GOP convention opens with Nixon renomination push
Miami Beach hosts the Republican gathering as delegates prepare to renominate Nixon and resolve a floor battle over 1976 delegate allotment. Dole targets McGovern amid protests and a crowd outside the Fontainebleau Hotel.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Nixon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Vice
Spiro T. Agnew
Margaret Heckler
Massachusetts
Fontainebleau
Pennsylvania
Lyndon B. Johnson
American Legion
Chicago
Dole
Republican National Committee
Vietnamese drive blocks North Vietnamese push toward Da Nang
South Vietnamese troops launch a drive to block a North Vietnamese division from exiting Que Son Valley toward Da Nang as U S air power targets heavy guns and tanks. U S B 52 bombers attack ref ugee flows while civilian casualties mount from mines and airstrikes.
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Saigon
Que Son
South Vietnam
da Nang
U.S
Quang Tri
Highway 1
Baldy
Ross
South China Sea
Hiep Duc
Central Highlands
Pleiku
Saigon Command
Kontum
Braceville youth dies in single car crash near South Wilmington
Thomas Loveland 16 of Braceville died at the scene after a 1966 Mustang left Rice Road and rolled near Storm Road. Driver Robert Manegold 21 was injured and cited for failure to reduce speed. Loveland was a hitchhiker picked up near an unknown location. Funeral services were at Patterson Funeral Chapel in Braidwood.
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Thomas Loveland
Braceville
Loveland
Robert D. Manegold
Main St
Braidwood
Knight
Grundy County
Rice
Wilmington
E. Main St
Manegold
Rice Road
Sheriff's Department
Sheriff's Deputies
Schroeder
Standard of
Gardner
Weather Outlook With Thunderstorms and Mild Evenings
Tonight shows variable cloudiness with likely thunderstorms and a low around 67. Tuesday brings cooler, variably cloudy skies with a chance of showers and highs in the 80s. Saturday and Sunday reach the upper 80s and low 70s, with morning readings near 72 at Dresden Island and 83 downtown Morris. Sudden Thought: Unless a woman can read a guy like a book he ll never make her best fella list.
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Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Morris
Rock strike on Sandia Trail kills Illinois professor
Dr. Francis Mergen, 53, chairman of Bradley University's industrial engineering department, died after a rock hit him on the La Luz Trail in the Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque. Investigators found no suspects as the rock was believed hurled from above. He was hiking with his wife and others and was transported by tramway after the strike.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Illinois
la Luz
Sandia Mountains
Francis Mergen
Bradley University
Peoria, Il
Mergen
Willis Endean
Endean
Craig
Peoria
Young stowaway marks record flight across Atlantic
Three year old Mark Desmond Woo sam slipped aboard a Los Angeles to London TWA jumbo with his family. He rode the 10 800 mile trip back smiling while his mother vows not to take him to the airport again. The airline may bill the Woo sams 452 for the journey.
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Los Angeles
London
Trans World Airlines
Mark
Mark Desmond Woo-sam
James Woo-sam
TWA
Woo-sams
Copernicus Satellite Launch Marks U S Space Milestone
A large astronomy satellite named Copernicus launched from Cape Kennedy California with six telescopes to study star formation and deep space X-rays. The 4900 pound, 81.6 million dollar craft entered orbit about 400 miles high 20 minutes after launch aboard an Atlas Centaur booster.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
United States
Earth
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Pontiac inmates fail in escape attempt at maximum security prison
Two inmates Robert Carlisle and Thomas Cates sawed through bars and, after attempting to disguise themselves as guards, surrendered with two guards hostage. the guards were released unharmed. Carlisle faces three to seven years for armed robbery and Cates two to ten for burglary.
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Pontiac, Ill
Pontiac State Prison
Robert Carlisle
Chicago
Thomas Cates
East St. Louis
Carlisle
Cates
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Mayfield, Ky
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Box 96
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