Entertainment escalation in Vietnam tours by Hope and peers
A wave of USO Christmas tours heads to Vietnam with Bob Hope Martha Raye Frances Langford Anita Bryant and Johnny Grant leading the entertainment assault. Diller Hedren and McBain join the effort as teams plan visits from Saigon to Da Nang with hospital signings and personal messages.
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Clara Ward
Tippi Hedren
Diane McBain
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Greenland
Humphrey Home Welcome Has Neighbors Laughing
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey tells new neighbors he has eccentricities they’ll adjust to as about two thousand people greet the Humphreys at a luxury high rise in Washington. He says he can now walk to the Capitol and recalls resisting the move from Chevy Chase after 18 years there. Mrs. Humphrey jokes about finding him at lunch and says they are glad to be ordinary people in the neighborhood.
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Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphreys
Humphrey
Capitol
Chevy Chase
Muriel Humphrey
U S Plans To Send Sick Wounded Prisoners Home
U S envoy Harriman said the United States plans to repatriate sick or wounded North Vietnamese prisoners of war through the Red Cross. He did not specify timing or numbers and said exchange was not contingent on Hanoi. He noted only 19 North Vietnamese sailors are known to be held by U S forces.
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Author Steinbeck ventures into wartorn Vietnam
Nobel laureate John Steinbeck travels with his wife to Vietnam for an indefinite stay. He plans to report via letters for Newsday and will learn to use M16 rifles and M79 grenade launchers to better write about the war. His son John Steinbeck Jr. accompanies him as an Army Specialist Fourth Class with the armed forces network.
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Newsday
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Catbird) Steinbeck
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LSD Causes Strange Animal Reactions At Georgia Tech
Dr. M. Jackson Marr of Georgia Tech fed LSD to mice rabbits dogs and guppies for two years to study its effects on animals and humans. He warns LSD is dangerous when not used under professional supervision and notes potential benefits in medicine but emphasizes risk from incompetence.
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Atlanta, Ga
M. Jackson Marr
Georgia Tech
Marr
Jordan allows Iraqi and Saudi troops with UN pullback
Jordan said it would permit Iraqi and Saudi troops within two months only if UN peacekeepers withdraw from the Israel UAR frontier. The move aims to balance regional ambitions with fears of regime change in Jordan and amid wider Arab plans. The UN force of about 4,000 has patrolled the 145 mile border since 1957.
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Middle East
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
Yemen
Sinai Desert
Knight Publishing to Build New Charlotte Plant
Knight Publishing Co plans a 10 million investment in a two-building Charlotte plant for the Charlotte Observer and Charlotte News. Construction starts next fall and will take about three years, with storage for 8 000 tons of newsprint and a 352 890 square foot press and operations building near Tryon Towers. Downtown revitalization bonds of 13.7 million will be on the ballot this Saturday.
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Tryon Towers
Charlotte
Brodie S. Griffith
Shortcut Across Snowy Trestle Brings Tragedy
BRIGHTON Michigan AP report details a fatal Scout hike accident on the Huron River trestle in Island Lake State Park. Howard Lovell 50 and John Gresham 11 from Detroit were killed when a Chesapeake and Ohio freight train struck the group at 55 mph. Kevin Connors 14, also from Detroit, broke a leg after leaping 30 feet to safety. Thirty four Scouts escaped. the trestle carries no trespassing signs as the boys used it as a shortcut between campsites and a cookout area.
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Lawrence Green
Chesapeake & Ohio
Howard T. Lovell
Detroit
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Lovell
Young Gresham
Huron River
Island Lake State Park
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Inkster
Judge urges broader use of work release to fight poverty
Lower courts are urged by Judge Allen H. Gwyn of Reidsville to expand work-release programs for prisoners. He argues such use can curb poverty and reduce crime by giving offenders a path to employment and savings, especially for youths. He cites his 1963 plan and notes poverty as a root of crime in democratic society.
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Reidsville
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North Carolina
Allen H. Gwyn
Recorder’s Courts
Gwyn
Judge Gwyn
Rowan County
Public backs supermarket boycotts over rising food costs
A Washington Post poll finds 45 percent of Americans and 63 percent of under 35s sympathize with shopper boycotts against supermarkets as a protest against rising food prices. Meat costs and middleman profits drive protests, with trading stamps and cash prizes viewed as factors.
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