Roddenberry urged to resume writing after long hiatus
Gene Roddenberry, famed creator of Star Trek, returns to TV with Genesis II after a 20 year absence. The 51 year old ex pilot and police sergeant says studio heads urged him to offer something different while noting golf days no longer satisfy. Roddenberry reflects on Trek cancellation and the appeal of television’s reach.
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Jay Sharbutt
NEW York (Ap
Gene Roddenberry
Television
NBC
Roddenberry
South Pacific
Los Angeles
CBS
Earth
NASA
Chamber banquet draws over nine hundred attendees
More than 900 people filled the Hope-Hempstead Chamber of Commerce banquet Friday hosted by El Matador Restaurant. The buffet featured chicken, barbeque, potato salad, cole slaw and drinks as Yancy Reynolds and Jimmy Jones exit the line with plates in hand.
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Hope-Hempstead Chamber of Commerce
el Matador
Yancy Reynolds
Jimmy Jones
Bits and Bites From Hal Boyle’s Mailbag
New York columnist Hal Boyle scoops off mailbag trivia on albinism among plains tribes, bold liberated women, ductile steel wire, polar bears, and quirky names. Quotation highlights, health notes on hypertension, and a Dunne quip close the column with light social observations.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Great Plains
G. B. Shaw
West Virginia
Sacramento
Miss Merry Christmas
England
Henry
John
Robert
William
Richard
Leonardo da Vinci
Louvre
Paris
United
Going Up the Saigon River Aboard the President Taylor
AP Special Correspondent Hugh A. Mulligan recalls a four hour river transit from Vung Tau to Saigon aboard the President Taylor. The voyage, long a wartime route, passes checkpoints like Dead Man’s Bend and Moon River while veterans recall Tet battles and river patrols.
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Hugh A. Mulligan
President Taylor
Saigon River
Saigon
Coconut Bay
Coral Banks
Moon River
Dead Man’s Bend
Norman V. Jennings
Boston
San Carlos
Calif
Vung Tau
Cap St. Jacques
Jennings
Taylor
Hemisinus
Tran Binh Sanh
Siesta
South Vietnam
Dead Man's Bend
Mile 14
Charlie Country
Nha Be
Lang
Tet
Saigon River Pilots Association
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Ark
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S. Elm
Hope Arkansas
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