Frosty snowman built by American troopers in Vietnam
In the Central Highlands near Ban Me Thuot, Army platoon leader Thomas Davis of Alma Arkansas and fellow 4th Infantry Division soldiers fashioned a sandbag snowman named Frosty. The figure, painted white with lime and adorned with a steel helmet, is touted as not melting in tropical heat.
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Alma
Ark
4Th Infantry Division
Ban Me Thuot
Davis
Exploding private plane kills 11 near Albuquerque
A private twin engine plane carrying eight men and three women crashed 500 yards from homes near the Sandia Mountains. FAA said pilot Carroll Thompson of Dalhart Texas steered from Las Vegas toward Dalhart but returned to Albuquerque due to bad weather. All aboard were killed and bodies severely broken up.
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Sandia Mountains
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Carroll Thompson
Dalhart
Tex
Thompson
Panhandle Aviation Co
Texas
FAA
Penn State fires back at Nixon over national title claim
Penn State Governor Shafer urged President Nixon to suspend awarding a national championship plaque after the Texas Arkansas game and attend the Orange Bowl. Legislators backed Shafer, praising Penn State's tough schedule and two undefeated seasons cited by students.
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Raymond P. Shafer
Penn State
Nixon
Shafer
Fayettesville
Ark
Bob Parsons
Nittany Lions
Texas
Arkansas
Nobel prize in medicine winners arrive in Stockholm
Two of the three 1969 Nobel Prize in medicine winners reached Stockholm ahead of the prize ceremony next week. Alfred D. Hershey and Salvador Luria will receive the award with Max Delbrück of Caltech in Pasadena given by King Gustaf Adolf VI on December 10 for their discoveries on the genetic structure of viruses.
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Stockholm
Alfred D. Hershey
Salvador Luria
Max Delbrueck
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
Cal
Gustaf Adolf VI
WIFE OF SENATOR CRANSTON PARALYZED BY STROKE
Mrs. Geneva Cranston wife of Senator Alan Cranston D Calif was paralyzed on the right side by a stroke Friday. Aides said the doctor described it as mild with good prospects for recovery and she was taken to Doctors Hospital in Washington.
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Geneva Cranston
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Molotov Named Honor Guard At Voroshilov Coffin
Vyacheslav M. Molotov Stalin era aide named honor guard at the coffin of Marshal Kliment Voroshilov. Tass notes Molotov, 79, a former foreign minister and top Communist figure, as mourners pay respects. Voroshilov died at 88 in Moscow.
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Josef Stalin
Kliment Y. Voroshilov
Tass
Molotov
Communist Party
Stalin
Voroshilov
Moscow
Trudeau Announces Royal Visit for Manitoba Centennial
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau said Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip will travel to Canada for a 10 day visit next July to take part in centennial celebrations for Manitoba and the Northwest Territories.
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Greece
Denmark
Britain
Prince Philip
Buckingham Palace
Europe
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Philip
Palace
Alice of Battenberg
Victoria
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Queen Elizabeth
Prince Phillip
Canada
Manitoba
Northwest
Ponti Plans Film of Hijacking Hero Turned Target
Producer Carlo Ponti announced in Rome plans for a film about Raffaele Minichiello the 20 year old Marine who hijacked a Trans World Airlines jet in California and forced the crew to fly him to Rome The title They Stole 200 From Me and I Took Them Back reflects Ponti stance of not glorifying the hijacker The airliner halted five times over 17 hours before landing in Rome The project will cast a lead actor and shoot in cities of the landings Seattle Minichiello grew up and Vietnam where he fought
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Rome
Raffaele Minichiello
Trans World Airlines
California
Ponti
Minichiello
Seattle
Vietnam
Price Named To Executive Secretary Of Councils
John R. Price Jr., 30, Manhasset, N H, was named by President Nixon on Friday to succeed Daniel P. Moynihan as executive secretary of the councils on rural and urban affairs Moynihan was promoted November 4 from chief domestic adviser and secretary of the two councils to counselor to the President.
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Manhasset
N.H
Nixon Friday
Daniel P. Moynihan
Moynihan
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Fairfield
Iowa
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India
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