Old Year Ends as Bowl Watching Sets Pace New Year
Associated Press reports a marathon day of football bowls with huge crowds across cities and televised festivities. Nixon attends Rose Bowl events while Pasadena readies for a record crowd. Texas parties host 30 000 guests with 4000 gallons of champagne as Oklahoma and SMU play Bluebonnet Bowl. President Johnson spends New Year’s Eve quietly at his Texas ranch.
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Associated Press
Texas
Pasadena
Calif
Nixon
Ohio State University
University of Southern California
Paso
Tex
New York
Times Square
San Francisco
Uced
Nunes Square
Seattle
Houston Tex
Astrohall
Astro+ domé
Oklahoma
Southern Methodist
Texas Ranch
Johnson
White House
Television Logs and Schedule Highlights
TV log listing 1963 era programs and time slots across channels. Includes news weather sports Eye on Arkansas and several soap operas, game shows, and movies such as Ride the Wild Surf and The Benny Goodman Story with Johnny Carson.
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Eye On
Arkansas
Peyton Place
Beverly Hillbillies
Green“Acres
Hawaii Five
Benny Goodman
Johnny Carson
Joey Bishop
Paul Harvey
General Hospital
Mike Douglas
Tan Heisler
Jack Slade
Francis
Batman Hazel
Dillon
Dene Williams
Pastor
Stanford Chorale
Dream House
Lucille Ball
Ironside
Beverly Hiibiies
Andy Griffith
Dick van Dike
Dean Martin
Arkansas Jaycees
Harvey Hac
Viet Nam prisoner frees and peace talks shift
Viet Cong releases three U S prisoners after a battlefield truce and the men are flown to an army evacuation hospital near Saigon. In Geneva Saigon’s peace delegation sets up headquarters while Nixon nears a neutral approach to the Rose Bowl. News on tolls from fuel theft and medicare fees dominates Washington chatter.
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AP News
Vietnam
U.S
Matt
Tremblig
Saigon
Nguyen Caio Ky
Geneva
Paris
International
Cornell
Israel
Britain
New Editor Eyes Jokes in Britain
William Davis, 35, named editor of Punch, Britain’s humor magazine. He complains jokes aren’t serious enough and seeks sharper targets and a world humorists conference. He notes Punch has faded from daily life with 115,000 weekly circulation and bland, suburban jokes.
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Lawrence Malkin
Associated Press
London
Whiz Kid
Fleet Street
Punch
Britain
William Davis
The
London Guardian
Punch Management
Davis
Proxmire questioning theft of U.S. war fuel to Reds
Sen William Proxmire pressed for public release of an Air Force report on millions of gallons of fuel stolen from U S military operations in Thailand in 1967 and asked if any of it reached Communist hands. He backed Navy whistleblower John McGee, who says he faced retaliation after exposing lax fuel controls and transfers him from Bangkok to a make work job in Virginia. The GAO confirmed 5.5 million gallons were stolen through bribery and forged documents with lax oversight enabling the thefts.
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Pasadena
David
Julie Eisenhower
Florida
Pennsylvania
Washington
Johnson
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William Proxmire
Thailand
Air Force
Administration
Lawrence L. Knutson
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
U.S
Wisconsin Democrat
Proxmire
Navy
McGee
Navy Fuel Supply Office
Alexandria
Bangkok
Groumif
Winds of Change Echo in Reform Debate
A quote frames the speaker as railing against the establishment and urging constant opposition to perceived elitism. The remark marks a call for ongoing disruption and critique of power structures within the movement.
Solunar Tables Schedule From Knight's Tables
Solunar times listed from Richard Aiden Knight's Solunar Tables guide readers to plan hunting and fishing. The station shows daily morning and evening windows from Jan 1 to Jan 5 with multiple periods and end times.
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Richard Aiden Knight
Prisoners Freed Near Saigon Amid Vietnam War Tensions
Three U S Army specialists flown by helicopter from a release site near the Cambodian border to Long Binh evacuation hospital near Saigon are reported in satisfactory condition. They were expected to return home Thursday. Viet Cong negotiators gave no sign of broader releases. The men, all 21, are Spec 4 Thomas N. Jones, Spec 4 James W. Brigham, and Pvt Donald C. Smith.
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U.S
Saigon
United States
Spec
Thomas N. Jones
Lynnville
Ind
James W. Brigham
Ocala
Fla
Pic
Donald C. Smith
Akron
Long Binh
William Hammon
Silver Spring
Brigham
Jones
Nguyen van Thieu
South Vietnam
Thieu
Ho Chi Minh
North Vietnam
Vis Sayer
Agadr
Unylong
Rowe
Roops
Dirksen Opposes Hickel Cabinet Nomination Hearing Debate
Senator Dirksen signals opposition to Walter Hickel as interior secretary but expects all Nixon cabinet picks to be approved. He favors informal hearings before Nixon’s swearing in, while Democrats weigh advance hearings through Friday caucus. Senator Proxmire questions Hickel’s stance on land conservation and land use policies.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Laader Everett M. Dirksen
Senate
Nixon
Interior
Dirksen
Alaska
Walter J. Hickel
Interior Post
Henry M. Jackson
Jackson
Hickel
Wiliam Proxmire
D. Wis
Ky sets up Geneva office away from Paris talks
Informants say Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky will establish a Geneva headquarters for Saigon's Geneva talks delegation after a holiday in Vietnam, while negotiators stay in Paris. Ky plans to supervise from Switzerland, seeking less hostility in Geneva, with a move not expected before Jan 20. Reports note Ky’s controversial stance and scrutiny of his wife’s fashion photos adding tensions at home and abroad.
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Arthur L. Gavshon
Presa Wester Paris
Neuyen Cao Ky
Saigon
Seattle
Genes Va
Viet= ham
Paris
Stgoh
Pham Dang Lam
Switzerland
Geneva
Pars
Nixon
South Vietnam
France
Fortier
Vietnam
Hanoi
Nguyen van Thieu
Ing Ky
Plymouth Colony
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