Opening of Metropolitan Opera House dazzles New York
New York hosts the Metropolitan Opera House debut at Lincoln Center with Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson in attendance and Leontyne Price performing the world premiere aria from Samuel Barber Antony and Cleopatra. Tickets ranged from 15 to 200 dollars as 3,800 seatholders filled the theater amid security and labor tensions with Local 802.
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New York
UPI
Metropolitan Opera Company
Lyndon B. Johnson
Monument To the Arts
Lincoln Center
Opera House
Leontyne Price
Cleopatra
Permiere
Samuel Barber
American Federation
Desegregated Grenada Schools Reopen Amid Tension
In Grenada Mississippi 162 Negro students returned to Rundle High and Horn Elementary as federal attorneys seek a permanent court order to safeguard desegregation. U.S. District Judge Claude Clayton weighs security needs while state troopers and the FBI monitored. The reopening followed a violent outbreak earlier in the week that injured 33 people. Governor Johnson moved in troopers to assist amid testimony alleging police inaction during the attacks.
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Grenada
Miss
UPI
Hosea Williams
Martin Luther King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
FBI
Rundle High
Horn Elementary
U.S
Claude Clayton
Oxford
Mississippi
Clayton
John Doar
Civil Rights Division
J. Harold
Paul B. Johnson
Highway Patrol
Johnson
Wayne Morse Held In Britch Shooting
Wayne F Morse 38 of Woodford entered not guilty pleas on seven counts linked to a shooting Wednesday in Woodford that seriously wounded Douglas H Britch 33 of 114 Rollin St Judge George M Fienberg set 7000 total bail 1000 per count Morse seeks own recognizance Britch treated at Albany Medical Center in satisfactory condition after initial transfer from Putnam Memorial Hospital Morse sought to dismiss the case calling it ridiculous and requested release on own recognizance.
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Wayne F. Morse
Woodford
Douglas H. Britch
Rollin St
Bennington
George M. Fienberg
Morse
Britch
Albany Medical Center
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Albany
Douglas Britch
Fienberg
Atty
Henry F.) Black
White River Junction
Inside Page Highlights From Union High School Construction
On the Inside Jean Wassick discusses lovable house pests. Page Picture story notes the new Union High School construction. Page 5 mentions a Bennington man operating a cycle shop at night on Page 7.
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Jean Wassick
New Union High School
Bennington Man
Dirksen Pushes Vote on Prayer Amendment in Senate
Senator Everett Dirksen announced plans to move Monday to force a vote on a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. He cited Supreme Court rulings and sought a two thirds majority, while acknowledging may be unlikely. He noted he has 48 sponsors, three short of a simple majority, and would substitute the amendment for a cloture vote to end debate on civil rights.
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Washington
UPI
Senate Gop
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Senate
Supreme Court
Dirksen
Congress
Johns Hopkins University Hospital
Baltimore
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Pravda Attacks Red Guard Rampages in Editorial
Moscow dispatch reports Pravda accuses the Peking regime of planning to export its cultural revolution beyond China as the Soviet party newspaper launches its first editorial attack on the teenage Red Guard rampages.
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Moscow
UPI
Peking
China
Red Guard
Pravda
Mao Tse-tung
Leon Trotsky
Tanjug
Chou Erlai
Red Guards
Lin Piao
Communist Party
Chou
Mao
Lin
Hong Kong Times
Peng Chen
Lo Jun-ching
Hong Kong
Anshan
Red China
Chen Yi
All But One Saved As Plane Is Ditched
A twin engine Spantax DC3 ditched off Santa Cruz de Tenerife with 27 aboard. Captain Eugenio Maldonado steered the craft to sea to avoid cliff landfall, rescuing 26 while one passenger Fernando Izquierdo 35 refused to leave. The plane stayed afloat about 15 minutes before sinking.
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Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Canary Islands
API
Fernando Izquierdo
Maldonado
Spantax Airlines
Spantax
Spanish Sahara
Iberia Airlines
This
Tally-Ho License Suspended for 10 Days
Vermont Liquor Control Board suspended the Tally-Ho on Route 7 in Pownal for selling alcohol to a minor and not requiring an adult registration card. Rutland VFW Post 648 also had its license suspended for serving liquor after legal hours. Both suspensions took effect at closing time Thursday.
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America
Patriots
Mt. Anthony Union High
Burr and
Burton Seminary
Bellows Falls
Bennington Catholic High
Labers
Fair Haven
Burton
Hoosick Falls
Metropolitan Opera House
Lady Bird
George Stravropulis
Ferdinand Marcos
The
Philippines
Marcos
Met
Lincoln Center For the Performing Arts
Flannery
Justice Department
H.J. Ray
Margaret Keeton
Wayne Morse
Bennington Village
Putnam Hospital
Eugenio Maldonado
Palma
Tenerife
Owen F. Middleton
Chicago Heights
Ill
John E. Swearington
Standard Oil Co
Indiana
Middleton
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