Tentative Bell System wage pact ends nationwide strike
A three year contract granting 6.5 percent annual wage increases and enhanced benefits was announced in the Bell System strike involving about 200 000 telephone workers. The deal covers 600 000 non supervisory workers with total wage/benefit rises of 19.58 percent over the term. Ratification votes are to be completed within 72 hours as picket lines persist until contracts are approved.
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Washington
Bell Telephone System
Joseph Beirne
Communication Workers of America
Bell System
Beirne
New York
Ben Gilmer
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
ATT
Western Electric
CWA
City Wins Federal Grant for Burglar Alarm Network
Cedar Rapids will receive 85 738 in federal funds to start a two year burglar alarm network in business districts outside the central area. The total project cost is 162 356 with city share 17 243 and 350 alarms to be installed. Public Safety Commissioner John Oberthien says bidding should start in two to three months with ongoing maintenance for two years. Police Chief George Matias and University of Town professor Richard Holcomb helped organize the effort.
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Public Safety
John Oberthien
U.S. Department of Justice
Oberthien
George Matias
Richard Holcomb
University of Town
Holcomb
Woman’s Quick Witted Reply Contradicts Husband
A humorous observation notes that intuition lets a woman anticipate and contradict her husband before he speaks. The line plays on timing and perceptive humor in domestic exchange.
Grant Wood Sister sues Carson NBC Look Playboy over caricatures
Nan Wood Graham, 68, sister of Grant Wood, sues Johnny Carson NBC and the Look and Playboy publishers for 9 million dollars. She says a Playboy caricature showed her bare bosom and a Look caricature depicted her in a bra, with a doctored American Gothic used on NBC Tonight.
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Grant Wood
Johnny Carson
National Broadcasting Co
Playboy
Look
Nan Wood Graham
Riverside, Calif
Cedar Rapids
Graham
Wood
Carson
NBC
Carson-Nbc
Rockefeller Urges 18 Voting Rights and Draft Reform
New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller urged a major draft revision based on a lottery and endorsed granting 18-year-olds the vote. Speaking at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, he proposed letting youths choose student deferment or lottery entry on their 18th birthday and linked the plan to broader civil participation goals.
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New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Happy
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Rocky
Iowa
Iowa City
UPI
New York Republican
University of Iowa
Rockefeller in Iowa Campaign Ties to Mighty Friendly State
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and wife Happy toured Des Moines as he launched his Republican bid in Iowa the so called mighty friendly state. Rockefeller sought Iowa’s 24 national convention delegates arguing he can beat the Democrats this fall.
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Des Moines
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Happy
Iowa
Fort Des Moines
Rockefeller
William Scranton
Pennsylvania
San Francisco
Scranton
Hanoi rejects shipboard talks proposal in Tonkin Gulf
Hanoi called the Indonesian shipboard peace-talk proposal unacceptable and said it fails Johnsons four conditions for preliminary talks. Washington noted no official Hanoi reply, while U S senators urged Warsaw or Phnom Penh as sites. Rusk said talks will be long and should start in favorable circumstances for both sides.
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Gulf of Tonkin
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Johnson
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J. W. Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nicholas Katzenbach
Fulbright
South Vietnam
South Korea
Katzenbach
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Rusk
Rep
J. Irving Whaley
R-Pa
Jewelry Store Heist Yields 350000 in Gems
New York AP report: Two men posing as customers entered a jewelry store and then pulled guns, fleeing with shopping bags containing about 350000 in jewelry. Police search for suspects.
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New York
House approves $5.5 billion farm appropriations bill
The House passed and sent to the Senate a 5.5 billion dollar appropriation to fund agriculture department programs at current levels for the next fiscal year starting July 1. The measure passed 318 to 7 after rejecting a $10,000 subsidy cap proposal. the Appropriations Committee trimmed the bill by 414 million.
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UPI
House
Senate
Agriculture Department
House Appropriations Committee
F-111 Raid Resumption Nears North Vietnam
SAIGON reports the air force resumed F 111 raids on North Vietnam after the loss of an F 111 on April 23. The second bombing run since that incident occurred Wednesday night, following missions last Friday.
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Saigon
Air Force F‘llis
North Vietnam
North
Peace Bid In Nigeria
Rulers of Nigeria's federal government and the Biafra regime agreed to preliminary talks in London soon to end the civil war, diplomats reported Thursday.
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London
Nigeria
Stanford Will Perform Eighth Heart Transplant
Stanford University announced that the world eighth heart transplant operation was under way at the Palo Alto Stanford hospital. The operation is in the first stage and details will come later. Dr. Norman Shumway heads the team. he performed America's first adult transplant in January. The recipient died two weeks later.
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Stanford, Calif
Vietnam War Battles Rage in Hue Dong Ha Area
Hottest since Tet Offensive continues with four days of heavy fighting in northeast South Vietnam near Hue and Dong Ha. Allied forces report 1,139 enemy killed as battles persist through Thursday.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Hue
Dong Ha
U.S
Cushman
Khe ‘Sanh
U.S. 101St Airborne Division
US Combat Losses Rise Amid Vietnam Week
U S combat deaths in Vietnam last week totaled 302 with 2,458 wounded, of whom 1,368 required hospitalization. American forces in Vietnam at week end numbered 524,000 and ongoing operations continued nationwide.
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Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
U S Marines Endure Heavy Fire Near Dong Ha
North Vietnamese counter incident northeast of Dong Ha repulsed U S marines but left the units with ground loss. Heavy artillery and mortars hit advancing columns as air strikes were called in. Dong Ha hosts Third Marine Division HQ and eastern DMZ outposts.
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Dong Ha
U.S
Third Marine Division
Allies Seek U S Trade Aid To Stabilize Economy
Canada Japan and Western Europe proposed faster tariff cuts to boost American goods abroad and ease the U S balance of payments. The GATT plan would accelerate Kennedy round duties reductions to 1969 and delay U S retaliation while Washington would refrain from import restrictions and subsidy schemes. France joined the list of nations in the offer.
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