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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1969
Page
7
The World Almanac notes Albion as Britain’s oldest name used by Greeks and Romans. Aristotle mentioned Albion in the 300s B.C. and poets still use the term. The etymology suggests the word means mountain land or white land, referencing Dover’s chalk cliffs.
Rep. L Mendel Rivers chairman of the House Armed Services Committee says the U S Navy is obsolete and undermanned. He blames the Pentagon Congress and administrations in the last 14 years for failing to modernize and support operations. He estimates about 200 billion dollars would be needed to modernize the fleet.
New York AP column poet HAL BOYLE riffs on social gaffes and playful musings. He jests about bowing to introductions, gaited hairlines, bizarre meal fantasies, and the quirks of modern life while weaving light social satire through a string of short observations.
A 1922 letter from Carl Sandburg to Helen Keller and about 50,000 Keller letters will be available to scholars under Keller's bequest to the University of Southern California. Hollywood figures read excerpts at a USC dinner, praising Keller's communication despite blindness and deafness since age two.
Buffalo NY AP Catherine CG Rebadow and Marian Bass became the first women in the Buffalo Police Department's 103 year history to be appointed to desk lieutenant, marking a historic promotion on Monday.
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