Teen shot putter Maren Seidler blooms toward Olympic dream
Plainfield NJ seventeen year old Maren Seidler stands 6 foot 1 and 220 pounds and has rising fame as a top US shot putter. Her parents Walter and Janet Seidler describe a athletic family with plans for Chicago after a December move. Maren graduated high school near the top of her class and will take courses while continuing training for four more Olympic cycles.
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United States
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Walter Seidler
Long Island University
Walter
Brooklyn
Destiny
Carol
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New Jersey
Chicago
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Seidler
Mexico City
East Germany
Margarita Gummel
Record Football Attendance Hits 27 Million Mark
Attendance for the 1968 college season set a new high at 27,025,846 despite 17 percent of games facing bad weather. The Big Ten led per game at 36,039, with the South totaling a record 7,198,712. SEC averages were 3,770, Big Eight 4,248, Pacific Eight 4,177, Southwest 3,304. Six major conferences posted lower averages than 1967, while the Big Eight saw the largest rise.
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Southern
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Ivy League
Local letter mixups reveal numbers and addresses in Gunnison
A teller delivered a misaddressed letter to Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Lowell of Gunnison, Colorado. The note, from their daughter Mrs. Josephine Grantski of Beaver Crossing, Nebraska, included Social Security like numbers and a Nebraska postal code, prompting confusion over the intended recipients.
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Eldon Lowell
Josephine Grantski
Red Cross Airlift To Biafra Discontinued By Order
Geneva AP reports a Red Cross airlift to famine threatened Biafra has been halted by orders from Equatorial Guinea. The suspension cuts off relief for about 850000 people, mostly children. The last supply flight departed Fernando Poo during the night of December 20, carrying about 90 tons of food.
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Red Cross
Biafra
Equatorial Guinea
International Red Cross Committee
Abe
Fernando Poo
Stir Tis Ties inmates duties at Montana prison
Inmates at Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge are profiled in a MP News section titled Stir Tis Ties. The column lists inmate counts and their assigned duties in a concise inmate-news feature.
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Deer Lodge
Mont
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Deer
MP News
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