Feasibility tests eye air-to-air refueling of helicopters
Sikorsky CH 3C helicopters fueled in air by modified Hercules tanker during tests at Cherry Point North Carolina to assess helicopter refueling from fixed wing tankers. Lockheed officials in Atlanta say tests were successful and aircraft are being prepared for Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service missions of the Military Airlift Command.
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N. C
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Atlanta
Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service
Military Airlift Command
Wrong Number Wrong City Leads to Police Call
A woman calls Honolulu police claiming her husband beat her and gives a San Diego address. Officer Lynn Murphy cannot locate the street address and notes the call is a wrong number and city. The incident highlights a misdial that wasted police time.
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Honolulu
Lynn Murphy
San Diego
Murphy
Annie's Home for Sale in Dumfriesshire England Scotland
London agents announce the sale of Maxwelton House in Dumfriesshire on the southwest coast of Scotland. Maj. Gen. Sir John Laurie, Annie Laurie's direct descendant, plans to sell the 30 room residence built on Glencairn Castle site where Annie Laurie was born December 16, 1682. The eight acre estate includes gardens six cottages and a round tower. The property once housed Norwegian army units during World War I.
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London
Annie Laurie
John Laurie
Annie
Maxwelton House
Dumfriesshire
Scotland
Glencairn Castle
William Douglas
Alexander Fergusson
Bristol cave endurance climber loses track of time
Britain's underground cave endurance challenger David Lafferty, 26, has lived 400 feet below the surface for eight days in one of the country’s deepest caves. He aims to beat a 16 day French record for solitary living underground. Lafferty telephoned up Thursday and believed the date was May 8. He has no papers, mail, radio, or watch to calculate time.
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Bristol
England
Britain
David Lafferty
Lafferty
Derby mayor’s wife begins diet after 28 pound loss plan
Wendy Pincknett, 21, wife of Derby’s late mayoral appointee William Bonell, has shifted from 34-22-45 to 36-25-37 after 300 banquets and events. With Bonell’s term ending, she starts a diet to shed 28 pounds as the town’s first lady.
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Derby
England
Wendy Pincknett
Wendy
William Bonell
Sophia Loren Delights at New York Exhibition Dinner
Sophia Loren, famed screen star and sex symbol, argues she is a simple Neapolitan girl at heart. She told reporters during a Museum of Modern Art dinner attendance for her photo exhibition that she may tempt bachelors to Naples with her reply about being truly Neapolitan.
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Sophia Loren
Museum of Modern Art
Italy
Naples
Call Em Kagus Two Kagos Arrive in Baltimore Zoo
Tropical birds named Call Em Kagus Two Kagos arrive from Han Caledonia via California and are housed in new cages in Baltimore. Zoo officials say the pair is the only one of their kind in America and among 35 to 50 worldwide.
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Han Caledonia
California
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Unmarried Women Flock To Bachelors Festival In Esparros
Nearly a thousand single women are expected to travel to the Pyrenees village of Esparros for a bachelors festival run by 28 local bachelors aged 30 to 60. May 29-30 events include an open-air mass, a wine reception at noon, and dancing until dawn. Officials plan crowd control with 10 gendarmes, 10 radio trucks, and a helicopter. The village of 240 aims to pair up attendees with numbered corsages and badges.
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Colleges in Iowa Hold Commencement Weekend
Caps and gowns covered Iowa campuses as 1,100 graduates at Iowa State University near Ames will receive diplomas Saturday including one posthumous. Wartburg College and Grinnell College started ceremonies Friday, with speakers from Clark Mollenhoff to David Riesman among others.
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Waverly
Grinnell College
Grinnell
Clark Mollenhoff
Wartburg
O. P. Kretzmann
Valparaiso
Ind
Adalbert FR. Kretzmann
St. Luke's Lutheran Church
Chicago
E. Wilson Lyon
Pomona
Calif
Towa State University
Ames
Robert C. Kinneberg
Watertown
Art Work on Display at Laura Musser Museum
Public reaction to the Laura Musser art gallery grows with frequent school tours and steady visitor numbers. The gallery features almost 50 paintings loaned by Davenport and Toledo museums and includes notable works by Berninghaus Bierstadt Blakelock Inness Brachman Chase Wood Homer Sawyer Rosenthal and DeMuthard, amid extended hours and free admission.
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George M. Furman
Furman
Art Gallery Museum
Davenport Municipal Art Gallery
Davenport Public Museum
Toledo, Ohio
Museum of Art
Dayanport Gallery
Taos
Oscar Berninghaus
Tourelle Falls
Albert Bierstadt
Joled
Graduation time for Muscatine students at Hayes High
Four Hayes graduates will wear green robes at commencement June 3 in the Hayes High gym. Linda Salek, Paul Schafer, Mary Mathias, and Jerry Hunter plan further study at Muscatine Community College, while Jeanne Paht and Tom Powell prepare for continued education at the University of Iowa. Audrey Furnas, returning to graduate after 27 years, will receive her diploma at Muscatine High School commencement May 31.
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India
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Decorah
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China
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Louis Hunter
Linn SL
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Tom Powell
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Tom
University of Iowa
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Orchard Ave
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