Red Shells Three Towns and Other War News Across Asia
Soldiers reported heavy shelling of three South Vietnamese towns with mortars and recoilless rifles, minor civilian casualties, and 70 communist troops killed. B52 missions targeted troop concentrations near Saigon while a large ammunition dump was destroyed. Elsewhere a fuel tank explosion in the Philippines killed 13, many children injured. Tito criticized Moscow in Yugoslavia. Ayub Khan survived an assassination attempt in Pakistan as East Germans attempted a Berlin Wall crossing and a U.S. airlift plan to Korea was canceled.
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Nation swamped by early November winter across vast regions
A November storm system delivered rain snow and cold across three quarters of the United States. Iowa recorded record snowfall while the Atlantic seaboard Rockies and Pacific Northwest faced mixed precipitation and frigid conditions. Des Moines and Omaha saw their heaviest or near heaviest snows on record with eight to nine inches in several areas.
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Pacific Northwest
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Alabama
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Gulf Coast
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Omaha
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Nebraska
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Rose Mary Woods named Nixon personal secretary in White House
Rose Mary Woods, longtime aide to Richard Nixon, was named the president elects personal secretary in his first White House appointment. Woods, 17 years by his side, is seen as a key adviser with a sharp memory for politicians and a trusted confidante in the inner circle. Luci Johnson Nugent travels to Hawaii with her 16 month old son Lyn en route to join her airman husband. Milburn Eldridge wins a Kentucky school board seat by a coin toss after absentee ballots, prompting questions on democracy. Freedom House to award Milovan Dulas the 1969 Freedom Award at its December dinner. A Erie stag party raises funds for a 6 month old Tony Borgia’s liver transplant operation. Johnson attends church as Davis defends Nixon from press criticism. Pope Paul VI hosts Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski for talks on Poland in the Vatican.
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White House
Nixon
Rose Mary Woods
Ohio
Miss Woods
Senate
Luci Johnson Nugent
Lyn
San Francisco
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Luci
Melinda Bates
Vietnam
Patrick Nugent
Erie
Tony Borgia
Tony
Bob Borgia
Paul VI
Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski
Vatican
Communist
Poland
Farrow Luna Ejected From London Hotel After Scuffle
Actress Mia Farrow and model Donyale Luna along with three men were escorted from a London hotel after a disturbance in the restaurant. Luna said the Cavendish Hotel would not explain the eviction. Nearby, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip laid a red rose wreath at the tomb of Brazil's unknown soldier in Rio de Janeiro during Remembrance Day ceremonies.
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Donyale Luna
London
Miss Luna
Cavendish
A_ hotel
Elizabeth II
Prince Philip
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Two kidney recipients rest after landmark transplant weekend
Near normal diets mark the first U S Christian organ recipients 24 hours after surgery at Methodist Houston. Edmond Johnson 44 Crockett Texas and Harry Caserta 40 Tyler Texas received kidneys from a donor whose heart and left lung were implanted in two other patients at St Luke's Hospital. Andrew Perdace 55 Hempstead New York and Walter Carey 43 Carmel New York were in good condition, Perdace received the donor heart and Carey the donor lung from the same case.
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Edmond Johnson
Crockett, Tex
Harry Caserta
Tyler
Tex
Methodist Hospital
Houston
St. Luke’s Hospital
St. Luke’s
Andrew S. Perdace
Hempstead
N.Y
Walter Charles Carey
Carmel
Perhace
New Jersey
Carey
New York City School Strike Faces Settlement Today
Superintendent Bernard E Donovan expressed optimism that the 10 week strike could be settled today and schools reopen Tuesday after secret negotiations. Albert Shanker and Mayor John V Lindsay held a secret session. Shanker said no break in the deadlock but that progress could occur at any time.
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New York
New York City
Bernard E. Donovan
Donovan
Albert Shanker
Teachers’ Union
John V. Lindsay
Shanker
Kirk Douglas to speak at funeral of Wendell Corey in Santa Monica
Actor Kirk Douglas will deliver the eulogy at services Tuesday in Santa Monica for Wendell Corey a respected actor and a man active in politics and local government.
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Kirk Douglas
Santa Monica
Wendell Corey
Classifieds and Delivery Notice Dated November 11 1968
Classified ad section notice lists mail carrier delivery and street restrictions including Saturday and Xth Stone Ave. details with phone numbers and a Monday date in the 1968 publication. The item includes volume and issue numbers and delivery notes for single copies.
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Stone Ave
Noted Actor Gerald Mohr Dies at 54 in Stockholm
American actor Gerald Mohr known for Philip Marlowe and the Lone Wolf died in Stockholm at age 54. He was there to shoot a TV series he produced with his Swedish-born partner, after recent work on European television productions.
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Gerald Mohr
Philip Marlowe
Lone Wolf
Stockholm
Mohr
Europe
HHH At Play on Vacation at Caneer Bay St John Virgin Islands
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey spent Sunday relaxing aboard a chartered boat at Caneer Bay while sailing and swimming. He and running mate Edmund S. Muskie arrived in the Virgin Islands Friday for a 10 day vacation.
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Caneer Bay
St. John
V.S
Maine
Edmund S. Muskie
Virgin Islands
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