Reluctant Widow Seeks Freedom and a Christmas Cruise
Dear Abby counsels a widower who is financially able but blocked by a widow's wish for independence from remarriage. She advises him to cruise alone and embrace dignity, while addressing a reader's insurance query and a drive safety concern with DMV procedures. The column concludes with a DMV administrator offering reexamination steps for an older driver.
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Abby
Department of Motor Vehicles
State Department of Motor Vehicles
Motor Vehicle Administrator
Redheads and Reputations in Hal Boyle Notebook
HAL BOYLE reflects on modern quirks and gender norms with humorous vignettes. He jokes about reputations, love, and appearances, contrasts male and female behavior, and muses on breaded veal cutlets and everyday psychology.
Yale Daily News Students Pull Harvard Lampoon Hoax
Yale Daily News editors staged a prank targeting Harvard students by printing a nude centerfold featuring Henry Kissinger. The hoax issue claimed Kissinger would leave the White House for a Harvard professorship and appeared in Harvard quarters. Yale also notes their football win over Harvard 28-17.
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Cambridge
Mass
Henry Kissinger
Harvard
Harvard Lampoon
Crimson
Kissinger
White House
Harvard School of Government
Yale Daily News
New Haven
Conn
Brad Graham
The
Daily News
Daniel P. Moynaghan
Harbeep
Graham
Yale
Boat Season Is Here Buy Or Sell With Want Ad Section
Boat season arrives as buyers and sellers flood the want ad section. Boats engines sails and accessories traded quickly with casual listings and quick offers. Local dealers report rising interest and shoppers seek prices and availability.
Today In History November 28 1972 highlights and birthdays
On November 28 1972 the world marked Magellan reaching the Pacific in 1520 and Panama's 1821 independence from Spain. Notable recalls include 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire, 1943 Tehran conference, 1919 Lady Astor’s parliamentary seat, plus Jordan PM Tell’s assassination a year ago. Birthdays listed Rose Bampton and Arthur Okum. Thought for today quotes a misattributed line.
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Associated Press
Ferdinand Magellan
Pacific Ocean
South American
Panama
Spain
Combia
Britain
France
House of Commons
Lady Astor
Cocoanut Grove
Boston
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Churchill
Tehran
Iran
United States
Pakistan
India
China
U.n.general Assembly
Jordan
Wasfi Tell
Cairo
Rose Bampton
Arthur M. Okum
Briton Plans Five-Continent Art Word Across World
A 22 year old British traveler calling himself a conceptual artist completes the midway point of the word ARTH across continents. He has placed the middle dot of the E in Utah and marks other letters in Canada and Montana with aims to place A in South America and R in Africa and T in India.
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Salt Lake City
Simon English
Merefondshire
English
Great Salt Lake
Canada
Tobacco Root Mountains
Montana
Laramie
Wyo
South America
Andes
Ica
India
Thornton FTA Students Visit Gorham Campus
Thornton Academy FTA members visited the Gorham campus of the University of Maine at Portland Gorham for a panel on student teacher relations with Mrs. Frances Lodge and Moderator Gail Robida. The group held a bread sale to fund future projects and the Math Team competed in a Portland meet with TA placing sixth among 24 schools.
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Bebbie Hjort
Future Teachers of America
Thornton Academy
Saco
Gorham
University of Maine At Portland-Gorham
Dawn Withee
Judy Anderson
Kathi Stewart
Jane Kiely
Sue Mareiko
Lisa LaCroix
Joyce Townsend
Claire Mondor
Cathi Soule
Frances Lodge
FTA
Harriet Patrick
Margaret Small
Thomas Cushman
John DeSimone
Harold Harmon
Peter Thibeault
Gail Robida
Portland
Dave Casavant
Lynn Ouellette
Paul Simanonok
Stanley Scontras
Dave Lennox
Thornton
Girl Scout Troop Wins 500 Prize for Cleanup Trail
In Alpharetta Georgia Troop 1190 of 28 girls won 500 in the Owens Illinois Environmental Award Program for collecting nearly 6000 pounds of glass for recycling and building a mile long nature trail on 40 acres. Bert Herron praised their creativity and civic effort as they plan to extend the trail with prize funds.
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Alpharetta
Boy Scouts
Cub Scouts
Brownies
Fulton County
Atlanta
Herron
Old Orchard Cheerleaders Attend Clinic at UMaine Farmington
Over 300 cheerleaders and advisors from 27 Maine high schools and one in Massachusetts attended a clinic at the University of Maine at Farmington. Diane Roberts of Kennebunk is noted as a college cheerleading squad member.
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Old Orchard Beach
Old Orchard Beach High School
University of Maine At
Farmington
Maine
Massachusetts
Diane Roberts
Kennebunk
Australian artist writes earth sculpture with English word
In Australia the artist explains the idea of carving the earth with the word England and plans to inscribe objects on a table as a statement of the obvious. He travels on his own money, has no sponsors, and expects the earth sculpture to take several years, hitchhiking toward a next point near the Grand Canyon.
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New York
Australia
English
England
Grand Canyon
Arizona
Curious about oil seepage around spark plugs
A reader asks why oil leaks appear around spark plugs on a 1954 Pontiac V eight with 83 000 miles after recent valve work and rings. The answer points to plug type and copper gasket issues and advises proper torque.
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Mike
Teens Debate Going Steady Across Generations
A survey of high school and college students finds 55 percent say going steady remains popular while many see it as casual and shorter. Teens discuss security versus freedom, parental views, and whether dating others is acceptable while in a steady relationship.
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Nancy Gilbert
Youth Service
Scott Pickoff
Detroit
Alan Burgess
Santa Ana
Calif
Mark Ellison
Framingham
Mass
Tony Capoiaro
Columbus
Ohio
Marge Orsten
Mary Clarke
Carolyn Ketchum
Springfield
Martha Rae
Cheryl Burkholder
Harahan
Bob Ritter
Chicago
Phyllis Bradley
Metairie
Jeff Siegel
Steve Adams
Augusta
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Lee Philbrick
Doc Gibbs
Pam Jones
Mrs. Gibbs
Jim Harvey
Mr. Webb
Nancy Dow
Mrs. Webb
Scott McKenney
George Gibbs
Audrey Allen
Emily Webb
Art Nadeau
Dear Abby
Au Revoir
Rome
Cruise
Abigail
Boyie
Hal Boyle
Ertaker
the Law Office OF
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Main St
Elizabeth L. Caron
Executrix
Tabs
Louise Cliche
Fred Blow
Virginia Bruce
Girls Athletic Association
Girl Scouts
Old Orchard
Journal
Ocean Pines
P. O. Box
Ocean Park
Kennebunk Beach
Biddeford
Elm Street
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