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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1979
Page
1
Actor Lee Marvin Ordered to Pay Michelle Marvin
Superior Court Judge Arthur Marshall ruled Lee Marvin must pay Michelle Marvin 104000 for rehabilitation after finding no contract to share his fortune. The 1964 to 1970 relationship ended without a marriage, and the court emphasized the award is for reeducation and retraining rather than shared wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Lee Marvin
Michelle Marvin
Superior Court
Arthur Marshall
Miss Marvin
Marvin
Court In Equity
Marshall
Michelle
Cedar Rapids council considers two more massage instruction courses
City leaders weigh approving two additional local massage instruction courses to close a potential loophole. The same edition notes Cedar Rapids gas dealers lobbying in Des Moines over a controversial bill and mentions Lynda Robb recalling notes about destroyed food from the White House era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
White House
Lynda Johnson Robb
Mark Williams breaks into poster business on Page 12C
The note mentions Robin Williams, nicknamed Mark, entering the poster industry with a feature on Page 12C. No further details are provided about the venture, dates, or partners in the readable text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark
Robin Williams
Inexpensive Meats Headed Out Warns The Butcher
The Butcher warns that cheap cuts under a dollar per pound are fading from markets. The note appears in a newspaper page listing sections such as Advice, Marion, Bridge, Movies, and various departments. The copyright line concludes the snippet.
Balloons Released Over Palo To Protest Nuclear Power
Free Environment and Iowa Public Interest Research Group released over 400 helium balloons near the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Palo to protest nuclear energy. Balloons drifted northwest, with several tangling in power lines. postcards attached were to be returned to the Iowa City groups as a test of containment. The event serves as a warm-up for a downtown demonstration planned Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Free Environment
Iowa Public Interest Research Group
Duane Arnold Energy Center
Palo
Iowa City
Six South Tama administrators denied 1979 contracts
South Tama Community School District officials voted not to offer 1979 80 contracts to six administrators including high school and junior high principals. The move follows superintendent Joel Wedergren’s suspension on March 7 and faces mixed reactions from staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TAMA
South Tama
Joel Wedergren
Wedergren
van Overmeer
Mike Davis
Bruce Tonkinson
Supreme Court narrows media libel shield in ruling
The court, in a 6-3 decision, allows public figures to probe a journalist's state of mind and the editorial process in libel cases. The ruling reverses a lower court, enabling Herbert to question CBS and others in a $44.7 million suit stemming from a 1973 60 Minutes segment and an Atlantic Monthly article.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals
Byron White
Army
Anthony Herbert
CBS
Herbert
Mike Wallace
Barry Lando
The
Atlantic Monthly
Lando
White
Warren Burger
Harry Blackmun
Lewis Powell
William Rehnquist
John Paul Stevens
William Brennan
Thurgood Marshall
Potter Stewart
Marshall
In prison but running for president
Prison inmate Garrett Brock Trapnell campaigns for U S president from Marion Illinois federal penitentiary using franking. A new Bureau of Federal Prisons policy on July 1 will cap postage at five stamps monthly, limiting his campaign mailings. The director says no link to policy change and indigent prisoners may get limited extra stamps at the warden's discretion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garrett Brock Trapnell
United States
Trapnell
Marion, Ill
Federal Penitentiary
Bureau of Federal Prisons
Norman Carlson
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A. David Kagan
California
Actor’s
U.S
Alice Cooper
Flip Wilson
Rod Steiger
Nick Nolte
Peter Frampton
Penelope McCall
New York
Michelle Triola Marvin
Iowa
Marion
Dove
Milwaukee Railroad
Linda Odeen
Confidence
Moby Dick
Albert van Overmeer
Garrett Trapnell
South Vietnam
ABC News
News
Dale Kueter
Carlson
F.E.C
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