Van Use Grows As Vans Turn to Hobby and Clubs
The van fad expands from do it yourself kits to specialty shops meeting demand. Surfers and hippies helped popularize vans, with Ford Econoline origin in 1961. Clubs like National Street Van Assn foster socializing, rallies draw hundreds and thousands, owners share upgrades, costs, and mileage.
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Glendora
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Readers urged to send cheerful cards to hospitalized patient
Dear Abby columns share requests for less phone disturbance from anxious relatives after a near fatal accident. Readers urged to mail cheery cards instead, allowing the patient to read them later and keep as souvenirs, while hospital staff ask families to reduce calls.
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She Found the Bicycle a Real Challenge
A first time rider in Postville documents the misadventure of learning to bike after years on a horse. The piece mixes humor and struggle as the author battles earthquakes, road hazards, and skeptical onlookers while chasing small milestones like signaling with a hand and aiming for a mile ride. She notes fitness effects, brakes on the handlebars, and the contrast with 10 speeds and youth on the road.
Fidel Castro to visit Jamaica in August 197? details
Jamaica expects Fidel Castro to visit in the first week of August to mark independence anniversary. The invitation came from Prime Minister Michael Manley after his Cuba trip last July. A tentative May 24 date was once floated for Labor Day. The date remains provisional with August favored.
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Jamaica
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Castro
Peoples National Party
Michael Manley
Bra Row: Midtown Manhattan Brassiere Capital
Special report places Bra Row in midtown Manhattan from 32nd to 40th streets as the global center of bra business with about 1 billion dollars in annual trade. Arthur Garson, “King of Bra Row,” chairs an industry focused on engineering, design, and safety of bras and patents.
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Garson
Harvard
Purdue
Stanford
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Columbia University School of Engineering
Raquel Welch
Sophia Loren
Gina Lollobrigida
Gina
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Digging for Cannons Is His Exercise
Key West Florida retiree Howard England digs at Fort Zachary Taylor three days weekly seeking Civil War cannons. He has found 18 to date and plans for 180 more, while also uncovering buttons pipes bones and shells. His 9,000 hours of digging since 1968 cost $400 in tools and rely on volunteers. If Fort Taylor is federalized this year he may gain excavation gear. England notes exercise value and health benefits from his labor amid a broader history of the fort and its role in multiple wars. On this date in 1966 British seamen began a nationwide strike.
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