22 Apr 1968
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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1968
Page
1
An audience of 200 watched a church staged skit in Toronto that depicted a rape. A family on stage reacted with nonchalance as a girl is assaulted while the audience laughed, perplexing playwright Dane Gordon of Rochester New York who noted real guffaws at shocking moments.
Sarah Churchill, 53, daughter of Britain's wartime prime minister, was fined $4.80 in London after pleading guilty to being drunk and disorderly outside a pub in South Eaton Place Belgravia. Police Constable Robert Brown saw her trying to gain entry and she argued about Vietnam. no further details were given.
Irish bartender Mike Meaney emerged after 61 days buried in a London grave claiming a record. Supporters exhumed him as girl pipers danced and he was paraded to the pub where he works for a kiss from Diana Dors and a medical checkup amid thousands of onlookers.
Patricia Haverland of Charleston West Virginia 38 rests in a well furnished coffin 7 feet long 3 feet deep with a television set as she aims to set a record for staying underground. AP reports Kr¢piala Meaney buried one foot underground with air supplied through a steel pipe and planning to fulfill seal related engagements for the next weeks before returning to Tipperary to reunite with his wife.
Rudolph Dirks, famed for Katzenjammer Kids and dubbed dean of American cartoonists, died in New York at age 91. He created Hans and Fritz in 1897, leading to the long running strip later renamed The Captain and the Kids amid WWI sentiment. Dirks and his son John continued syndication of the strip.
Marine Maj. Con. Wood B. Kyle, a 1938 Texas A&M graduate and former II Marine Division commander, told 5,500 attendees at Aggie Muster in College Station that U S forces fight in Vietnam to stop the spread of communism. He urged respect for dissent rights, defended the war as legal, and criticized parts of the media for undermining the government.
The AFL CIO Communications Workers defied court orders amid a nationwide strike involving nearly 200000 union members in about 40 states. CWA President Beirne called injunctions by Southern Bell and AT&T anti union and said they derail quick settlement. AT&T said service remains largely steady as tensions rise with reports of cable cuts and damaged booths and alleged supervisor intimidation at picket lines.
Kenneth Michael Dunning of King Harbor Redondo Beach marked his first birthday after a dramatic rescue when he toppled from a finger pier in a stroller into water twenty feet deep. Father Larry Dunning aided by bystanders pulled Mikie from the bottom while Harbor Patrol Fireman Tony DiMaggio delivered mouth to mouth resuscitation and escrowed oxygen support followed by hospital revival efforts.
The 1968 Tony Awards honored Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Hallelujah Baby with top prizes as Broadway's stars, producers, and designers received awards in a televised ceremony from the Shubert Theatre.
Buffalo Bishop James A. Pike said he advised up to 10,000 young men to resist the draft and invited indictment as a fellow conspirator with Dr. Spock and Mr. Coffin. He spoke at Trinity Episcopal Church amid federal charges against Spock Coffin and two others for advising draft evasion.
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