14 Jul 1966
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1966
Page
1
Eight student nurses were strangled and stabbed to death in a South Chicago dormitory early today in a murder spree later labeled the crime of the century. One survivor, Corazon Amurao, 23, hid under a bed and described a six foot one blond killer weighing 170 pounds.
The sole survivor Miss Corazon Amurao, 23, describes a late night attack on eight nursing students in Chicago. Bound victims were killed one by one. she freed herself after an alarm clock rang at 5 a.m. and found two bodies as she escaped.
American jet fighters claimed two MIG21 kills within three minutes near Hanoi as B52s pounded areas south of the 17th Parallel. Capt. Snender and 1st Lt. Buttell secured the first shoot down with a heat seeking missile, followed by a second pilot pairing for the second MIG21.
Missouri and parts of Kansas Pennsylvania and Tennessee are drought disaster areas as searing heat threatens corn in the central Midwest. Farmers from New Jersey to Oklahoma report pasture burnups and looming irrigation water shortages while Iowa Illinois officials warn the crisis could worsen within 10 days if heat and lack of rain persist.
Death toll from a three week heat wave reaches at least 106 in St. Louis and Illinois counties, with New York City reporting 17 heat related deaths last week. The national weekly total hits 2 250. Hundreds treated for heat exhaustion as temperatures top 100 in 21 states.
Brigitte Bardot wed German playboy Gunther Sachs in a private Las Vegas ceremony lasting eight minutes at the home of Las Vegas lawyer Bill Coulthard. The couple, honeymooning in Mexico, were photographed leaving a hotel casino and followed by press, with Bardot kissing witnesses and receiving a champagne toast from Nevada judge John Mowbray.
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