Rumor's Reforms Aimed at Italian Parliamentary Approval
Italian Prime Minister Mariano Rumor unveiled a reform program to streamline government, boost education autonomy, and stabilize the lira, with a majority coalition in both houses likely to back it before Christmas. The plan faces Communist opposition and Socialist student protests over its scope.
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Mariano Rumor
Rumor
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Christian Democrats
Palermo
Lecce
Turin
The
Socialist Party
Communist Party
Aldo Moro
Pietro Ingrao
L’unita
Italy
Thursday Optimists Win Merit Award in 1967 68
The Thursday Noon Optimist Club of Cedar Rapids receives the Merit Club award from Optimist International for excellence in boys work membership growth and attendance for 1967 68. The presentation honors the club's achievements and leadership within the organization.
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Optimist Club of
Cedar Rapids
Optimist International
Optimist President Visits Iowa District Dinner in Iowa City
John Hays 2107 Greenwood Drive SE serves as 1967-68 club president. Optimist International President Gene H. Sternberg attends a dinner in Iowa City during his visit to the Iowa District on Friday.
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John Hays
Greenwood Drive
Optimist International
Gene H. Sternberg
Iowa City
Sternberg
Iowa
Salvation Army Seeks Donations For Christmas Kettles
Salvation Army officials renewed their appeal for Christmas kettle contributions to fund meals for needy families. So far $2,818 has been donated toward a $5,000 goal, with requests to assist 500 area families. Donations may be dropped in kettles downtown and at Lindale Plaza or mailed to Box 833.
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Salvation Army
Kettles
Lindale Plaza
Santa Sworn in As New Marine
Ronnie Ogden, 19, dressed as Santa, was sworn into the U S Marine Corps in Jacksonville Florida. He received orders to report to the Marine training base at Parris Island South Carolina on January 20.
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Santa
Jacksonville
Fla
Santa Claus
U. S. Marine Corps
Navy
Elmer Huber
Armed Forces
Ronnie Ogden
Marine Training Base
Parris Island
S. C
Explorer Giotto Daiielli Dies in Florence
Prof Giotto Daiielli noted geographer geologist and explorer died Monday in Florence. He held teaching posts and led expeditions shaping geographic and geological studies in Italy and beyond.
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Explorer
Florence
Italy
Giotto Daiielli
Five Explorers Marooned In Antarctic Rescue Effort
In London AP reports five British Antarctic Survey members are stranded after a twin engine Otter forced down in Graham Land. The Endurance ice patrol ship and two helicopters are racing to reach the jammed plane, ferry fuel, and establish a rescue base. Pilot Squadron Leader Derek Smith leads the crew with two airmen and two civilian researchers.
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Antarctic
Navy
British Antarctic Survey
Graham Land
Admiralty
Endurance
Falkland Islands
Adelaide Island
Stonington Base
John Biscoe
Derek Smith
Royal Air Force
David Binning
Ian Willey
Court Holds Odor Suit on Hog Farm
In England the High Court heard a hog farm nuisance case. Judge Sir Gerald Thesiger weighed sniffing the odor versus formal proof as Charles Kingsley and his wife seek unspecified damages. The scene included forklift handling of a tall manure pile and deodorant spraying as the ruling remains pending.
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Egerton
England
High Court of England
Gerald Thesiger
Charles Kingsley
Boardman
Czechs Plot Timetable for New Assembly and Cabinet
Deputy Premier Petr Colotka outlined plans for a new national assembly and a federal cabinet to take effect next year. The central committee would meet in early January to discuss formation, with elections to the new national assembly and a federal chamber of nations to be created, and the fate of Josef Smrkovsky remaining unsettled amid threats of a general strike.
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Tyrol
Austria
Mussolini
Vatican
Italy
Oldrich Cernik
Colotka
National Assembly
Central Committee
Ludvik Svoboda
Svoboda
Josef Smrkovsky
Smrkovsky
Prague
Bratislava
Chamber of the People
Czech National Council
Slovak National Council
Chamber of Nations
Santa balloon escapes Euclid parade
Santa Claus floated away on a 20 foot helium balloon after Euclid's annual Christmas parade. Chamber of Commerce officials urged residents to report sightings and directions of its travel to help recover the airborne figure.
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Euclid, Ohio
Santa Claus
Euclid
Chamber of Commerce
Anti Aviation Award Goes to Defense Dept for F-111
The Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society awards 1968 anti aviation citation to the U.S. defense department for the F-111 program. It cites a taxpayer cost of 7 million dollars per aircraft and nine crashes in Air Force testing as evidence of futility. The spoof society recalls its 1959 founding as a parody of the Wright Brothers observance.
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Kill Devil Hills
N.C
U.S. Defense Department
Department
Air Force
The
Bombs Involved in Mishap Not Loaded
The bottom of Donald Jenkerson’s trailer with 72 concussion bombs caved in on U S highway 74 causing sparks. Jenkerson of St Louis learned later the bombs were unfused and could not explode. Traffic was diverted as the bombs were loaded onto other trucks for Sunny Point military terminal.
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N.C
Donald Jenkerson
U.S. Highway 74
Jenkerson
St. Louis
Sunny Point
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