Johnson jelly beans delight schoolchildren near LBJ ranch
Readership cheers as letters and cards pour into Brooke General Hospital for former President Lyndon B. Johnson who is recovering from a heart attack. Children from the Stonewall kindergarten Johnson helped found express good will with jelly bean notes while spouses of Apollo 16 crew members react to the moon mission. The piece also notes Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s death by suicide in Kamakura, Japan, and surrounding details.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
John Son
Army
Brooke General Hospital
San Antonio
Johnson
Stonewall
Tex
LBJ
Janet Smith
Mattingly
Dottie Duke
Florida
Duke
Charles
Tom
Bolt
Yasunari Kawabata
Kawabata
Kamakura
Tokyo
Fiouay
Agnew urges voluntary food price cuts by supermarket executives
Vice President Agnew calls for voluntary price reductions to curb inflation in a prepared speech to the Supermarket Institute. He praises farmers and grocers yet argues restraints are insufficient and warns of government action if prices keep rising, urging executives to act to protect customer goodwill.
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Agnew
Supermarket Institute
U.S
Pandas at National Zoo Receive Names Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling
Two giant pandas from China at the National Zoo are named Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling. White House press secretary Constance Stuart announced the names with First Lady Pat Nixon planned to welcome them later. The pandas, about a year and a half old, are gifts from Communist China and were placed in air conditioned seclusion upon arrival.
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Washington Wi
China
National Zoo
Iaetiane
Ling-Ling
White House
Constance Stuart
Pat Nixon
Bus Crash On Turnpike Kills Four, Injures Forty Five
A Continental Trailways charter bus carrying Present Day Baptist Church members from Cleveland to Philadelphia plunged off a Pennsylvania Turnpike embankment after skidding on wet pavement. Four people died, 45 were hurt, including a 2 year old girl whose body was recovered. Driver Joseph Pagano, 26, of Pittsburgh, said he braked after a Greyhound warned of danger.
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Continental Trailways
Baptist Church of Cleveland
Philadelphia
Lice
Carter
Kathleen Askew
Here
Joseph W. Pagano
Pittsburgh
Greyhound
Reagan says he paid taxes in 1971 and 1970s
Sacramento UPI Ronald Reagan says he paid both state and federal income taxes for 1971 and that taxes hurt him. He disclosed he paid income tax to cover business reverses on investments while declining to reveal exact amounts. Democrats call him hypocritical for not paying state tax last year and accuse him of double standards.
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Sacramento
UPI
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Senate
George Moscone
Law
Francisco
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America
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Mrs. Duke
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Charles Duke
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Casper
Yasunarl Kawabata
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Pegano
AP Wirvehote
GUV
Bullock’s
Lakewood
Polyeseer
la Pasada
Arnel
la Pasads
Bullock's Lakewood
Browl
Sana Ee
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