Carol Channing Marks 13th Vegas Year with Riviera Rehearsals
Carol Channing enters her thirteenth year in Las Vegas clubs as she rehearses at the Riviera for a Tropicana engagement. The star, famed for Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend, performs with her Ten Stout Hearted Men cast and spoofs classic tunes while producer Joe Layton shapes the show.
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Carol Channing
Vegas
Broadway
Hollywood
Las Vegas
Monte Preser
the Tropicana
Tropicana
Carol
the Riviera
London
Ginger Rogers
Fred Astaire
Lena Horne
Rita Hayworth
Joe Layton
Chan Mings
Trouble-Plagued Library Controversy Still Raging
A halted library project faces scrutiny as outside structural engineers review faulty plans and 130 deficiencies. Contractors, ICBO engineers, and aLos Angeles firm clash over design changes, with delays, rising costs, and safety concerns fueling ongoing controversy.
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Los Angeles
Arevalo and Deardorff
Israeli cabinet fails to win Gahal backing on U S peace plan
In Tel Aviv the cabinet held a third emergency session this week but the Gahal faction led by Menahem Begin threatened to quit if the Rogers U S peace plan demands an Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967. Begin warned dissolution of the unity government if the plan is accepted. Egypt and Jordan have accepted the plan while Arab guerrillas reject it. Meir warned of a Munich type crisis as the cabinet weighed the American package and possible resignations.
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Tel Aviv
UPS
Todas
Gahal Party
Menahem Begin
Bloc
William P. Rogers
Israel
Gahal
Rogers
Begin
Gunnar Jarring
U Thant
U.S
Egypt
Jordan
Golda Meir
Defense Questions Tate Witness About Drug Use
Fitzgerald pressed Mrs Kasabian in court during cross examination aiming to label her testimony a fantasy from drug use. He challenged her knowledge of LSD and noted she had taken LSD about five times in five years plus peyote and other stimulants.
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Gan
Fitgeerald
Fitzgerald
Mrs. Kasabian
Nevada doctors reject NIC plan in ongoing boycott
Local physicians at Caesars Palace denounced NIC and Nevada State Medical Association proposals as inadequate. They pressed for usual, customary and reasonable fees and criticized NIC for old administrative practices and delayed payments, warning the dispute reflects Northern Southern tensions.
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Caesars Palace
NIC
Nevada State Medical Association
Stephan
NIC Insurance Medical Committee
Clark County
Commission
Follmer
Plehn
Nevada
Census Bureau hails 1970 count as best ever
Census Director George Hay Brown announced 182 786 32 million counted as of April 1 1970 with eight states and the District of Columbia remaining. He praised the accuracy of the census while noting projections overestimated the total and that suburban growth exceeded urban in the first time in U S history.
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Washington
UPI
Census Bureau
George Hay Brown
Brown
California
Ohio
Ilinois
Maryland
Michigan
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
District of Columbia
U.S
Nixon ties federal aid to districts asking for help
President Nixon said federal representatives would not be sent into southern school districts to desegregate unless local governments request them. He stressed cooperation over coercion and linked the issue to possible action on anti pollution legislation as smog covers much of the East. He also noted arms talks with the Soviet Union and warned against a broader war.
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White
Pappas
Joe Patrick
Edwards and Daniels
Trax
Jobsite
Smith
Franklin
Boyd
Arevalo
Deardoff
Los Angeles
Barnhart
International Conference of Building Officials
ICBO
White House
San Cleemente
Calif
Middle East
Nixon
Israel
Egypt
Jordan
U.S
South
of Justice
Health, Education and Welfare Department
United States
Russia
Congress
Judge Accepts Not Guilty Plea For Youth In Murder Case
Eighteen year old Robert Rhodes, who twice sought to plead guilty to murdering a Las Vegas grocer, declined to plead yesterday but a not guilty plea was later entered for him. District Judge Howard Babcock set September 28 as the trial date after discussions with counsel.
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Robert Rhodes
Las Vegas
Howard Babcock
Rhodes
Robert Archie
Babcock
Archie
John Harrington
Sand cave-in traps boy in three foot mound
A boy suffocates after a three foot pile of loose dirt collapses. Two Sorensen brothers discover him but he is unresponsive. Mrs. Carmie Sorensen returns, attempts revival with no success. Police, fire units, and EMS respond as family confirms the boy lived with parents Keith Burton and siblings at the McWilliams address.
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Carme Sorensen
Sorensen
Stewart
Keith
Burton
McWilliams
Louise
Jim
Lisa
Carrie
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J. A. Tiberti Construction Co. Inc
Tiberti
Robert 5. White
Fleischmann Foundation
County Building Department
Aravelo and Deardorff
Tate
Nevada Industrial Commission
Clark County Medical Society
William K. Stephan
Sol T. DeLee
Robert Plehn
Hugh C. Follmer
Samuel Crucilla
Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital
Medical Advisory Board
Ment
Powder Ridge
Conn
Ticia Casanova
Wallingford
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