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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 28, 1968

Page

6

Rio Carnival Toll: 83 Dead Four Day Event

Rio de Janeiro records 83 deaths over the four day Carnival including 14 murders while hospitals treat over 5 000 with cuts and minor injuries. Juvenile authorities remove more than 155 under age merrymakers from parades. Actress Natalie Wood attends the event.

Rio DE Janeiro Rio Cariocas Natalie Wood

Just Imagine Paid To Sleep At Boston State Hospital

Boston State Hospital will pay $10 to workers who sleep on the job. While they work, staff will be studied by the sleep and dream laboratory in a program exploring dreams and rest.

Boston Boston State Hospital

Kennedy calls for selective service overhaul and draft lottery

Sen Edward Kennedy urges a complete overhaul of the draft with a presidentially set random lottery, 19 year olds inducted first, and student deferments limited. Sen Clifford Case backs younger-induction and opposes graduate deferments, citing fairness and impact on education. The Council of Graduate Schools endorses abolishing college deferments in favor of random induction.

Washington Edward Kennedy D-Mass Vietnam Senate Clifford Case R-N.j President Johnson Kennedy Congress Case Johnson Council of Graduate Schools U.S

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