Today in History June 18 1815 Waterloo Battle Highlight
Highlights for June 18 note key events from 1815 Waterloo where British forces defeated Napoleon in Belgium and other world milestones. Also mentions Philadelphia entry by colonial forces in 1778 and US declaration of war in 1812 among events across eras.
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Waterloo
Belgium
Philadelphia
United States
Britain
Cherbourg
U. S
Simon Buckner
Okinawa
Egypt
Mohammed Naguib
Washington
White House
Sherman Adams
South Vietnam
Summer books spotlight biographies and personal essays
New York reports a strong slate of biographies memoirs and personal essays in June July and August. Notable titles include Rose A Biography of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and The Memoirs of Marshal Zhukov. Other works cover Isadora Duncan Lillie Langtry and Solzhenitsyn with novels by Michener Holland and Warren among others.
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New York
Southeast Asia
Gail Cameron
Kennedy
Rose
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Putnam
Marshal Zhukov
Delacorte
Georgi Zhukov
Paradise
Zelda
Scott Fitzgerald
Sara Mayfield
Noel B. Gersons
Morrow
Lillie Langtry
David
Rockefeller
Lyle Stuart
William Hoffman
Chase National Bank
Pantheon
Cecelia Holland
Earl” Knopf
England
James A. Michener
Spain
Portugal
North
Africa
Random House
Sarah Gainham
Vienna
Europe
Holt, Rinehart and
Winston
Dear Helen Helps With Flattering Photos In Newsrooms
A reader questions a colleague about flattering newspaper photos and retouching. Helen replies reproductions smooth aging lines and suggests asking who did the retouching. A separate note recalls a frog prank in a high school coffee pot. mother suspects the writer’s brother.
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Helen
Snoopy
Charlie
Night Falls on the City and Other 1960s Fiction Highlights
The June fiction slate includes Night Falls on the City and A Place in the Country plus Victoria Holt’s Australian romance The Shadow of the Lynx from Doubleday. Pierre Salinger's On Instructions of My Government from Doubleday is billed as a missile crisis suspense tale.
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Australia
Victoria Holt
Doubleday
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Farrar, Straus
Pierre Salinger
Kennedy
Tracor Secures Navy Contract for Chaff Dispensers
Tracor Inc will manufacture chaff dispenser systems for Navy airplanes under a $16,966 contract to be completed in 14 months.W D Schutt the vice president and general manager said the work will be done at the Austin plants as part of U S defense efforts.
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Austin
Ap) Tracor, Inc
U. S. Navy
Navy
W.D. Schutt
Tracor
Schutt
Moody Foundation grants fund LBJ Library conferences
A 1.25 million grant from the Moody Foundation of Galveston will finance two Moody public affairs conferences jointly sponsored by the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. The funds also cover three lectures and six Moody fellowships annually, with payments of 250000 each year.
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LBJ
Moody Foundation
Moody
Market Up On Glasses
In Dallas AP reports that Texas license gains for mixed drinks boost cocktail and hard liquor glass sales. Glass purchases rose 30 to 50 percent after licenses began, with wholesale merchants cautioning a longer rush. J R Pat Patterson of Huey and Philip Co predicts heavy demand, while Libby Glassware’s E Jeffrey Shields notes glassware ease of use raises profitability and that bars may need at least 708 glasses each.
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Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission
J. R
Pat’’ Patterson
Huey and Philip Co
E. Jeffrey Shields
Libby Glassware
Shields
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