified legal dispute plus tax cut debates with economist Paul Samuelson.
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Kennedy
Florida
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Elshart
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Andi
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Howell
John
Vonnie Pace
Royal Oak
Sargent
Lyndon B. Johnson
Woman Thinks Tree Most Beautiful
Pittsburgh report recalls a Christmas tree Mrs. Leah Grubbs calls as beautiful as Rockefeller Center’s with a handmade stand of sand and bricks. Eight-year-old Kim Holmes gifted it, cutting it himself from a hillside for a friend indoors due to illness.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Leah Grubbs
Rockefeller Center
Grubbs Lays Out Christmas Decorations Scene
A fall averted accident at Sample Elementary where Grubbs spilled torn paper onto the porch and, using cold-learned technique from second grade, retrieved it with a bucket. Mrs Grubbs praised the decorations as the most beautiful tree Kim had ever seen.
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