Guinness World Records Book 9th edition lists wild feats
A 1967 excerpt highlights extreme records from the Book of World Records. Notable entries include the shortest adult at 23.2 inches, the tallest at 7 feet 91 3/4 inches, the heaviest man at 1,096 pounds in 1958, and the oldest living age claims. The piece catalogues curiosities across biology, physics, geography, and history with bold figures and bold claims.
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Guinness
Norris
Ross McWhirter
Sterling Publishing Company
Dolores Ann Pullard
Robert E. Hughes
Monticello
Illinois
Christian J. Drackenberg
Aarhus
Denmark
Swami Pandarasamadhi
Robert Liston
Scotland
Topolino
Suburbs subsidized by Detroit study argues city helps region
An economist from the University of Michigan estimates suburbanites receive about 22 million dollars yearly in Detroit funded services. The study traces direct benefits from the city’s libraries museums parks and streets and indirect subsidies from water, tax exemptions for universities, and highway access. The Metro area functions as a single unit, the priest-economist argues, challenging the notion that the core city drains suburbia. Two more items follow: cross-city policy ideas and a Japan drunk-driving Bill.
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University of Michigan
Detroit
William B. Neenan
National Tax Journal
Father Neenan
Henry Ford
Rozelle ignores secret deal for Eagles in Washington
Jack Anderson reports Rozelle, the NFL commissioner, has not acted on Leonard Tose's hidden partners or his massive gambling bets to buy the Philadelphia Eagles. Witnesses say Tose bets heavily on gin, golf, and other games but claims no ties to the Mafia.
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Washington
Pete Rozelle
Joe Namath
New York Jets
Manhattan
Rozelle
Leonard Tose
Philadelphia Eagles
Tose
Eagles
John Connelly
Crown Cork and
Seal
Connelly
Heaven Not So Popular as Final Resting Place
New York AP notes heaven’s appeal fades as final retirement place due to segregation for avant garde tastes and fears of dull eternities. Critics joke on heaven with modern amenities from pizza to pinball while scientists warn of risks and a press agent could reshuffle its image.
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New York
Curbstone
Heaven
Hell
New York City
Earth
National Brotherhood Century
Inside Labor A Strange Neutralism
A Swedish prime minister and his party back Hanoi while U S officials and longshoremen clash over neutrality. ILA leaders urge a boycott of unloading Swedish autos, arguing Palme favors the Viet Cong and NLF. The action targets Sweden’s car shipments, aiming to pressure the government economically.
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New York
Olof Palme
U. S
Stockholm
Sergei Square
U.S
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
NLF
North Vietnamese Communist Party
Saigon
Palme
Social Democratic Leber Party
International Longshoremen’s Assny
ILA
Afl-Cio
America
Sweden
Jerome Holland
Hampton Institute
Atlantic Causeway
Baltimore
Johnny Bowers
Teddy Gleason
Mr. Gleason
State Dept
White House
Social Democratic Labor Party
Nu.f
Federal
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Readers Write Urges Indiana County Support For Holiday Promotion
A letter from Mrs. Annie Mouse thanks campers for opinions on June 5 and urges Indiana residents to back the Christmas Tree Candle stick Holiday and tourism efforts. She notes Indiana's potential as the Christmas Tree Capital of the World and asks for active participation, lighted displays, and a stronger membership drive in 1970.
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Indiana Evening Gazette
Indiana
Indiana County Tourist Bureau
Sta
Mrs
Annie Mouse
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Russell M. Rickeyee
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William B. Hastings
Frank 8. Hood Reo
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Focal News
AP Mapatches
Carrier Boy
Armstrong
Cambria
Clearfield
Jefferson
Westmoreland
Diays
Penna
Jim Bishop
Fyodor Vassilet
Teresa Lopez de Sepulveda
Cape Town
Florida Straits
Red Sea
Panama
Shensi Province
China
Marianas Trench
Pacific
Samoa
Ramapo
Philippines
Verkhoyansk
Siberia
San Luis Potosi
Mexico
Calama
Chile
Oxford
England
Vega
Venus
Cadiz
Spain
Neil Armstrong
Robert M. White
Alamogordo
New Mexico
John P. Stapp
Poon Lim
S. S. Ben Lomond
Azores
Salinas
Brazil
James
Sarah Burgess
London
Robert
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Japan
Mary Andrews
Portsmouth
West Third St
Cleveland
Ohio
Jack Anderson
Hidden Partners
Jerry Wolman
Boyle
Jaagh Billings
Mark Twain
Friedrich Nietzsche
George Santayana
Imogene Coca
Louis Nye
Food and Drug Administration
Miss Coca
Nye
Ciba Pharmaceuticals
FDA
CIBA
The
Swedish Medical Association
U.S.A
Coca
By Victor Riesel
Vietnam
Gleason
George Meany
Nixon
Nilsson
Riksdag
Gunnar Lange
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