Red Tape Overcome To Adopt Viet Boy
A 12 year old Vietnamese boy Tong arrives in Boston after a two year, 9000 mile journey to join Mr. and Mrs. Tasney of Quincy. U.S. diplomats Henry Cabot Lodge and Ky, plus Embassy staff and Northeast Airlines, helped secure Tong’s adoption and the flight from Saigon to Boston. He will join a Broad Meadows Junior High special class for non English speakers this fall.
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Boston
UPI
Tong
Logan International Airport
Edward Tasney
Taffrail Road
Quincy
America
Vietnam
Henry Cabot Lodge
South Vietnam
Saigon
Northeast Airlines
Tasney
Northeast
Nguyen Thi Y
Army of the Republic
Lodge
Beverly
Robert Lewis
Manila
New York
San Francisco
Broad Meadows
Dorothy Parker Dies in New York at 73
Dorothy Parker, famed writer and wit, died of a heart attack in a Manhattan hotel suite aged 73. Born August 22, 1893 in West End New Jersey, she rose as a leading short story writer and poet, noted for scathing Esquire reviews and sharp quips. Funeral services set for Friday at Frank E. Campbell's on Madison Avenue and 81st Street.
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New York
UPI
Dorothy Parker
Manhattan
Miss Parker
Clare Booth Luce
West Edn
N.J
J. Henry Rothschild
New Yorker
America
Esquire Magazine
A. A. Milne
Lousey
Katherine Hepburn
Americans Arrive From Beirut
At Logan International Airport Boston received the first planeload of 21 Americans evacuated from Beirut. The group, part of about 4,500 people to escape the crisis, reported anti American sentiment and described bombed embassies, stoned British facilities, and a tank outside the embassy. Many left relatives behind as Lebanon mobilized for war with Israel.
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Boston
UPI
Beirut
Lebanon
Logan International
Tess Beeton
Washington
William Beeton
Beeton
Tess
Federal Aviation Agency
House Committee Weighs Plan To Avert Rail Strike
Washington The House Commerce Committee met to consider Johnson backed rescue measures to avert a nationwide rail strike set to begin before June 19. Senate approved mediation plan calls for a 90 day period with a five man board to aid settlement and enforce recommendations if needed until January 1, 1969.
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Washington
UPS
House Commerce Committee
Senate
House
Johnson
Congress
Commerce Committee
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Middle East
Plymouth Rock Face Traffic Move Plan Split Stake
The National Park Service weighs plans to make Plymouth Rock a rolling national memorial by moving the rock seaward to ease traffic. Plymouth Chamber of Commerce says Plan 3 is the lesser evil, while locals oppose changes to the historic landmark famed as the Pilgrims landing site. Rep. Hastings Keith notes no immediate move is planned.
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Plymouth
Mass
UPS
National Park Service
NPS
Plymouth Rock
Allen Stapleton
Plymouth Rock National Memorial
the Rock
Stapleton
Water Street
Chamber of Commerce
Hastings Keith
R-Mass
NPA
Keith
Elder Faunce
Faunce
Cole Hills
Administration Seeks Ways To Combat Oil Pollution
Washington aims to make shipowners pay cleanup costs for oil spills unless an act of God is the cause and would drop references to gross negligence. Udall outlined proposed expansions to cover Puerto Rico and other territories and to set up an emergency cleanup fund. A consultant urged using maritime insurance to shift pollution risk, with route plans and premiums to deter spills. Both oil and maritime industry spokesmen argued against liability for accidental pollution.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Interior
Stewart L. Udall
Senate
Udall
Torrey Canyon
England
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Guam
American Samoa
Paul F. Oberheim
Oberheim Associates Inc
Oberheim
New England
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Viet Boy
N.Y.C
Paul Hoye
Cranston, R.I
The
Arab-American Oil Co
Park Service
Plymouth Pilgrim Society
Bennington, VT
Oil and Maritime Industries
Nniversar
Cae
Mietsy
Ishman
Aluminum
Lastex
S—M—L
Fishman
Reeve
Fishman’s Main
Bennington
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