CBS reshapes schedule to lift lead in ratings
CBS plans midseason shakeup replacing The Leslie Uggams Show with Glen Campbell's variety hour to boost viewership for Mission Impossible. Competition from the Uggams program and departures of Martin Landau and Barbara Bain are cited, along with format fatigue. President Nixon's press conference prompts network timing changes across CBS ABC and NBC affecting Mayberry RFD The Doris Day Show Love American Style World Premiere and The D.A. Murder One slots.
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Hue after Tet Two Years On A Peaceful Yet Tense City
Associated Press reports Hue remains peaceful yet somber nearly two years after the Tet Offensive. Vast rebuilding follows 1968 destruction, as residents recall “before Tet” and “after Tet.” The economy slowly recovers with factories reopening and refugees resettled, though tax revenue and capital remain tight.
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Two brothers aged 14 and 12 skipped school to hide in a boxcar full of Christmas toys in San Antonio. Police report says they spent nearly a day aboard before being found by the foreman. they described meeting a teenager selling small cars and other toys, and that the youth admitted breaking in to obtain items. The incident ended with tears as they recounted their adventure.
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Ireland’s Heavy Rainfall Ranges From 30 to 50 Inches
The report notes Ireland experiences annual rainfall totaling between thirty and fifty inches, indicating a broad wet climate. Local weather summaries emphasize seasonal variability and regional differences in precipitation across the country.
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Financial needs of local governments to be decided
ST PAUL AP Gov Har old LeVander meets with state legislators and leaders of civic groups to discuss local government financial needs. Attendees include the League of Minnesota Municipalities Citizens League Minnesota Association of Counties and Minnesota Taxpayers Association. The session follows a League request amid concerns of a tax hodgepodge from new revenue ideas. The special election Tuesday will decide a 10 percent surcharge on Minnesota income tax to fund city needs. Mayor Thomas R Byrne says the surcharge could raise about $3 million yearly to sustain current services until 1971 legislation provides a lasting fix. The plan faces opposition from the St Paul Chamber of Commerce the Republican party and critic Charles McCarthy. Byrne labor unions and the Democratic Farmer Labor Party back the proposal.
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NOW Urges Nixon to appoint women to Moon, Supreme Court
The National Organization for Women calls for a woman to be sent to the moon and for a woman to join the U S Supreme Court bench. It plans formal complaints against NASA over astronaut training and top administration posts and urges changing hurricane names away from women’s names. Betty Friedan says equality benefits men too and proposes a private briefing for Mrs Nixon at the White House.
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Matrimony delays Heads GOP endorsement campaign in Minnesota
Atty. Gen. Douglas Head will pause his bid for the 1970 Republican U.S. Senate endorsement as he marries Martha Myers in Minneapolis. The couple will honeymoon three weeks while Head assesses campaign progress. Head contrasts with Clark MacGregor, who won U.S. Attorney General Mitchell’s endorsement, seen as reflecting Nixon era politics.
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Mondale Seeks New National Priorities for Hunger Health Education
Senator Walter Mondale urged a shift in U.S. priorities toward domestic needs, calling hunger health and education the focus. He criticized the delay in declaring hunger a national disaster while disaster aid is offered for storms and floods. Mondale spoke at the John Ireland Lecture Forum in St Paul Minnesota.
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Five Day Weather Outlook for East South and Northwest
Temperatures will average near seasonal norms in the east and south and about six degrees above seasonal normals in the northwest for the five day period Tuesday through Saturday. Normal highs range 19 to 26 in the north and 26 to 31 in the south with lows from one below to eight above north and eight to fifteen south. Precipitation expected under a tenth inch in the west and about two tenths in the east with snow flurries Tuesday and Wednesday and light snow Friday.
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