Swedish Youth Visits Peking Family in Mao Era
Swedish student Per Kronvall reports on a Peking family he visited during a China trip. The father works in a steel mill earning 90 yuan monthly. rent is seven yuan. meals and transportation total about 16 to 20 yuan monthly. The family praises life after liberation with social benefits, lower prices for vegetables, and access to medical aid. The daughter attends the Pioneers and reads Mao Tze-tung, while the son aspires to be a skilled worker.
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Per Kronvall
Peking
China
Associated Press
Mao Tze-tung
Mao
The
Pioneers
Connecticut College For Women
Flick
Brothers Four
Seattle
Columbia
Brothers
Daily Crossword Across
Clues list for a crossword puzzle with across and down entries including Employ Strut Prove false, Refund, Cereal husks, Setting, Relative, Soft drink, Pulls, Man's, Baby shoe, Hawaiian tree, Brazilia palm, English city, Month, Series of six, Goddess of volcanoes, Western state, Armadillos, Giraffe like animal, Spree, Thick, Prepared. Down clues include Father Hebrew, So Am republic, Architect drawing, Covered with bits of thread, Affirmation de Cologne, Slight taste, Es corted as to a theater seat, Farm, Noblemen, Young salmon, Fencing sword, Volcanic rock.
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So, Am
Republic
de Cologne
Brothers Four Invest and Expand in Pacific Northwest Ventures
The Brothers Four plow earnings into land and development. They open a half million dollar 24 unit luxury apartment near Phoenix Scottsdale named Los Cuatros with a guitar shape pool. They own Hawaii land Washington coast ranches and Seattle publishing and production firms.
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Phoenix
Scottsdale
Los Cuatros
Bob Flick
Hawaii
Seattle
Flick
University of Washington
John Paine
Dick Foley
University of California
Mike Kirkland
University of Tennessee
Phi Gamma Delta
The
Hungry I
San Francisco
Las Vegas
Today in History August 18 1966
On this date various historic events are noted including Woodrow Wilson urging neutrality in 1914, the Wilkes expedition sailing in 1838, Germany seizing Slovakia in 1939, Montgomery taking command in 1942, Allied ships shelling Italy in 1943, an American plane downed by Yugoslav fighters in 1946, and a 1956 Republican platform dispute in San Francisco with Southern delegation dissent.
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Associated Press
Woodrow Wilson
Washington
United States
Europe
Wilkes
Norfolk
Antarctic
Slovakia
Bernad Montgomery
Egypt
Italy
Republican Resolutions Committee
San Francisco
Run Buddy Run spoof aims at TV running man shows
NBC and CBS are turning to satire on popular TV formats. Buddy is a timid man on the lam after overhearing a plot in a Turkish bath. Jack Sheldon plays Buddy, with Bruce Gordon as a gangster tycoon. NBC will air a 90 minute Annie Get Your Gun production starring Ethel Merman. CBS lost Wild Wild West producer Mike Garrison after a fatal fall.
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Hollywood
NBC
CBS
Buddy
Junior
Jack Sheldon
Cara Williams
Jack
Health Farm
Sheldon
Stan Kenton
New York
Bruce Gordon
Gordon
Frank Nitti
Ethel Merman
Hindi Speaking Share Among Indians About 43 Percent
A report notes that around 43 percent of the Indian population speaks Hindi or a closely related language. The figure highlights language distribution and linguistic Unity across the country.
Dear Abby style column letters discuss personal distress and language issues
A reader frets over global fear yet personal anxiety, while another asks about parenting and outbursts of dirty language. Ann Landers counsels seeking psychiatry, warns against blaming world events, and advises calm guidance for a 13 year old's sister and language concerns.
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Ann Landers
Sis
Mary
Mom
Evening TV Guide Highlights and Schedule
A detailed nightly lineup lists programs across networks including 2-News Weather 5-News and various primetime shows such as Gilligan's Island Batman Peyton Place Twilight Zone Avengers Rogues and Johnny Carson. The schedule also features late news weather sports and films throughout the night.
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Marshal Dillon
Mickie Finn
Rowan and Martin
Avengers
Chicago livestock prices move higher amid steady cattle trade
Chicago reports a livestock session with hogs around 3,000 head and cattle about 500 as steers hold near steady. Hogs rise 25 to 50 cents with various weights trading 26.50 to 27.50 for 200-225 and 26.50 to 27.25 for 190-240. Cows and bulls show mixed ranges, sheep steady to firm with spring lambs 26.00-26.25 and ewes 5.00-7.00 for shorn.
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Chicago
USDA
Chicago butter eggs market notes and price listings
Chicago Mercantile Exchange butter prices show AA 93 score and grade breakdowns with counts 72142 for AA, 7219 for A, 7144 for B, and 6914 for C. Egg pricing lists 70 percent or better grade A whites 40, mixed 40, mediums 39, standards 3442.
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Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Chicago grain quotes amid mixed wheat corn soybeans
In Chicago cash grain bids Wheat No 2 soft red 193 and No 2 hard 1 98. Corn No 2 yellow 1 53 4 No 4 yellow white 7624. Soybeans No 1 yellow 3 9944. Soybean oil unquoted.
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Chicago
Controversy Over Lake County Junior College District
In Mundelein Illinois four communities Barrington Lake Forest Lake Bluff and Highland Park urged against a county wide state junior college district. A 1964 referendum failed and a hearing was extended to Sept. 1 by Kenneth H. Lemner of the Illinois state junior college board. The Lake County schools superintendent W C Petty questioned plans to include only part of the county.
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Mundelein, Ill
Lake County
W.C. Petty
Stock Market Dips to Two-Year Lows Amid Credit Tightening
The New York stock market slid to near two year lows as gloom from government credit tightening grew. The Associated Press 60 average fell 1.8 to 292.8 at noon with most leaders losing ground. Xerox IBM U S Smelting Illinois Central and American Airlines dropped while gains evaporated.
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New York
Federal Reserve Board
Associated Press
Xerox
IBM
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