Italywide 24 hour strike disrupts economy and streets
A 24 hour nationwide strike snarled Italy's core industries and transportation with demonstrations by students and workers. Public transit in Rome halted during peak hours while pensioners pressed for more money. Crippled citizens marched to the Chigi Palace as Premier Leone faced protests.
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Associated Press
Rome
Italy
Piazza Barberini
Chigi Palace
Giovanni Leone
Piazza Dei Santi Aostoli
Piazza Venezia
Government is always an Indian giver
A Wellesley Hills column argues that private business should lead urban and rural renewal to avoid expanding federal costs. It warns that government overreach and subsidies cripple initiative, urging private sector self-discipline and targeted programs to create jobs, housing, and health solutions without tax burdens.
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Wellesley Hills
Mass
Appalachia
America
Photography Annual 1969 and U S Camera Annual 1969 Reviewed
The 1968 year-end trend in the two photo graphic annuals is explored with notes on Photography Annual 1969 and U S Camera Annual 1969. Calls out double exposure techniques, avant-garde images, Vietnam and U S A protest groups, and Steichen’s tribute as part of the year’s photographic narrative.
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Popular Fietegraphy
U.S
Tom Maloney
Vietnam
U.S.A
Raphy
Alfred Stieglitz
America
Edward Steichen
Steichen
White House
Buzzard
Stamps In The News: Irish Definitive Set Wins Hidden in Art
Artists from Ireland and abroad competed in an international contest to design Eire’s latest definitive postage stamp series. Heinrich Gerl of Munich won. designs include a stylized dog motif on halfpence to sixpence and a stag from an Irish art decoration for sevenpence to one shilling fivepence. The two shilling sixpence and tenpence show a winged ox symbol of St Luke from a Gospel Book in Lichfield Cathedral. the ten shilling features the eagle of St John from an ancient Irish manuscript.
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AP News
Ireland
Eire
Heinrich Gerl
Munich
West Germany
British
Luke the Evangelist
Lichfield
St. John the Evangelist
Photograpy tips for next year’s annuals and self use
A brief note discusses using photography to benefit personal projects for next year’s annuals. It emphasizes practical approaches and actionable ideas to leverage camera work for self promotion and publication opportunities.
Wheelchair Games stamp honors 1968 Israel event in Ram at Gan
Israel issues a new stamp for the 17th Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Olympics to be held at the Iland Sports Center and Municipal Stadium in Ramat Gan with 30 nations slated to compete in wheelchair basketball swimming fencing weight lifting table tennis bowling snooker and archery. The stamp shows a wheelchair basketball scene and is sold through local dealers. Also India marks Gandhi centenary with four stamps and a Tagore tribute. Two sisters in Trenton and Newark birth twins on June 13 1966 and again on Tuesday. Four states welcome new university admissions in November and North Carolina marks its 179th birthday in November.
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Israel
Israel Philatelic Agency
America
Stoke- Mandeville
Britain
England
Iland
Ramat Gan
India
Ghandi
Buddha
Ank
Gaganendranath Tagore
Trenton
N.J
Mary Mitchell Stamates
Anna Mitchell Vulgaris
Newark
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