Agnew wife stays low key campaign style in preconvention interview
Mrs Spiro Agnew says she will not change her quiet campaigning approach while backing her husband who is running for office. She plans to campaign with cabinet wives only when not with him and focuses on entertaining foreign dignitaries and hosting duties.
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Dee Wedemeyer
Washington
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Pat Nixon
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Spiro T. Agnew
Maryland
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Nixon
United States
Senate Wives’ Group
Red Cross
Robert DeHaven
Baltimore
Susan
Cambridge
Kim
Massive flood relief aid outlined for Agnes and SD floods
Washington AP reports the Nixon administration will push a pair of disaster relief bills in coming weeks. The measures promise unprecedented aid with loan forgiveness up to 5,000 and 1 percent interest, plus 100 percent refinancing of existing mortgages under certain conditions. The package totals about 1.59 billion for disaster relief and 1.3 billion in loan funds, with 200 million for housing, food, unemployment, and rebuilding.
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South Dakota
Nixon
U.S
House Appropriations Committee
Senate Appropriations Committee
Appalachian Regional Commission
Susquehanna River
Corps of Engineers
Commerce Department
Industrial Clay Fuller’s Earth Defined by Cloth
Fuller’s earth, a key industrial clay used as an absorbent, is named for its use by fullers who scour, clean, and thicken cloth to remove grease.
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Fuller's Earth
Fullers
Beasts of Belsen and the lampshade legend
A reader recalls the notorious camp commandant nicknamed the Beast of Belsen and the chilling tale of human hides turned into lampshades. The letter mixes historical cruelty with dark humor about personal novelty items and a wish to imagine sharing such relics in a living room conversation.
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Belsen
Quake rattles Alaska with 4.9 aftershock near Sitka
A moderate quake about 30 miles west of Sitka Alaska registered 4.9 on the Richter scale and was felt in Juneau. Officials reported no damage after the 6:56 a.m. EDT tremor, an aftershock of the July 30 Gulf of Alaska quake.
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Sitka
Alaska
Gulf of Alaska
Juneau
Extended forecast with warm temps and scattered storms
Partly cloudy and warm with a slight cooling trend. Chance of a few showers or thunderstorms mainly extreme southeast Thursday and Friday and central and north Saturday. Highs 76 to 86 northeast and extreme north, 80 to 90 south and west-central. Lows 54 to 60 north, low and mid 60s south.
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