Hong Kong Flu Closes Schools and Ups Absenteeism
The Hong Kong flu outbreak has closed schools and colleges and raised absenteeism across labor and industry. Adelphi University canceled undergraduate classes, a ship academy began Christmas vacation early, and many states report outbreaks with rising pneumonia and influenza deaths.
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Hong Kong Flu
Ups
Associates
Hong Kong
Los Angeles
New York City
Adelphi University
Garden City
Merchant Marine Acade
My At
National Communicable Disease Center
Puerto Rico
District of Columbia
Tallulah Bankhead
Higher Ed Aid Plan Faces University Opposition
The Carnegie Commission proposed boosting federal education spending from 3.5 billion to 13 billion by 1976 to fund direct student aid via a loan bank. The National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges criticized the plan saying aid should go to institutions to lower student costs and avoid bureaucratic direct aid programs. Russell J. Thackery argued increased school funding could widen access without student administration burdens.
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Washington
New York
Carnegie Commission On Higher Education
National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges
Russell J. Thackery
The
Association
Bank Robber Holds Up Rochester Savings Bank
Police hunted a man who robbed the Pinnacle Savings and Loan Association in Rochester on Thursday grabbing $7,200 in cash. He wore a red and white ski mask and used a black pistol, forcing two tellers and others into a rear room. This marked Rochester’s third bank robbery in 10 days with prior heists totaling $6,609.
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Rochester
N.Y
Pinnacle Savings and Loan Association
Lincoln Trust Co
Marine Midland Trust Co
B52s Launch Heaviest Attack in Two Months Near Saigon
American B52 bombers blasted targets north of Saigon in a 48 hour flush of 3000 tons of bombs. The raids hit base camps depots and infiltration routes as analysts note possible North Vietnamese offensives. Intelligence cites 15000 to 30000 enemy troops along a 100 mile Cambodian border arc.
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Saigon
U.S
Czech Workers Threaten General Strike After Invasion
Prague workers threaten a general strike for the first time since the Soviet invasion. Prace, the unions' newspaper, cites a letter promising all means available to the working class, including a general strike, as Josef Smrkovsky is ousted from Communist Party leadership.
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Prague
Prace
National Assembly
Josef Smrkovsky
Communist Party
Purina Mills Complex Burns Outside Olean
Purina Mills complex at Portville near Olean burned into a smoldering ruin at dawn after a five hour fire fought by five volunteer companies. No damage estimate yet. A Weston Hills hose was torn by a passing Erie Lackawanna train. Investigation not complete. A storage shed also damaged.
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Portville
N. Y
Purina Mills
Olean
Pennsylvania
Weston Hills
Erie Lackawanna
James Walterich
Walterich
Supergifts on Well-Heeled Santa's List
CHICAGO AP A shopping round finds lavish gifts for a refined Santa list. Highlights include a foot-high silver pagoda center piece, a rabbit-fur tablecloth, a jewelry subscription at 273 950 dollars, a 25 000 aquarium of cultured pearls, a 1200 silver shovel, a 1000 mink throw, exotic animal gifts such as a 3000 Bengal tiger cub, 3500 baby whale, and 4400 baby elephant, and other items like a 600 beer stein and 125 martini pitcher. A junior carriage priced at 795 dollars completes the high end catalog.
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Chicago
Pan Am 707 crashes off Caracas killing 51
Pan American 707 explodes over the Caribbean near Caracas on a New York to Caracas flight. Fifty-one aboard include 42 passengers and nine crew. Names include Miss Venezuela 1962 Olga Antonetti de Dugarte and Pablo Guttmann a Clarkson College student. recovery ongoing.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Caribbean Sea
Sidney Stillwaugh
West Islip
N.Y
New York
la Guaira
Radio Aeropuerto
Kennedy Airport
Olga Antonetti de Dugarte
Luis Bel
Tran Gonzalez
Clarkson College
Potsdam
N. Y
Caribbean
Pablo Guttmann
Hans Guttmann
Woodstock Village
Clarkson
Guttmann
International Club
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Two Sided Table Demanded for Paris Peace Talks
The United States and South Vietnam push for a two sided round table at Paris, while Hanoi insists the talks be four sided. Harriman and Ky discussed a new offer to Hanoi delaying the expanded talks amid the table shape dispute. The Communists insist the National Liberation Front must have separate, equal status at the conference.
