Reynolds Tops Eighth Grade Admired Figures
The World Almanac poll of 2,000 eighth graders shows Burt Reynolds as the No 1 hero for the second year. Most of the top 30 were entertainers with Sugar Ray Leonard Magic Johnson and Earl Campbell as the lone sports figures. Brooke Shields is the top ranking female at 16. The oldest winner is George Burns at 85. The top 10 includes Reynolds Pryor Alda Shields Ritter Baio Derek Burns Leonard and Martin.
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Burt Reynolds
World Almanac & Book of Facts
Reynolds
Sugar” Ray Leonard
Magic” Johnson
Earl Campbell
George Burns
Brooke Shields
Richard Pryor
Alan Alda
Miss Shields
John Ritter
Scott Baio
Bo Derek
Burns
Leonard
Steve Martin
Cleaning crew at Ford Museum defies odds in Michigan
In Grand Rapids the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum employs 14 cleaners who are all disabled including legally blind and partly paralyzed workers. The GSA awarded a $200 000 maintenance contract to Pine Rest Christian Rehabilitation Services. The crew began work Tuesday.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
U.S. General Services Administration
Pine Rest Christian Rehabilitation Services
Will Jones
Herbert Starr
Pine Rest Group
Landon sells Topeka properties to former son-in-law
Alf Landon 94 sold radio station WREN and the WREN Building in Topeka to Phil Kassebaum for more than 1 million dollars. Kassebaum, longtime station lawyer, is the ex-husband of Landon’s daughter Nancy Kassebaum, Kansas senator, by whom he was divorced in 1979.
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Alf Landon
Topeka
Kan
Variety
Landon
WREN
Phil Kassebaum
Kassebaum
Kansas
Nancy Kassebaum
Captain Kangaroo Star Becomes Grandfather at Last
New York AP reports Bob Keeshan known as Captain Kangaroo for 26 years welcomed his first grandchild Britton Conroy Keeshan born Tuesday in Greenwich Connecticut. The child is the son of Michael and Lynn Keeshan. Keeshan already has two daughters.
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New York
Bob Keeshan
CBS
Britton Conroy Keeshan
Greenwich
Conn
Michael
Lynn Keeshan
Carter says panel not for personal political career
In Atlanta, the Jimmy Carter Committee for a Greater America is described by Carter as a legal instrument to promote shared goals and support like minded candidates. Carter insists the PAC is not an instrument for his own ambitions and he does not seek office. The group, modeled on Ford and Nixon efforts, was registered with the FEC last week.
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Atlanta
Jimmy Carter Committee For A
Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon
Federal Elections Commission
Raquel Welch Wows Broadway As Woman of the Year Debut
Raquel Welch, substituting for Lauren Bacall in Woman of the Year, won a standing ovation on her Broadway debut Tuesday night at Xenon discotheque after a stage flub. She shared a kiss with husband Adrian Wienfield and danced in a silver black jumpsuit following celebrations.
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Raquel Welch
Lauren Bacall
Broadway
Miss Welch
Xenon
Adrian Wienfield
Gazette Wire Services
Natalie Wood funeral mourned by friends and family in Hollywood
Actress Natalie Wood is mourned at Westwood Memorial Park where Robert Wagner and his daughters attend a 15 minute graveside service. Notables including Frank Sinatra and Fred Astaire attend while Wagner, desolate, handles all arrangements amid inquiries about Woods death.
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Hollywood
UPI
Natalie Wood
Marilyn Monroe
Westwood Memorial Park
Robert Wagner
Wagner
Beverly Hills
Kate
Miss Wagner
Natasha
Courtney
Wagners
Miss Wood
Stephen Fitzgerald
Fred Astaire
Rock Hudson
Stephanie Powers
Elizabeth Taylor
Lionel Stander
Vitamin E may prevent blindness in premature babies
A Boston study shows high doses of vitamin E given soon after birth reduce severity of retrolental fibroplasia in very small infants needing oxygen. Researchers led by Dr. Helen Mintz Hittner at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine report fewer severe eye injuries in babies under 3.3 pounds, with findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Boston
United States
Helen Mintz Hittner
Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston
Baylor College of Medicine
University of Houston
New England Journal of Medicine
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