Tut exhibit draws near six million viewers in U S
AP report details that since November 1976, 5.6 million people across five cities have viewed the Tutankhamen relics touring exhibit. An additional 1.3 million are expected in New York before April 15 before the show moves to San Francisco. Tickets have fluctuated from free to 60 cents to as high as 50 dollars, with scalping and fast sales reported in multiple venues.
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Jane Lee White
Associated Press
NEW York
Tutankhamen
Pharoah
Egypt
United States
Tut
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Manhattan
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum
Cials
Union City
N.J
New York City
Bruce Ratner
Bloomingdale’s
Cairo Museum
Thomas Hoving
Simon
Central Illinois farms hit $1 million investment mark
Farm management expert Del Wilken of the University of Illinois reports the typical central Illinois farm grew to at least a $1 million business between 1965 and 1975. Average farm size rose by 112 acres. hay and small grains vanished. land valued at 85 percent of total investment. 80 percent of land rented to tenants. Profits rose in 1974 75 but fell in 1977 due to price drops and rising costs.
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Urbana
III
Central Illinois
del Wilken
University of Illinois
Wilken
Wil
Ken
Macon
DeWitt
Moultrie
Pratt
Murdered Chicago mother linked to church group death
Police probe a motive as 42 year old Katherine Harbold is found shot dead in her Chicago home just after 3 pm on a Wednesday. Investigators say robbery is unlikely since nothing was disturbed and four weapons were found in the house. Children Lisa and Michael Harbold returned from school to a bloodstained kitchen and a lit Christmas tree. neighbors express shock while the father Charles, a chiropractor, is at his other office.
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Chicago
Lisa
Michael
Katherine Har
Bold
Neigh
Bors
Edward Kijowski
Harbold
Charles
Sewage Helps Restore Strip-Mined Illinois Land
Crabi Orchard, Ill. Chicago sewage aids recovery of 100 acres of barren acidic strip mine in Shawnee National Forest. Metro sewer district provides nutrient rich material, boosting grasses and early saplings as project enters second phase. Officials note no more sewage planned at present.
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Crab Orchard
Ill
Chicago
Illinois
Shawnee National Forest
Jerry Nelson
Nelson
Harrisburg
Palzo
Metropolitan Sanitary District
Bank robbers wanted for murder and kidnapping
Two masked bandits robbed Citizens National Bank of Decatur and killed guard Don Bivens. They seized five suitcases of money, abducted a woman from a day care, locked her in a trunk, and fled in a stolen car. A tied up woman was found later in the trunk near a funeral parlor.
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Decatur, II
Citizens National Bank of Decatur
Don Bivens
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Hoving
The
Metropolitan
U.S
Richard Morsches
Jose Molina
Molina
Angel
Liberty
Morris
Lorraine Nicholas
Mrs. Harbold
Mrs. Nicholas
Colonial Boat Shop
Robert J. Engle, D.D.S
Hornsby's
Villa Oaks
Roosevelt Road
Villa Park
Loie Ae One
Joliet, Il
West
Jefferson St
Fairlane
North Riverside Park Plaza
25Th Street
North Riverside
Morris Catv Assoc
Liberty St
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