Ohio Fair Opens with Largest Exhibition in State History
Columbus opens the 115th Ohio State Fair at 6 am with Gov. Rhodes and manager Kaltenbach. Officials promise the world's largest livestock show and record exhibitor turnout across a 12 day run. Free grandstand acts include Ed Ames and the Golddiggers, with a later lineup of Carson, Miller, the Smothers Brothers, Bob Hope, James Brown, and others.
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Jerry K. Kaltenbach
Ed Ames
Billy Maxted
Golddiggers
Johnny Carson
Roger Miller
the Smothers Brothers
Bob Hope
James Brown
John Davidson
Rockets Hit Saigon as Bases Come Under Fire
Chaos spread across Saigon and at least six allied bases as enemy rockets and mortars struck cities in a fifth straight day of attacks. Casualties included 45 Vietnamese dead and 117 wounded. one Japanese correspondent and five Americans were among the injured or killed.
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Saigon
Tatsuo Sakai
Cambodia
U.S
Prague Demostration Demands Dubcek Release as Mass Arrests Begin
A Prague protest of about 20 000 people gathered in Vaclav Havel Square shouting Russian murderers go home. Soviet tanks sealed bridges and Dubcek remained in custody amid a Soviet led occupation and an extraordinary party congress.
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Prague
Vaclavske Namesti
Alexander Dubcek
Prague Radio
Dubcek
Vitava
Kremlin
Cast
Presidium
Central Committee
Praha
Congress
Vasil Bilak
Drahomir Kolder
This Morning
Rude Pravo
Oldrich Svestka
Irregular Heart Beats Endanger Eisenhower’s Survival
Doctors at Walter Reed report renewed heart irritability in former President Dwight D. Eisenhower amid his seventh heart attack. He remains resting comfortably with stable vital signs as a new drug, lidocaine, shows promise in controlling the spasms under investigation.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Eisenhower
Food and Drug
National Health Institute
Walter Reed
California
World Responds With Widespread Condemnation Of Czechoslovakia Invasion
Across the globe reactions to the Soviet led invasion of Czechoslovakia were largely negative. Leaders from the United Kingdom to India to Canada condemned the move as a violation of international norms and sovereignty. Some allies, including North Vietnam and Syria, offered limited support, while Japan and Hong Kong criticized Soviet aggression.
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London
Czechoslovakia
North Vietnam
Russia
Syria
Prague
Italy
United States
Soviet Union
Ohio Pen Taken By Storm
Prison riot at Ohio Penitentiary ends with police and National Guardsmen rescuing nine hostages after two dynamite blasts. Five inmates killed, ten injured. one inmate fatally stabbed in a suspected intra-prison attack. Warden says inmates overplayed their hand and lost.
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Ohio
Columbus Ohio
Ohio Penitentiary
Maury C. Koblentz
Columbus
Marion Koleski
Franklin County
The Cons Were Earnest About Killing Us
An Associated Press account quotes a prison guard recalling a riot standoff. Prisoners threatened to blast in to free inmates, demanded charges dropped, and ultimately surrendered after gunfire. Guards and inmates faced lethal danger during the escalation.
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Don A. Dilley
Associated Press
Columbus, Ohio
Almighty God
Middletown Forecast Sees Warm, Partly Cloudy Nights
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with continued warmth. Lows expected 70 to 75 degrees, after yesterday's high of 96 and this morning's low of 71.
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Middletown
Optimist and cynic car date quip about fathers
A joke contrasts optimism and pessimism in parental views on letting a son use the new car. An optimist allows a date, a pessimist refuses, and a cynic has already done so.
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