Volunteers Transcribe Books into Braille for the Blind
AP Features explores how about 4,000 volunteers, mainly middle aged women and reform school alumni, transcribe books into Braille for 375,000 blind Americans. The Library of Congress directs the program with nationwide Braille clubs and free learning resources, while volunteers cover costs for equipment and materials.
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J. W. Davis
Washington
Pris
America
Robert &. Bray
Division For the
Library of Congress
Junior League
Memphis
Shakepee
Minn
George Largo
Louis Braille
Turks and Russians sign $25 million trade pact
Ankara Turkey will exchange stocks livestock and foods for Soviet machine industrial goods and raw materials under a $25 million trade agreement this year.
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Ankara
Turkey
Guide to Books THE PRIZE by Irving Wallace
A sprawling 761 page novel about six Nobel Prize laureates and their tangled lives as Stockholm hosts Nobel Week. Central figures include Andrew Craig a Millers Dam Wisconsin novelist and alcoholic, physicist Max Strathman, surgeon John Garrett, and prize winners Claude Marceau and Denise. A web of romance, jealousy, espionage, and peril drives the fast paced narrative with dramatic cliff hangers.
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Irving Wallace
Almon and Schuster
Jed
Stockholm
Nobel
Andrew Craig
Millers Dam
Wis
Harriet
Craig
Max Strathman
Germany
Claude Marceau
Denise
Claude
Leals
Krantz
Medler
Daranyi
Lilly
Onde Little
Marta
Garrett
Farelli
Stratinan
Emily
Wallace
Publisher Rejects Kennedy Invite to White House
Cole, publisher of The Gazette Telegraph in Colorado Springs, says he declined President Kennedy’s invitation for a White House luncheon next Friday. Kennedy sought an exchange on state regional and national problems, but Hoiles refused to lend his presence to the luncheon.
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Colorado Springs
Harry H. Hoiles
Kennedy
Edie Adams Rebuilds Kovacs Estate After Death
Edie Adams says two months will clear tangled Kovacs finances and taxes. She plans to buy back the house, manage eight TV specials, a Las Vegas appearance in October, a Broadway show, and a Decca record album while raising her children after Ernie Kovacs’s death in a plane crash.
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Bob Thomas
Hollywood (Ap
Edie Adams
Rand Ernie Kovacs
Kovacs
Sam
Jack Temmon
Frank Sinatra
Edie
Ernie
Comedie¢Nne
Ale
Sid Cassie
Decca
Las Vegas
Broadway
Turkey Referendum on Market Control Program
Washington voters in the national referendum now through Friday decide approval of a marketing control order for turkeys. If a required majority favors the plan, it would set annual marketing limits to stabilize prices and may signal broader federal controls on surplus commodities. Results to be announced by Secretary Orville Freeman.
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Richard P. Powers
Washington Iap
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Department
Restoring porch furniture with cushions and rusted metal
A reader asks how to revitalize outdoor furniture. Remove cushions and clean rusted metal with sandpaper or steel wool. Use rust remover if needed, wipe with turpentine, and sand glossy areas for paint adhesion. Apply rust inhibitor under final coat. For cushions, consider replacing with latex rubber by buying yard material and trimming, then cover with waterproof fabric.
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Andy Lang
Dutchman Anton Geesink Wins World Judo Championship
In Paris the Dutch challenger Anton Geesink, 237 pounds, becomes the first non Japanese to defeat a Japanese in the world judo championship. The victory marks a historic first for a non Japanese in this event, with nine non Japanese competitors noted in the field.
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Paris
Anton Geesink
Editor of Newsweek Dies
The former Newsweek editor William Williamson died at Addison Gilbert Hospital Gloucester Mass. He had been a longtime Times contributor and was born in Augusta Maine. The story references his role and past associations with major publications and book reviews.
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Malaya
Gloucester
Mess
Zare
Department of
Samuel
Tt. Williamson
Rt Fisheries
Rockport
Mass
Newsweek Magazine
South China
Addison
New York Times
William
Times
Augusta
Maine
Tribune
AOS
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10Th Street
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Elizabeth Taylor
Marilyn Monroe
Miss Taylor
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20Th Century-Fox
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American Guild of Warialy Artists
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Newsweek
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