Year of Earthquakes and Transplants Dominates January News
A look back at January 1968 highlights deadly Sicily quakes that left 50,000 homeless, a landmark heart transplant era with mixed outcomes, the Green Bay Packers’ Super Bowl win, U S Korea tensions near the Pueblo, a Greenland B 52 crash and search for nuclear bombs, all chronicled in the AP year in review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joy Stilley
Associated Press
Bells
Sicily
Salaparata
Rosa Scandina
Mediterranean
Rome
Nicola Ceveli
Pogioreale
South Africa
California
New York
Stanford University
Medi
Schuur Hospital
Clive Haupt
Christiaan Barnard
Miami
Green Bay Packers
Oakland Raiders
United States
North Korea
Plu
New Gems for Hobbyists From Old Catalogues
Recreation and travel writer Jim Crossley surveys 1897 Sears Roebuck and Co. catalogue reprints in the 1949 Sears spring line. He notes beaded drapes, lace curtains, ladies summer union suits, Army of the Republic gear, a railfan reissue of the Official Railway Guide, and dolls and dollhouse volumes. Inflation comparison shows prices then versus now, including bicycles, cameras, and household goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Crossley
America
Chelsea House
Sears, R and Co
Grand Army of the Republic
G.A.R
Sears
Fars of
Yesteryear
Rail Buffs
United States
New York Public Library
Fifty six Sicilian men convicted in Mafia trial
In Catanza ro Italy fifty six defendants were sentenced to prison terms up to 27 years each after a Palermo Mafia case trial that started October 23, 1967. Seven were acquitted amid charges of extortion to murder spanning 1959 to 1933.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catanzaro
Italy
Palermo
Teenager Accepts Whipping Over Prison in Oklahoma City
Scott Grandstaff chose 20 lashes with a leather belt over a five year prison term after District Judge Carmen C. Harris offered a deferred sentence earlier for burglary. He vowed to stay out of trouble and defended the judge’s decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Scott Grandstaff
Anyboy
Carmen C. Harris
Harris
Airline to Launch Duluth North Shore Service
Voyage Air Airlines Inc announced a new passenger and freight service linking Duluth with towns on the north shore of Lake Superior and the Iron Range. The airline will run six daily flights starting with two six passenger aircraft serving Duluth Grand Marais Virginia Eveleth and Hibbing with three Duluth departures and one from each outlying town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Marais, Minn
Voyage Air Airlines Inc
Duluth
Lake Superior
Iron Range
Grand Marais
Virginia-Eveleth
Hibbing
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Cal Center
Palo Alto
Mike Kasnerak
Maimonides Hospital
Brooklyn
Louis Block
Philip Blaiberg
Cape Town
U.S. Navy
Fifth Air Force
Navy
Sea of Japan
Pentagon
Congress
Thule Air Base
Greenland
Tonium
Fely
Harper's Bazaar
Sears . Com
Sears Roesuck
Buck
Saigon
Martz
Flujfenit
Linoy, Minnesota
Beauty Lounge
DEMI
Fashion
Wallace's
Spicer’s Beauty Salons, Inc
Freeborn - Mower Electric Cooperative
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