Doctor Draft Call Lowest In 3 Years
The Pentagon announced a July activation for 1 126 physicians and osteopaths as part of a two year active duty cycle. Navy and Air Force meet needs with volunteers and will not draft this year. The 1968 call is the lowest since 1965 and supports essential Army health services with about 15 200 medical personnel on duty as of last June 30.
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Washington
Armed Services
Who Bears Responsibility In Child Roadway Incidents
A discussion on fault when children dart into traffic. The law assigns care by age, often shielding young pedestrians from negligence while urging drivers to be vigilant. Factors include presence of a child in the street and other risk signals requiring cautious driving.
Airborne alert for B52s ends after Greenland crash
Washington AP reports the small airborne alert of U S B52 heavy bombers was quietly ended following the January crash near Thule Greenland that destroyed four H bombs. The program began seven years ago amid fear of Russian missiles and had been scaled back to fewer than 10 planes before the crash sealed its fate.
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Washington
U.S
Thule
Greenland
Public safety notice urges motorists to slow for children
A Middletown Bar Association and American Bar Association public service feature argues that a bouncing ball and a posted CHIL DREN AT PLAY sign justify cautious driving. It notes traffic must slow to reduce child fatalities despite slower speeds.
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Middletown Bar Association
American Bar Association
Oxford student sets world marathon typewriting record
Miss Nikki Simon, 19, an Oxford technology student, broke the world marathon typewriting record this week by typing for 62 hours 31 minutes without a break. The old mark was 62 hours 1 minute set by Miss Lois Meeuwissen of Adelaide in 1965 at age 19.
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Oxford
England
Nikki Simon
Oxford Technology
Lois Meeuwissen
Adelaide
Australia
Mao Betrayed Workers' Cause
Alexander N. Shelepin, head of Soviet labor groups, accused Mao Tse-tung of betraying the working class in a speech opening a four year first congress of state controlled unions. He cited halted contacts with Chinese and Albanian unions and said Mao renounced Leninist union teachings and opposed world labor movements. Brezhnev Kosygin and Podgorny attended the Kremlin address.
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Alexander N. Shelepin
Mao Tse-tung
Shelepin
Communist Party
Mao
World Trade Union Movement
Kremlin
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
Nikolai V. Podgorny
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