British TV imports and the glare of limited home talent
In Television Today Rick DuBrow critiques the heavy reliance on British actors in major films and the influx of British summer series. He questions why networks import Des O Connor and Val Doonican while abundant homegrown talent awaits opportunities in New York and Hollywood.
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Engelbert Humperdinck
U.S
Des O’connor
NBC
O’connor
Val Doonican
ABC
Smoke Pall Drifts Over Miami Area
A thick smoke pall drifted over Miami as thousands of acres of Everglades grassland burned and fires spread across South Florida. Forecasters warned of a possible rainless period, with only six inches of rain since January and 10 inches below normal. Fire lines stretched six miles toward Fakahatchee Conservation Camp as residents were alerted and not in immediate danger.
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Everglades
National Weather Service
Florida
Clark
South Florida
C. W. Ryan
Fakahatchee Conservation Camp
Ryan
Romanian Leader Visits China in Friendship Tour
Romanian Communist party chief Nicolae Ceausescu arrived in Peking for a friendship visit with Premier Chou En-lai. The delegation were welcomed by Chinese leaders as the first bloc party chief to visit China since the Moscow Beijing split, with stops in Novosibirsk and Irkutsk noted en route.
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Romania
Nicolae Ceausescu
Peking
China
Peking-Moscow
Agerpres
Ceausescu
Chou En-lai
Tass
Siberian
Novosibirsk
Irkustr
Peking People’s Daily
Moscow
Welfare rolls set record in February nationwide
Washington reports a record 14.2 million Americans on welfare in February. Of these, 13.1 million received federally assisted programs while 1.1 million were funded by state or local sources. Total February payouts reached 1.4 billion dollars, up from January by 200,000 and from February 1970 by 2.6 million.
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Washington
UPS
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Notable Guests on The Dick Cavett Show
James Baldwin Margaret Mead and Omar Sharif appear as guests on The Dick Cavett Show Tuesday night at 10 30 in color on TV 9.
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Margaret Mead
Omar Sharif
Dick Cavett
TV 9
Aluminum Workers Win 30 Percent Pay Boost in 3-Year Contracts
The United Steelworkers and four major aluminum firms reach three-year deals for about 32,400 workers, with average wage increases around 30 percent. Alcoa Reynolds and others also raise prices on fabricated products by 6 percent, while primary ingot prices stay fixed. The settlements mirror steel workers contracts reached earlier, with staged yearly increases and extended benefits across pension, life, health, and unemployment programs.
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Olin Aluminum Co
Hannibal
Ohio
USW
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Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp
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Ormet Aluminum
Reynolds
Aluminum Workers International Union
Mary Holmes honors Gary mayor Richard Hatcher
Richard Hatcher, mayor of Gary, received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Mary Holmes College in West Point Mississippi, reflecting recognition by the predominantly black institution.
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West Point
Miss
Mary Holmes College
Richard Hatcher
Gary
British furnacemen strike halts vast steel output in Britain
About 15,000 blast furnace operators walked out, cutting iron production by three quarters and slowing finished steel as Britain’s economy already falters. The British Steel Corp said supplies would stay available from stock. Auto industry waits. strike could jeopardize 200,000 jobs if prolonged. Wages average $72 weekly. union seeks 35 percent raise.
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London
British Steel Corp
Steel Corporation
Car Plunge in Lake Kills 5 Teen-Agers in Minnesota
Five teenagers drowned when a car left a McLeod county road and plunged into Swan lake near Silver Lake Minnesota late Sunday night. Two others survived after swimming to safety. Identified victims are Bruce Remer 18 Giles Remer 19 Dale Lewanski 18 Larry Posusta 18 all of Silver Lake and Nancy Dahlbert 17 of rural Hutchinson.
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Silver Lake
Minn
UPI
McLeod County
Swan Lake
Minnesota
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Giles
Dale Lewanowski
Larry Posusta
Nancy Dahlbert
Hutchinson
Veterans post flags stolen from 200 graves in Seattle
SEATTLE AP Members of Fletcher Daniels Post 4137 placed flags on 200 war dead graves for Memorial Day. By Monday all but 12 flags were missing, the first theft in 15 years. The group planned to replace with markers and continue the observance through Tuesday.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Lee Yarnall
Fletcher Daniels Post
Vietnam
Cambodian Slaughter Of 3 000 Viets Told
Look magazine writer Denis Warner cites witness Lieu Van Tam a 69 year old fisherman as saying Cambodian soldiers killed about 3000 unarmed Vietnamese on April 12 1970 on a Mekong river sandbar 30 miles south of Phnom Penh. Tam survived after being bound with others and witnessing mass executions before capture and detention in camps.
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Denis Warner
Look
Lieu van Tam
Tam
Mekong River
Phnom Penh
Warner
South Vietnam
Airport Brawl Leads to 9 GIs Arrested in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong nine U S soldiers were arrested after a brawl at the airport as they prepared to board a plane to Vietnam. Some appeared intoxicated. They allegedly abused passengers and assaulted airport police before the pilot refused to allow the group to fly. Hospitalization followed for one unconscious traveler.
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Hong Kong
U.S
Vietnam
Train rescue saves woman after fish bone scare
In Crowland England Doreen Grief swallowed a fish bone and her railway gatekeeper husband stopped a passing train outside their home. The train carried her to Spalding Hospital seven miles away where she received treatment.
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England
UPI
Doreen
Spalding
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