Five Clark Employees Killed in Maracaibo Plane Crash
Battle Creek Clark Equipment Co reports at least five employees and their spouses died in the Venezuela crash. Names include Robert Ashmore, W Benjamin, Joseph Venezia, Robert Brown Jr., Albert Davidson and others, with additional corroborating victims listed by the U.S. Embassy. A Creole Petroleum worker’s wives were aboard, and Elizabeth Rogers of Cornell College also perished.
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Battlecreek, Mich
UPI
Clark Equipment Co
Maracaibo
Venezuela
Battle Creek
Clark
United States
Sell
Robert Braun
Robert Ashmore
Virginia Beach
Joseph Venezia
Chattanooga
Tenn
Robert L . Brown Jr
Marshall, Mich
Jane
Albert G. Davidson
Venezia
Davidson
Charles Whitman
Ohio
Martin M . Oats
Kansas City
Anthony Oats
Nebraska
Kenneth D
Sharon Nelson
Seattle
Wash
John Joseph
Adeline Heney
Los Angeles
Calif
Patrick J
Elsie Carter
Miami
Fla
Leila K. Buckson
Andrew J. Buckson
Creole Petroleum Cor. Esso
Nina May
Clarice Dee
Paul May
Frank Dee
la Salinas
Zulia
Elizabeth Rogers
Mount Vernon
Iowa
Cornell College
U.S
Kennedy St Patrick's Day visit described as historic
New York report recalls Robert Kennedy’s St Patrick’s Day 1968 celebration at Charley O's in Midtown. Neal Hennebery, pub manager, recalls a massive cheering crowd and Kennedy saluting supporters from a bar as bagpipes played.
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New York
UPI
Neal Hennebery
County An
County Wesford
St. Patrick’s Day
Hennebery
Charley O’s Restaurant
Midtown Manhattan
Robert Francis Kennedy
Campaign Car From Truman Campaign Set for Auction
A private railroad car used by former President Harry S. Truman during the 1948 campaign will be auctioned Thursday in Los Angeles. The midnight blue and gold car, attached to pullmans with staff and reporters, includes a mahogany dining room for eight, three bedrooms and three crew showers. Truman conducted coast to coast whistle stop tours in that era.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Harry S. Truman
Pullmans
Truman
English airline executive makes 11 weekend trips for love
Mike Newman of Hounslow flies from New York to see his 20 year old girlfriend Marilyn Honey at Kennedy Airport every weekend. The 7,000 mile round trips total 77,000 miles this year. Their romance ends May 24 when they marry and settle in the United States.
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London
UPI
Mike Newman
Hounslow
England
Kennedy Airport
New York
Marilyn Honey
Escapees From Jail Cuyahoga County Jail be recaptured in Kent
Two of five prisoners who escaped from the Cuyahoga County Jail in Cleveland have been captured in Kent. Police say Timothy Mikus age 23 and Roger Irion age 20 are in custody. Remaining escapees are Alva Browning 31 Sheridan Nesbitt 35 and John Torpey 29. Sheriff Krieger blames jail design for the breakout.
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Kent, Ohio
UPI
Cuyahoga County
Cleveland
Timothy Mikus
Roger Irion
Alva Browning
Sheridan Nesbitt
John Torpey
Ralph Krieger
Mikus
Krieger
Torpey
Laird Defends Nixon ABM Decision Before Congress
Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird to defend President Nixon's modified ABM system before Senate and House committees. Aimed at protecting U S missiles with defense missiles around offensive sites, Safeguard seeks city protection and deterrence against a Soviet or Chinese attack. Packard signaled presidential authority needed and urged continued domestic funding.
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Washington
UPI
Melvin R. Laird
Congress
Nixon
House
Senate
Laird
Senate Armed Services Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
China
Sentinel
Defense
David Packard
ABC Packard
Soviet Union
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Russians Shell Chinese Posts on Damansky Island Clash
Russians rally in factories and schools across the Soviet border to protest China after Soviet forces claim a major shelling of Chinese positions on Damansky Island amid a deadly clash. Beijing denounces Moscow as mad dogs while Peking vows to destroy the Kremlin.
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Edward Shields
Moscow
UPS
Communion
China
Peking
Damansky Island
Ussuri
Manchuria
Pravda
Communist Party
Damansky
Kremlin
Missing crewman from freighter Vainqueur after blast in Gulf
SOS from the Liberian freighter Vainqueur triggered a search in the storm tossed Gulf of Mexico. Navy destroyer USS Human found 24 crew afloat in two lifeboats as six aircraft resumed dawn searches. Six others were en route to Beaumont Texas after rescue by the British ship Arbitrator.
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New Orleans
UPI
Gulf of Mexico
Beaumont
Tex
Sam Gamache
The
Human
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Mrs. W. Benjamin
Alice
Caracas
Bob Kennedy
UPI Telephoto
Astro-Sonic Stereo
Eng
L. C
Magnavox
West Main
Valley of the Dollis
Olob
20Th Century- Fox
Charlton Heston
Planet Artaces
Norwalk
City Loan
Savings CO
Jim Smith
Kubach-Smith
North
Fairfield
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