Soviets cancel Bolshoi U S tour amid cultural tension
Moscow reports that the Soviet government canceled the Bolshoi theater companys planned U S tour in protest of Zionist provocations. First Deputy Foreign Minister Kuznetzov delivered the note to U S Ambassador Beam, warning of a break in cultural relations and citing threats to Soviet cultural exchanges.
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Moscow
UPI
U.S
United States
Opera and Ballet Company
Jacob E. Beam
Vasili V. Kuznetzov
Foreign Ministry
Kuznetzov
Beam
Izvestia
Jewish Defense League of America
Tass
Intourist
America
The
Bolshoi
All bets are off as SST filibuster looms in Senate
Washington probes a Senate filibuster against federal funding for the supersonic transport. Leaders Mans field Proxmire and Nelson vow to block the $210 million compromise planned for fiscal 1971, risking the $2.5 billion transportation appropriations bill.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Congress
Mike Mansfield
William Proxmire
Gaylord Nelson
Wisconsin
Senate House
House
Nixon
Nelson
Williamstown soprano to perform Sunday recital in New York
Williamstown mezzo soprano Nancy Hirsche and accompanist Nathan Rudnick will present a recital at the Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York City on Sunday at 3 30 p m. Hirsche, wife of Williams College art professor H Lee Hirsche, studied at Oberlin and Yale and has appeared as soloist with Berkshire Lyric Theatre and in Vaughn Williams Riders to the Sea. Her program features Italian Baroque, Schubert, Wolf, Brahms, Debussy, Granado and De Falla.
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Williamstown
Mass
Nancy Hirsche
Nathan Rudnick
Nicholas Roerich
West 107Th St
New York City
Hirsche
H. Lee Hirsche
Williams College
Oberlin College
Yale University
Oberlin
Frank Baker
Bennington
Middlebury
Berkshire Lyric Theatre
Pittsfield
Vaughn Williams
Bennington College
Williamstown-Bennington
Rudnick
Davis bishop to talk money in Vermont parochial schools
Gov. Deane C. Davis asked for an early meeting with Roman Catholic diocesan school officials to review the financial plight of the parochial system. Bishop Robert F. Joyce requested 1.2 million in state aid, warning closing private schools could push public education costs to about 8 million. Davis urged more details, noted potential public funding only if constitutional questions clear, and cited tight finances.
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Davis
Governor’s pick to lead agency eyed at near thirty thousand
The article notes the appointment would be “mostly administrative” with policy powers held by the governor and the agency’s board. Cowles is expected to earn a salary near 30000, though the exact figure remains to be worked out. Davis warned it will likely be well into next year before the economy improves.
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Cowles
Davis
Vermont
New York
IPC
Nation's trains roll as bargaining efforts renewed
United States rail bargaining resumes with talks at the National Railway Labor Center. Labor officials express cautious optimism that a voluntary agreement can avert a March 1 strike, with negotiators to decide early next week when to resume serious talks on wages and work rules amid an 18 hour national shutdown.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
W. J. Usery Jr
Usery
U.S
National Railway Labor Center
C. L. Dennis
Brotherhood of Railway
Congress
Dennis
Mrs Maurice Noon obituary scheduled at Mahar & Son
Friends may call tonight at Mahar and Son Funeral Home between 7 and 9 to pay last respects to Mrs Maurice Minna Noon who died Friday at Putnam Memorial Hospital. There will be no afternoon calling hours. Funeral Sunday at 10 at the funeral home with Rabbi Silton officiating. Burial will be in the Hebrew section of Park Lawn Cemetery.
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Mahar & Son Funeral Home
Maurice
Minna
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Silton
Temple Beth el
North Adams
Mass
Park Lawn Cemetery
Feature on Forrest Moses in Christian Science Monitor
James Hughes profiles Forrest Moses in a December feature for the Christian Science Monitor. An exhibit of Moses paintings opens this holiday season at the Lord and Taylor gallery in New York City.
