Housewife Persuades Escaped Convict to Surrender
Marian Poxson a 48 year old housewife spoke calmly to Lester B Dionne a 35 year old forger and convinced him to surrender after a six hour manhunt including a kidnap threat two break ins and a high speed ride state police set roadblocks and officials hailed her as a heroine while Dionne who fled from a southern Michigan state prison farm turned himself in in Munith Michigan.AP
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Marian Poxson
Vermont Congressmen Cast Mixed Votes on Key Amendments
AP report records how New England lawmakers sided on several roll calls. It notes votes on McGovern's amendment to cut 52 million for bomber redevelop- ment, Cotton Wheat Bill subsidies, Burdick Humphrey price supports, tobacco price limits, FCC budget provisions, and a Peace Corps funding cut.
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New England
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Californians View Rocket Age Displays From Minuteman Tests
AP reports from Vandenberg AFB Calif that improved Minuteman missiles produced spectacular high altitude contrails and explosions in the Western sky during test launches. The hotter exhaust creates dramatic light and vapor effects as missiles streak into thinner air over California. London reports America’s Cup racing traces to 1851 world championship won by the US yacht America.
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Air Force
West Coast
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California
London
API
United States
America
Doctor Shot Dead By Narcotic Thieves
Dr Dalton C. O'Brien aged 61 was killed when two men forced entry to his Cambridge home seeking narcotics. He died after surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston from a gunshot wound to the abdomen. Police traced footsteps from the house to Fresh Pond Reservation but no suspects were found.
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Mass
Dalton C. O’brien
O’brien
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
Anna
Fresh Pond Reservation
U S Boys Fall Short in Olympic Water Polo Title Quest
Tokyo dispatch notes that the United States has never won an Olympic water polo championship, highlighting the persistent gap in achieving a top title.
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Tokyo
UPI
United States
Girl with Cancer Will Lose Eyesight Today
Vicki Wray, a young cancer patient from Durham, will have her remaining eye removed today after losing her right eye in July. The nationwide donations exceeded 17000 dollars, and she celebrated her third birthday three weeks early after Christmas gifts arrived from hundreds of people.
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N.C
Vicki Wray
Vicki
Bowling Green
S.C
Duke University Hospital
Wray
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