Women Taller New York Americans Reach Height Milestones
Hal Boyle notes social shifts in height and earning trends. In 1900 one in 25 women stood 5 feet 7 inches or taller. today nearly 20 percent do. The piece also cites growing male height, rising teen allowances averaging 10.21 dollars weekly, and higher blood pressure among women. It mentions a Swiss gadget to flush cigarettes on schedule, PBS doctor robbery stats, and the notion of spring colds with unusual body temperatures.
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New York
Bernard Shaw
Soviet Russia
PBS
Sammy Davis Jr plans large family after marriage
London reports Sammy Davis Jr and Swedish actress Miss Britt plan to wed after her divorce from Eddie Gregson becomes final. Davis says some may object to the interracial match but his career won’t be affected. Miss Britt is 21 and her father met the couple in London as plans for a nightclub engagement proceed.
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Eddie Gregson
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Loray White
Jean Stuart
Sweden
Sointlow
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Los Angeles
Wrong Time For Smooching
ABERDEEN Scolland AP. Frances Crocker 19 required hospital care after a kiss with ship's cook George Guyan preceded a car crash that left him with minor injuries. Guyan pleaded guilty to careless driving and was fined 70 pounds. Frances stated she has a steady boyfriend.
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Frances Crocker
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Talks Collapse On Broadway Blackout
Broadway stage blackout negotiations collapse with a deadlock over stage demands. No talks scheduled as 22 theaters remain dark since last Thursday. Equity seeks higher weekly minimums while producers balk at wage increases, and two more shows cancel performances amid the dispute.
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League of New York Theaters
Actors Equity
Fiat
T Heater
Equity
California primary turnout urged by parties in Nixon Brown race
California Democratic and Republican parties urged heavy turnout in the presidential primary with Nixon facing Brown and third party implications. Republicans lined 70 Nixon delegates. Democrats offered Brown or Los Angeles promoter George H. W. McLean as options. Voter interest appeared tepid despite appeals, with cross filing abolished, returns to be statewide and interim. Polls ran 7 am to 8 pm PDT across 27 740 precincts.
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Fast Thinking Saves Worker in Basement Beer Cooler
Paul Wilkinson, a refrigerations worker at a New York area tavern, used quick thinking to save himself after the beer cooler door closed. He pounded and yelled, shut off all beer valves, and collapsed unconscious for a hospital check before finishing the repair.
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Farm Labor Wage Offer Hinted Soon
STOCKTON AP The AFL CO farm labor organizing group predicts fruit growers will offer a wage soon to avert crop losses from picketing. Pickets at peach ranches demanded 4.25 dollars an hour. about 400 San Joaquin Valley growers held a strategy conference in Sanger near Fresno. Norman Smith said picketing would spread this week as plans formed over a year. Workers showed discipline, refusing to cross lines, and one cherry crop may be written off.
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600 Airmen Offer Blood for Heart Surgery Patient
In Kansas City Kansas AP report eight hundred airmen volunteered to donate blood for 13 year old Allen Coffman daughter of Va and Mrs Clifford Coffman of Kansas City. Allen has rare A Rh positive blood with matching antibody factors and needs 14 units for surgery at KU Medical Center. If not performed doctors say she may live only 60 days. The second item notes a Moscow AP dispatch about Forbes Air Force paper claim US interest in blood banks and Portugal bases for ballistic missiles.
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Forbes Air Force
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Topeka
United States
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Azores
Chuckles In The News News Blurbs From AUPI Feats Of The Day
Readers receive a string of brief amusing items from UPI. Pat Bukuli, 17, rejects four draft notices amid objections to the idea that military service makes a man. Paul Wilkinson, 24, locks himself in a walk in beer fridge and signals help by cutting beer lines upstairs. Alvin Clewis, a department store porter, discovers his uniforms were packed for Chile with his other clothes sent away. Circuit Judge Ferriss installs a suggestion box in his courtroom to hear lawyers and gain advice from them.
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Dallas
Tex
UPI
Alvin Clewis
Chile
Bus Wreck Judgment In Los Angeles Court
A Los Angeles judge awarded damages totaling 435,339 to victims of a 1937 bus crash that killed seven children from All Saints Parochial School. Foster Transportation Co. was found liable by a Superior Court jury. Awards included 95,990.90 to Linda May, 42, and 22,911 to Mr and Mrs Abwelling for their deceased son Edward, 6. Other amounts went to the Castros for their daughter Caral, 7, and Maria Pasos who remains in a sanitarium.
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Los Angeles
API
Linda May
Childed
All Saints Parochial School
el Sereno
Foster Transportation Co
John Abwelling
Edward
Thomas Castro
Caral
Maria Pasos
Picket Lines Halt Work At Atlas Bases
In San Diego and across five bases, IAM picket lines halted Atlas missile site work. Convair and TAM workers idle as relations sour over wage and fringe benefits. Negotiations paused. next session set for Wednesday.
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San Diego
Calif
United States
U.S
Vandenbergy Air Force Base
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Plane Service First Between London and Paris
The first scheduled airplane passenger service began in 1919 linking London and Paris. The historic route marked the start of regular international air travel with civil aviation expanding across Europe in the postwar era.
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