Operation Dear Abby II aims at holiday cards for troops
National chairman Donald P. Grimes urges readers to send Christmas greetings to service members abroad. The appeal lists addresses for Army and Air Force personnel in Korea, Coast Guard ships in the Pacific, Marines on an aircraft carrier group, plus ships USS John F. Kennedy and USS Carl Vinson.
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Army
Air Force
Korea
Coast Guard
Pacific
Donald P. Grimes
Germany
Okinawa
U.S.S
John F. Kennedy
Mediterranean Sea
FPO
New York
Carl Vinson
Indian Ocean
America Remembers U S Forces in Korea and 2nd ACR
A fragmented note describes distribution of mail to U S units in Korea and Germany. It mentions over 20,000 Marines, the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment along the Iron Curtain, and an appeal to readers to write Dear Abby in a booklet addressed to Hollywood.
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America
U.S
Korea
2Nd Armored Cavalry Regiment
Iron Curtain
Germany
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
2Nd
ACR
New York
Abby
Rosa Parks and Jim Crow defeat highlighted in history
A fragmented history item recalls Rosa Parks refusing to yield her seat on December 1, 1955, sparking a civil rights moment. It mentions figures like Josef Stalin, David Ben-Gurion, and Jose Lopez Portillo, plus a cryptogram puzzle and prior quote about bigotry.
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Rosa Parks
Montgomery
Supreme Court
Carlisle Trust Company
Carlisle
Pittsburgh
Edward Flanagan
Boys Town
Omaha
Neb
Josef Stalin
Sergei M. Kirov
Leningrad
Communist Party
Cuba
United States
Israel
David Ben-Gurion
Tel Aviv
Jose Lopez Portillo
Mexico
Ajaccio
Corsica
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RAO
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