Hope Lost For All 62 On Jet
Rescuers pulled bodies and debris from the shark infested Caribbean waters after Air France Flight 707 plunged from 33 000 feet near La Guaira port 7 miles north of Caracas. Sixty two aboard, including 21 crew and relief crew and 19 Caracas boarders, remained unaccounted for with two victims confirmed Folke Claeson and his wife. Divers planned dawn dives to seek clues to cause as search area covered 10 to 140 foot depths. Officials had not yet identified most nationalities or US citizens aboard. A separate note from Boston reports Mayor Kevin H White delaying an aerial rush hour survey by 2 minutes due to traffic.)
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Caracas
Air France
Caribbean
la Guaira
Santiago
Chile
Paris
Lima
Peru
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Bogota
Colombia
U.S
Stockholm
Folke Claeson
Woman sells $50 painting to buy car gains record auction
Edinburgh art teacher Rosemary Cattrell sold a modest painting, The Temptation of Eve by Hans Baldung Grien, for a record $537,600 at Sotheby's in Edinburgh. The work, unused in her living room for 15 years, fetched a price far above expectations and set a German old master auction record.
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New York Times
London
Edinburgh
Hans Baldung
Grien
Sotheby's
Baldung
Albrecht Durer
Rosemary Cattrell
Cattrell
Sotheby’s
Cattrells
US Toll Near Low For War
AP reports a week of combat deaths shrinking to 70 Americans, the lowest in two months, with total U.S. casualties reaching 300,629. Government tallies show 373 South Vietnamese soldiers killed and 953 wounded. 2,177 enemy combatants killed. U.S. and South Vietnamese air strikes hit North Vietnamese forces in Cambodia and near the Saigon frontier, with cross-border operations described as pursuit and self defense.
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Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
Cambodia
Prince
Tuyen Binh
Massachusetts 1970 session opens with 6105 bills filed
The 1970 Massachusetts Legislature opens with a record 6105 bills filed in the two houses, 4860 in the House and 1245 in the Senate, surpassing last year’s 5871. The rush includes measures on state worker pay, veterans’ job access, environmental groups, and proposed new committees and constitutional rights.
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Boston
Massachusetts
House
Senate
Brougch
David M. Barley
D-Holyoke
Bartley
Massachusetts Public Employes Council 41
Union
Afl-Cio
William F. Hogan
D-Everett
Civil Service Commission
Boston Blacks Loaned $350,000 By Episcopalians
Three black-operated Boston agencies received low interest loans totaling 350000 from the Protestant Episcopal Church of the U S A The funds include 200000 to Freedom Industries for two Freedom Foods markets 100000 to Financial Approach & Investment Technique for manufacturing and 50000 to Fund Development Corp for a day care center The church said the loans are part of 13 million lent to similar groups in 11 cities
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Boston
Protestant Episcopal Church of
U.S.A
Freedom Industries
Freedom Foods
Development Corp
U.S
Insurance Executive Resigns Post
Boston AP Robert E Slater president of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co resigns as president and from the board citing differences in views on policy with the board. He has no immediate plans and wishes to devote time to other interests in private life, having served since 1966.
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Boston
Marsha M. Eliot
Massachusetts Committee On Children and Youth
Francis W . Sargent
William M. Schmidt
Harvard School of Public Health
Eliot
State
Harvard
Children's Bureau
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
MCCY
Department of Youth Services
Schmidt
Brookline
Robert E Slater
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co
Slater
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Carr Hardware CO
North ST
Burger Chef
Wigwam
Innsbruck
Sorel Boots
Hes
Niico Et Selma Hed
The
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Raffles
Robert H. Quinn
Quinn
U.S. Treasury
Massachusetts Senate
James F
Ronan
Duxbury
Norman L. Pidgeon
H. James Shea Jr
Newton
Shea
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
California
New York
RCA Victor
First Agricultural National Bank
United States
First Agricultural Or National Bank.org
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