Fillmore tub race fuels annual village celebration
Moravia New York hosts the Millard Fillmore days weekend with around 40 three member bathtub teams racing down Main Street. The quirky event draws about 3,000 spectators and promotes town fun while honoring the former president famed for a White House bathtub anecdote.
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Moravia
N.Y
UPI
Millard Fillmore
Cayuga County
Fillmore
Here
White House
Francis
McFarland Hospitalized After Brain Surgery
Former U S Senate majority leader Ernest McFarland is in satisfactory condition at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix after brain surgery. The 83 year old, who served in the Senate 1941 to 1953 and was Arizona governor 1955 to 1958, was hospitalized Friday.
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Phoenix, Ariz
UPI
Ernest McFarland
U.S. Senate
St. Joseph's Hospital
McFarland
Senate
Arizona
Royal air show and celebrity notes headline blend
Britain's Royal Air Force staged a loud salute to Queen Elizabeth II at a Doncaster airbase marking 25 years since her coronation. Defense Secretary Fred Mulley dozed through the display as the Queen and Prince Philip looked on. Nearby, Amy Carter and Mary Beth Bacon rode the Witch Doctor at Carowinds while Secret Service groaned. Led Zeppelin shifted plans after Robert Plant's son's death. Princess Prudence Dlamini faces jail or a fine for concealing a child's birth. Somoza, hospitalized after a heart attack, is reported in satisfactory condition in Miami.
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Elizabeth II
Secretary of Defense
Prince Philip
Doncaster
England
Defense
Fred Mulley
Amy Carter
Secret Service
Carowinds
Charlotte
N.C
Mary Beth Bacon
Plains
White House
UPI
Prudence Dlamini
Sobhuza II
The
World
Johannesburg
Woman detains for flag burning protest in Izmir
In Izmir, police detained Zehra Sarham after she pulled down and attempted to burn a U S flag in front of the NATO building. The protest opposed the U S suspension of arms aid to Turkey, tied to accusations of illegal use of American weapons during the 1974 invasion of northern Cyprus.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Izmir
Zehra Sarham
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Northern
Cyprus
Survivors of USS Indianapolis gather for submarine launch
Sixty of the 316 Indianapolis survivors travel to Norwich Connecticut for the launching of a new Indianapolis nuclear attack submarine at Groton. They recall the 1945 torpedoing that killed 880 and left many haunted by memories, sharing a rare bond as "salt water brothers" through reunions begun 17 years ago.
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Indianapolis
Pacific
Hiroshima
Connecticut
Grover Carver
Monterey
Calif
Robert McGuiggan
Chicago
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