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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1969
Page
21
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NBC viewers watched a two hour CBS presented Royal Shakespeare Company version of A Midsummer Night's Dream taped in England. Diana Rigg delivered a standout speech while perched in a tree as the cast mixed slapstick wit and poetry with on location shoots. The program also offered space footage illustrating possible mineral sources from contour maps.
ABC presents The View from Space a clever television trip using space photographs to showcase global perspectives from over 60 miles above Earth.
NBC presented a Friday night special on Sholem Aleichem exploring the famed Yiddish writer. The program offered a warm revealing look at his observations and work, highlighting his influence and voice.
ABC strengthens Friday lineup with This Is Tom Jones taped in London Generation Gap an audience participation show pitting teens against 35 plus adults and a new evening version of Let's Make A Deal featuring larger prizes and a pair of lions.
Life magazine reports a US army project in St Louis became a major illegal revenue source for mob figures. The Gate Way Army Ammunition plant conversion began in 1967, ballooned costs from 8 million to 22 million, with indictments and alleged Mafia payroll schemes under a cost plus contract.
Investment columnist Sam Shulsky argues against doom pronouncements in Wall Street, noting past warnings and the risk of chasing go go funds. He cautions that rapid gains come from riskier, smaller funds and expects likely reversion to blue chip performance. reader requests for lists should include return envelopes.
Rep Wilbur Mills chair of the Ways and Means Committee warns conglomerate mergers may falter if current tax provisions vanish. He questions benefits to economy or stockholders and notes FCC FTC and House antitrust reviews loom.
New York coroner reports prominent modernist architect William Lescaze died Sunday at age 72 from a heart attack. His work helped shape midcentury design and influence contemporary architecture.
Time magazine reports President Johnson vetoed a forceful Pueblo rescue to avoid war. Rear Adm. Cassell told a congressional inquiry that destroyers Trux ton and Higbee were ordered toward Wonsan to escort the Pueblo, but Johnson overruled the move saying he did not want another war. The decision was unanimous among advisers to avoid risking crew deaths.
An advertisement touts Preparation H as the exclusive nonprescription treatment for hemorrhoids available in ointment or suppository forms. It claims lubrication to ease bowel movements, soothing irritated tissue, and preventing further infection, with nationwide reach including New York City Washington DC and a Midwest Medical Center.
Aug Maine lawmaker Rep Harold Barnes plans a bill to require warning labels on all liquor bottles stating the contents may be injurious to health. Barnes cites cigarette warnings as a model for liquor containers.
A Biafran war communique says more than 200 Nigerian soldiers were fatally hurt in counterattacks north of Onitsha on Sunday. The report came as fighting intensified in the region amid the ongoing war.
City Manager Gerald Henckel said the new city sales tax is bringing in so much money that officials expect to lower taxes while increasing city improvements. This promise follows earlier statements that taxpayers may receive more services for less tax.
Cameron Hawley author of hundreds of short stories and four novels died at Marathon Florida. His first novel Executive Suite published in 1952 became a worldwide bestseller.
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