Williams Opposes Romney as Michigan primary results seen
Former Michigan governor G Mennen Williams defeated Detroit mayor Jerome Cavanagh to win the Democratic nomination for the seat of the late Senator Pat McNamara in Michigan. Republican governor Romney and Senator Griffin are unopposed for their nominations as conservatives triumph in Idaho and Kansas. Smylie losing in Idaho shocks GOP moderates.
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Soapy
Williams
Michigan
George Romney
Detroit
Jerome Cavanagh
Pat McNamara
Robert P. Griffin
Reich
Romney
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Griffin
Kansas
Idaho
Missouri
Robert E. Smylie
GOP
Don Samuelson
James B. Pearson
Robert F. Ellsworth
Ellsworth
Cavanagh
Smoylie
Barry M. Goldwater
Len Jordan
Ralph R. Harding
William H. Avery
Dell Crozier
Wichita
Robert Docking
George Docking
Pearson
Floyd Breeding
ICC To Reopen Merger Hearings
The Interstate Commerce Commission will reopen public hearings Monday on a request by Erie Lackawanna Delaware & Hudson and Boston & Maine to be included in the Norfolk & Western Nickel Plate merger. The ICC kept jurisdiction to 1969 to permit petitions for inclusion.
Providence South Providence sees bottle throwing and fires
Police faced isolated bottle throwing incidents and two suspicious fires in South Providence after a black power rally. Nineteen arrests and three officers injured followed clashes as rain fell and patrols increased. A vacant three story house burned, fire crews contained it, and a teen was treated for a head wound.
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Providence
R.I
UPI
South Providence
Ptl
James F. Connell
Robert F. Williams
Rhode Island Hospital
Blackstone St
Officials probe claims of outside agitators in Roxbury
Boston Atty. Gen. Edward W. Brooke said his office is examining reports of outsiders stirring unrest in Roxbury. He noted three calls this week and stressed the need to verify truth, while local lawmakers pledged no riots and prepared to meet with Mayor Collins amid an accelerated city cleanup.
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Boston
UPI
Edward W. Brooke
Roxbury
Brooke
John F. Collins
King to Lead Integrated Protest in Chicago Gage Park
Dr Martin Luther King arrives in Chicago and says he may personally lead another march into the all white Belmont Cragin and Gage Park neighborhoods to confront housing discrimination. Police kept protests calm as white residents hurled rocks and bottles and set cars on fire during the weekend ordeal.
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Chicago
UPI
Martin Luther King
South Side
Gage Park
King
Belmont- Cragin
Fastest Machine in Memphis Produces Half Million Tissues Daily
Kimberly Clark has begun operation of the world’s fastest paper machine in Memphis. The unit can produce up to 500000 tissue boxes daily by forming wet pulp fibers into a 13 foot wide sheet at speeds nearing a mile per minute. Previous machines rarely exceeded 3000 feet per minute.
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Memphis, Tenn
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