Lawmaker Claims Pentagon Undercharged for Green Berets Help
Rep. Benjamin Rosenthal charges the Pentagon violated rules by charging only a token fee for Defense Department use of facilities and equipment during 1967 filming at Fort Benning for John Wayne’s Green Berets. GAO findings, to be released at a Thursday news conference, cite a government cost rule.
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John F. Kennedy
Vietnam
Rosenthal
GAO
Pentagon
Budget Bureau
New York
John Murphy
Navy
Darryl Zanuck
20Th Century Fox
Court Hears Psychiatrist On Ward Insanity Plea
An Indianapolis psychiatrist testified that Rushville motel owner Dewey Grunday Ward is mentally unsound as he faces first degree murder charges in the death of Rush County Deputy Sheriff Wayne Peters on May 25, 1968. Witnesses contradicted Ward’s account of Peters drawing a gun.
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Indianapolis
Rushville
Dewey Grunday Ward
Rush County
Wayne Peters
Philip Morton
Wilson L. Dalton
Shelbyville
Ward
Peters
Dalton
Waveland Residents Back Extended Rates Plan
Indiana Bell testified at a Public Service Commission hearing that over 90 percent of Waveland customers favor extended area service even with higher rates. The petition to replace toll service between Waveland and Crawfordsville proposes a $0.30 monthly rise for one party and $0.25 for two party lines, with Crawfordsville rates unchanged.
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Indianapolis
UPI
Indiana Bell Telephone Co
Indiana Public Service Commission
Waveland
Bell
Crawfordsville
Robot stockbroker warns selling short is no no
At the ABA Automation Conference in Chicago RCA Laboratories Dr. Paul Ross demonstrates a voice controlled system that can recognize a stockholder and refuse illegal commands like selling more stock than owned while stating selling short is a no no. A second item notes a vine known as squirting cucumber bears prickly fruit that ejects seeds in a jet like stream when disturbed.
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Chicago
American Bankers Association
Paul Ross
RCA Laboratories
Wall Street
Ross
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