Pulitzer Prizes Highlight 1969 Arts and Journalism Winners
The 54th awards announced at Columbia honored Dean Acheson for Present at the Creation, Jean Stafford and Richard Howard among fiction and poetry winners. James Michener and Ty Harry Williams won biographies and music prizes, with new criticism and commentary categories debuting.
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Truman
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James
Michener
South Pacific
Huey
Harry Williams
Richard Howard
Erik H.erikson
Gandhi
Charles Wuorinen
Times
Newsday
Joseph Pulitzer
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
New York World
Columbia University
Texas Tech launches WIN first course with remote viewing
Dr James E Archer leads a Texas Tech engineering lecture taped for WIN. Six master tapes shipped to Hardin Simmons Midwestern University South Plains College Angelo State Howard Payne McMurry. Institutions previewed features. keypunched cards used for data processing and student work. WIN funded by 60th Legislature to network campuses and libraries.
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Hardin- Simmons University
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Midwestern University
Wichita Falls
South Plains College
Levelland
Angelo State University
San Angelo
Howard Payne College
Brownwood
McMurry College
Texas
WIN
John R. Bradford
College of Engineering
Bradford
Marvin Baker
Tax office uses discriminant function for audits
Sloan describes IRS 1960s computer based audit method using discriminant function to flag returns with high error probability. He notes uniform nationwide standards and the system balances liabilities with overpayments, promising explanations to citizens but asserting no computer errors found.
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Sloan
IRS
Tax Commissioner
Agnew Cancels Attendance At Governors Conference
Santa Fe New Mexico reports Vice President Spiro Agnew will not attend the three day Republican national governors conference opening Thursday due to the Cambodian crisis. White House aides relayed the decision to Gov. David Cargo who said Nixon had also cancelled his appearance. About 25 GOP governors were expected.
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UPD
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Cargo
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
White House
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Pacaldant
Protesters Resist U.S. Vietnam Cambodian Policy
District residents gathered to protest U.S. Vietnam Cambodia policy, voicing opposition and calling for change as tensions rose outside a government building.
Supreme Court Clears Church Tax Exemptions in Property Case
The Supreme Court ruled seven to one that states may grant tax exemptions for church owned property used exclusively for religious purposes. The decision, by Chief Justice Burger, limits its scope to the New York statute and does not address church property with no religious use. Justice Douglas dissented.
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UPI
Supreme Court
New York States
Warren E. Burger
William O. Douglas
New York
New York City
Burger
Congress
Levelland Senior Candance Balch Honored in Chemistry
Levelland High School senior Candance Balch received Outstanding High School Chemistry Student for 1970 at a South Plains Section awards banquet. Also honored were area nominees, their teachers and parents. Balch won for academic achievement and a 1500 word paper on The Chemistry of Air Pollution Causes and Solutions. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs J B Balch of Levelland.
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Levelland
South Plains
American Chemical Society
Tommie Hunt
Jher
J. B. Balch
Danes Celebrate War Anniversary
King Frederik hoste d a reception for retired British Major General Henry Richard Ow ing and retired Soviet General Alexander Yakushev as Denmark began two days of celebrations for the 25th anniversary of liberation from Nazi occupation. Ow ing led the first Allied troops into Copenhagen on May 5 1945 and Yakushev commanded a Soviet force that landed on Bornholm and remained eight months before departing.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Frederik
Henry Richard Owing
Alexander Yakushev
Baltic
Bornholm
Yarborough Grateful After Primary Defeat
UPI reports Senator Ralph Yarborough, a Democrat of Texas, thanked supporters from Henderson El Paso and Travis counties after losing his bid for a third term in Saturday's primary. He noted Hidalgo County and Harris County also backed him, calling it a consolation.
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UPI
Ralph ‘Yarborough
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el Paso
Travis
Hidalgo County
Harris County
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