DuBoise Memorial Planned Despite Home Town Hostility
New England town confronts renewed hostility toward W E B Du Bois legacy as plans for a memorial face local opposition in Great Barrington Massachusetts. The piece recalls Du Bois ties to the Berkshires and notes community resistance amid lingering tensions from his civil rights leadership.
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England
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National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Adolf Hitler
Harold J. Beckwith
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Great Barrington
United States
American Legion
Daughters of the American Revolution
John Birch Society
Berkshire Courier
DuBois
Walter Wilson
Berkshire
Wilson
Berkshires
Julian Bond
Georgia
NAACP
Berkshire Eagle
Pittsfield
Park
Edward W. Brooke
R-Mass
Harry Belafonte
Norman Rockwell
Sidney Poitier
Pete Seeger
Rep. Silver
Novelists on Their Novels Offers Insightful Essays
Fourteen writers including Norman Mailer and John Fowles share how fiction forms, with chapters by Mark Harris and Robert Crichton detailing methods. The anthology, edited by Thomas McCormack, explores creative process, planning, and the balance of fact and imagination in modern novel writing.
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Thomas McCormack
Harper & Row
Norman Mailer
Reynolds Price
Mary Renault
Mark Harris
Louis Auchincloss
John Fowles
Robert Crichton
Vance Bourjaily
Truman Capote
Anthony Burgess
George P. Elliott
William Gass
Ross Macdonald
Wright Morris
San Francisco State College
Ring Lardner
Harris
Santa Vittoria
Television In Review Hollywood Stars Move Into Films
Hollywood analysis notes Clint Eastwood’s leap from Rawhide to film stardom. Eric Fleming’s death in Peru is cited as a reminder of risks. Rowan and Martin shift from Laugh-In to cinema, with The Maltese Bippy eyed. Susan Saint James shown as a major film prospect. Dan Blocker praised for movie potential, Carol Burnett and Robert Morse still seeking film roles.
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Hollywood
UPI
Clint Eastwood
Peru
Rowan
Martin
Susan Saint James
Dan Blocker
Carol Burnett
Robert Morse
Automated Hospital Designed by Pratt Institute Students
Pratt Institute architectural students have designed an automated flexible hospital featuring individual plastic TEC capsules with controlled environmental conditions. Financed by a $25,000 city grant, the loft-style system aims to free medical staff from nonmedical tasks and allows rapid, adaptable patient care with ceiling and floor service connections and a vertical distribution concept for future hospital operations.
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New York
Pratt Institute
Department of Public Works
Brooklyn School
William Berger
Berger
Municipal Service
John G. Duba
Les
Jack Masur
Elmhurst Hospital
Queens
Masur
Curious canines parade through Weymouth streets
Passers by were puzzled as dogs walked the streets of Weymouth and leapt in front of a church after a short circuit caused a manhole cover to jump. Electricity Board workers traced the issue, and the fault was fixed.
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Weymouth
England
UPI
Electricity Board
Shaftsbury VT School District meeting warned for June 24
The Shaftsbury Town School District warns voters to meet at the Elementary School on June 24 1969 at 8 PM to discuss reports elect two 3 year school board seats approve borrowing for tax anticipation approve officer pay set the tax rate approve up to 3200 for fire safety improvements in the elementary school with state aid 30 percent and outline budget and other business Olive Williamson chair and other officials signaled June 5 12 19.
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Shaftsbury Town
Shaftsbury
Vermont
Mt. Anthony Union High School
United Counseling Service
Olive Williamson
Joseph E. Crossman
Jesse L. Strong
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