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New York
David Marlin
Boston
Forrest Moses
Christian Science Monitor
James Hughes
Moses
Lord & Taylor Gallery
New York City
CBS
Grandma
Mrs Martha E Blackwell obituary and ski club meeting
Mrs Martha E Blackwell 63 of 2348 Bougainvillea St died Dec 1 in Sarasota Florida after moving there in 1952 from Bennington She was a retired teacher former president of Classroom Teachers Association member of Teacher Education Commissions and National Education Association She leaves husband Clinton E Blackwell daughter Audrey Leigh Blackwell sister and brother Funeral services were Dec 5 at Robarts Funeral Home Sarasota with Rev W Thomas Fitzgerald officiating Interment in Sarasota Memorial Park Prospect Mountain Ski Club meets Monday at 6 pm at Second Congregational Church Hillside Street with a covered dish supper and ski films
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Martha E. Blackwell
Bougainvillea St
Sarasota
Fla
Bennington
Blackwell
Classroom Teachers Association
Delta Kappa Gamma _ Sorority
Sarasota- Bradenton
Sigma Kappa Sorority
Delta Kappa Zeta Chapter
National Educational Association
Clinton E. Blackwell
Audrey Leigh Blackwell
Robert Allen
Oakland
Maine
Donald Savage
Chelmsford
Mass
Robarts
W. Thomas Fitgerald
Sarasota Memorial Park
Prospect Mountain Ski Club
Second Congregational Church
Hillside Street
Free tiny Beltone behind the ear aid offered
Beltone announces a free non operating model of the smallest Beltone behind the ear aid. The ad promises a no cost no obligation home trial and asks readers to write Beltone Hearing Aid Center Albany or call 436-9604 for information.
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Albany
N.Y
Beltone
Beltone Hearing Aid Center
P.O. Box
Welfare budget cut eyed by Vermont governor Davis
Vermont Governor Deane C. Davis announced a reduction of the $21 million welfare budget request for fiscal 1972. He said the state cannot fund the Social Welfare Department plan as proposed, amid talks with Welfare Rights members and questions on welfare policy and the ANFC funding rule. Davis noted a Heath, Education and Welfare letter about President Nixon’s Family Assistance Plan and urged reform as the best path to rising caseloads and costs.
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Betit
Davis
Health, Education and Welfare
Elliott Richardson
Senate
Nixon
Vermont
Ecology lecture series ends with final Bennington event
Bennington College closes its ecology lecture series with a double presentation on Monday December 14 at 8 p m in Tishman Lecture Hall. Dr Robert Woodworth displays time lapse films while Duncan A Campbell discusses life and environment as part of a broader Festival of Life fundraiser to oppose nuclear power plants in Vermont and New England. Contributions to the bazaar fund drive may be dropped at the Dickinson building and pickups can be arranged by calling 447 7911 or 442 5401 Ext 308.
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District of Columbia
Vermon xi
New York Times
Bennington College
Tishman
Robert Woodworth
College Science
Duncan A. Campbell
Bennington
Woodworth
Dickinson
Vermont
New England
Bennington Poet Helena S Moore Opens Park Reading
Helena S Moore, renowned Bennington poet, presents the final McCullough Park Foundation 1970 season reading this Sunday at 3 p.m. in the McCullough Mansion. Admission is free to the public.
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Bennington
Helena S. Moore
McCullough Park Foundation
McCullough Mansion
Welfare rolls rise as six of every hundred on aid
The Health, Education and Welfare Department reported six of every 100 Americans were on welfare as of last June, up from four per cent a decade ago. The rise, and gains in aid to families with dependent children, underscore the need for President Nixon's welfare reform proposals.
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Washington
UPI
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Nixon
Pittsfield GE Edge Cuts Prompt Possible Union Strike
Pittsfield Massachusetts faced early layoffs at General Electric with eight apprentice draftsmen first to go while the Power Transformer Department employs about 3,000. IUE Local 254 president Nicholas Speranzo sought a Sunday meeting to authorize a limited strike over ongoing grievances, representing about 650 white collar workers. Local 255 with 6,000 blue collar workers had not sought strike authorization. The union contract runs until 1972.
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Pittsfield
Mass
UPI
Eee Aare
Oral Electric Co
IUE
General Electric
Nicholas Speranzo
Speranzo
TUE
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