Florida hotel boom outstrips demand in two year span
Florida industries show an average of 300 hotel and motel rooms built weekly over two years while some regions struggle to fill current units. Lower interest rates and a strong economy propelled construction, though occupancy rates dipped in Orange County near Disney World this year. Actress Peggy Castle was found dead in her Hollywood apartment at 45, after a career including Mr Belvedere Goes To College and Wagons West.
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Peggy Castle
Hollywood
Miss Castle
Robert Raines
William McGarry
Mr. Belvedere
Peron Team Accepts Argentina Presidential Ticket
Juan D. Peron and his wife Isabel agreed Saturday to run for president and vice president in Argentina’s Sept. 23 elections. Emilio Abras announced after a Peronist meeting with cabinet ministers and legislative leaders. Peron had not accepted a week earlier.
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Isabel
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Emilio Abras
Peron
Peronist Movement
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Pentecostal leaders disputeCatholic crackdown prophecy
In Minneapolis the Rev. Dr David Du Plessis dismissed a forecast by Rev David Wilkerson that Rome would clamp down on Catholic charismatics or neo Pentecostals. Both men spoke at the Second International Lutheran Conference on the Holy Spirit ending at the Minneapolis Auditorium, part of the rising neo Pentecostal movement across major Christian churches.
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Oakland
Calif
David Wilkerson
Dallas
Tex
Assemblies of God
Three Atlanta youths drown on Mississippi coast outing
In Waveland Mississippi AP reports three Atlanta youths drowned Saturday afternoon after being caught in an undercurrent. Victims were Jimmy Spratling 13 Eva Spratling 12 and Theresa Williams 13. They were part of a 41 person Emmaus House weeklong outing.
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Mississippi
Jimmy Spratling
Eva
Theresa Williams
Emmaus House
Rizzo aides accused in dossiers turmoil and Hope joke spark protest
Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo faces allegations that a special police unit used city tax records to build dossiers on political enemies. The Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin cites highly detailed files, while Rizzo proposes a lie detector test amid the uproar. In Seattle, Ben Nakagawa seeks apology letters from Bob Hope for a National Scout Jamboree joke.
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Frank Rizzo
Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin
Seattle
Citizen's League
Bob Hope
Idaho
Ben Nakagawa
Nakagawa
Japanese Baptist Church
Hope
War At Hand In Cambodia Capital War At Hand In Cambodia Capital
Phnom Penh endures growing war as US bombings appear over the city and refugees flood in. The curfew is in place while social life continues amid air raids and approaching bombardment. Local residents observe scarce Western presence and crowded living in a city overwhelmed by displacement.
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Cambodia
Peter Arnett
Phnom Penh
States offered option to avoid repaying federal funds
Twenty one state school superintendents and the District of Columbia were told of an over budgeting option to dodge repaying 2.5 million dollars in federal education funds accused of misspending. The government says Title I money was used as general aid rather than for poor and migrant pupils.
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District of Columbia
Congress
Burr in Portugal After Airliner Illness
American actor Raymond Burr, 56, rested comfortably after a collapse on a Portuguese airliner at Lajes Field in the Azores. He was rushed to the U S Air Force hospital for tests to determine the illness’s cause.
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Lajes
Portugal
Raymond Burr
Azores
Burr
United States
U.S. Air Force Base
Calhoun Offers Secretarial and Accounting Courses
Calhoun State Technical School invites adults to enroll in secretarial and accounting courses starting Sept. 4 with night enrollments Sept. 4 and 5 and day enrollments through Sept. 7. A high school diploma or equivalency is required. Courses include Shorthand, Typing, Business Math, Accounting, Filing, and Secretarial Practice. Call 353-3102 extension 292 for details. Randall Quarles of Somerville 2 earns Who's Who Among American High School Students. Hul and Robert Ryan Jr. of Decatur enter Marion Institute. Basic Educational Opportunity Grants totaling over $122 million available for first-year postsecondary study. Athens College granted 65 degrees at commencement. honorary degree given to Estelle Pinegar.
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Carlton Kelley
Randall Quarles
Jark R. Quarles
Somerville 2
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