Clown Rob Fights ALS Heads to Denver Convention
Rob Wandschneider, a Badger High School student and member of Cousin Otos Clown Alley No 22, travels with fellow clowns to the Clowns of America national convention in Denver. Despite ALS crippling his mobility and speech, he remains optimistic and helps raise nearly 1000 for the trip, entertaining children at hospitals and nursing homes.
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Lake Geneva
Wis
Kob Wandschneider
Lou Gehrig
Rob
Denver
Otto
Clown Alley No
Badger High School
Madison General Hospital
Dad names Cher in 4 million suit in privacy claim
Cher Bono and two magazines are sued by her father John Sarkisian in a 4 million privacy action. He cites Time March 17 and People Weekly February 10 articles portraying Cher’s past as compulsive gambling and heroin use and his current virtuous life as mischaracterized.
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Los Angeles
Cher Bono
John Sarkisian
Sarkisiani
People Weekly Magazine
Cher
Kidnap Victim Free After 205 Days in Sicily
PALERMO Sicily kidnapers freed FRAN CESCO MADONIA nephew of a wealthy landowner after a record 25 day captivity. His grandfather said the youth had been tortured. Madonia a 23 year old was abducted on a country road last Sept 8. Family would not say if ransom was paid or how much. Original demand reported at 33.2 million. Grandfather GIUSEPPE GARDA said he has returned but will never recover and that there were people capable of torturing a young man.
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Palermg
Sicily
Francesco Madonia
Medonia
Madonna
Giuseppe Garda
Indignant man rescued from garbage truck in Cincinnati
An elderly man, indignant at awakening, fled police and rescue workers after being found inside a supermarket trash bin. Cecil Nutter Jr., the truck driver, thanked bystanders as workers pulled the man from the back of the truck before the lift dumped him. The man refused to give his name.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Cecil Nutter JR
Nutter
Rosalind Russell Hospitalized With Pneumonia in Los Angeles
Cedar Sinai Medical Center spokesman reports actress Rosalind Russell is hospitalized with pneumonia in Los Angeles and her condition is stable. Russell, married to producer Frederick Brisson, was admitted last Wednesday after a fall in Beverly Hills.
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Los Angeles
Rosalind Russell
Cedar Sinai Medical Center
Miss Russell
Frederick Brisson
Beverly Hills
Ira Gershwin
Gershwin
George Gershwin
Weta
Connally Denies Milkmoney Bribe Conspiracy Defense Ends
Former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally testified in his own defense denying any conspiracy with milk lobbyist Jake Jacobsen to cover a bribe. He rejected five separate allegations of cash payments and said a $10,000 sum wrapped in a newspaper never occurred, noting corroboration gaps with witness George Christian.
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Washington
UPI
Treasury
John B. Connally
Jake Jacobsen
Jacobsen
Renalhy Te Havid
Richard M. Nixon
Watergate
Edward Bennett Williams
Texas
Grand Jury
Watergate Committee
Williams
George Christian
Lynd 8. Johnson
Defendant challenges grand jury selection in Little case
Attorneys for Joanne Little claim racial and economic prejudice in the Beaufort County grand jury that indicted the black defendant for the ice pick murder of a white jailer. Defense expert argues tax and voting rolls biased against the poor, with public housing residents excluded from jury pools.
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Washington, N.C
UPS
Joanne Little
Miss Litte
Marvin DB. Miller
Donna Cherry
Beaufort County
Miss Little
Miller
William Cochran
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Washington Housing Authority
Washington
Unclear historic newspaper fragment page item
Fragmentary text from a 1975 issue with scattered names and numbers. Key details and context are unreadable, making it impossible to identify the main event, person, or place with certainty.
Mary Ure death ruled accidental from drink and drugs
London coroners court ruled actress Mary Ure died April 3 from a mixture of drink and barbiturate poison. Pathologist Donald Teare said the death was not a massive overdose while husband Robert Shaw testified she had been prescribed barbiturates.
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London
Mary Ure
Miss Ure
Gavin Thurston
Donald Teare
Robert Shaw
Supreme Court orders equal age of majority for men and women
The Supreme Court, in an 8 to 1 decision, struck down Utah's 18 for women and 21 for men rule for eligibility to marry without parental consent, ruling states must set the same age of majority for both sexes and noting Arkansas has a similar law. Justice Blackmun rejected the old notions justifying the gender split.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Utah
Arkansas
Thelma B. Stanton
Harry A. Blachtoun
Blackmun
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