Hollywood Beat from Freeport Festival Sparks Stars and Banter
Sheilah Graham reports Kim Noark promotes The Great Bank Robbery with Zero Mostel and Clint Walker in Grand Bahama. Ernest Borgnine advances The Wild Bunch plans. Francis Coppola discusses The Rain People and a new San Francisco film facility. Festival life shifts to informal hours, stars joke and mingle amid heat and beachside parties.
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Freeport
Grand Bahama Island
Nana
Kim Noark
Warner Brothers
Joel Thomas
Kim
Zero Mostel
Clint Walker
Warners
Zero
Clint
Wild Bunch
Ernie
Spain
Shirley Knight
Shirley
the Rain People
Francis Coppola
San Francisco
Francis
The
Coppola
Youth Leader's Camp Begins at Camp Dawson
The fifth annual Youth Leader's Camp at Camp Dawson near Kingwood hosts 114 West Virginia youths for a week of military life and skills demonstrations. West Virginia National Guard leads the camp with Jim Carlen and Jim Ragland attending. Army Special Forces parachute drills and Air National Guard aircraft shows highlight activities. Co-directors are Col. Frank Haught and Capt. Donald P. Smith, with sponsors from civic groups and firms. The 1969 encampment is the largest yet and has earned Freedoms Foundation awards in prior years.
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Camp Dawson
Kingwood
West Virginia
Air Force
West Virginia National Guard
West Virginia University
Jim Carlen
Jim Ragland
Army Special Forces
Air National Guard
Frank Haught
Buckhannon
Donald P. Smith
Charleston
Freedoms Foundation
Valley Forge
Sixth Davis and Elkins conference for counselors set
Officials announce the sixth Davis and Elkins summer conference for high school and junior counselors from 10 states. About 50 delegates are expected from Delaware Connecticut Maryland New Jersey Massachusetts New York Ohio Pennsylvania Virginia DC and West Virginia.
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Elkins
Delaware
Connecticut
Maryland
New Jersey
Massachusetts
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Virginia
District of Columbia
West Virginia
Castro’s Cuban Economic Policy Seen as Success
Cambridge Massachusetts AP Samuel Stebbins Bowles 30 year old Harvard assistant economics professor says Castro’s policies show promise for underdeveloped Latin American nations. He cites not crash industrialization but heavy public investment in education highways and medical programs and notes sugar relations with the Soviet bloc support expansion into citrus. Bowles urges recognizing Castro diplomatically.
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Samuel Stebbins Bowles
Chester A. Bowles
Fidel Castro
Bowles
Harvard
Castro
U.S
Connecticut
India
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Tazewell
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Westgate
First National Bank
Flat Top National Bank
Bluefield, W. VA
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