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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1973
Page
31
Celebrity guests attended a $150 plate dinner honoring Mayor Thomas Bradley. Proceeds will be used to pay off Bradley's campaign debts. Actor Carroll O Connor attended, known for his Archie Bunker role on All in the Family.
A thousand portable toilets line the slope to the Watkins Glen race course as Jim Koplik and Shelly Finkel prepare a one day rock concert. Promoters expect up to 200000 attendees with 150000 tickets at $10 each. The Grateful Dead start the five hour set, followed by the Allman Brothers and the Band. Police will enforce entry and drug laws while backers fund over $1 million in costs and logistics. Local officials anticipate a major event with careful crowd control and sanitation.
The Palm Springs Fire Department said sparks from a welder's torch started a blaze that destroyed Bob Hope's partially completed $3 million home. Four men, including the welder, were on site when the fire broke out Tuesday. The contractor Peter Kiewit Sons carried insurance covering about $1.5 million in damages.
A nostalgic look at Norman Jewison’s Jesus Christ Superstar film adaptation from Universal Pictures shot in Israel. Ted Neeley and Carl Anderson lead a multi racial cast with Yvonne Elliman and Joshua Mostel while the rock opera tale of Christ’s Passion unfolds with dazzling visuals and a mixed reaction to the dubbed music.
Chicago comedian Dick Gregory will leave show business to devote more time to family. He plans to end his nightclub career after two more appearances and to lecture at colleges and universities. His wife Lillian gave birth to their 10th child, an 8 pound 4 ounce boy, at a Chicago hospital after midnight.
A local notice calls for farm equipment advertising in want ad columns with the contact phone number 398-8234. The brief urges readers to place ads now to reach buyers and sellers in the farming community.
Connery and actress Diane Cilento have begun divorce actions according to Cilento’s mother in Brisbane. She said it is true the two film stars find it hard to maintain marriage as their paths diverge. The mother-in-law did not know when the divorce would be filed but stated they would remain good friends.
A catastrophic earthquake struck the minareted Yugoslav city of Skopje ten years ago, collapsing tall structures and homes and possibly killing over a thousand people amid widespread destruction.
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