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U. S
Paris
United States
South Vietnam
Hanoi
U.S
W. Averell Harriman
Nguyen Cao Ky
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
North Vietnam
NLF
Border ceremonies set after Johnson reshapes Air Force trip
The First Lady and officials plan a border ceremony near Paso Texas as President Johnson modifies the U S Mexico border visit. The flight is due to depart at 8 55 a m and is expected to last about four hours.
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Washington
Paso
Tex
Dent Johnson
Brazilian Armed Forces Warned Amid Political Rift After Congress Defeat
Brazil's armed forces were put on alert as reports circulated of broad disagreement within the government and military over how to respond to a defeat by Congress. The episode signals strain at the highest levels as officials seek a cohesive course.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Congress
Mansfield calls for equal federal pay hikes for all officials
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield urged that any federal pay increases apply equally to senators and congressmen as to cabinet members and judges. He argued existing disparities between legislators and executives and judges are too large and should not be widened by unequal raises.
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Los Angeles
Ronald Reagan
San Diego
Michigan
Detroit
Chrysler Corp
General Motors Corp
Livonia
Mich
Ilinois
Chicago
Wheaton College
Wheaton
Massachusetts—College
Boston
Washington, D.C
Hospital Council
National Capitol Area
Trinity College
St. Elizabeth's
Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Coed and Reporter Wounded by Shotgun Blast at Militant Group HQ
In Albany New York a 20 year old coed Susan Levey of State University at Albany and 34 year old reporter William Blando of the Albany Knickerbocker News were wounded in the face by a shotgun blast fired through a window at The Brothers headquarters. Levey was in satisfactory condition at an Albany hospital while Blando refused medical treatment.
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Albany, N. Y
Susan Levey
The
State University At Albany
Albany
William Blando
Albany Knickerbocker News
School Bus Kills 2 Children Near Cortland
Two children were struck and killed by a school bus on a street just west of Cortland city limits. Cortland County Sheriff’s Department reported no identification or further details available immediately.
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Cortland, N. Y
Cortland County Sheriff's Department
Brooklyn Ocean Hill Brownsville board bars suspended administrator
The state trustee for the Ocean Hill Brownsville district says Rhody McCoy will be barred from his office by police if he attempts to return after suspension.
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New York
Brooklyn
Ocean Hill
Brownsville
Rhody McCoy
Most of Nixon Cabinet to Be Earning Less
Washington AP reports that most Nixon cabinet appointees will take pay cuts to serve in Washington. A cabinet secretary earns 35,000 dollars annually, while appointees from banking, law, and construction similarly earned more before joining the administration. Nixon himself reportedly made about 200,000 dollars as a senior partner in a New York law firm.
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Washington
Nixon
Eisenhower
New York
Nixon shifts focus to home and world problems
President elect Nixon meets with Urban Coalition leaders led by John Gardner and with former Gov William Scranton after briefing his incoming Cabinet. Johnson signals readiness to meet Cabinet members individually as Nixon discusses Middle East, Vietnam, budget, and union relations in private sessions.
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New York
Nixon
Siem Johnson
Urban Coalition
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Middle East
John W. Gardner
Johnson
Scranton
Israel
Fifth Avenue
White House
Vietnam
William P. Rogers
George Christian
Christian
Congress
Blizzard Hits Minnesota as Midwest Travel Spins Out of Control
A Pacific storm deepened into a full blizzard across northern Minnesota and nearby states. Winds to 45 mph created 4 to 8 inch drifts, zero visibilities, and slippery highways as temperatures plunged below zero in northern regions and into the teens toward the Texas Panhandle.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Minnesota
Canadian
Texas Panhandle
Mississippi Valley
North
Dakotas
Minnesota Highway Department
Rockies
Glasgow
Cut Bank
Mont
U S Analysts See N Vietnam Preparing Two South Viet Nam Thrusts
U S analysts say North Vietnam is assembling troops from Cambodia and Laos for two winter offensives in South Vietnam. They estimate up to seven divisions may be involved to show the war continues while Paris peace talks stall. Secretary Clifford cautions it is early to confirm plans.
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Washington
US S
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Laos
Paris
North Vietnam
Clark M. Clifford
U.S
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