Jane Fonda Arrested In Fort Lawton Demonstration
UPI reports eighty four Indians and actress Jane Fonda were arrested during an attempt to occupy Fort Lawton to establish a native cultural center. About 160 Indians and Fonda entered through gates and over fences. later 85 were expelled. Grace Thorpe was among the arrestees. The protest echoed the Alcatraz takeover.
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Seattle
Wash
UPI
Jane Fonda
Ft. Lawton
John Vigil
Miss Fonda
Ft. Lewis
Alcatraz Island
San Francis
Quiet Returns to Nantucket After Eclipse Excitement
Nantucket experienced a rare total solar eclipse moment with 1:47 p.m. totality lasting two minutes and six seconds. About 250 observers on Fort Hill used cameras and telescopes to glimpse three sunspots forming a triangle as the sky darkened and blue hues appeared. Thousands gathered, then dispersed, leaving the island quieter with 4,000 residents.
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Nantucket
United States
Old Fort Hill
Widow Returns Found Money After Walking Ten Blocks
A frail 58 year old widow in Los Angeles found 100 dollars in crumpled twenty dollar bills and walked 10 blocks to Parker Center to return it. Police report 16 lost money claims but ownership hinges on serial numbers. Community response includes offers of money, clothes, and a place to live.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Jean Cardon
Parker Center
Jose Munoz
Oil Slick in Alaska Kills Thousands of Birds
Federal officials tracked an oil slick off Kodiak Island that washed up on beaches killing an estimated 10,000 sea birds. The spill, likely from ballast water discharge, began Feb 6 and, worsened by winds and seas, has thwarted extensive searches as bodies are consumed by scavengers. The oil has peaked and may disappear without remediation.
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Kodiak, Alaska
API
Kodiak Island
Cook Inlet
Ray Morris
Federal Water Pollution Control Authority
Maine artist Waldo Peirce dies at 85 in Bangor
Waldo Peirce 85, a Bangor born painter whose works hang in major museums from the Met to the Whitney, died Sunday in Newburyport Massachusetts. He lived in Europe after World War I, traveled with Ernest Hemingway, and returned to the United States in 1930. His art featured simple happiness and barns, including sunlit hay-filled interiors. Funeral services will be held in Bangor with details pending. He is survived by his widow, three sons and two daughters.
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Mass
UPI
Waldo Peirce
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Maine
Europe
Spain
Ernest Hemingway
National Academy of Design
New York
Metropolitan and Whitney
Brooklyn Museum
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Farnsworth Museum
Rockland
Manhattan
Midtown
Kent Tavern Museum Receives $5000 Memorial Gift
The Kent Tavern Museum in Calais owned by the Vermont Historical Society received a $5,000 memorial gift from the Atwater Kent Foundation in Wilmington, Del. honoring Louise Andrews Kent of Calais. The Kent Tavern, deeded to the society in 1948, is open in July and August and hosts concerts and crafts demonstrations at Kents Corner near Montpelier.
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Kents’ Corner
Montpelier
Kent
Colonie native writes dramatic transcript edition of Hoffman trial
George C. McNamee of Colonie Yale graduate has edited Tales of Hoffman a Bantam paperback presenting 286 pages from a 22 000 page transcript of the Chicago 7 conspiracy trial. He says the book aims for objectivity letting Judge Hoffman speak for himself.
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Colonie
George C. McNamee
Yale University
Bantam
McNamee
Hoffman
Vietnam veteran takes revolver in five hour hospital stand
In North Adams a 25 year old veteran, Gary Pedrin, seizedOfficer Theodore Morantis revolver and threatened to shoot himself for five hours outside North Adams Hospital. He was held under care for a nervous condition in Brattleboro and the case was closed as he was transported to the local hospital for treatment amid a five hour hospital blockade.
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North Adams
Gary Pedrin
Theodore Moranti
Brattleboro
Pedrin
North Adams Hospital
Thomas Boucher
Cybil Williams
Mohawk Trail
Artery Arcade
Conservation tract bought near Guthrie home
A 200 acre tract in Washington town near Hinsdale line off Route 6 sold to Richard Baron, Robert Baron, and Philip Schaefer of New York City from Daniel J. Delorey Jr. for about $62,000. Buyers plan conservation and private recreation use.
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Washington
Arlo Guthrie
New York City
Carl Chiaretto Jr
Sanders Real Estate
Lenoi
Hinsdale Line
Richard
Robert Baron
Philip Schaefer
Daniel J. Delorey Jr
Lanesboro
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