Nixon To Confer With Governors On GOP Campaign
Nixon plans talks with all 26 GOP governors over two months to build party consensus for the 1968 platform. He hints Rockefeller may draft and says he expects to win the nomination and the election, while stressing he will not twist arms. Rockefeller would be consulted on urban and foreign policy matters.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Richard M. Nixon
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Nixon
Madison
White House
John F. Kennedy
Rockefeller
Miami
Pest Quarantine Extension Proposed by Agriculture Department
Washington AP The Agriculture Department proposes extending federal quarantine restrictions to combat three farm pests: Japanese beetles soybean cyst nematodes and gypsy moths. Public hearings are set for April 16 17 in Chicago to expand preventive measures amid affected states including Alabama Illinois Michigan Missouri and Tennessee.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Chicago
Alabama
Illinois
Michigan
Missouri
Tennessee
Florida
Indiana
Louisiana
Army Reserve officers in Southeast Asia majority
Nearly 75 percent of the officers and warrant officers serving in Southeast Asia hold U.S. Army Reserve commissions and warrants.
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Southeast Asia
U.S. Army Reserve
Divorce granted to Dyan Cannon in Cary Grant case
Actress Dyan Cannon won a divorce from Cary Grant and will receive 57000 alimony over three years plus 2000 a month child support and governess wages. Grant, hospitalized after a car crash, was granted 60 days yearly visiting rights with their daughter Jennifer, 2, with nurse present during extended visits. He was praised as a devoted father and had not used LSD since 1966, per stipulation.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Cary Grant
Dyan Cannon
Grant
Jennifer
Robert A. Wenke
Miss Cannon
Wenke
New York
Kennedy Attacks On LBJ Escalating
Sen Robert F Kennedy amplifies antiwar critique as he campaigns for the Democratic nomination in Nashville and at Vanderbilt. He accuses Johnson of dividing the country through riots drugs and war and vows policy change if elected. He cites Rockefeller's GOP departure as a factor shaping the race and argues Nixon offers no alternative to Johnson's war policy.
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Nashville
Tenn
Robert F. Kennedy
Johnson
Kennedy
Vanderbilt University
New York Democrat
United States
Vanderbilt
Tuscaloos
Ala
University of Alabama
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Richard M. Nixon
Alabama
Nixon
Vietnam
Judgment Given On Drug Firm in Mississippi Case
A federal district court jury awarded Mary Ann Morgan 550000 dollars against Sterling Drug Inc and its Winthrop division for damages linked to Azalen used for rheumatoid arthritis. Morgan, then 29, began the drug in 1959 and became blind in 1961. Attorneys alleged inadequate warning to medical professionals about the drug’s hazards.
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Jackson, Miss
Mississippi
Mary Ann Morgan
Philadelphia
Miss
Sterling Drug Inc
New Jersey
Winthrop
New York City
Sterling
State Growth In Industries Cited Here
Chester E. McKay of Copolymer Inc. told the Monroe Rotary Club that fifty million dollars in wages have been brought into Louisiana in the last four years by permanent chemical industry jobs. He noted Louisiana’s waterways and water supply, the post Civil War economic slump, and a postwar surge in chemical investment, then warned that a one cent increase on the gas severance tax nearly halted progress in 1958 before the growth resumed.
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Louisiana
Monroe
McKay
Copolymer Inc
Santa Claus
Frances Hotel
Hanoi Radio Blames Reactionary Elements in North Vietnam
Tokyo AP report notes Hanoi Radio quoted Nhan Dan editorial denouncing reactionary elements working against Ho Chi Minh. The broadcast referenced a decree on espionage treason and counterrevolutionary crimes as a legal basis to expose and punish plots. It warned these elements, though few, pose a danger.
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Tokyo
Hanoi Radio
North Vietnam
Nhan Dan
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh
Louisiana investment growth under two governors cited
A speaker notes that over four years Louisiana more than doubled prior eight year industrial spending, with $747 million under Earl Long and $1,790 million under John McKeithen. He claims over 60 percent from chemical industry and credits laws boosting long term benefits, citing almost $2 billion in plant investment and tens of thousands of new jobs in about three and a half years.
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Ing
Earl K. Long
John McKeithen
Louisiana
Airmen Cool To Nugent Returns To Active Duty
Airman 11 C Nugent rejoined the 113th Tactical Fighter Wing at Andrews Air Force Base amid mixed morale. Officers say his presence is not tied to war status, while some airmen fear it signals political leverage for the President’s sons in Vietnam service.
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Andrews Afb
API
Air Force
Patrick J. Nugent
113Th Tactical Fighter Wing
Nugent
Johnson
Vietnam
Willard W. Millikan
Pueblo
113Th
Atlantic City
Niagara Falls
N.Y
Columbus
Ohio
Charles S. Robb
Washington Star
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Monroe, LA
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