Doubts Mount Over Liston Patterson Las Vegas Fight
Las Vegas sportswriter reports no signed contracts for the Liston Patterson title bout set for July 22 at the Convention Center. Nevada Athletic Commission executive secretary Jim Deskin and promoter figures face questions as advance ticket sales climb while a written guarantee to hold the match remains absent.
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Sonny Liston
Floyd Patterson
Convention Center
Liston
Patterson
U.S.A
State Athletic Commission
New York
Alan Laythorpe
Nevada State Athletic Commission
Jim Deskin
Deskin
Laythorpe
Commission
Las Vegas
Cus D'Amato
Cus
D'Amato
Mint Casino Plans Giant 6527 Pound Cake Celebration
The Mint Casino announces a six anniversary event to bake a 6527 pound cake. The massive dessert blends 2400 pounds sugar 1218 pounds whole milk 1104 pounds shortening and 12960 eggs over three days. The finished cake to form the Mint Casino and hotel building will feed about 10000 people.
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Mint Casino
Pompidou to Visit Denmark for Non Official Stay
French Premier Georges Pompidou will visit Copenhagen for a non official stay in September as announced by the Danish Foreign Ministry.
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Copenhagen
UPI
Georges Pompidou
Denmark
Foreign Ministry
Counterfeit Ring Busted After Alameda State College Print Run
Secret Service and police recovered over 2 million dollars in near perfect counterfeit bills printed at Alameda State College. Eight to ten suspects tied to the ring remain at large, while four have been arrested. authorities seized printing plates and negatives and traced the operation from an underground basement press to a college-based scheme.
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San Francisco
UPI
Secret Service
Alameda State College
Bay
Tom Hanson
Hanson
Oakland
Joe Memoli
Raven
Guy J. Smith
Memoli
Eugene Allen
San Leandro
Allen
Donald J. Carothers
Carothers
Fred Harcleroad
East
Harcleroad
U.S. Information Service Exhibit Miscaptioned in Angola
A Washington error left French captions on a USIS display about the United States in Angola. Local staff partly translated the captions using a French-English dictionary, correcting some text for the English exhibit.
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Angola
Northern Rhodesia
UPI
Washington
U. S Information Service
USIS
United States
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Dateline
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al Bolan
Championship Sports, Inc
Conrad
Europe
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Mint
von Tobel
Scotts
McLane
Briggs & Stratton
Everain
Stanley Trimmer
ACME
Western
Germain
Willace Blacksmith Hedge Shears
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