Biddeford Officials Push For Public Coastal Recreational Areas
City leaders advocate expanding public coastal recreation near Fortunes Rocks while facing opposition over safety, traffic, pollution, and potential property devaluation. Hearings questioned beach size and parking feasibility as state control over Etherington Pond could block the project. If denied, search for alternate sites continues.
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Biddeford
Fortunes Rocks
King's Highway
Etherington Pond
Power mower mayhem injures Kendall man in lawn mishap
Vernon Lamons of Kendall Michigan was mowing his lawn when a fast moving blade struck a .22 caliber bullet causing the slug to pierce his leg. Experts warn power mowers are strong and quick and can cause unexpected harm if not handled carefully.
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Vernon Lamons
Kendall
Mich
Dare to be different college rules draw Andrew-era contrast
Paul Harvey surveys campuses from Belmont College in Nashville to Northwestern and Berkeley like mindedly arguing between strict codes and liberal practices. He cites administrators and students clashing over drinking dancing and drugs, praising propriety and questioning campus freedom.
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Paul Harvey
Kookie College
Reagan
Belmont College
Nashville
Tenn
Athens
Southland
Belmont
Tennessee Baptists
Northwestern
Miller
Evanston
World illiteracy haunts half of Asia Africa and Latin America
A Population Bureau study reports nearly 750 million adults in non Communist regions cannot read or write and world illiteracy rose by about 200 million in six years. Of 375 million school age children only 115 million are in school, about 30 percent.
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Asia
Africa
Latin America
Population _——e Bureau
Warmasien
Poison gas use in Yemen and Saudi Arabia eyed
An official Yemen report details gas bombings near Ketaf and Jebel Avil Yazid in January 1967 with many casualties and widespread crops and livestock damage. Red Cross teams collected evidence, while Pakistani doctors confirmed gas symptoms in survivors.
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Drew Pearson
Jack Anderson
Washington
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
West Germany
United Arab Republic
Nasser
Germany
Colummn
Jebel Avil Yazid
Greenwich Time
Ketaf
Bait Michlaf Doran
Bait Beni Salamah
Anis
International Red Cross
Geneva
Najran
Ketar
On The Line Great gulf still exists
The piece notes visible strains between the Kennedy and Johnson camps at John F Kennedy’s christening, with LBJ’s brisk speaking and distant crowds including Jacqueline Kennedy. It also highlights Jean Nidetch’s weight loss founding Weight Watchers and the WW movement’s rapid spread and support culture. An item on the American Jewish Committee meeting discusses removal of hostile Catholic references from schoolbooks.
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Bob Considine
New York
Johnsons
Kennedys
John F. Kennedy
LBJ
White House
Kennedy
Defense
McNamara
Johnson
Jacqueline Kennedy
Caroline
Ken
Nnedy
Jean Nideteh
Tel Aviv
Pomnrg
Washington News: United States as lone world policeman
Washington notes that the United States bears the burden of policing the free world as Britain and France weaken. With Britain withdrawing from East of Suez and France diminished, U S influence grows as the primary counterweight to tyranny from Egypt to Hanoi. The piece argues this role is acknowledged by many leaders despite criticism at home and abroad.
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Bruce Biossat
Washington
Enterprise Assn
London
Vietnam
Middle East
America
Free World
Britain
France
United States
Charles de Gaulle
Egypt
Akness
Suez
RAF
Hong Kong
Singapore
Royal Marine
Aden
Asia
Far East
U.S
Nasser
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh
United Nations
Rockefeller Plays Waiting Game for GOP Nomination
Russell Kirk analyzes Nelson Rockefeller’s stealth strategy to back Romney while positioning himself as kingmaker. The piece outlines potential paths through New Hampshire and convention delegates, noting Nixon’s rising influence and possible Ronald Reagan challenge as key obstacles.
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New York
Albany
Rockefeller
Nelson Rockefeller
Agnew
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
New Mexico
Washington
Nixon
Romney
Ronald Reagan
Harold Coffin on World Tension and Ecumenical Council
The piece notes calm at the South Pole amid global tensions and critiques a Spanish reader Yo Soy Espanol for anti religious imagery. It mentions John XXIII and a pro ecumenical council and describes Sperry Center at the International University for Social Studies Pro Deo in Rome guiding revisions of centuries of religious conflict.
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John XXIII
Ecumenical Council
Rome
Shylock
Domingo del Val
Catholic Hierarchy
Belgium
Leo Cardinal Suenens
Austria
Franz Cardinal Koenig
Biddeford Daily Pub Details Administrative Info
The Biddeford Daily Except Sunday lists Adams Street address ll Adams Street Biddeford Maine with W Paul Casavant as publisher and E P Ingalls as managing editor. It notes subscription rates payable in advance of one month 2.60 six months 15.50 and one year 31.00. The paper is a member of the Associated Press with AP dispatches and local news.
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Adams Street
Biddeford
Maine
W. Paul Casavant
E. P. Ingalls
Associated Press
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