Lottery Ticket First Day Sale Brisk in State
New York began selling lottery tickets at 12 01 am with crowds queuing at the Americana Hotel. Patricia Nelson of the Bronx bought the first ticket as officials expect to raise 360 million annually for education. About 171 of the 1 tickets were sold in 45 minutes at the hotel. The program expects monthly sales of 30 million and a 300 000 prize pool per million dollars sold. A superprize of 250 is awarded yearly.
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New York
Robert Goldfarb
St. Thomas
V.I
Albany
New York State
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Richard J. Hughes
Trenton
Hughes
New
Two U.S. Helicopters Complete Nonstop Atlantic Flight
Two Sikorsky HH3E helicopters of the U S Air Rescue Service set a record by flying 4 270 miles nonstop from New York to Paris in 30 hours 48 minutes. They were air refueled nine times by a C130 tanker during the crossing staged for the Paris Air and Space Show. Each helicopter carried a five man crew.
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Paris
U.S
Atlantic
U.S. Air Force Air Rescue Service
New York Naval Air Station
Brooklyn
le Bourget
Vietnam
Valor Award For Lieutenant Margrey At Bien Hoa
Lieutenant Margrey received the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star for his heroic defense of a small Vietnamese Army outpost near Bien Hoa. He led a counterattack from a depleted post as 400 Viet Cong attacked, with air support and a dire ammo shortage.
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U. S. Air Force
Sidney S. Margrey
Phoenix
N. Y
Do Ke Giai
18Th Army
Margrey
Kenneth R. Margrey
Lock Street
Bien Hoa Air Base
Phouc Tuy
Bien Hoa
Lo Gom
Senate Critics Backers Urge Action to Save Israel
Twenty six National Guard generals petition Congress to scrutinize a proposal to abolish 15 Guard divisions, warning it would harm combat effectiveness and military prestige amid international crisis. Pentagon officials briefed lawmakers on a streamlining plan likely to provoke opposition in states. Senatorial critics and Vietnam veterans joined in urging action to preserve Israel, with Gruening saying the US may need to act alone to keep the Gulf of Aqaba open if others do not cooperate.
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Washington
National Guard
Congress
Pentagon
Capitol Hill
Army
Stanley R. Resor
Harold K. Johnson
Army Chief of Staff
House Armed Services Committee
Johnson
Israel
Egypt
Gulf of Aqaba
United States
U.S
Vietnam
Middle East
Ernest Gruening
Alaska
Senate
Gruening
Police Probe 3 Ithaca Fires Linked to Cornell Students
Police pressed their investigation into three fires at off campus residences housing Cornell University students in Ithaca New York. The April 5 blaze at Cornell Heights Residential Club killed nine people including four doctoral students. A May 23 fire caused couch damage at Water Margin House with no injuries. Wednesday’s blaze damaged a three story frame house where seven more doctoral students lived.
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Ithaca
N.Y
Cornell University
Herbert van Ostrand
Charles Weaver
Cornell Heights
Watermargin House
Airlift planned to evacuate 700 Americans from eastern Nigeria
The U S Embassy will begin a Saturday airlift of about 700 Americans from the eastern region as conflict with central forces looms. Most evacuees are from Port Harcourt and include elderly, children, and pregnant women unable to travel. Charter DC4 planes may fly to Enugu if permission is obtained, with negotiations ongoing with both governments amid sanctions.
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Lagos
Nigeria
U.S
Elbert G. Mathews
C. Odumegwu Ojukwu
Republic of Biafra
Port Harcourt
Enugu
Ojukwu
Levy Ruling Finds Medical Ethics Not Legal Defense
Col. Earl V. Brown ruled that Capt. Howard B. Levy cannot use medical ethics as a legal defense in his general court martial over refusing to train Special Forces medics for Vietnam service. The decision, made prior to formalization, may affect closing arguments and possibly a Saturday session to complete the trial. An Army physician with battlefield Vietnam experience testified that Green Beret medics are essential to the U S medical program.
