Athens Arts and Music Face Crackdown by Greek Junta
The 1967 Greek military takeover tightens controls on culture in Athens. Artists risk jail or confiscation for dissent as plays and Theodorakis works are banned. Melina Mercouri loses citizenship and property. Foreign performers cancel appearances amid international criticism.
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Athens
Acropolis
Aristophanes
Plaka
Zorba
Mikis Theodorakis
Greece
Theodorakis
Athanasia Panagopolou
Melina Mercouri
Junta
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Sophocles
Ajax
Euripides
Aeschylus
Post Office to Try Auto Belt Device for Mail Cars
The Post Office Department, with nearly 100000 drivers, contracted All American Engineering Co. for 282816 to develop a clam like automatic belt device for postal vehicles. The aim is to save time spent buckling and unbuckling as workers enter and exit cars up to 250 times daily.
Barbed Wire Inventor Joseph Glidden Pioneers 1873
Joseph Farwell Glidden of DeKalb Illinois is credited with creating the first barbed wire in 1873 marking a milestone in farm fencing. The invention influenced ranching and agricultural practices across the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Farwell Glidden
de Kalb, Ill
Middletown Project 600 open house tours all day
Last day for Middletown residents to tour Armco Steel Project 600 facilities. Hour long tours of the hot strip mill slab mill water clarification plant and basic oxygen melt shop run from 8 30 a m to 8 30 p m with bus pickups at Jefferson Road site entrance.
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Middletown
Armco Steel Corp
Jefferson Road
Highland Avenue
U. S. 25
Outdoor Mass Set In Springboro
An outdoor mass for Christian unity will be held at the Mound Steel Corp on East Mill Street Springboro Wednesday at 7 p m. The Rev Bernard Bruening administrator of St Mary Church in Franklin will be the celebrant. Residents of all faiths from the Springboro area have been invited. Refreshments will be served after the mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mound Steel Corp
E. Mill Street
Springboro
Bernard Bruening
St. Mary Church
Franklin
Father Bruening
Stamps Set for Oct. 2 and Oct. 6 Releases
The Post Office announces two new commemorative stamps, a 5-cent urban planning stamp issued Oct. 2 with first day ceremonies in Washington hosted by the American Institute of Planners, and a 5-cent stamp for Finland’s 50th anniversary issued Oct. 6 in Finland Minnesota with first day events. A new 1-cent international air mail postal card debuts Sept. 8 in Detroit to meet overseas rate changes, with ceremonies at the American Air Mail Society convention and a redesigned U S Travel Service logo.
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U. S
Republic of Finland
Washington
American Institute of Planners
Washington, D. C
Finland
Post Office Department
Minn
Sweden
International Air Mail
Detroit
American Air Mail Society
Commerce Departments
U. S. Travel Service
U.S.A
Suits Filed for 11375 in Middletown Crash Damages
A Middletown mother and her daughter sue for 11375 total damages over injuries from a traffic collision on August 28 1965 at North Avenue and Monroe Street in Middletown.
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Hamilton
Middletown
North Avenue
Monroe Street
Driver Fails to Stop at Stop Sign in Franklin Collision
Defendant Ernest Allfrey of Franklin allegedly caused a crash on North Avenue when his car struck a northbound vehicle driven by Evelyn Baker. The sisters and Sally Baker suffered injuries. Allfrey was reportedly eastbound on Monroe Street before the stop-sign violation.
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Ernest Allfrey
Kaye
Franklin
Evelyn Gail Baker
Jackson Lane
Middletown
Sally Baker
Elsmere Street
North Avenue
Alfrey
Monroe Street
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City of Arts
John Milton
Moscow Symphony
Russian Harp Quartet
Budapest Symphony
Kiev Ballet
City Life
Ecia
Central
West State ST
Trenton
WE. Ee
Wil
Witte Wall
Lic
Riverside
Motena
Federa
Guapam
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