Hope Heads Show Opens New Madison Square Garden
The new Madison Square Garden opened with Bob Hope hosting a benefit for the USO and nicknaming the venue Astrodome East. The show featured Bing Crosby and Pearl Bailey with a mock boxing routine including Rocky Marciano and Jack Dempsey. The 20,000 seat, $150 million arena sits over Pennsylvania Station at 33rd Street and 7th Avenue.
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Gene Tunney
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7Th Avenue
South Korea weighs trip as rift with U S nears
President Chung Hee Park may visit Washington after talks with Cyrus Vance aimed at easing Seoul’s fears of appeasement over the Pueblo crisis and rising North Korean infiltration. Vance conveyed a letter from Johnson. North Korea proposed a meeting while U S officers sought talks on truce violations. The United States and North Korea have held five secret meetings since Pueblo.
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Chung Hee Park
Johnson
U.S
Cyrus Vance
Vance
Park
United States
Pueblo
South
Washington
U.N
Korea
North Korea
Demilitarized Zone
South Korea
Presidential
Charles H. Bonestee III
Vietnam
Gallup
Wisconsin livestock group reelects officers
The Wisconsin Independent Livestock Dealers and Auction Markets Association announced the re election of its officers Henry Drees of Peshtigo as president Louis Weimert of Bloomer as vice president and Robert Hawley of Argyle as treasurer during its meeting in Madison.
NFO launches meat animal withholding action regionwide
The National Farmers Organization began a meat animal withholding action on Monday after a notice from national headquarters at 10 am. County president Thomas Schaller plans a special meeting to organize responders and expects strong local participation, supplementing the ongoing grain withholding begun January 11.
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Schaller
Thant Kosygin Talks on Vietnam Crackdown in Paris Talks
In Moscow the Soviet Union pressed Hanoi to win new Viet Cong victories as U Thant met with Kosygin and Brezhnev to discuss peace prospects. Thant then planned London talks with Harold Wilson before heading to New York, while Wilson endorsed Johnson's San Antonio peace approach. In Hue and Saigon fighting continued with U.S. Marines entering Hue Citadel and battles around Tan Son Nhut as Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces faced mounting losses.
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Thant
London
Harold Wilson
India
Indira Gandhi
U.S
Chester Bowles
Britain
International Control Commission
Viet Nam
Hanoii
United States
Alexei N. Kosyzin
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Nikolai V. Podgorny
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Wilson
New York
Johnson
San Antonio
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Tex
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Nguyen Duy Trinh
Edward Heath
Paris
Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
Senate
Mike Mansfield
South Vietnam
Perfume River
Hue
Tan Son Nhut Air Base
Joe Holloway
199Th Brigade
Race Course
Milwaukee priest Groppi fined and put on probation
Rev James E Groppi, a white Catholic priest leading Milwaukee open housing protests, was fined 500 and placed on two years probation for resisting arrest. The judge warned of jail if arrested again during probation. Groppi criticized the court as racist and vowed to continue demonstrations.
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Milwaukee
James E. Groppi
F. Ryan Duffy Jr
Groppi
House of Correction
Henry Maier
Eagles Club
Duffy
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Echo I Satellite Nearing End of Bright Life in Sky
Echo I, the balloon-like satellite, may fall to Earth as soon as March 31 per Goddard Center forecasts based on recent orbits. Its light weight and large surface make it susceptible to air drag and solar wind, with observers worldwide tracking its fading visibility since its 1960 launch.
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U.S
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Greenbelt
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North American Defense Command
Echo I
Echo
Smithsonian Institution
Astrophysical Laboratory
United States
Europe
Lindsay Angered By Rocky's Role In Garbage Pact
New York AP. Gov Rockefeller and Mayor Lindsay clash over the sanitation strike. Rockefeller put 10 000 sanitation workers under state control to end the 9 day walkout. Lindsay calls the move a threat to home rule and accuses Rockefeller of blackmail. Rockefeller seeks rapid passage to fund salaries and state control during a health emergency. Rockefeller delays date to allow settlement talks.
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Lindsay
Rocky
New York
New York City
Nelson A. Rockefeller
John V. Lindsay
Rockefeller
Uniformed
Sanitationmen’s Association
National Guard
Union
Action Center
Tax Tips Series by Sylvia Porter Begins Monday
Sylvia Porter, financial columnist, will present a 10 article tax series in The La Crosse Tribune starting Monday. In collaboration with the Research Institute of America, the series covers forms changes deductibles children of divorce medical and auto expenses business travel charitable deductions casualties education expenses real estate investors mortgage points and legal fees.
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