Theaters Expand Roles As Community Centers Across Nation
The National Association of Theater Owners notes movie houses offer community use during off hours. Lincoln Nebraska hosts Cooper Foundation grants aiding education and charity. New York, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Detroit, Miami and other regions report free screenings, hospital and school collaborations, charitable fundraising, and military ticket programs enhancing local services.
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New York
Roy B. White
The
National Association of Theater Owners
Lincoln
Neb
Cooper Foundation
Nebraska
Colorado
New York Police Department
Community Council
Brooklyn
Benevolent Association For
Willowbrook State School
Brooklyn Veterans Hospital
Los Angeles
Pacific Theaters Circuit
Cecil B. DeMille
Detroit
Miami
Wometco Theaters
Atlanta
Nixon to Install Kelley as FBI Director in Kansas City
President Nixon will attend a public ceremony in Kansas City to install Clarence M. Kelley as director of the FBI, ending a 17 day stay at the Western White House. Kelley, a 20 year FBI veteran and former Kansas City police chief, becomes the bureau's second permanent director after Hoover's death.
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Associated Press
San Clemente
Calif
Nixon
Kansas City
Clarence M. Kelley
Federal Bureau of Investigation
White House
Washington
Kelley
FBI
Bureau
J. Edgar Hoover
Pepsi Cola began in New Bern 75 years ago
International attention centers on New Bern North Carolina as the site of the first Pepsi Cola creation in a drug store by Caleb D Bradman. The city plans numerous events to mark the Diamond Anniversary of the soft drink.
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New Bern
N.C
Caleb D. Bradman
Witnesses End Meeting Sunday in Houston Convention
Jehovah's Witnesses at the Astrodome area host a large Friday activity with baptismal services at motel pools as the international convention near its Sunday finish. Grant Suiter urged followers to avoid war and stressed peace, while Joseph Saia urged separation from worldly trends and adherence to biblical values.
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Houston
Astrodome
Jehovah's Witnesses’ International
Grant Suiter
Brooklyn
N.Y
Suiter
Sutter
Witnesses
Charles Tate Russell
U.S. Selective Service
Saia
Bentsen Urges Nixon To Enact Wage Price Controls
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen urged President Nixon to rapidly implement wage price controls to avert food shortages. He argued the current price freeze disrupts food processing and that eggs, poultry, cattle, pork, and vegetables suffer as feed and input costs rise, with prior Phase 2 stabilization undone by January.
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Washington
Lloyd Bentsen
Nixon
Bentsen
Texas
Agriculture Department
Texas Democrat
Song banned in Pretoria over We Shall Overcome
Folksinger Pete Seeger’s recording of the civil rights anthem We Shall Overcome is banned in South Africa where the white minority government enforces racial segregation.
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Pretoria
South Africa
Pete Seeger
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