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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1971
Page
7
Hollywood stereotypes drive the Friday night CBS telefilm Goodbye Raggedy Ann starring Mia Farrow and Hal Holbrook. The cast, script by Jack Sherr, and director Fielder Cook deliver a modest well-crafted study of familiar stock characters.
Fragmentary local listings mention Des Moines and Dubuque station identifiers with unclear names Cherie and Seria. The readable fragments describe radio or TV listings but lack full context, dates, or events to identify a concrete news item.
Washington AP The army seeks permission to lower its share of new enlistees from the lowest 10 to 30 IQ band from 24 to 20 percent to improve overall quality amid Vietnam drawdown. Officials say remedial training helped few, with discipline and tech-fit concerns rising. The move contrasts with social betterment goals and varies by service, with Marines at 20 percent and Navy and Air Force at 15 percent.
Former Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy announces his 1972 Democratic presidential bid in a letter to 100000 supporters from Washington. He plans to seek convention delegates and run in nonprimary states, with Minnesota volunteers already active. Minnesota chairman John Connolly says the effort mirrors 1968, aiming to force a voters' choice at the convention and possibly spark a third party bid.
Five high-powered vapor lamps adjacent to West Germany's Zugpitze mountain will be turned off following a complaint by Nature Towers over the lamps' impact on wildlife and the scenic landscape. Officials confirmed the decision amid environmental concerns.
Former attorney Percy Foreman says James Earl Ray let himself be captured and convicted for the 1968 Martin Luther King assassination to gain a presidential pardon if George Wallace won the White House. Ray pled guilty and is serving 99 years in Tennessee.
Picasso remains secluded in Mougins as tributes pour in from Paris to New York. Authorities and artists praise his lifelong work while the French Communist party stages a Paris rally and Vallauris honors him with exhibitions and events.
London reports Dr Raymond Green suggesting humiliating criminals with rotten fruit and eggs could be cheaper and more effective than prison. He recommends public placements for top offenders and calls for maximum humiliation as a policy measure. In Rome Billy Graham announces a Rome crusade urging Protestant mobilization for next year.
Walter Ozzie Pytel has worked 38 years as a counterman in UNBRIDGE diners. A pedometer tracked his week revealing an average of 11 miles per day with busier Fridays. At this rate the total would exceed 123000 miles, and he keeps walking even on days off by golfing.
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