Philadelphia Orchestra Makes Millions of Friends in China
The Philadelphia Orchestra's historic two week China tour left conductor Eugene Ormandy and members elated as they became the first American musicians to perform there. Kissinger sent a telegram praising the tour for boosting US China relations. The group returned home, hoping to tour China again, weathering warm Chinese reception and high moral regard observed by local officials.
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Philadelphia Orchestra Association
Richard Bond
Orchestra Association
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State employee wins back pay for tape recording case
Joseph Power, a former Fresno Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement worker fired after alleging a hidden microphone at his desk, received a back pay check after a 1989 complaint led to a 1990 reinstatement order and a 1970 dismissal. He now works in Sacramento.
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Fresno
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Sit-in at New Mexico Highlands ends in arrests
About two dozen Chicano activists occupied the Brownstone administration building at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas. State police, sheriff’s deputies, and campus officers arrested demonstrators for occupying a public building after demanding the resignation of University President Frank Angel Dear. Protests continued outside as the group, Highlands Chicana Students Justice Committee, pressed six demands including Angel’s removal.
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Notable Recluse Known as The World’s Only Living Corpse
Jim Gernhart aged 96 widely called The World's Only Living Corpse posed beside his copper coffin. He held his first funeral for himself 22 years ago as most of his belongings were auctioned yesterday before he entered a rest home.
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Seattle Weather Myth Sparks Fresh Air Drive
A psychiatrist argues Seattle's sunny summer heightened guilt and gloom. With rain scarce, locals doubt happiness, while a tourism group turns the myth of constant rain into a fresh air campaign using credit cards and promotions to lure visitors to a drier climate as the first fall downpour ends a drought.
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Seattle
Sears
Ponderosas planted on company land near Root National Forest killed
Libby Mort reports nearly 10,000 Ponderosa pine seedlings planted by the Paper Co. forester near St. Regis suffered severe losses from the summer drought. Seedlings aged one to two years and helicopter spread seeds were nearly all lost, according to Mel Parker.
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Mel Parker
Money problems plague UC Berkeley campus
BERKELEY AP The Brant University of California campus here, synonymous with student unrest through out the turbulent 60s, entering its second century is worried about dollars more than dissent. Financial problems plagued the campus. Chancellor Albert Bowker warns that building programs are behind schedule. $80 million is needed for earthquake safety repairs. Next week, about 28,500 students will begin classes in 70 buildings under 2,000 teachers. The campus has produced many controversial figures, and academic life returns amid pledges rising in fraternities and sororities.
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Robert McNamara
CIA
John McCone
Berkeley
Ernest Lawrence
Bearded man climbs Las Vegas sign in high gamble
John Kyvik, 44, of Palace Heights, identified by police as the man who climbed onto a giant sign overhanging downtown Las Vegas. A security guard escorted him to safety. Kyvik was placed in protective custody at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital after saying he climbed the sign because he saw no one outside who might fall.
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Oil spill threatens Vancouver harbor beaches
Thick fuel oil from a collision between the British freighter Erawan and the Japanese Sun Diamond drifted into Vancouver harbor and toward West Vancouver beaches and Stanley Park. About 200 tons spilled after a 31 foot hull breach, with no injuries reported. Cleanup involved MOT officials, city, province, federal agencies, and volunteers.
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Patrol hunts lost plane over California coast
Civil Air Patrol resumed the search for a private Cessna 310 carrying Russell Baker of Dunlap Aviation and Paul Hopkins of Big Chief Drilling. The craft departed Cedarville Modoc County at 3 am Monday and was due at Long Beach Municipal Airport by 5:30 am. CAP planes searched dawn to dusk Tuesday without locating the plane, with operations to resume at dawn.
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Big Chief Drilling Co
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