Court ends mandatory sequestering of murder juries
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that jurors in murder trials need not be automatically sequestered from acceptance to verdict. Judges may decide sequestration based on publicity, threats, or outside pressure. The change aligns with other states, cuts costs, and may speed jury selection by attracting more candidates, while keeping lockups for highly sensational cases.
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Nixon Pushes Reds Together Amid China Russia Rift
Secret U.S. cables claim Nixon era military actions in Vietnam push China and Russia toward renewed partnership. Lin Piao battles Chou En-lai for influence, faces mysterious disappearance amid assassination plots and Soviet overtures. CIA reports note Kissinger’s Peking trip and Hanoi assurances, while UN and China Russia delegations display warming ties as Nixon’s strikes complicate diplomacy.
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New York Playhouse revisits Hollywood films of the 1940s
Public Broadcasting trot through the 1940s with New York Playhouse episodes. A nuclear physicist memoir and radio golden days pieces lead to a retrospective on Hollywood cinema from prewar to postwar years. The program aims to map changing film character amid bits from old movies and newsreels.
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TV Schedule Shakeups After Blocker Death and NBC Revisions
CBS will bring The Sandy Duncan Show with a revised format and new cast after Dan Blocker’s death and illness delays. NBC’s The Dean Martin Show will trim on air risque content and overhaul the family sketch with Kay Medford and Lou Jacobi as a married couple, plus new regulars Rodney Dangerfield Nipsey Russell and Dom DeLuise. Ruth Buzzi remains, Alan Sues and Barbara Sharma exit. Lily Tomlin to appear in about a third of season. Congressional and state listings follow with names and offices for Schweiker Scott Shapp Dwyer Vigorito Hopkins and others.
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Vision of a family vigil and a mother's death
A narrator recalls a seaside Sunday as his mother dies in hospital. The father, a grave man of intellect and superstition, wrestles with memory, ESP, and the scent of brine while the household confronts loss. At last the nurse records a last eerie call of John.
Corry Scouts Sell Tags Across City Weekend Effect on Hospital Funds
In Corry May the Witwwhe Eager Boy and Girl Scouts sold tags to most adults on Corry streets Friday and Saturday boosting the Ladies' Auxiliary of Corry Memorial Hospital with an additional 447.24 for hospital work. Mr and Mrs Martin Smith announce the engagement of their daughter Wilmina Pear to Laurence A Vanderhoof son of Laurence Vanderhoof of Essex street. The Corry Journal invites brief readable reader communications bearing a signature and address. Kurt Lindberg, defending all bore state skeet champion, lost his Pennsylvania fifth at the Blue Mountain Skeet and Trap Club near Harrisburg.
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Corry High School Athletics Director to undergo surgery
Sedric A. McCall, Corry High School director of athletics, was struck by a baseball at the Junior High field this week and suffered a cracked facial bone. X rays show surgery is needed within a few days. Rev. E A Hook will deliver the Bac calaureate sermon to the 1932 class at the annual service on Sunday evening June 5.
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