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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1965
Page
5
Christopher C. Kraft Gemini flight director beams during an afternoon news briefing celebrating the successful rendezvous of the Gemini mission. The era of close orbital maneuvers reinforces confidence in NASA’s program and the team’s achievement.
British author W. Somerset Maugham died at his Cap Ferrat villa La Mauresque after a stroke left him unconscious following a Nice hospital stay. A prolific writer and noted for Of Human Bondage, he was 91. He willed cremation with ashes sent to Canterbury Cathedral.
A humorous AP essay urges sending Christmas cards to 100 random strangers from Who's Who in America to spark new friendships. The piece describes flattery, reciprocal letters, and eventual hospitality as a social experiment, ending with praise for expanding circles and avoiding familiar faces.
In Boston the new 22 story Massachusetts office building opens with color coded desks to show status. Yellow desks mark secretaries blue designate supervisors black for administrators and all wood desks for commissioners as the structure prepares to house 3200 state employees.
Cambridge based criminologist Dr. Eleanor Glueck of Harvard reports two to three year old children can be flagged as likely juvenile delinquents. The revised Glueck Social Prediction Table adds infant destructiveness and resistance to authority to assess early risk and guide preventive action.
Police say a thief with a sweet tooth stole $30 from a cookie jar and a $24 transistor radio from William Parks in Hamilton Ohio. No suspects named and investigation ongoing.
The 766 Philadelphia Mint workers will take three days off over the Christmas weekend marking their first holiday in two years. A Treasury spokesman said coin shortages have eased from near-crisis, allowing a break after continuous 24 seven operations since early 1964.
Havana radio reports Cubans on Fidel Castro's island can buy chest nuts and Albanian sweet wine and rum in unlimited quantities for Christmas Eve. Olive oil and black beans quotas will be increased by one half pound.
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