Truce Worked Amid Violent Vietnam Christmas Fighting
U S and South Vietnamese troops observed a Christmas cease fire after a fierce Monday battle in which South Vietnamese officials said 159 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese were killed. The allied 24 hour truce held despite initial Viet Cong mortar and ground attacks.
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Ind
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Akron
Alaska picks Stevens to fill Bartlett Senate vacancy
Theodore Stevens, Alaska Republican leader, is named to the U S Senate to fill the Dec 11 death of Democratic Senator E L Bartlett. Stevens, a 45 year old Anchorage lawyer, becomes Alaska's first Republican senator and the party shifts the Senate balance to 57 Democrats and 43 Republicans.
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Foretold GNP Rise In Fourth Quarter Amid Fed Tightening
The Commerce Department signals a sizable rise in gross national product for Q4 1968 despite tax increases. Strong business outlays for plant and equipment, housing, inventories, and state local spending drive the expansion, with credit tightness evident from higher Treasury bill yields and Fed rate actions.
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Here's How To Gauge Booze Outlay
New York readers learn to estimate liquor needs for New Year's Eve gatherings. Carstairs Home Service Center advises two to three drinks per person, with approximate fifths needed: one fifth for up to six guests, two fifths for 12, and about ten fifths for 40. For margins, quart substitutions are suggested. Dessert wine averages two glasses per person, with eight drinks per fifth of table wine and ten per fifth of dessert wine. lighter wine should be served first.
Pilot raises buffalo as unusual Lyons hobby
Lyons Colorado resident Ron Gregory works as a Frontier Airlines pilot and keeps a herd of buffalo on his Lyons area property east of town.
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Ron Gregory
Frontier Air Lines
Buffalo
Lyons
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