Lighter Side Explains A Billion Dollar Idea
In a playful piece, the author recalls old million dollar analogies and notes Rep. Thomas M. Pelly’s Washington explanation of a billion dollars. Pelly describes 500000 cars at $2000 each, bumper to bumper across 1562 miles, and a 51 by 219 foot lot 3 feet 7 inches deep to illustrate vast sums.
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Quotes From News Reg U S Pat Off
United Press International reports four brief quotes from Audrey Terry widow of a pilot shot down in South Viet Nam. Meany urges Congress to expand job opportunities for Negro workers on assembly lines. Soviet Isvestia calls on China to seek peace. Dr. Eugene Sanders notes ongoing intestinal bacteria outbreak from cracked eggs.
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Cubans Deliver Body Of Artist From Cuba Trip
The body of Hector Warren Hill 29 of Brooklyn was flown from Havana to Key West by Cubana Britania and was to be shipped to Brooklyn. Funeral director F A Johnson Jr said authorities told him the plane landed and Hill’s body was moved to the Naval Hospital before pickup. Hill defied a State Department travel ban and drowned Sunday in a Santiago Cuba motel pool.
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