Underground Salt City Lays Hidden Beneath Detroit
A vast, windless underground world 1000 feet beneath Detroit houses 50 miles of roads within the International Salt Mine Co. operation. Miners, limited to about 100 workers, run 60 by 80 foot pillars and rooms, with 57 degree year round air, conveyor belts, skip hoists, underground stations, and even dining rooms, while trains rumble overhead under Dearborn and Melvindale.
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Detroit
Mich
Motor City
International Salt Mine Co
Melvindale
Dearborn
Nightlife debuts with shaky start as Berman fails to impress
ABC's late night program Nightlife opens with Shelley Berman hosting and a nervy first 45 minutes marked by half finished remarks. Sammy Davis Jr. and Joan Baez appear as guests as the show struggles to establish its tone and pacing. CBS confirms Hazel moves to new hosts and NBC plans to drop its sitcom. Ron Cochran shifts to three afternoon radio roundups as spring approaches.
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New York
ABC
Nightlife
NBC
Shelley Berman
Berman
Sammy Davis Jr
Joan Baez
CBS
Shirley Booth
Hazel
Ron Cochran
Bert Parks
Gillham Dam Bid From Kansas Firm Low at $134,730
La Forge and Budd Construction Co of Parsons Kansas submitted the apparent low bid of 134 730 to Army Engineers for Gillham Dam building work northeast of DeQueen Oklahoma. The report notes salt grinding into pebbles during the process.
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Tulsa
Okla
la Forge and Budd Construction Co
Parsons, Kan
Army Engineers
Gillham Dam
DeQueen
Johnson’s Vietnam Dilemma Shapes His Shifting Course
The piece examines President Johnson’s constrained choices in Vietnam. It notes the limits on conciliatory moves, the risk of appearing weak, and the political stakes at home as the war escalates. It compares Johnson’s predicament to Truman’s Korea decision and warns of possible lasting political damage regardless of outcome.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Viet Nam
Hanoi
Peking
Harry S. Truman
Truman
South Korea
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai E. Stevenson
Korea
Southeast Asia
The
Red
South Viet Nam
Public Service Commission Orders Show Cause on Telephone Service
UNITED TELEPHONE CO was ordered to show cause why residents west of Charleston near Fort Smith cannot get service. A hearing on the order was set for March 16. A Britannica note says the cheetah is among the fastest animals over short distances.
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Little Rock
United Telephone Co
State Public Service Commission
Charleston
Fort Smith
Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Cap’n John’s Ocean
Catfish
Jane Parker
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