Marines Repel North Vietnamese Attack Near Saigon
In a night of heavy fighting near Saigon, Marine units repelled a North Vietnamese assault from a death trap valley, with the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines sustaining the main effort. U.S. air power pounded a Hanoi missile site as MIG jets engaged American aircraft over the Hanoi outskirts.
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Saigon
UPI
Hanoi
Leatherneck
2Nd Battalion, Fourth Marines
U.S
U.S. 101St Airborne
Tuy Hoa
A Spokes
Man
U.S. 1St Infantry
Noi
Las Vegas Endorsement Sparks Bond Issue Controversy
A Las Vegas City Commission voted to endorse an $8 million Clark County Fair and Recreation Board bond request, with three commissioners backing the same trio on the Fair Board. Critics call the move an improper self endorsement linking two bodies. The piece notes connections among Reed Whipple Ed Fountain and Phil Mirabelli and mentions related convention hall issues. The report then shifts to a Tokyo crash where a British Overseas Airways jet lost its tail, plummeting into Mount Fuji killing 124 aboard, including 89 Americans, with ties to Thermo King dealers on a company junket.
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Las Vegas
City Commission
Reed Whipple
Ed Fountain
Phil Mirabelli
Fair Board
Whipple, Fountain and
Mirabell
Tokyo
UPI
British Overseas Airways
Mt. Fuji
Air tragedy ends Las Vegas couple's trip to Los Angeles
Mr and Mrs Earl Crockett of Las Vegas said farewell to Mrs Crockett's parents at Los Angeles airport. The Williamsons were among 124 killed when a British plane crashed into Japan's Mt Fuji. The Crockets had just embarked on a move to a new life in Laos, while the Williamsons had visited Las Vegas regularly.
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Los Angeles’ International Airport
Earl Crockett
Las Vegas
Williamsons
Woodland Hills
Calif
Cab strike edges toward settlement after 74 months
Mayor Oran Gragson said the dispute is reduced to one issue and declined to name it. Yellow and Checker Cab representatives and Teamsters Local 881 will meet in City Hall at 10 a m to continue negotiations to end the long strike. Judge Mowbray lifted the injunction last week allowing cabs to operate if no violence recurs. No violence incidents have been reported since.
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Grayson
Teamsters Local 881
City Hall Chambers
John Mowbray
Fon-Union
Californians Among 124 Die In BOAC Jet Crash
The BOAC 707 jetliner crash on Mt Fuji in Japan killed at least 17 Californians among 124 victims. The list includes Neil K. Hulbert Eureka and Times chief photographer, designer Philip Rosenberg of Los Angeles, Bascom F. Stanley, Barbara Logan, Phyllis Fischer, and Thermo King executives and spouses.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Japan
Mt. Fuji
Viet Nam
Thermo King
Far East
Neil K. Hulbert
Humboldt Standard and Times
Eureka
Calif
Navy
Hanoi
Hulbert
Wendy
Don O'Kane
Philip Rosenberg
Phil Rose
California
U S
Bascom F. Stanley
Rosenberg
Barbara Logan
Phyllis Fischer
Broadway
Las Vegas Publicity Machinery Highlighted in Scene Magazine
The article notes Las Vegas ranks top in global publicity and promotion, with its attractions well known worldwide. It cites SCENE Magazine for the origin story of how the city built its fame.
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Las Vegas
SCENE
Laxalt Promises Two Party Clark County Split
Nevada gubernatorial candidate Paul Laxalt told a Clark County gathering that the county will return to a two party system by splitting Clark County. He criticized Gov. Grant Sawyer as overexposed and pledged to make state files open books while attacking the Highway Department probe. William Morse won the Clark County Republican chairmanship, defeating Earl Taylor.
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Paul Laxalt
Clark County
Convention
Republican Party
GOP
Grant Sawyer
Laxalt
Highway Department
Nevada
William Morse
Las Vegas
Republican Organization
Earl Taylor
Central Telephone Co
Guardsmen Readied For July Callup
Washington reports 150000 man SRF Selected Reserve Force prepared for active duty in July. Two week summer training schedules moved up to finish by July 9. Guard provides 119000 men with remaining from Army Reserve. Training aims to meet overseas deployment requirements. Major General W P Wilson notes units at 95.4 percent strength and nearing 100 percent during drills.
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SRF
National Guard Bureau
UPI
Organized Army Reserve
W. P. Wilson
Guard Bureau
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Hank Greenspun
Fair and Recresion Board
Grant Stewart
Thermo King Corp
Bernard J. Dobson
Jestliner
UPI Telephoto
Mr. and
Continental Air Services
Continental Airlines
Miami
Orlando Bosch
Cuba
Pinar de Rio
Bosch
Revolutionary Insurrectional Recovery Movement
MIRR
MIRA
Pinar del Rio
el Americano
Rosario Mountains
Esperanza
Mi Cumbres
Matahambre
Los Portales
Susset
Cayajabo
Artemisa
San Antonio de Los Banos
Havana
Ince
Fidel Castro
Oran Gragson
Ann Landers
Dr. Mother
Eeee Ene Entertainment
Henderson Senee
Real Estate Society
Sports Sundial
Sylvia Porter
Washington
Swingin
Hank
Penny
Pilus
Shari
Bayne
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