Drunk Driving Toll Then and Now
Washington reports fearsome highway death and injury figures linked to alcohol in 1969. Drunk drivers are cited in thousands of fatalities and injuries, with experts arguing the core issue is alcoholism rather than social drinking. Calls to revoke licenses for alcoholics grow amid warnings from Volpe and Brenner.
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Robert Buckhorn Washington
UPI
John A. Volpe
William Haddon Jr
National Highway Safety Bureau
Haddon
Julian Waller
California
Waller
Volpe
Robert Brenner
Highway Safety Bureau
Brenner
America Medical Association
Isle of Man records first purse theft memory
NO PERMISSIVENESS PEEL reports a purse-snatching on the Irish Sea island. A judge mandates action, sentencing a 15-year-old thief to three strokes of the birch to stamp out crime on the isle.
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Peel
Isle of Man
UPI
Irish Sea
Lyons Supported For High Court In Louisiana Push
Charles deGravelles, Louisiana Republican chairman, backs 73 year old Shreveport attorney Chariton Lyons Sr. for the U S Supreme Court. Lyons, GOP gubernatorial candidate in 1964, is praised as attorney businessman civic leader and philanthropist. deGravelles asks citizens to contact him in Lafayette to present the people’s consensus to President Nixon.
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Lafayette
Charles deGravelles
Chariton H. Lyons Sr
Shreveport
United States Supreme Court
Lyons
GOP
deGravelles
Nixon
New Voting Rights Battle Is Brewing
Washington AP report says the Nixon administration backed federal school desegregation and Negro job opportunities at session end, but faces Senate resistance on a national voting rights bill. Civil rights leaders plan to leverage the congressional record to press for continued equality programs and mobilize GOP defections to thwart the administration’s plan.
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Nixon
Congress
House
Senate
Clement F. Haynsworth Jr
Supreme Court
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Robert P. Griffin
Michigan
Senate Judiciary Committee
Sen
Marlow Cook
Haynsworth
Tchaikovsky Film Crew Heads To Paris After London Shoot
The Russian cast and crew of Tchaikovsky finished filming in London and will proceed to Paris for further location filming under Warner Bros. The move follows a productive London segment and underscores an international production schedule.
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Hollywood
UPI
Tchaikovsky
London
Paris
Warner Bros
Wildcat Strike Staged By Miners In West Virginia
About twelve hundred coal miners at four nearby mines in Kanawha and Fayette counties walked out to push for a federal coal mine health and safety bill. Pickets appeared at the Carbon Fuel Co and Imperial Collieries in Kanawha and at Central Appalachian Coal and Semet Solvay in Fayette as a broader Black Lung Association call for a general strike began.
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Charleston
W. Va
Nixon
Carbon Fuel Co
Imperial Collieries
Kanawha County
Central Appalachian Coal Co
Semet Solvay
Fayette County
Black Lung Association
United Mine Workers Union
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