Fire Kills Naval Man Of Fame
Rear Adm. Howard A. Yeager 61 dies in a Great Lakes Naval Center home fire. His wife Mary Jean 60, nearly immobile, is in critical condition after rescue. Waves Laura Jean Martin 21 and Lora Mae Garret 25 also die from smoke inhalation. Yeager led the D-Day invasion signal and was to retire soon.
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Great Lakes, Ill
Howard A. Yeager
France
D-Day
Great Lakes Naval Training Center
Yeager
Mary Jean
Laura Jean Martin
William Martin
Port Charlotte
Fla
Lora Mae Garret
Joseph Garret
Los Alamos
N.M
9Th Naval District
Joseph Wright
Zenith Radio Corp
Illinois
Otto Kerner
Chicago
Navy
Lake Michigan
Yeagers
Switzerland Grants Haven To Daughter Of Stalin
Svetlana Stalina, 42, daughter of Joseph Stalin, received temporary asylum in neutral Switzerland. She arrived alone on an Italian airliner and was escorted to a secluded Alps hideout near Geneva and Bern as officials said she preferred not to return to the Soviet Union. No asylum request to the United States has been acknowledged, and U.S. officials offered no comment.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Tempora Haven
Svetlana Stalina
Joseph V. Stalin
United States
Pasenger
Alps
Bern
Stalina
Soviet Union
U.S
Frederick Reinhardt
Rome
New Delhi
Brijes Sing
Guaranteed Wage Wins Approval for UAW Members
White urged adoption of a guaranteed annual income as a 1967 union goal. Delegates representing about 50,000 auto industry workers and 250 office staff proposed fringe benefits including a 35 hour week with no pay cut and a bonus from excess profits. They urged bonuses to all employees when a firm reports excess profits and called for a shorter work week as part of broader labor reforms in Detroit.
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Detroit
United
Nen- Auto Workers
UAW
Together Even Unto Death
Robert Skarphol and Joseph Cagnacci, both 20, met through the military draft after attending Chabot College in Oakland. They trained together in the 39th Infantry, 3rd Battalion, Company A, 9th Division, earned the Combat Infantryman Badge on February 15, and died together in a March 8 mortar barrage in the Mekong Delta.
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Oakland
Calif
Robert Skarphol
Joseph Cagnacci
Chabot College
39Th Infantry
Vietnam
Defense Department
Mekong Delta
Gridiron Club mocks big political bosses in satirical revue
In Washington a Gridiron Club show poked fun at top politicians including President Johnson praised as a road king, Senator Robert Kennedy lamenting upheaval, Governor George Romney portrayed as a one man band, and an Nixon impersonator in a lively spoof reflecting the era's political theater.
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Raymond J. Crowley
Washington
Johnson
Robert F. Kennedy
Dn.y
Winchester
Manchester
George Romney
Michigan
M. Nixon
Porgy
Bess
Gridiorn Club dinner lampoons GOP presidential pick
The 82nd Gridiron Club white tie dinner at the Statler Hilton featured a skit with Sen. Everett Dirksen as an oracle. Republicans snickered at party wisdom while asking whom to nominate for president.
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Gridiron Club
Washington
Statler Hilton Hotel
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Delphic
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