South Vietnamese Vote Amid Viet Cong Attacks
Saigon voters lined up as premier Nguyen Cao Ky’s regime pushed a big turnout while Viet Cong gunmen and Buddhists staged attacks. Eleven grenade incidents erupted in Saigon, a Viet Cong unit briefly controlled a village, and six people were killed with 29 wounded. US and allied air actions reported against North Vietnamese targets accompanied the vote day.
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Nguyen Cao Ky
Viet Cong
U.S
U. S
Hanoi
Hanoi-Peking
South Vietnam
Red Guards Spreading Mao Purge Talk Across Cities
Thousands of Chinese Red Guards summoned to Peking rush home to spread the cultural revolution, organize propaganda, hand out leaflets, and rally masses. Tass reports violence with eight killed. Chou En-lai apologizes for activist squads at Ching Hua University.
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Tokyo
Peking
Mao Tze-tung
New China News Agency
Communist Party
Central Committee
Lenin
Marx
Red Guards
Mao
Red Guard
Tass
Red
Chou En-lai
Ching Hua University
Chou
Negro slain and police sergeant shot in Atlanta riot
Rioting erupted in a largely Negro area after a teenager was killed and another wounded with a police sergeant shot in the head. Witnesses said a white man and a white woman fired from a passing car, killing Hubert Warner and wounding Roy Milton Wright while Sgt. M. J. Spears of 42 was treated and reported in good condition. About 400 residents gathered as events unfolded.
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Atlanta
M. J. Spears
Hubert Warner
Roy Milton Wright
Oklahoma’s Jane Anne Jayroe Crowned Miss America 1967
Jane Anne Jayroe a 19 year old from Oklahoma won the Miss America crown in Atlantic City. She plans to pursue a master’s degree in music conducting after college and has training in piano singing flute sax organ and modern dance. Her father is a high school basketball coach in Laverne Oklahoma.
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Jane Anne Jayroe
Oklahoma
Atlantic City
Debbie Bryant
Overland Park
Kan
N. J
Jane
Oklahoma City University
E. G. Jayroe
Laverne, Okla
Queen
40 et 8 Have as Much Fun at National Convention
At the 47th national convention of the 40 et 8, American Legion fun lovers, delegates from across the country showcase playful traditions. Members explain their French titled ranks and joke about past pranks like water bag drops and shoe shines, while memories of World War I remain central to their humor and camaraderie.
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Baltimore
American Legion
The
Legion
France
Legionnaires
Stanley Dzoiba
New Bedford, Mass
Lawrence F. Smith
Lancaster County
Edwin C. Fulton
Anderson, Ind
Wilson
Button
Jack Wilson
Rockwell Arrested as Nazi March Through Chicago Negro Neighborhood
Police say 125 American Nazi party members and sympathizers marched through a South Side Negro area drawing scattered attacks on motorists. George Lincoln Rockwell was arrested on charges tied to a prior speech, released on bond, as clashes with residents occurred and violence injured several.
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Chicago
George Lincoln Rockwell
Nazi Party
Rockwell
Los Angeles
Mile
63Rd Street
Western Avenue
Loomis Street
Treasury Freeze Cuts New Federal Borrowings Until Year End
Treasury Secretary Fowler announces a virtual halt on new borrowings by federal agencies in private securities markets through year end. Eleven agencies will limit issuances to existing maturing securities, reallocating funding from government trust funds if needed. The move, part of President Johnson's inflation package, aims to ease money market pressures and eventually boost mortgage credit availability.
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Washington
Treasury
Fowler
Johnson
Congress
Federal National Mortgage Assn
Export-Import Bank
Farm Credit Administration
The
Small Business Administration
Veterans Administration
Ackley Denies Copper Price Rise Authorization
Washington AP report states Gardner Ackley chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers said price increases by two small copper companies lack administration approval and do not reflect any shift in opposition to domestic copper price rises.
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Washington (Ap
Gardner Ackley
Council of Economic Advisers
Soviet Defense Chief Vows Strengthened Military Might
Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky announced intensified Soviet military strength in response to the Vietnam War. He cited the aggravation of the international situation and aggressive U S actions, but Tass did not detail the measures planned.
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Moscow
Rodion Malinovsky
Russia
Malinovsky
United
Communist Party
Soviet Union
Tass
College student wires home for funds ends with simple dad reply
A college student texts home claiming to be without friends or funds, and the father replies with a concise solution. The brief joke hinges on the bluntness of the dad's advice to simply "make friends."
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