Dear Santa and the Crayon Christmas Night
A collage of handwritten letters and drawings shows Brenda asking Santa for gifts while a snowbound street scene features a man returning a wine decanter and a saleswoman assisting a couple in knickers. The chaotic page blends childlike wish lists with a winter shopping tableau and a Santa message reading To Santa Claus I would for Christmas.
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Santa
Brenda
Tonto
Suzanne
Santa Claus
Adrum
Clear and Cold with Christmas Day Flurries Chance
The forecast calls for a clear and cold today and tonight with temperatures dipping to 10 below. Christmas Day will see increasing cloudiness and a chance of flurries. Tuesday is expected to reach a high of 27 with a low of 7 below, and at 7 this morning it was 5 below zero.
Christmas observance traced to ancient Roman festival
Christians worldwide observe the birth of Jesus at Christmas in a long standing church year tradition. The observance began amid early church practices and was later suppressed in the United States during times of religious controversy.
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Jesus Christ
United States
Vacationers’ alert and holiday travel hazards
Christmas travel rush begins with motorist crowds and high risk estimates from the National Safety Council forecasting 440 to 500 traffic deaths and 19 000 to 22 000 disabling injuries from 6 p m today to midnight Sunday. Police boost patrols to enforce a 55 mph limit as white Christmas weather affects New England roads and storms prompt travel advisories across several states. In Bethlehem and Jerusalem the holiday mood mixes with heavy security as guards patrol with submachine guns outside manger square.
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National Safety Council
New England
Rockies
New Mexico
Arizona
Texas
National Weather Service
Great Lakes
Ohio River Valley
Missouri
Wyoming
New York State
Lake Erie
Milwaukee
Minnesota
Rocky Mountains
Bethlehem
Jordan
Jesus Christ
Manger Square
Demoted Captain Sues Vermont Lawmakers Over Demotion
Vermont State Police Captain Harold Dean sues House Appropriations Chairman Emory Hebard and Public Safety Commissioner Edward Corcoran in U S District Court Burlington alleging due process was denied by destruction of evidence tied to his reassignment and lowering of rank. The suit seeks reinstatement and full documentation of a critical report and cites anonymous survey statements as libelous and malicious. Governor Thomas Salmon possibly implicated but not named.
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Burlington
UPI
Vermont
Harold Dean
State Public Safety Department
Dean
Montpelier
House Appropriations Committee
Emory Hebard
R-Glover
Public Safety
Edward Corcoran
U.S. District Court
Corcoran
Hebard
Appropriations Committee
Thomas Salmon
Corcoran and Hebard
Thomas Palmisano
Barre
Inside In the world Eleven init hopefuls funds Page 2
Eleven presidential hopefuls receive campaign funds as coverage notes the effort and campaign dynamics. The item lists forecasts and potential implications for early race momentum.
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ACLU
Public Service
Top CIA agent slain in Greece
In Athens three masked gunmen killed Richard Welch, 46, the American chief of CIA operations in Greece, in a 30 second assassination police called a very professional job. The News of Athens printed a list of CIA agents, including Welch.
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Athens
Greece
UPI
Richard Welch
CIA
Welch
the News
Central Intelligence Agency
U.S
Jack Kubisch
Kiki
Washington
CIA Ac
Levi calls crime rise intolerable in FBI report
Attorney General Edward H. Levi warned that crime in the United States rose to an intolerable level in the first nine months of 1975, with violent crimes up eight percent and property crimes up eleven percent. The FBI bulletin noted regional increases, especially in the South, while noting improvement over the prior year’s pace. The report cites declines in some categories but overall calls for concern amid rising crime nationally.
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Washington
UPI
Edward H. Levi
FBI
United States
Levi
Uniform Crime
South
Northeast
North Central States
West
Nation moves toward metric system with Ford signing
President Ford signed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 establishing a national policy for broader metric use. He called the legislation historic and said the plan will be voluntary, pushed by private industry already metric in drugs, cameras, and space work. The signing came before his ski trip.
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Vail
Colo
United States
Ford
U.S. Metric Board
U.S
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Bennington Day Care Center
Bennington
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North Pole
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Bennington Museum
Kit Foster
Philippines
Hoosick Falls
Ron Pembroke
Rice
Maine
North Shire
John Randolph
Constantine Caramanlis
Psychiko
Connecticut
Harvard
Cyprus
Peru
Guatemala
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