Telephones Run Convention Floor Amid Dialing Delegates
At the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach delegates will use room phones to request recognition. A rostrum-telephony system links more than 300 positions across the floor, offices, and media areas. The event hosts 50,000 attendees with 7,000 phones and 1,200 cars.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Minnesota
Northwest Airlines
Moe
Right On
Our Daily Planet
Women delegates at 1972 Democratic National Convention reach record
The number of women accredited for the 1972 Democratic National Convention stands at 1 271, 39 7 percent of 3 202 delegates, a record high. Eighty eight percent attend a national convention for the first time and 49 percent are under 35. Notables include Sue Dean Spears, 18, from Hamilton Alabama, and 74 year old Helen Nute from North Conway New Hampshire. The convention opens amid education plank debates with the NEA urging federal funding for one third of school costs by 1976.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Suedean Spears
Hamilton
Ala
Helen Nute
North Conway
N.H
Sadie Garbet
Crescent City
Calif
Frs
National Education Association
Democratic National Convention
NEA
Police Shooting Sparks Arrest Of State Man
A 43 year old Oklahoma man, Bill Hugo Williams of Okmulgee, was arrested in London Kentucky after allegedly shooting two city police officers at Marymount Hospital. Officer Dorsey Caudill and Officer James Knuckles were wounded. Williams faces malicious shooting and wounding with intent to kill charges and is held in Laurel County Jail.
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London
Oklahoma
Marymount Hospital
Dorsey Caudill
James Knuckles
Bill Hugo Williams
Okmulgee
Okla
Laurel County
Zebras Adopted At Knoxville Zoo From Stamp Donation
Knoxville's zoo welcomes two black and white zebras purchased with 2 500 books of trading stamps donated by local citizens. Buffalo Bill Cody, famed adventurer and showman, is buried at Lookout Mountain about 20 miles west of Denver.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Knoxville
Buffalo Bill Cody
Lookout Mountain
Denver
Yippies Rally Protesters Across Flamingo Park And Plaza Hotel
Protesters from the Yippies and SDS march and rally around Flamingo Park and the Playboy Plaza Hotel near Miami Beach. They call for legalization of marijuana and oppose hard drugs while seniors attend planned events.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Nixon
Flamingo Park
Students For A Democratic Society
Playboy Plaza Hotel
Democratic Sponsors Club
Zippies
Miami Beach Convention Hall
Zippie
Dana Beal
Eufaula man dies in train strike at same spot as father
Johnny D Timothy 25 died after being struck by a Katy Railroad train while sitting on tracks in Eufaula. Train speed was about 50 mph, whistle sounded, victim did not move, body was knocked 114 feet. Oklahoma toll rose to 404 with a Tulsa woman’s death after a June 20 crash.
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Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Johnny D. Timothy
Katy
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Timothy
The
OHP
Ruth Etter
Quick light steel fence for new lawn seed protection
A simple fence idea uses lightweight steel chain fastened to 1 by 3 inch wooden stakes to shield a freshly seeded lawn. This low cost setup provides a temporary boundary while grass establishes.
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Richard Koster
Panama Zone
Miami
Ymca National Organization
Angier Biddle Duke
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Sundey Lowton Publishing Co
Lowton
Okio
Lewton
Lawton
Fort Sill
Constitution Press
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Constitution
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APO
Mo Press
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Caudill
Central Baptist Hospital
Lexington
Mrs
Dennis Moore
Ridgecrest DR
Lawton, Okla
Zenith T.V
Doris Brown
Williams
CACHE
Munity
Youth International Party
Sheriff's
SDS
Ford
Henry Ford III
Beal
Lummus Park
National Bark
Cache Road Square
Zenith
America
Friedrich
Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers
Gore
Oklahome
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