Plane Crash Near Dawson Texas Attributed to Lightning
Eyewitness reports and federal investigators probe whether a Braniff Electra with 84 aboard crashed Friday near Dawson Texas due to a lightning strike. wreckage and flight recorders sent to Washington for analysis as morticians and the FBI identify victims and a morgue operates at Dawson High School.
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Braniff International
Washington, D.C
Braniff
Texas
FBI
Dawson High School
U.S
Greater Cincinnati
Trans World Airlines
Buffalo
David White
Here
National Guard
National Transportation and Safety Board
Washington
William Lamb
Federal Aviation Agency
Ed Slattery
Today’s Chuckle About Romance in the Old Days
A light joke notes that romance endured because the bride appeared similar after washing her face. The line reflects humorous old fashioned views on beauty and lasting affection.
Saigon Hit Sparks Light Fighting Across City
Viet Cong shelled Saigon and about a dozen South Vietnamese cities early Sunday. Small sniper squads infiltrated the capital and brief street clashes occurred in five areas, mainly in Cholon. One apparent own action squad death collapsed a bridge near the U S embassy. No coordinated ground attack followed Tet-scale fires.
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Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
Mekong Delta
Hue
da Nang
Quang Tri City
Hoi An
My Tho
Can Tho
Vinh Long
Kontum City
Ben Tre
Phan Rang
Bien Hoa
Lai Khe
U.S
Ellsworth Bunker
Bunker
Robert Cushman
South Vietnam
Cholon
Endearing Chick Disrupts Routine at West Virginia School
In SOUTH CHARLESTON a third grade project produces Zogg the chick hatched in an aquarium incubator. The bird demands constant human company, squawking when alone and prompting daily chicken-sitting by different students during lunch and recess.
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South Charleston
W. Va
O'Dell School
Zogg
Learn Vanished Son Defected to Moscow to Live
Philip Callicoat borrowed $50 from his brother in Yokosuka Japan on February 8 and vanished the next day. The 19 year old sailor and five other Americans reportedly defected to Moscow and appeared in a film show on Moscow television saying they fled American aggression in Vietnam. The family learned of the defection from morning papers and wonders if he is still in Moscow.
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Washington
Philip Callicoat
John
Yokosuka
Japan
Philip
U.S
U.S. Navy
Moscow
Vietnam
James Buturin
Four Journalists Killed in Saigon Street Fighting
Four Australian and British news correspondents were reported killed Sunday in the Cholon Chinese section of Saigon during street fighting.
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Saigon
Cholon
Phoenix Heart Patient Receives Transplanted Heart
Everette Claire Thomas, 47, in Houston, talks to doctors after receiving a heart from a teenage bride Kathleen Martin who died in a gunshot brain injury. Baylor team led by Dr. Denton Cooley reports rapid recovery and plans to discontinue intravenous feeding.
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Houston
Everette
Claire Thomas
Thomas
Phoenix
St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital
Helen
Kathleen Martin
Baylor University College of Medicine
Denton Cooley
Northwestern ends Negro encampment after campus talks
Northwestern University reached a peaceful agreement with Negro student leaders who had occupied the business office. The plan includes more Negro students, courses in Negro culture, Negro professors and counselors, a black student union, and an orientation program.
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Evanston
Ill
Northwestern University
Roland Hinz
Northwestern
The
University
Campaign for Negro School Funds Opens
The National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges launched a drive for private support for predominantly Negro public colleges. They call on corporations to provide a massive upsurge in funding, noting private sources supply less than one percent of these colleges’ income and that they are not included in the United Negro College Fund.
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Washington
National Assn. of State
Association
The
United Negro College Fund
U.S
Rosenblatt NY Attorney Dies in France on Business Trip
Sol Rosenblatt a prominent New York lawyer who worked on both sides of the Atlantic died in Biarritz France on a business trip He was 67 years old.
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New York
Sol Rosenblatt
Atlantic
Biarritz
France
Bell Offer Rejected by C R Local in Mixed Vote
Striking Communications Workers of America members in Iowa and nearby states vote on a Northwestern Bell contract covering about 19 000 workers. Des Moines Local 7102 and Cedar Rapids locals reject by about three to one and two to one, respectively, while Waterloo Davenport Hampton Iowa Falls Muscatine Marshalltown Spencer Algona Humboldt locals show varied results. The proposal includes wage increases of 4 to 12 dollars per week and would be retroactive to March 28.
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Communications Workers of America
Iowa
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Minnesota
Nebraska
South Dakota
Des Moines
7102
Cedar Rapids
CWA
Waterloo
Davenport
Hampton
Iowa Falls
Muscatine
Marshalltown
Spencer
Algona
Humboldt
Computers Pay Off for IRS Eighty Six Million Dollar Boost
IRS reports an 86 million dollar extra tax take traced to computer operations last year, a three fold rise from 1966. Since 1962 the machines have added 166 million in collections, aided by error catching and deterrence. The system links Martinsburg center with regional centers in Andover Philadelphia Atlanta Covington Austin Kansas City and Ogden.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Martinsburg
W.va
Andover
Mass
Philadelphia
Atlanta
Covington, Ky
Austin
Tex
Kansas City
Ogden
Utah
Humphrey vows loyalty to Democratic nominee at convention
Vice-president Humphrey pledged he would be loyal to the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, saying he would support whichever candidate is chosen. He told party leaders and delegates at a Williamsport reception that both rivals, Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy, are fine men. He noted his lifelong commitment to the party and spoke earlier at Bucknell University in Lewisburg.
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Williamsport
Humphrey
Pennsylvania
Democratic Party
Robert F. Kennedy
Eugene McCarthy
Bucknell University
Lewisburg
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