Michael Douglas stars in Hail, Hero amid gray studio day
Hollywood report chronicles Michael Douglas and Pamela Barkentin on the back lot of Studio Center during a stalled Hail, Hero! shoot amid misty air. Douglas discusses his heavy role, his NY roots, and plans with 15-year-old co star Deborah Winters as weather delays drag filming.
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NEA
Hero
Studio Center
Michael Douglas
Weather Bureau
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Mike
Douglas
New York
Westport
California
Deborah
Debbie Winters
Penny Edwards
Ambush battle signals prewarned capture by spies
South Korean forces engaged a North Korean speedboat near Huksan Island in the Yellow Sea. The vessel was reported to carry heavy weaponry and a radio link to Communist collaborators. The fight left no Korean casualties, with the North Korean boat later recovered after sinking while towed. Madame Nguyen Thi Binh urged broader recognition of the Viet Cong’s provisional government amid talks led by Walsh replacing Lodge.
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South Korea
Seoul
Intelligency Agency
Huksan Island
Yellow Sea
Chinnampo
North Korea
Cheju
Bukpyong
Chuminjim
Madame Nguyen Thi Binh
Viet Cong
Walsh
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lodge
Washington
Madame Binh
U.S
Quiz Qs and Answers From Old Puzzles
A set of trivia questions asks about city team names sharing a moniker, the famous horse Marengo linked to Napoleon, and gem values. The Saint Louis Cardinals name appears for both baseball and football, Marengo is Napoleon’s white stallion at Waterloo, and ruby values can exceed diamonds in large sizes.
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St. Louis Cardinals
Napoleon
Waterloo
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None Provided Savings Bonds Pitch Promotes Pride and Payroll Savings
A promotional piece extols U S Savings Bonds as a long term investment, noting a payoff of about four dollars on three invested plus the option to buy 5 Freedom Shares. It emphasizes national pride and urges enrollment in the Payroll Savings Plan or a visit to a bank to invest eighteen dollars and seventy five cents.
Nicholson urges FTC speed over merger moratorium
Former AAI head Nicholson argues for aggressive FTC action against significant acquisitions to curb economic concentration. He warns Eisenhower's warning on the military industrial complex applies to all concentrated corporate power and says emergency legislation is perilous.
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Nicholson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Legislature adjourns as bills await governor ruling
After adjournment House Speaker Gus Mutscher signed the bills the day Barnes did. They reached Gov. Smith a week later who said he may seek an attorney general opinion on their legality.
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Barnes
Smith
Then let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall
A brief biblical verse, quoting I Corinthians 10 12. The line warns believers to beware pride before failure, urging self examination and humility in faith. The citation anchors the message in Christian scripture.
Local Notices of Paducah Residents and Visits
Ora Lee Frazier reports that Lonnie Foraker and wife earned associate degrees from Lubbock Christian College and plan to attend Oklahoma Christian College as juniors next fall. Various relatives and friends from Paducah, Mangum, Friona, Odessa, Alba, Porales New Mexico, El Paso, Amarillo, and Pampa visited or traveled for graduations and family gatherings, with several attending Della Ree Gilbert’s Palo Duro High School graduation and Jacqua Gilbert’s American Dances revue.
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Lonnie Foraker
Hale Center
Lubbock Christian College
Oklahoma_ Christian College
B. F. Tippen
Alton Farr
Friona
King Ramsey Jr
Odessa
John Gilbreath
Charissa Pruitt
Bea Huntoon
Alba
Kermit Wright
Portales
N. M
I. D. Gilbert
Kay Gilbert
Pampa
Troves
Ervin
W. J. Gouvillions
Gary
Eugene
NSF Institutes Helped Integration in Southern Colleges
Since 1953 the National Science Foundation funded summer institutes for secondary science and math teachers, aiding education and quietly promoting integration in Southern colleges. About 21,000 teachers attended 450 institutes, with a dozen schools admitting Black students for the first time due to the program, per Kreighbaum and Rawson in An Investment in Knowledge. The book traces three NSF policy phases from hard line to nondiscrimination, listing universities such as North Carolina, Duke, Florida, Arkansas, Alabama, and South Carolina among those participating 1953–1963.
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United Press International
National Science Foundation
James E. Conant
South
Hillier Kreighbaum
Hugh Rawson
NSF
Kreighbaum
New York University
Rawson
NYU
Thomas Y. Crowell Publishing Company
Bowen C. Dees
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Kreighbaum and Rawson
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University of the South
University of Florida
University of Arkansas
Duke University
University of Mississippi
Mississippi State
University of Alabama
Auburn University
Baylor University
University of South Carolina
Origin of riderless horse in military funerals linked to afterlife beliefs
A historical note explains that riderless horses in military funerals symbolically accompany leaders to the afterlife. In a separate incident, Kennedy warned of a gun as Oughton, mistaken as armed, confronted O'Malley who shot Oughton fatally. Oughton was unarmed. no weapon found. Oughton's mother and neighbors described him as harmless and kind.
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O’malley
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Dick C. Rania
Cecil Baldivino
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