Montmartre Con Artists Sidestep Law For Tourists
In Montmartre the Place du Tertre remains a tourist hub despite law enforcement. Artists from multiple nations set up from April to October, earning quick money and often pushing newcomers to the far end of the square. The scene is a mix of locals and foreign artists, with Brazilians arriving in spring as a traveling troupe. The city has attempted to curb the more or less honest trades around the square.
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Rosette Hargrove
Paris
NEA
Montmarte
Place du Tertre
United Nations
Utrillo
Picasso
Montmartre
Power of Press Seen in Letter to the Editor
A New Delhi letter to the editor recalls a lost gold watch found after an advertisement in the paper, illustrating press influence. The piece also notes Montmartre art ban enforcement and a thriving yet questionable market where imitators and artists churn out rapid, cheap works amid tourist interest.
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New Delhi
Tower Height Contrast at St Michel Church Site
A confusing perspective moment highlights a new Hamburg structure rising more than twice the height of St Michel Church. The tower features a rotating restaurant about halfway up, distinguishing it from the older landmark.
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St. Michel
Hamburg
Germany
Beer Cure For Aggressive Sow In Australia
Melbourne AP report says farmer Harold Sudholz fed a large white sow beer to curb her habit of biting and killing newborn piglets. He mixed bran with beer and let the sow drink directly from the can, keeping her sedated for 24 hours while the piglets fed safely.
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Melbourne
Australia
Harold Sudholz
Sudholz
Horsham
Orissa Reports Sharp Crime Rise in Past Year
Officials in the Indian state of Orissa report 33,999 major cases last year, up from 28,491 the year prior, signaling a notable rise in crime across the region.
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Cuttack
India
Orissa
Hawaii Public School Student Teacher Ratio Drops
Hawaii's public schools reduced the student teacher ratio from 30.2 to 25.3 in five years. Costs per student rose from 344 dollars in 1962-63 to 582 in 1967-68, with an expected 609 dollars in 1968-69 per the State Department of Education.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
State Department of Education
India Suffers High Rail Toll in First Five Months of 1968
India recorded nine major rail disasters in the first five months of 1968, with 162 dead and over 250 injured. Most accidents were caused by speeding trains colliding with stationary ones.
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New Delhi
India
World Today background page August 1 1968
A compiled page of world news background material from Herald services for August 1 1968. The page outlines geopolitical events and analytic briefs intended to inform readers about ongoing international developments.
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Herald Services
Black Jews of Africa Are Becoming Fewer
Ethiopia’s Falasha, a sparse community in Gondar highlands with roots linked to Semitic and African ancestry, dwindles as outside contact rises. Some convert or abandon customs while limited land near the Sudan border tempts emigration. The group preserves a Geez scripture and strict sabbath practice though lacking rabbinic texts.
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Africa
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Gondar
Arabian Peninsula
Judith
Israel
Europe
World Jewish Congress
Sudan
Scientific Doubletalk Clears with Plain Speech at Sick Children
Dr. Helen Reid recalls treating a boy stabbed in the eye with a pitchfork at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. She explains how clear language and careful wording helped describe the procedure, shaping her new role directing medical communications and future education efforts. Her husband, Dr. A L Chute, is dean of medicine at the University of Toronto.
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Toronto
Helen Reid
Canada
United States
Reid
Department of Medical Communications
Hospital For Sick Children
Women’s Auxiliary
Centennial Foundation
Jurisdiction Raised in Thyatira in Britain
The Orthodox Church elevates Thyatira and Great Britain to an archbishopric with Metropolitan Athenagoras as archbishop. He oversees Orthodox faithful in Sweden Norway Iceland Ireland and Malta and operates from London.
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London
Thyatira
Great Britain
Athenagoras
Sweden
Norway
Iceland
Ireland
Malta
Listen in Method for Catching Fish in Kerala
In Kerala backwaters local anglers rely on hearing to fish. They report fish make drumming sounds grunts or squeaks, and use a listening in method to catch them.
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Trivandrum
India
Kerala
Fearless leader heads smallpox measles inoculation drive in Nigeria
Nigeria is among 19 West African nations in a U S funded immunization push to vaccinate 110 million for smallpox and 30 million children for measles by 1972. Since the start over a year and a half ago seven million Nigerians have been vaccinated. Residents to register Pretoria South Africa AP White male immigrants aged 16 to 25 who have five years residence will register for military service next year.
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Nigeria
U.S. Agency For International Development
AID
Pretoria
South Africa
French Banker Sees Europe Deflation Trend and U S Clash
In Paris, Albin Chalandon of the Commercial Bank of Paris argues the United States risks inflation and a balance of payments squeeze while European deflation and French unemployment rise. He favors gold as a reserve currency and warns against U S tariff reprisals. He doubts the value of American investment in Europe long term.
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Tom A. Cullen
PARIS
NBA
Wall Street
Fort Knox
Albin Chalandon
Commercial Bank of Paris
Chalandon
Salome Murat
de Gaulle
Union For A New Republic
Froile
United States
France
Europe
America
Marshall Planaid
American Congress
Congress
U.S
Silbury Hill Dig Aims to Uncover Bronze Age Burial
Scientists begin a two year tunnel dig into Silbury Hill Wiltshire to confirm a Bronze Age burial chamber. The effort funded by the BBC will televise findings and may reveal a central chamber and evidence of plant and animal life from 1600 B C.
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Silbury Hill
Marlborough
England
Nea
Wiltshire
Europe
Britain
British Broadcasting Corp
Richard Atkinson
University College
Cardiff
Sil
Atkinson
B.C
Altoghether Silbury Hill
British Isles
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Hereford
Mound
Magnus Magnusson
BBC
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