Ten Years of Adventure Shapes Cedar Rapids Principal
William Dwyer, new Grant Wood school principal, describes a career across Taiwan Japan and Iowa with military dependent schools. He recalls teaching varied ages, shifting cultures, and a Japan built 1700-student campus. Dwyer credits mobility for broad experiences, plans a U of I doctoral pursuit, and notes a Tokyo cultural program aiding students.
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Grant Wood
William Dwyer
Cedar Rapids
Far East
Dwyer
Taiwan
Korea
Japan
India
Illinois
Tokyo
Olympic Village
United States
Stripper Uses Nurse Uniform in Stage Routine
Tricia Venese, formerly a nurse, performs a routine as a stripper that features removing a nurse uniform and using a thermometer to gauge audience temperature. A Royal College of Nursing spokesman criticized the act, saying a nurse’s uniform is for a special purpose and not for this usage.
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London
Tricia Venese
The
Royal College of Nursing
Braves Host Cubs At Atlanta Stadium In Afternoon Game
The Atlanta Braves host the Chicago Cubs at Atlanta Stadium in an afternoon matchup. The game starts at 1 15 PM and will be shown live on KCRG TV 9 with color television coverage.
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Atlanta Braves
Chicago Cubs
Atlanta Stadium
Kcrg-Tv
Gates of Hell Tamed by Man as Source of Power
In California's Geysers valley, explorer William Bell Elliott dubbed the area the Gates of Hell after firing a message into a grizzly in 1847. The steam-filled region, later called The Geysers, now hosts the Western hemisphere's only privately financed geothermal electric plant. Steam from underground wells drives turbines and generators to produce power, a concept first realized by John D. Grant in 1920.
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Calif
Upi
William Bell Elliott
Hemisphere
John D. Grant
Burma Surgeon Legacy Lives On At Korea Hospital
Five years after the death of Dr Gordon Seagrave a hospital in his memory now operates in Kaej ong South Korea The Dr Seagrave of Korea is Dr Lee Young Choon a 67 year old Korean who heads the Institute for Rural Health He helped inaugurate the Seagrave Memorial hospital a four story 100 bed facility built for 13 million dollars Funds came from the American Medical Center for Burma and the American Korean Foundation of New York.
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Kaejong
South Korea
UPI
Burma
Gordon Seagrave
Seagrave
Korea
Lee Young-Choon
Korean Peninsula
Lee
Institute For Rural Health
Seagrave Memorial Hospital
American Medical Center For
American-Korean Foundation of
New York
Lottery winner’s celebration leads to injury on return trip
In Tokyo Hiroshi Iwama aged 36 bought a lottery ticket for 27 cents and won 2778 dollars. He celebrated by drinking whiskey on the way home and fell from a train, sustaining serious injuries and being hospitalized.
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Tokyo
Hiroshi Iwama
French Left Eyes New Revolt Led by Maoists in France
AP dispatch profiles Alain Geismar a 30 year old physicist turned activist who alongside Daniel Cohn Bendit seeks a fresh May June uprising. He dispatches agitators to protests hoping to unite workers students and farmers to topple the establishment, aiming to prevent new compromises with the bourgeoisie.
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Paris
Alain Geismar
Social Security: wife’s benefits and local Cedar Rapids office
The letter explains that a wife can qualify for benefits on her own record after 10 years of work and at age 62 or later, even if her husband continues working. It notes survivor and disability protections, and details the Cedar Rapids Social Security office at 122 Second Street SE, room 300 SGA building, with phone numbers 366-2411 ext 431 and Thursday evening line 366-4442.
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Cedar Rapids
Foreign travelers to Japan rise to six hundred twenty seven thousand
Tokyo AP reports the transport ministry says foreign travelers visiting Japan last year totaled 627000, an 18 percent increase from 1968. The figure highlights growing international tourism and Japan's appeal as a destination.
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Tokyo
Japan
Transport Ministry
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Ryn Makco
R. G. Touro
Paramount
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Armstrong
Carol Hayek
the Carpet Chalet, Inc
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Landis Financial Group
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Lady OF Fashion
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Bulova
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