Can You Dig It game show joins Black Journal lineup
Public television’s Black Journal adds a game show segment titled Can You Dig It with an 18 piece band. Tony Brown explains the aim is to educate about Afro American history using a quiz format with two to four segments per package. Brown notes contestants are well educated and drawn from staff acquaintances.
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New York
Public Television
Public TV
America
Tony Brown
Ant
Brown
Howard Udiversity
Washington, D.C
Black Journal
WNET
Complex TV listings mixed with shows and ads from local schedule
The fragment catalogs broadcast themes across multiple stations and programs including Sanford and Son, Gunsmoke, Maude, Rhoda, Days of Our Lives, Guiding Light, General Hospital, and The Tonight Show. It weaves in weather, news, and game shows with references to local outlets and times, creating a dense, era-specific prime time guide.
AT&T admits monitoring long distance calls to curb fraud
AT&T disclosed it monitored some long distance calls between 1963 and 1970 as part of a campaign against billing fraud using electronic devices. Spokesman William Mullane said about 500 fraudulent calls were found during a five year operation, and noted the policy has been upheld in court. He stated calls are illegal and that interception preserved the company's property.
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New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
At&t
Sun- Guy
William Mullane
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Mullane
Los Angeles
Detroit
Miami
St. Louis
Newark
Ilegal
Airmen Hurt In Tremor At Remote Aleutian Base
SHEMA AIR FORCE BASE ALASKA Fifteen air force personnel suffered minor injuries after a spring earthquake struck near the isolated installation Saturday The quake at 10 43 pm local time registered 75 on the Richter scale An Alaska Air Command spokesman said no one was hospitalized and injuries were cuts and bruises One thousand men live on the volcanic Aleutian atoll in the chain
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Shema Air Force Base
Alaska
Air Force
Anchorage
Alaska Air Command
Elmendorfir Force Base
Here
Aleutian Chain
Man Shaves Woman To Death In Subway
In Brooklyn a 42 year old Brooklyn mail carrier John Heiberg shoved 26 year old Mrs. Michelle Reives to her death as a subway train approached. Witnesses saw the body fly from the platform as five cars passed over her head. Heiberg was arrested and charged with homicide after calmly walking to the station stairs while onlookers demanded action.
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NEW York
Brooklyn
Michelle Reives
John Hejberg
Reives
Wittesses
Heiberg
Man Injured in Jet Toilet Fire
An airline spokesman said a Pan American jumbo jet returning to Bangkok after a layover suffered a superficial burn to a crew member entering a toilet. The flare up was not a malfunction and was not attributable to the aircraft.
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Sankuk
Mattand
Bangkok
Dhaice
Public split on inflation vs unemployment in Gallup poll
A Gallup poll of 1,038 adults from January 10 to 15 shows Republicans favor inflation priority at 58 percent while Democrats lean toward unemployment at 48 percent. Overall, 46 percent favor inflation and 44 percent favor unemployment with 10 percent no opinion.
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Princeton
N.J
Gallup
Washington
American Jesuit Dies in Air Crash
An American Jesuit priest, Rev. J. Hudson Mitchell of New Rochelle New York, died in a Philippine Airlines crash near Manila that killed 30 others. Survivor Roger Collins of Galveston Texas, injured with burns, was a manager at Marananga timber company in Lanao del Sur. The Avro turbo prop flew from Manila to Vigan and Cagayan de Oro when an engine caught fire and the plane crashed in an open field near a housing project south of Manila airport.
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Manila
Philippines
Philippine Airlines
Vigan City
Cagayan de Oro
Roger Collins
Galveston
Texas
Las Pinas General Hospital
Collins
Maranag ‘Imber Industries
Lanao Tial Suir
J. Hudson Mitchell
New Rochelle
N.Y
Xavier University
Coynyan de Oro
Nine Die From Gas Fumes At West Texas Oil Site
In Gaines County near Denver City nine people died from hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide fumes at an oil well site. Eight victims were found at a house. one, an Atlantic Richfield worker, in a nearby overturned pickup. Names include J C Patton and Mrs Glenda Patton among others. investigation noted sleepers and failed escapes as occupants inhaled toxic gases.
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Denver City
Atlantic Richfield Oil Company
Merril
Department of Public Safety
Hydrogen Office
J. C. Patton
Glenda
Neendee
Clara Peevy
Patton
Pete Amerson
Edith
Portales
N.M
May
Eugene Sparger
Amerson
Denver
Tear Gas Rally Clears Rosenberg Couple Event in Santa Monica
In Santa Monica a crowd at a rally to reopen the Rosenberg case was dispersed when an exploding tear gas canister sent nearly 3,000 people fleeing into rain. Police had no suspects and no injuries were reported. the fire department used a blower to clear the air before the rally resumed.
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Rosenberg
Santa Monica
Calif
Ethel and
Julius Rosenberg
Cops from Rival Units Shoot It Out. 2 Die
In mid Manhattan a pre dawn shootout between uniformed police and two off duty housing authority officers left two dead. A taxi driver was injured by flying glass as gunfire erupted near the Waldorf Astoria. One officer and one housing patrolman died in the cab, another housing officer was wounded, and a second officer was killed. The incident occurred near St. Bartholomew's Church and Park Avenue.
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New York
Housing Authority
Mufticlad Housing Authority
mid-Manhattan
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Frank Bugdin
Thomas Vodicka
Bugdin
Vodicka
Philip Barrone
John Corcoran
Daly
Sullivan
Carcoran
Time says LBJ used FBI files for gossip and power
Time magazine reports Lyndon B Johnson allegedly used FBI files supplied by J. Edgar Hoover to read juicy material on prominent figures. It claims tapes about Martin Luther King and other sex gossip reached the White House, along with conspiratorial views on Kennedy's death and Vietnam.
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New York
Time Magazine
Johnson
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Time
Chicago
Martin Luther King
Hoover
Cartha Deloach
White House
Kennedy
CIA
Ngo Dinh Diem
Treasury Department
Lady Bird
Fischer Accepts Offer for Manila World Title Match
World chess champion Bobby Fischer has accepted a bid from the Philippines to stage a title match with Soviet challenger Anatoly Karpov. A federation spokesman said the decision to organize the Manila match will be taken February 17 after contacting Karpov. The Philippines offered 5 million dollars in prize money, with Italy and Mexico offering smaller sums.
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Amsterdam
UPI
Bobby Fischer
Philippines
Anatoly Karpov
Chess Federation
Edmond Edmondson
U. S
Fischer
Karpov
Manila
Italy
Mexico
Thieu closes five papers and jails staff in crackdown
In Saigon the government shut five opposition newspapers and arrested 19 officials and staff as Communist infiltrators. It banned Sunday editions and pursued charges of corruption against Thieu, while also targeting the Hoa Hao Buddhist sect in a week end roundup in the Mekong delta.
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Saigon
Thieu
Tran Huu Thanh
Hoa Haq
Mekong Delta
Turks and Greeks Clash Over Cyprus Ceasefire Violation
In Nicosia two hour firefight erupts between Turkish and Greek Cypriot forces. U N peacekeepers cite heavy rain and poor visibility and confirm a Turkish soldier death. Both sides accuse the other as U S military aid to Turkey hangs on progress toward settlement.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
U.N
U.S. Congress
Turkey
U.S
Kissinger
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