Packwood recalls Kennedy tour as royal adulation
UPI reports Sen Robert Packwood on a two day health tour with Sen Edward Kennedy in Chicago and Cleveland. He described the reception as almost frightening with nurses patients and reporters swarming Kennedy. Packwood questioned the tour's usefulness and said the adulation resembled campaigning more than governance.
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UPI
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Ore
Edward M
Ted) Kennedy
D-Mass
Senate Public Health Subcommittee
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Cleveland
Packwood
Bill Robertson
Oregon
Human stories missing in Vietnam War coverage says Klein
White House Communications Director Herbert G. Klein told about 1,000 high school journalists that Vietnam coverage lacks human stories of the men serving. He compared it to Ernie Pyle era reporting and noted no censorship, with TV delivering stories instantly and some embargoes only for troop safety.
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UPI
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Herbert G. Klein
Vietnam
Ernie Pyle
Klein
59 year old flight hostess celebrates 35 years in skies
Ida Staggers, a Trans World Airlines hostess, marked her 59th birthday while still flying between the Far East and San Francisco on a 707 jet. She began in 1936 aboard a DC2 from Kansas City to Chicago and plans to continue until 65, with many service men as passengers on current trips.
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UPI
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Trans World Airlines
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Hill City
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St. Luke’s Hospital
Mohawk Restores Complete Service After Strike
Mohawk Airlines full service resumes after five month work stoppage. The carrier now operates 389 daily departures across 87 cities in 12 states and Canada with two daily round trips to Chicago Midway from Albany Utica Rome and Buffalo and non-stop from Erie. About 2,200 of 2,500 employees recalled. remaining 300 workers not yet called back.
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Watertown
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Islip
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Albany
Rome
Buffalo
Waitress denies dinner to Martha Mitchell at White House dinner
Washington police reports recount that Martha Mitchell, wife of Attorney General John Mitchell, was refused dinner at the White House Correspondents Association dinner because she had no dinner tickets. An FBI agent guarding the Mitchells held the tickets. after negotiations, the tickets were recovered and dinner served.
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FBI
Three face drug charges after South Burlington chase
In a high speed pursuit through South Burlington three youths were arrested and arraigned in Vermont District Court Burlington on drug and breaking and entering charges. Francis Schoonmaker 22 Edward Charbonneau 22 and Arthur Beshaw 16 face bail set at 5000 each. A fourth man Charles Beshaw 21 was freed on 100 after careless driving charges. Police recovered a large quantity of regulated drugs allegedly stolen from a Burlington doctor. An inventory will determine value, with officer estimating over 100000 on the open market.
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UPI
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Vermont District Court
Francis Schoonmaker
Edward Charbonneau
Essex Junction
Arthur Beshaw
Jeffersonville
Charles Beshaw
Fires scar Franklin school and firehouse equipment loss
FRANKLIN UP I Friday night a fire heavily damaged a classroom at Franklin Elementary School. Firefighters extinguished the blaze and stayed on scene for any flare ups. Early Saturday morning a second fire at the firehouse destroyed firefighting equipment. cause was listed as unknown. Cairns named to USO board by Nixon. C Douglas Cairns of Burlington, longtime GOP figure, to join the USO board. Senator Aiken to deliver Vermont College graduation bac calaureate on June 6, 1971.
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UPI
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Oil Company
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Nixon
Bikeways protest rolls through Albany streets
Over 150 Troy area residents joined a pedal power ride in Albany to press for designated bikeways to ease traffic and pollution. Cyclists included housewives and students as a line of bicycles slowed city streets for several blocks. In Cohoes, authorities drag for Edward Leonard 19 feared drowned after a raft broke up on the rain swollen Hudson near Van Schaick Island. friend Robert Mayo 18 reached shore.
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Cohoes
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Robert Mayo
Berkshire bank fake check spree ends in Pittsfield
A GE employee alerts the bank to a bogus check cashing spree that may have netted over 25 000 dollars. Constantine Peters 46 of Bridgeport Conn is jailed after trying to cash more bad checks. Bail set at 2000 dollars. A 1500 foot stretch of South Street becomes a political issue in the mayoral race over a federally funded traffic project. Berkshire Medical Center and the Council on the Aging launch a friendly visitor program with 92 volunteers to assist seniors 60 and older.
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