Ra Expeditions Review at Plaza Delivers Thrilling True Adventure
The Ra Expeditions docudrama directed by Thor Heyerdahl and produced by Interwest Film Corp fills the Plaza with a near full audience, including many families. The film details eight men sailing a papyrus boat from Africa to Barbados to test ancient Egyptian contact with the Americas, pairing brisk documentary footage with anthropological theory.
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Thor Heyerdahl
Interwest Film Corp
Plaza Theater
Plaza
Africa
Atlantic Ocean
Barbados
West Indies
Americas
Heyerdahl
Paramount Theatre Saturday Showings and Stage Lineups
The schedule lists Paramount Theatre showings with times for Together and Diamonds Are Forever, World Sometimes a Great Nation, Oral Times, Plaza The Ra Expeditions, Stage 1 Dirty Harry, Stage 2 The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Stage 3 Straw Dogs, Stage 4 Dirty Harry, plus a Cedar Rapids engagement of Black Is Beautiful. The voyage of Ra Il is described as a spacious true life adventure with a one week Cedar Rapids engagement and notes minor timber breakages during rough seas.
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PLAZA
Ra Il
Cedar Rapids
UN rewrites prisoner's exchange plan over Korea talks
Twenty years ago the United Nations altered its war prisoner exchange program to appease Communist objections, but the Reds at Panmunjom Korea still called it unacceptable.
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United Nations
Panmunjom
Korea
Three More Pieces Of Contaminated Luggage Found
Chicago reports three additional pieces of luggage from a Delta flight carrying leaking radioactive material. Illinois public health officials say eleven bags have been checked here, with four proved radioactive. Delta says the matter is with the Atomic Energy Commission which expects readings to be negligible.
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Chicago
UPS
Delta Airlines
Illinois Public Health Department
Delta
Atlanta
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Refuses To Set Aside Junk Mail Rate Boost
Washington AP The Postal Rate Commission refused to set aside a 24 percent increase in third class mail rates, ruling it had no power to review temporary rates. Groups had asked for a review as the USPS sought broad five year rate rises. lawmakers did not act and direct mailers filed court suits seeking injunctions against the Jan. 24 temporary hikes.
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Postal Rate Commission
U. S. Postal Service
Assn. International
Rate Commission
Postal Service
Congress
Renters Kept Horse in Room in Idaho Home
In Salmon Idaho AP report renters paid half a month’s rent from November to late December and left without notice. Peggy Schultz said the couple were kind to their horse and helped by arranging a veterinarian for a glass cut on the horse’s leg after the man was laid off during snowy weather. the man claimed he didn’t know how the horse was cut.
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Salmon
Idaho
Peggy Schultz
Cedar Rapids Gazette Subscription Rates
By carrier 75 cents a week. Night edition and Sunday six issues monthly or annual rates apply. Afternoon editions seven issues weekly, monthly, or yearly rates listed. Mail subscriptions vary by region with annual pricing. The Associated Press holds exclusive republication rights for local news and AP dispatches.
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U.S. Territories
Associated Press
Mrs Schultz Sees Signs After Couple Leave
A week after the couple, horse and dogs departed, Mrs Schultz discovered hay and other traces of a horse in a rear bedroom and two window panes broken out, suggesting a disruptive departure or possible breakage event.
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