Skepticism Great Among 150 Model Cities Projects
A 1% page AP report from Washington summarizes Floyd H Hyde's memo to Romney on the Model Cities program. He notes distrust between residents and city government, with participation varying from pro forma to active, and urges expansion from neighborhood to citywide planning with staged growth.
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Fresno
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North Carolina travel income climbs to 696 million
Raleigh AP reports the 1968 North Carolina travel economy rose sharply from 360 million in 1958 to 696 million last year. Travel spending, travel-related firms, and employed workers all increased, with Mecklenburg leading income at 74 million and counties like Graham, Swain, Camden, Cherokee, and Dare showing strong percentage gains.
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Cherokee
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Mecklenburg
Piedmont
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Swain County
Democratic Group Debates Rules for Party Reforms
Washington AP reports a Democratic party commission began deliberations on reforming party procedures. By voice vote the panel chose guidelines asserting only Republican domination of a state legislature justifies failing to secure reforms ahead of the 1972 Democratic National Convention.
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Washington
Democratic Party Commission
Ten-Year-Old Helps Police Nab Cop
Philadelphia report credits 10-year-old James Lynch with spotting a kidnapping in progress. He relayed the license plate to his father, triggering a large police response that soon located the suspects outside a Germantown restaurant. Officers found the “kidnapping victim” patrolman dining. investigators praised the boy’s alertness and responsibility.
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Philadelphia
James Lynch
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Germantown
Welter Watson
Antiwar Protest Planned at Major Universities
Researchers at top ranked campuses prepare a one day walkout Tuesday to protest war. The action, though not halting defense work, aims to mobilize large numbers of faculty and students from war related projects. Alan Chodos coordinates the MIT plan calling it a voluntary protest.
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Cambrige
Mass
Alan Chodos
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Students Barred From Jail In Colfax Turmoil
In Colfax Washington five black college students who pleaded guilty to second and third degree assault were barred by 50 to 75 students from entering jail to begin weekend terms. Whitman County Sheriff Mike Humphreys called the scene peaceful but tense after the group spent the night in a church before their jail time at Washington State University in Pullman.
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Wash
Whitman County
Mike Humphreys
Washington State University
Pullman
West Berlin air corridors blamed in Soviet push
AP dispatch from Moscow reports Pravda accusing East Germany of illegal use of air routes to move Western military equipment to West Berlin. Western diplomats view the campaign as a nerve war while denying German military activity in Allied sectors.
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Associated Press
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Con- Union Limited
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Berlin
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Communist Party News
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Soviet Union
Andrei Grechko
India
Izvestia
John Glenn Mulls Ohio Senate Bid in 1970 Race
Former astronaut John Glenn said he is considering a 1970 U.S. Senate run for Ohio but has not decided. At 47 and a retired Marine colonel he noted he has been urged to run and will decide after seeing other candidates. Glenn, who orbited Earth in 1962, had previously run for Ohio Senate and later withdrew after a bath tub accident caused dizziness.
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