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Columbia
S.C
Howard B. Levy
Vietnam
Earl V. Brown
Levy
Brown
U.S
Pat Mallory Graduates From Sheldon High School
Eugene Oregon AP reports football player Patrick Mallory will graduate from Sheldon High School this spring under the name Pat Mallory. He has invitations to attend a Honolulu secretarial school an Eastern nursing school an airline stewardess school and a Portland college.
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Pat
Eugene
Ore
Patrick Mallory
Sheldon High School
Pat Mallory
Honolulu
Eastern Nursing
Portland
Egyptian Submarines Shadow U S Carrier in Red Sea
Egyptian envoy warns the United States to avoid involvement in Egypts blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba and cautions that third party entry could escalate the Arab Israeli crisis. U S Cabinet meets as officials discuss Middle East tensions and petroleum implications.
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Washington
United States
Egypt
Gulf of Aqaba
Mostafa Kamel
Dean Rusk
Johnson
White House
State Department
Turkey
U.S
Middle East
Robert J. McCloskey
McCloskey
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Jordan
Hussein
George Christian
Kamel
Avraham Harman
Rabbinical Assembly of America
Harman
Rockefeller silent on political plans after 1970
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, returning from Venezuela, declined to confirm retirement plans after his third term. He said he would stay with duties until completion and disputed what a Latin American newspaper misreported as his intent.
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New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Venezuela
Rockefeller
Kennedy Airport
Arabs Shout Epithets as Intrepid Passes Suez Canal
Shadowed by two Egyptian submarines, the U S carrier Intrepid entered the Red Sea after passing the Suez Canal amid about 300 Egyptian demonstrators who shouted at the ship, which Cairo and Washington say is bound for Vietnam. The crisis widened as Iraq Kuwait and Jordan mobilized in support of Arab positions near Israel.
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U.S
Intrepid
Red Sea
Suez Canal
Canal Bank
Egypt
Gulf of Aqaba
Defense Department
Washington
Vietnam
Cairo
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Middle East
Iraq
Kuwait
Israel
Britain
Strait of Tiran
United States
U.N. Security Council
Aqaba
Gulf
Elath
George Brown
House of Commons
Brown
Harold Wilson
Commons
Aden
Hermes
Far East
Nasser
Sinai Peninsula
Abdul Rahman Aref
Highest State Court Rules On Textbook Law
The New York Court of Appeals upheld the textbook loan law 4 to 3, ruling local boards must provide books to students in parochial and other private schools. The decision preserves the program despite a prior ruling that the suit lacked standing.
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Albany
N.Y
Court of Appeals
State Supreme Court
East Greenbush
Supreme Court
Army Lieutenant Dies After Drinking Ritual
An Army paratrooper died after a drinking ritual at Ft Bragg. Lt Ronald Greer Reeves, 23, suffocated in his own vomit after consuming vodka. The Army urged closer supervision of alcohol use in such rituals and required approval for future events at Ft Bragg. Reeves, Clemson graduate, was found dead in his lodging after the ritual night.
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Washington
Army
Secretary of the Army
Stanley R. Resor
Harold K. Johnson
Army of Staff
Ronald Greer Reeves
Resor
Johnson
John L. Throckmorton
Ft. Bragg
N.C
Reeves
Clemson University
82Nd Airborne Division
Tramp Millionaire’s Hidden Fortune Revealed in Will
Julain Ellis-Morris who posed as a tramp and sold razor blades door to door built a fortune of 174697 dollars when he died at 75 in March. The Paris entertainer left 2800 dollars to two Folies Bergere performers and 1400 dollars to Micheline Roine and Danielle, 350 dollars to another two Montmartre hotel owners, with other bequests disclosed as his will was published.
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Blackpool
England
Julian Ellis-Morris
Paris
Folies Bergere
Micheline Roine
Nicole Delattre
Michelina
Danielle
Montmartre
Ellis-Morris
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