London surgeon: Judy Garland died after long illness
London AP reports Judy Garland died at 47 after years of liver cirrhosis and fragile health. A surgeon says she was living on borrowed time and sudden death was ruled in her case. Garland rose from vaudeville to fame in The Wizard of Oz and a prolific film career, with four marriages and three children including Liza Minnelli.
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London
Judy Garland
Miss Garland
Dorothy
George Jessel
Hollywood
Mickey Rooney
Andy Hardy
David Rose
Vincent Minelli
Sid Luf
Mark Herron
Liza Minelli
Lorna
Joey Luft
United States
Fred Astaire
Mickey
Top
David
Tobermory
Ont
Canada
Lake Huron
Judy Garland's Grand Rapids Roots Remembered
Judy Garland, born Frances Gumm in Grand Rapids in 1922, moved away as a child but returned once at age 16. The piece recaps her early stage debut at Rialto Theater, family ties, and local memories of a life in entertainment.
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Grand Rapids, Minn
Judy Garland
London
Grand Rapids
Miss Garland
Frances Gumm
Frank Gumm
First Avenue
Garland
Chicago
New York
Rialto Theater
Sim E. Heller
Rockefeller says Latin America mission a turning point
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller returns to state, pleased with his third fact finding tour in Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay as a special envoy of President Nixon. He plans to finish with Argentina, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Barbados and Guyana, postponing Venezuela, Peru and Chile at those governments' requests.
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New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Latin America
Kennedy Airport
North Tarrytown
Brazil
Paraguay
Rockefeller
Argentina
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Jamaica
Barbados
Guyana
Cuba
Venezuela
Peru
Chile
Man admits hoax on killing two girls story
In Nashville, Ernest Paul Sims, 26, confessed to killing two Michigan teenagers and an Oklahoma City taxi driver, but later said the confession was a fabrication after further questioning and a family visit. He remained jailed on credit card misuse charges.
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Nashville, Tenn
Ernest Paul Sims
Metropolitan
Michigan
Oklahoma City
Kenneth Reasonover
Sims
Reasonover
Czech General Says Soviet Plan to Humiliate US Discussed
Gen Jan Sejna, a Czech oslovak defecting to the West, claims Marshal Grechko spoke in Prague in May 1967 about plans to seize a U S intelligence ship and humiliate the United States. Sejna defected to the United States in March 1968 and described the luncheon disclosed in Reader's Digest.
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NEW York
West
North
Jan Sejna
Reader's Digest
Andrei Grechko
United States
Prague
Sejna
Italy museum strike to close cultural sites for three days
Rome faced a government wide culture strike as unions threaten three days of closure for museums galleries and archaeological sites from the Alps to Sicily to demand higher pay and better funding. Other workers joined in protests and ministries called for indefinite action.
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Rome
Italy
Alps
Sicily
Rome University
Ministries of Treasury, Budget and Finances
Four killed in Minnesota weekend traffic toll rises to 369
Four persons died in separate Minnesota accidents over the weekend, boosting the state 1969 road toll to 369 from 415 a year earlier. Laurie Lang, 11, Sacramento, died on U S Highway 212 near Renville as a passenger in a car driven by Robert Mueller. Others include Mrs. Mary Mondehaine, 62, killed on Interstate 494 in Bloomington. Alvina Fischer, 76, on Highway 212 near Norwood. Harriet Good, 47, and her son Terry, 10, in separate crashes near Norwood. James Peterson, 24, and his wife Ann, 26, in Marshall. and Lawrence Bailey, 21, near Lewiston on Highway 14.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Laurie Lang
Sacramento
Calif
U. S. Highway 212
Renville
Highway Patrol
Robert Mueller
Mankato
Minn
Mary Mondehaine
Minneapolis
Yvette Fertz
Golden Valley
Rainslick
Bloomington
Danube
Alvina Fischer
Highway 212
Norwood
Harriet Good
Waconia
Rock Festival Clash Injures About 100 in Northridge
Police and youths clashed at the Newport ’69 festival in Northridge California as gates were pressed and officers issued a tactical alert. About 100 people were injured amid marijuana drug and assault charges and some arrests during the three day event drawing up to 50 800 attendees from several western states.
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Northridge
Calif
Newport
Los Angeles
Mount Washburn Displays Ancient Volcanic Deposits
Mt Washburn in Yellowstone National Park rises to 10 243 feet and shows volcanic deposits formed on its slopes nearly 60 million years ago, illustrating deep geologic history in the park.
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Mt. Washburn
Yellowstone National Park
SDS convention ends in split as groups elect officers
SDS national convention ends split with each faction electing officers. Regulars led by Mark Rudd elect national secretary, while PL faction names John Pennington as national secretary and Alan Spector as educational secretary. Clashes with Black Panthers mark tense proceedings. security tight at Chicago venues.
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SDS
R. Timothy Renn
Associated Press
Chicago
Students For A Democratic Society
Mark Rudd
Columbia University
Progressive Labor Party
Coliseum Convention Hall
John Pennington
Alan Spector
Educational
Pat Forman
Fred Gordon
Educational Sec
Retary
Coliseum
Rudd
LDS
Jeffrey Jones
San Francisco
William Ayres
University of Michigan
Te Pls
University of Illinois
Gordon
Michael Klonsky
Bernardine Dorlin
Pls
Black Panther Party
Harvard
University of California
Panther Party
New French foreign chief may start liberal policy in his term
Robert Schumann replaces Michel Debre as foreign minister in Pompidou's new cabinet. Giscard d Estaing named finance minister, both seen as Europeanists signaling a liberal shift. Centrists join key posts, Gaullist hardliners reduced. Debre moves to defense.
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Paris
Robert Schumann
Europe
Georges Pompidou
Schumann
Giscard d'Estaing
Pompidou
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Chaban-Delmas
Michel Debre
Debre
Popular Republican Movement
Charles de Gaulle
Britain
de Gaulle
Janary
Independent Licans
Antoine Pinay
Rene Pleven
Jacques Duhamel
Joseph Fontanet
Alain Poher
Maurice Couve de Murville
Edgar Faure
Andre Malraux
Couve de Murville
Malraux
Stenvig undecided on Minn city excise tax plan
Winona Minnesota AP Charles Stenvig of Minneapolis said he was undecided on supporting a 3 percent excise tax on motel hotel rentals and amusements. In a Sunday interview he said he would study the measure further and noted it would help though it would not solve all woes.
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Winona, Minn
Charles Stenvig
Minneapolis
Stenvig
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