Brazil culture and local library events highlight Middletown visit
Eight Brazilian students arrived for a three week exchange under the Middletown Junior Chamber of Commerce program. PROMISES, a musical mission group, performs at the First United Methodist Church with two local members assisting. The Middletown Public Library promotes Brazilian writings and hosts recommended fiction and reference works for readers.
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Middletown
Middletown Junior Chamber of Commerce
Brazil
Astrid
Joao Gilberto
Middletown Public Library
Jorge Amado
Guimaraes Rosa
Rollie E. Poppino
Bombia
First United Methodist Church
Japan
Promises
Clement Burton
Elane Humphreys
Sandra Parr
Sayonara
Employment Bill Draws Fire as Big Hoax Claim Emerges
The Nixon administration proposes to strengthen the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Former chair Clifford L. Alexander Jr. dismisses the bill as a big hoax and says the agency needs cease and desist power to operate effectively. Senator Winston L. Prouty introduces the measure to allow federal suits for antibias in employment.
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Washington
Nixon
Clifford L. Alexander Jr
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Alexander
Commission
Congress
Winston L. Prouty
R-Vt
Three Generations' Views Of War
Evan Hunter's novel follows Bertram, Will, and Wat Tyler across World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam era. Each narrator shares his own war, highlighting changing times and a shared commentary on conflict.
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Bertram Tyler
Wisconsin
Will Tyler
Wat Tyler
Hunter
Wat
Will
America
Paperback Best Sellers List Highlights Sixty Titles
A reader’s catalog shows fiction and non fiction works by Kennedy Hailey Baldwin and others, listing titles like Thirteen Days, Vanished, True Grit, Instant Replay and The World Is Full of Married Men. Authors include Solmssen, Rittenhouse Square, and Rickenbacker among many.
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Nedy
Ginott
Knebel
Portis
Hunter the Triumph
Galbraith
Collins Casey
Stewart Rickenbacker
His
Rickenbacker
Portnoy's Complaint Tops Hardcover Best Sellers
Roy Roth's Portnoy's Complaint holds the No. 2 spot in the latest hardcover best sellers list. The lineup features The Love Machine, The Godfather, Ada, Except for Me and Thee, and Jennie among other titles with varied rankings. publishers' weekly compiled the list.
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Portnoy
Roth
Susana
Puzo
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Peter Stone
Malcolm Boyd
Joseph Elder
Tain Crichton Smith
Nicholas von Hoffman
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Maine
Germany
Denmark
Austria
Italy
France
England
Scotland
Donald Longmore
Jerusalem
Teddy Kollok
Moshe Pearlman
Roy
Alvin Roth
Jeff Rubens
SONS
Evan Hunter
Doubleday
Ken
Lundberg
Kramer
Rim
Mer
Caldwell
Holy Enthusiasm
Peale
Woolfolk
Ada
Nabokov
Thee
eWst
Jennie
Martin
Ernest Hemingway
Baker
Peter Principle
Peter and Hull
Smith
Publishers’ Weekly
Ole Weel Quly
Edwards Farm
Edwards
Fey
Springboro
Franklin
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