Draft Test Aims to Guide College Deferments
About 350,000 to 400,000 college and graduate students will take a three hour 150 question deferment exam at 1,200 colleges. Results may influence draft boards though a high score does not guarantee deferral for the fall term.
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Barry Schweid
Washington
Viet Nam
Puerto Rico
Panama Canal Zone
Science Research Associates
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Nurses threaten mass resignations in New York hospitals
Frayed labor tensions sweep New York as 1,400 of 3,500 municipal nurses pledge to resign by May 23 over pay and working conditions. City hospitals plan to evacuate convalescent patients and halt nonemergency admissions amid contract talks. Tuberculosis cases to be discharged only after arrest of disease, not contagious cases.
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Bronx Municipal Hospital
City Health Department
U S Denies Downing Red Over China
Saigon dispatch says the U S Air Force rejected Beijing’s claim that American fighters shot down a Chinese plane. A missile F4C Phantom reportedly downed a MIG 17 over North Vietnam 20 to 25 miles south of the Chinese border, near Makwan in Yunnan. Maj. Gen Meyers stated no evidence Chinese planes entered China and a Phantom could not have strayed into Chinese airspace.
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Saigon
U.S. Air Force Today
Peking
Red China
Air Force
North
Viet Nam
China
Makwan
Yunnnan
U.S
Dudley
Gilbert L. Meyers
Tan Son Nhut
Meyers
Fulbright Attends $100 Plate Democratic Dinner
President Johnson spoke at a large Democratic fundraiser in an armory for more than 6100 attendees paying 100 dollars per plate. Sen. J W Fulbright of Arkansas observed, while others toasted and sang. Katzenbach, Cohen, Hanna and Pickle also attended.
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Atty
Nicholas Katzenbach
Internal Revenue
Sheldon S. Cohen
Dinner Partners
Richard T. Hanna
California
Rep
Jake) Pickle
Texas
Foreign Relations Committee
Fulbright
John L. McClellan
Arkansas
President
Chuckle Sign at Market Prompts Humane Rescue Appeal
A supermarket bulletin board carries a humorous plea reading Help a poor unwed mother take one of her kittens causing smiles while a neighbor suggests adopting the pet. Local shoppers react with lighthearted comments amid the small welfare effort.
Milwaukee Braves Suit Faces Supreme Court Appeal
Judge Roller blocks delay while awaiting Wisconsin Supreme Court action on the Braves expansion, with the NL told to present a 1967 plan or return to Milwaukee. Wisconsin AG warns of contempt if Braves stay in Atlanta after a denied stay. Legal actions in Fulton County and Houston pursue schedules and road games.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court
Madison
Wisconsin
Bronson la Follette
Braves
Atlanta
Fulton County
U.S. District Court
Houston
White female rights workers face crossfire in the South
Dr. Arvin F. Poussaint of Tufts Medical School told the American Psychiatric Association that white women in the South who work for civil rights endure hostility from both white and Negro communities. He described their role as symbolic of the Southern way of life and noted they are often distrusted and marred by racism in both communities.
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South
Tiemselves
Arvin F. Poussaint
Tufts Medical School
Boston
Mass
Medical Committee For Human Rights
Jackson
American Psychiatric Association
Bol
White African Queen complex in civil rights rhetoric
A speaker discusses a so called white African Queen complex in which a preferred image of a brave intelligent white woman leads oppressed Black men to freedom. He notes condescension and patronizing attitudes as a common manifestation. The white female worker becomes a focal point and sometimes a scapegoat for Black anger.
Weather outlook with showers ending and cooler return
The weatherman says showers end tonight and temperatures will fall to the mid-40s. Saturday brings fair skies and highs near 70. The long range calls for highs around 73 and lows in the 50s, with rain likely Sunday through Tuesday. Yesterday’s high reached 70 and overnight low 47. Middle town reported 15 inches of rain before 8 am. Today at 11 am the temperature was 66.
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Middletown
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Philadelphia
Associated Press
Plaskow
Frank Peckman
Peckham
University of Chicago
N. Y
Mike Quill
Long Island Rail Road
Newspaper Guild of
New York
World Journal Tribune, Inc
World-Telegram & Sun
Journal- American
Herald Tribune
Beale Street’s
Beale Street
Memphis
Tenn
W. C. Handy
Interior Department
Beale
Hanoi
Red River Valley
Wilbur R. Dudley
Alamogordo, N.M
J. W. Fulbright
President Johnson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Fulbright Tapped His Cigarette
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CTY
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Arera
Seemann
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Werner
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