Hypnosis research eyed for military use and abuses
The Navy probes hypnosis to erase secret data for captured personnel and to counter brainwashing by enemies. Trials at the University of Pennsylvania cost about 30 thousand dollars yearly, with no mass hypnosis planned.
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Associated Press
Washington
Navy
University of Pennsylvania
Martin T. Orne
Office of Naval Research
Naval Research Reviews
Bert King
ONR
Rhodes Won't Resign From Campus Unrest Panel
Cambridge Massachusetts Joseph Rhodes Jr a 22 year old Harvard junior fellow at the Nixon Commission on Campus Unrest says he will not quit despite Vice President Agnew demanding his resignation. Agnew attacked remarks attributed to Rhodes in a New York Times interview calling for change in administration policy.
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Cambridge, Mass
Joseph Rhodes Jr
Nixon
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
Harvard University
New York Times
Presbyterians vote to continue Colloquy magazine support
A 189 to 179 vote by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church U.S. kept funding Colloquy Magazine amid a protest by Dr. Robert Strong of Montgomery Alabama. The assembly also approved sending a plan for church union involving nine denominations. Next sessions and sites were set for Towson Maryland Louisville Kentucky and Virginia in 1973 1974 and 1972.
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Memphis, Tenn
General Assembly of Presbyterian Church
U.S
United Presbyterian Church
United Church of Christ
Robert Strong
Montgomery
Ala
Assembly of the Million
110Th General Assembly
William A. Benfield
Charleston
W.va
COCU
Robert C. Lamar
Albany
N.Y
The
United Church
Towson
Louisville
Virginia
United Presbyterian General Assembly
Today in History June 17 1970 notable events
On June 17 historical notes include Drake landing on California coast in 1569, John Wesley born in 1703, the Bunker Hill battle near Boston in 1775, France seeking peace terms in 1940, Eamon de Valera elected Irish president in 1959, Supreme Court ruling on prayer in 1963, China’s first hydrogen bomb in 1967, Quemoy bombardment start ten years later, B 52 raids on Vietnam five years ago, and a Communist summit ending in Moscow without critique a year ago.
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Associated Press
Peas Drake
California
John Wesley
England
Bunker Hill
Boston
France
Germany
Eamon de Valera
Irish Republic
U. S. Supreme Court
China
Quemoy
Guam
Vietnam
Moscow
Violence erupts in Miami black districts after shoplifting rumor
Police report a sniper and a looter among wounded, and a third man surrendered at a hospital claiming he was shot on his front porch. Over five hours, a 20 block area saw shooting looting and arson as whites and blacks clashed.
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Lisbon C. Morris
L. C. Morris Construction and Paving Co
Morris
Douglas Leach
Leach
Brownsville
Liberty City
Coconut Grow
Fred Weller
The
People’s Coalition
Weller
John Hayes
State Department of Agriculture
Hayes
Private Plane Pilots Reach Seven Hundred Thousand Figure
The Associated Press reports a record rise in private pilots, now over 700,000, including a 65 year old Atlantic crossing grandmother and a 16 year old student. It notes costs, training hours, and typical aircraft prices, with 150000 students taking flight instruction last year.
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MLS
Associated Press
NEW York
James Gilbert
Flying Magazine
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
Atlantic City
N. J
Biloxi
Miss
Hollywood-by-the Sea
Miami
Machines Rise in 1970s But Demand for Office Workers Grows
True or false: automation will greatly cut office jobs in the 1970s. Labor Department studies forecast the 1968 15 million clerical workers by 1975 with growth in secretaries stenographers bookkeepers typists receptionists and telephone operators. Computers will drive rapid growth and create as many roles as they replace.
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New York
Labor Department
Herbert Beinstock
Beinstock
Ambassador Grief as Brazil Kidnapping Ends
The Brazilian ambassador to Brazil was freed after nine youths and a woman seized his car killing a guard and wounding two. The group identified as the Popular Revolutionary Vanguard demanded the release of political prisoners and no arrests. An international observer said prisoners showed torture scars as the case drew in jurists. The report notes the Salmon River in Idaho is called the River of No Return due to strong currents.
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Soners
von Holleben
Popular Revolutionary Vanguard
Brazil
Serio da Costa Apolinario
Rio
Apolinario
Mexico
Cuba
Algeria
U.S
C. Burke Elbrick
International Commission of Jurists
Algiers
Maurice Butin
International Commission
Idaho
Noara
Chicago Stabbings and shootings erupt after tavern robbery
Police reported four white patrons stabbed when two Negro holdup men robbed a Chicago tavern of about 600 dollars from the cash register and customers. A nearby alley brawl between groups of white and Black youths followed, with reinforcements separating the crowd. A later fire scene incident left a fireman and a youth wounded by shotgun pellets and others treated at Weiss Memorial Hospital. One stabbing victim, Kenneth Wells, 36, remained in serious condition with chest wounds. The area has seen recent knifings and shootings amid racial tensions.
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Michael Knight
Berry
Ala
Weiss Memorial Hospital
Kenneth Wells
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Dean Rusk
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Penney
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Pecos Motors Inc
Pecos, Texas
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America
Business Mirror
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River of No Return
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Gaza Strip
Amman
High Command
al Fatah
Yasir Arafat
George Habash
Marxist
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
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Jordan
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Telepot
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Tom Lewis
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