Conservatives Rout Laborites From Town Halls
Prime Minister Harold Wilson faced electoral and financial woes as municipal election returns showed a sweeping Labour defeat nationwide. The pound weakened to 2.39055 dollars, a post gold-crisis low amid the political turmoil.
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House Votes Holiday Shift To Mondays
The House approved moving three holidays to Monday and creating Columbus Day to yield four long weekends starting 1971. Washington's Birthday Memorial Day Columbus Day and Veterans Day would shift to the third Monday in February last Monday in May second Monday in October and fourth Monday in October respectively.
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Laymen to Tell How Theyd Run Church in England and Wales
Laymen and laywomen of the Roman Catholic faith will take over pulpits on Whitsunday across England and Wales to tell congregations how they would run the church. Cardinal Heenan says they are not puppets and that bishops have not set them up to speak. The future of lay sermons depends on the initial program's reception.
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London
England
Wales
John Cardinal Heenan
Westminster
Fourth Gundersen Neurosurgical Conference on Trauma
The Adolf Gundersen Medical Foundation hosts its fourth neurosurgical conference, titled Ruptured Intervertebral Discs and Acute Trauma, at 4 30 p m Tuesday in the Lutheran Hospital conference room. Dr C Norman Shealy leads the Gundersen Clinic neurosurgery department with attendance open to physicians nurses medical students and technicians in the La Crosse area.
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Kennedy couple expecting 11th child in late January
Washington sources say Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and his wife anticipate their eleventh child in late January. The Kennedys already have seven boys and three girls, aged 13 months to 16 years. The story notes a dolphin gestation period as a comparison.
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Robert F. Kennedy
Washington Post
Pressure on Czech lands stirs Western troop fears near frontier
Western sources discount reports of heavy Soviet troop concentrations moving through Poland toward Czechoslovakia. Prague remains calm during a holiday marking liberation, while observers link the moves to Warsaw Pact maneuvers and pressure on Prague's liberal regime.
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George D. Hay, Opry Originator, Dies at 72
George D. Hay, 72, creator of the Grand Ole Opry, died Thursday in Nashville. The WSM Barn Dance started in 1925 and evolved into the Grand Ole Opry, a musical byword of rural America on network radio.
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