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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1971
Page
2
Hollywood veteran Perry Como laughs at his chart rise with It Is Impossible a romantic ballad that defies time. He attributes longevity to doing what he does best and notes strong competition from newer acts while reflecting on his career and gold records.
Martha Baird Rockefeller widow of John D Rockefeller Jr died at her Park Avenue home aged 75. She was stepmother to the five Rockefeller brothers and founded the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund supporting young musicians. A private cremation and burial were planned with a memorial service to follow.
More than 3,000 attended a Buddhist funeral for Yukio Mishima in Tokyo after his 1970 suicide with a samurai sword. The service, arranged by admirers including Yasunari Kawabata, followed his fatal clash with Japan’s pacifist constitution. Police lined Grand Honganji Temple but no incidents occurred.
The men’s and women’s dorms at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma Washington ended a 300 hour phone call stretch that began January 11. The fundraiser for a local welfare group set a world record for length of a single phone call between dorms.
The campaign to collect instruments for children at St Labre Indian School in Ashland Montana will close this week. Deliveries to school supervisors are expected soon. Donors can still drop instruments at Delahuntys Horn Shop 1320 Ave Q. Sixty eight students want to join the band but only twenty instruments are available.
Three Lebanese women claim they first applied for taxi driver licenses ten years ago and allege the government rejected their latest applications without justification.
Premier Shaikh Jabir Al-Ahmad will meet with his cabinet Monday to announce the results of Kuwait National Assembly elections held last Saturday. Government officials said Sunday. The report from Montevideo notes a cable office bombing by terrorists.
London reports the final repeal of a long-standing witchcraft statute in Britain noting the law lasted until 1951. The move marks the end of official legal recognition of witchcraft as a crime and reflects modernizing reforms in British criminal code.
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