Supplies drive Odessa stores into holiday rush
About 500 customers packed Albertson's and 15 check stands stayed open as stores faced a rush for water and canned goods. 4,000 more water jugs were ordered but not yet delivered while lamp oil sold out and reverse osmosis water machines ran at full speed. Customers and workers described a tense but orderly scene with no panic.
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Manley
Darin Hill
HEB
Hill
Albertson’s
West County Road
Benny Cowan
Cowan
Allen Caballaro
Odessa
Caballaro
Time names Einstein as Time Person of the Century
Albert Einstein named Time magazine's Person of the Century for his theory of relativity and role in shaping 20th century science and technology. The piece notes his Nobel Prize in 1921, move to Princeton, and influence on atomic research while highlighting Roosevelt and Gandhi as runners up.
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Albert Einstein
Time Magazine
Einstein
Time
New York
Germany
United States
Princeton University
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Isaacson
President Roosevelt
Mahatma Gandhi
Yeltsin resigns power and Putin to act as president
Boris Yeltsin stunned Russia by resigning and naming Vladimir Putin as acting president. Elections will be held in 90 days for a new president. Yeltsin grants himself immunity and a pension while Putin takes control.
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Moscow
Boris Yeltsin
Russia
Yeltsin
Vladimir Putin
Putin
Lena Matrosova
New Mexico Stock Show Awards Up To Seven Thousand Dollars
The SandHills Stock Show and Rodeo, with nearly 1,000 participants, offers prizes from 3000 to 7000 dollars in top livestock divisions. Garret Cyper shows a lamb named Siete, explaining size matters for youth handlers. Judges emphasize marketability and carcass quality, while showmanship prizes reward effort. The event draws quarter horse entries nationwide and abroad, being the state’s only American Quarter Horse Association show.
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New Mexico
Garret Cyper
Sweetwater
George Hennig
Goat Show
Hennig
Ben Clements
Rodeo
Pat
Clements
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