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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1968
Page
10
A bold opinion piece targets dieting culture calling out pressure to slim down. It suggests practical shifts toward healthier living rather than extreme weight loss promises. The column urges accepting body variety and cautions against harmful crash methods.
New York stocks edged lower in midafternoon trading with the Dow down 0.68 to 887.00. The AP average retreated 0.1 to 332.3 as gains and losses mixed. Union Camp led paper shares with a fractional rise, while International Paper and Crown Zellerbach showed activity. Mead Corp. traded quieter.
Funeral services are set for Thursday at Greater New Hope Baptist Church for Spec. 4 Edward Stewart 21 of Monroe son of the Rev and Mrs J J Stewart. Burial will be in Holly Grove Cemetery Wisner. He was killed in Vietnam on August 10 after enlisting in July 1967 and returning on leave in February. He was a Wisner native and Wisner High School 1965 graduate. He is survived by his parents ten sisters eleven brothers and many relatives.
Soviet space scientist B V Raushenbakh told the U N Conference that Moscow may favor small unmanned rockets to assemble large cosmic stations in orbit rather than building heavier carrier rockets. He cited automatic rendezvous and docking on Cosmos missions and said manned docking would be needed to service an orbiting station. The United States bets on the Saturn V to reach the moon.
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