Goodrich Pay Hikes Announced and Long Strike Near End
Negotiators for B F Goodrich and United Rubber Workers announced a tentative 33 month contract ending April 20, 1970. It grants at least 43 cents an hour raise for 12 000 workers, with skilled workers at 53 cents, amid expected price increases to cover costs. The deal marks a major step toward ending the long strike involving the nation’s top five producers and follows earlier tentative accords with General Tire.
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B. F. Goodrich Co
United Rubber Workers Union
Columbus
Goodrich
Bommarito
General Tire & Rubber Co
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
Uniroyal
Firestone
General Tire
Goodyear
Death Toll In Newark Rises To Eighteen Amid Riots
Newark death toll climbs to 18, all Negroes except a white police officer, as four nights of rioting continue. National Guardsmen patrol after dark while a citywide curfew looms and hospital shootings prompt security measures. James Meredith travels the riot zone urging troops to stay.
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Newark
Newark City Hospital
Hattie Gainer
Marie
National
Kay Bartlett
James H. Meredith
Miss U S A Sylvia Hitchcock Wins Miss Universe 1967
Sylvia Hitchcock of Miami Florida a University of Alabama student was crowned Miss Universe 1967. She is the fourth U S entrant to win the title with Miss Venezuela Mariela Perez Branger as first runner up Miss England Jennifer Lewis Miss Finland Ritva Lehto and Miss Israel Batya Kabiri also among the finalists.
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Miami Beach
U.S.A
Venezuela
Mariela Perez Branger
England
Jennifer Lewis
Finland
Ritva Helena Lehto
Israel
Batya Kabiri
Melbourne Woman Sees Man Die After Talking Him Down
A 44 year old Melbourne woman who went to Sydney to end her life spent two hours talking a man from jumping at a 100 foot cliff. She believed she had talked him out of it but he suddenly shouted I love you and leapt to his death. She said the man saved her life.
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Sydney
Melbourne
De Gaulle Heads to Canada for Expo 67 Mission
Paris reports say President de Gaulle sails aboard the Colbert to St Pierre and Miquelon then Quebec for a five day visit. He will stress ties with Quebec to bolster separatist sentiment and attend Expo 67 in Montreal before returning by July 27.
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UPI
DE Gaulle
Canada
Brest
France
Colbert
Wolff
Fusilliers Marins Company
Paris
New World
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Quebec
Province
Ottawa
St. Lawrence
Montreal
U.S
Vietnam
Vandals Smash Miami Windows in Integrated Dance Fallout
In Miami early today a Negro area experienced extensive vandalism including smashed store windows and a overturned car. Police linked the outbreak to an integrated teenage dance at the Dinner Key Auditorium, with a lieutenant noting widespread disturbances.
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Miami
Dinner Key
Planned Railroad Strike Threatens National Operations
Washington reports say machinists and other union locals plan 6 am local time walkouts on Great Northern Northern Pacific Union Pacific Santa Fe Burlington Reading Western Maryland and other lines. Officials warn disruption could halt freight and passenger service and shake the economy.
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Washington
Spokane
Wash
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Union Pacific
Santa Fe
Burlington
Cumberland
Baltimore and Ohio
Maryland
Reading Railroad
Philadelphia
Machinists’ Union
International Assn. of Machinists
Minneapolis
North Western
Burlington Road
Wolfe
Pacific Coast
The
Assn
Three Knifed By Terrorists In Hong Kong
In Hong Kong an anti government wave by Chinese mobs sees three police detectives stabbed bombed and attacked with acid as clashes erupt over two days. Authorities raid two suspected terrorist bases finding explosives knives daggers acid and gas masks. Four detectives are wounded and police say crackdown is slowing the violence.
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Hong Kong
Communist Union
Crown Colony
Rioting Tough on Newark Stores
In Newark most stores in the central business district closed or faced drastic declines after three nights of racial violence. Owners report heavy losses, with appliance stores and clothing shops hit hardest while many uninsured businesses struggle to recover. Local officials estimate damages will reach into the millions.
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Newark
New Jersey
Donald Malafronte
Chamber of Commerce
Egypt and Israel Agree To U.N. Supervised Cease Fire
Fighting raged along the Suez Canal for a second day as Israel and Egypt said they would accept a United Nations supervised cease fire. U.N. observers moved into Ismailia amid shelling while both sides claimed air and ground losses.
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Israel
Egypt
Suez Canal
United Nations
Gideon Rafael
U.N
Canal
Cairo
Port Said
Mediterranean
Overthrow Demands Sweep Beijing Amid Maoist Demonstrations
About 300,000 Maoist students, workers and officials filled Beijing streets on Saturday demanding the overthrow of President Liu Shao-chi, according to the Mainichi Shimbun reported Sunday.
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Tokyo
Peking
Liu Shao-chi
Mainichi Shimbun
Marriage compared to drug in joke about women
The line portrays marriage as addictive, describing women who take one dose after another as hooked on it. It frames the concept as a humorous comparison without further context.
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