Pere LaChaise a lively tour of Paris grand mausoleums
A vivid travelogue describes Pere LaChaise on a hill above Paris as a bustling cemetery with ornate mausoleums. It notes famed burials including Bizet Chopin Oscar Wilde and Edith Piaf while detailing maps guards cats and roaming workers amid statues and visitors.
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Paris
Pere LaChaise
France
Bizet
Chopin
Sarah Berchhardt
Oscar Wilde
Balzac
Colette
Edith Piaf
Washington California Hippies Challenge Gold Rush Town
In Washington California the small hamlet of 150 residents frets over hippie arrivals drawn by local beauty and gold history. Stores report theft and disorder while residents push for private property controls and wary vibes persist amid tourism and welfare concerns.
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Washington
Calif
Yuba
Highway 20
Nevada City
Mother Nature
Paradise
Main Street
Douglas Ribble
River Rest
Ribble
Grandchilds role in society highlighted by UW researcher
Dr. Vivian Wood of the University of Wisconsin School of Social Work concludes that grandchildren provide pride and comfort to grandparents. Based on studies of 257 grandparents, she notes the importance of grandparents in poor families and during crises.
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Houston
Wisconsin
Vivian Wood
School of Social Work
University of Wisconsin
Bullet doesn't hurt soldier
A 28 year old Air Force navigator who was shot in 1969 during a holdup in Southeast Asia still carries a bullet in his heart. Doctors in 1970 decided against removal as he remained healthy and on active duty, with the Aeromedical Consultation Service noting many such cases return to flying status. Grandparents’ roles are shown to be advisory and limited in most family life, with grandparents often babysitting and guiding children during infrequent contacts.
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Nevada City
Ribble
River Rest
Nevada County
Washington
San Antonio
Air Force
Southeast Asia
Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine
The
Aeromedical Consultation Service
American Gerontological Society
Wood
Barbs by Phil Pastoret and a Farm Machinery Record
The column notes a joke about haste and a secretaryly retelling of events. It reports that British exports of farm machinery in the first six months of 1971 reached a record 312 million dollars at official parity, up 19.2 million from 1970.
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London
Agricultural Engineers Association
Dallas officer Stafford rises to department director
Donald S. Stafford, 30, an undercover narcotics agent turned Dallas Police Department director, oversees 219 officers in the southeast patrol area. After 11 years on the force, he began in undercover work, aided by a Butler College degree, and earned two civilian citations for outstanding work.
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Dallas
Air Force
Donald S. Stafford
Stafford
Butler College
Worth Hotel Secures Two-Year Lease for Renewal
The Worth Hotel in Fort Worth, a 260 room landmark since 1927, signed a two year management contract with Neal Hospers. Hospers has operated the property since 1967 under lease from the Fort Worth Foundation, with the hotel reportedly in the black for the first half of this year. Notable guests have included Billy Rose Bob Hope Sally Rand Ray Charles Guy Lombardo and the Apollo 12 crew. The University of Oklahoma football team has used the Worth as a pregame stop ahead of its Dallas showdown with Texas.
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Fort Worth
Worth
Neal Hospers
Fort Worth Foundation
Hospers
Jesse Jones Foundation of
Houston
Downtown Association of Fort Worth
The
Chamber of Commerce
Billy Rose
Bob Hope
Sally Rand
Ray Charles
Guy Lombardo
University of Oklahoma
Sooners
Dallas
Jail's crowded conditions irritate Travis inmates
Austin AP report shows Travis County jail overcrowding and tank incomparability leading Dr. Kurt Lekisch to warn that substantial quantities of anti-anxiety medications are prescribed to prisoners. He cites boredom and crowding as factors fueling the issue. The note adds that coin-operated gas meters appeared in U.S. cities in the 1880s.
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Austin, Tex
Travis County
Kurt Lekisch
Lekisch
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Roy Brown
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