Photograph of Cornell riot prompts Pennsylvania campus gun ban
In Our Opinion the scene of black militants leaving a Cornell campus building with rifles triggered a Pennsylvania Senate vote to ban firearms on campus. The measure carries penalties up to 500 dollars and six months in jail, with exceptions for officials and lawful activities. The piece argues violent student action fuels fear for academic freedom and links unrest to communist-influenced groups.
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Cornell Uiiversity
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Uals
Pennsylvania
Airliner SST decision eyed by Nixon and Congress
Industry officials await a possible Nixon administration decision on financing for a U.S. supersonic transport. Boeing designed craft could cost over 1 billion, with government and private funds proposed for two prototype planes and test flights by 1972.
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New York
Boeing Company
Nixon
Congress
Comsat
General Electric
Boeing
U.S
Today in History Highlights From June Sixteen
On this day in history events include the 1897 Bonanza Creek gold discovery reported in Alaska sparking a rush. 1920 League of Nations held its first public meeting in London. 1940 French Maginot Line abandoned. 1963 Valentina Tereshkova launched as first woman in space. 1969 mid year note and other anniversaries.
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Bonanza Creek
Abraham Lincoln
Springfield
Airbuse
Council of the
League of Nations
St. James Palace
London
Valentina Tereshkova
Soviet Union
Japan
Sea of Japan
Nikita Khruscheva
Copenhagen
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Washington
Rivers Covers Navy Booboos
Washington examines the ties between Rep. Mendel Rivers and the Navy amid criticism of his House Armed Services Committee. The piece cites Esquire and notes Rivers shields the Pentagon, suppresses dissent, and runs many closed sessions while restricting opponents under a strict five minute rule. It highlights clashes with Otis Pike, Robert Leggett, and Charles Whalen, and contrasts open Senate hearings on ABM with Rivers doors-closed tactics.
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Washington
Navy
Mendel Rivers
South Carolina
House
Armed Services Committee
Esquire Magazine
Rivers
Pentagon
Capitol Hill
Appropriations Committee
Leggett
Pike
Whalen
Senate Armed Services Committee
Sen
John Stennis
D-Miss
Corry golf event opens Bi-State tourney at Coun try Club
It Happened In Corry 20 Years Ago reports the fifth Bi-State Golf Association tourney to be held tomorrow at the Corry Country Club hilltop layout. A campaign dinner on June 22 seeks to start a drive for 250000 to build the Corry Memorial Hospital. Roger Brown chairs the effort, with 23 members and a guest, Mrs Harry Tillotson of Detroit, at Mead Park meeting.
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Corry Country Club
Corry Memorial Hospital
Roger Brown
Harry Tillotson
Detroit, Mich
Key Club
Mead Park
Need A System by Jim Bishop in a Bahama casino tale
A narrator and his wife tour a Freeport casino on Grand Bahama Island to test a gambler's system. The piece tracks roulette and dice plays, the wife’s cautious strategy, a string of near losses, and the narrator's insistence that the system cannot fail before the tale ends in suspense.
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Freeport
Grand Bahama Island
Kelly
Carl Smith
Mr. Smith
Teetotaler Awards and Moonflight Notes by Hal Boyle
A halting miscellany of items from Hal Boyle notes on Teetotaler awards tied to Peter the Greats medal, NASA sunlight pressure effects on spaceflight, and quieting crime. Also included are gas tax anniversaries, quotable lines, a Las Vegas slogan, a household ink removal tip, daytime headlight safety, an Indiana University light study, and hypnosis trends among U S doctors and dentists.
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Umnist
Peter the Great
NASA
Oregon
Thyra Sumter Winslow
Las Vegas
Indiana University
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Robert Leggett
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Charles Whalen
Ohio
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Corry
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Mrs. Bishop
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el Casino
Hoboken
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Jimmy Dolan
Country Club
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Teetotaler Awards
Hal Boyle
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