Hot pants displace bonnets in Easter Parade sights
New York crowds flocked to Fifth Avenue for Easter Parade in sunny 60s temperatures. Broadway stars and Met Opera baritone joined a street program on the library steps between 40th and 42nd streets. Traffic closed 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. from 40th to 57th, with main viewing between St Patrick’s Cathedral and St Thomas Church. Remarks contrasted Mardi Gras like flair with calls for floats.
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Pontiff warns of new wars during Easter in Rome
Pope Paul VI, greeting 200000 in St. Peter's Square after Easter Mass, warned of a sea of storms threatening mankind. He cited new wars, revolutions, terror, armaments and moral decline while urging renewed faith and hope for a world where human dignity is truly recognized.
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Easter rites reach Viet outposts with sunrise services
American soldiers held Easter services at multiple South Vietnamese posts including Chu Lai Camp Eagle and Quang Tri base. Chaplains conducted ecumenical services for Protestant and Catholic troops, with about 100 at Hue and 135 at Chu Lai, followed by meals and hymns as troops prepared for day operations.
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New Simple Home Hearing Aid Debuts in Long Beach
Japanese engineers unveil a compact hearing aid with clear tone and volume controls. The unit promises affordable basic hearing help and free delivery from Home Hearing Aid Service at 207 Base Broadway Long Beach.
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Holy City hosts interfaith Easter Passover observed in Jerusalem
In Jerusalem, Roman Catholics Protestants Greek Orthodox and Jews joined Palm Sunday and Passover observances. About 25 000 visitors entered via the walled city with services at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Garden Tomb Church. Demonstrators at the Western Wall spoke against discrimination and Iraqi Jewish persecution while Golda Meir spent the holiday at a Negev Kibbutz with family.
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Gunman Freed in Pakistan After Ayub Khan Attempted Assassination
Mohammed Hashim, 24, was freed from prison two years after serving time for attempting to kill former president Mohammed Ayub Khan. Hashim fired two shots at Ayub at a rally in Peshawar on October 10, 1968. no one was hit.
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Cathedral service disrupted with antiwar protest at Immaculate Conception
Six people including a Lutheran minister were arrested in Syracuse after they disrupted a mass at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of The Immaculate Conception. They paraded down the aisle carrying a wooden cross with a Vietnamese peasant's hat attached, in a protest tied to Vietnam.
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