Czech director seeks asylum in Italy after selling film rights
Jimi Weiss, a famed Czech oslovakia director, requests political asylum in Italy after arriving in Rome just before the Russian invasion. He had sold American distribution rights for Murder, Czech Style to Columbia Pictures. Mrs. Joan Fisher, a 29 year old homemaker from Salt Lake City, is named Mrs. America at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds.
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Eisenhower shows heart irregularities doctors say
Washington AP reports former President Eisenhower suffered new irregular and rapid heartbeats at Walter Reed Army Hospital. In other U.S. items Nixon leaves Florida for unknown island retreat by seaplane, while China says a 1150 mile range MRBM to be operational by year end and warns on regional threat. Johnson supportive of diplomacy over Czechoslovakia action as Soviets tighten grip.
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Delegates split as Humphrey edge, Iowa action on rules
In Chicago on the eve of the Democratic Convention, Iowa delegates remain divided with 12% undecided. The Rules Committee voted to abolish the unit rule and to ban floor demonstrations while limiting speeches to one nominating and two seconding for presidential candidates and one of each for vice president.
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Seven Meeker brothers grow up on Iowa farm
Hildegarde Detjen left Chicago to marry Orville Meeker in 1949 and start a 640 acre farm near Letts Route 1. Their seven sons Donald Dennis David Steven Tommy Brian and Mark are active in 4-H pig projects and school sports. The family runs two annual sales at the Louisa County fairgrounds and earned the Premier Sire Award at the 1967 Iowa State Fair for their Hampshire herd.
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