Romnes Named AT&T Chairman in Historic Rise
New York reports Romnes, 59, rising from laborer to chairman of AT&T, succeeding Frederick R. Kappel who reaches retirement age. The son of immigrant Norwegians takes leadership effective February 1, 1987 and had previously served as AT&T president. Kappel earned $304,60 last year while Romnes earned $204,467 in 1965.
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Dallas Girl Becomes Princess in Indian Royal Wedding
Miss Sally Budd of Dallas wed Prince Shivajirao Holkar in Indore as hymn Sanskrit vows marked the royal ceremony. The guest list totaled over 15,000 including Maharanas and nabobs while AT&T executives Romnes and de Butts reshaped leadership and strategy during the event season.
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Hiker Death at Soviet Death Valley in Moonship Rite
Moscow reports two unmanned probes Luna 13 and a Christmas moon rocket poised for Dec 26 orbit. Tass notes Luna 13 will conduct further studies of the moon and its environs. A Russian wedding scene detailed with Indian musicians and regal ceremony follows, framing Sally and Prince Richard as a Hindu lunar couple.
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Kennedy biography drama edges toward out of court settlement
Negotiations continued Tuesday between Look publishers Cowles Communications Harvard Group and Mrs. Kennedy aides to resolve a lawsuit over the book by William Manchester. Attorneys pressed for a privacy and breach of agreement settlement as a four part serialization of the 300,000 word manuscript faced court deadlines.
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After 22 Years Pair Son United
Horst Gedicks, taken prisoner by the Russians in World War I, is reunited with his Seattle family after 22 years. His wife Angelica and seven year old son Wolfgang arrived after visas were granted amid improved U S Soviet relations. The reunion follows years of searching from Bremerton and a letter to Premier Khrushchev.
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Find Body of Hiker on Slope
Searchers found the body of John W. King 27 at the bottom of a snow covered slope in the San Francisco peaks north of Flagstaff Arizona. A forest service snow vehicle brought the body to a road after a fall of several hundred feet. King had been hiking from the Arizona Snow Bowl ridge toward the inner basin when he vanished Monday night. About 100 men including mountain climbers participated in the search and his parents Wendell and Mrs King of Chandler went to the area before the body was found. King had been transferred to Flagstaff from Boulder two weeks earlier by Frontier Airlines. He was a native of Milton Town and had lived four years in Denver.
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Death Valley youth found dead after 1000 foot fall
Tom Trigg a 19 year old Fallbrook hiker fell about 1000 feet on a Panamint Range trail near Tele Peak while descending with Tom Shultz. Search teams from Inyo National Forest and Naval Ordnance Station China Lake scoured the area as authorities confirmed survival was unlikely.
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Powell Aides Faked Air Trips in Wallace Payroll Probe
Washington report states more than 75 air travel arrangements charged to staffers of Representative Adam Clayton Powell’s education and labor committee. House Administration subcommittee chairman Wayne Hays says the hearings may resume on April 28 to question Powell’s estranged wife and payroll concerns. An FBI search is described, with staffer Russell Der Reno among those questioned. a cashier and longtime club manager vanishings are noted, and fears of a kidnapping involving a hotel and car scene are mentioned.
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Russians Sentence Yank to Three Years
The 25 year old Wortham and 24 year old Gilmour were sentenced in a Moscow court after attempting to leave the Soviet Union for Finland with a car believed connected to illegally obtained goods. Wortham faces imprisonment in a labor camp for dangerous crimes with eight hour work days and limited freedoms. Gilmour shares similar confiscations and labor details.
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Reagan Names Meese Aide for Clemency Post
Ronald Reagan announced Edwin Meese Jr. as extradition and executive clemency secretary in the new administration. Meese, 22, Alameda County deputy district attorney since 1959, Yale and UC Law School graduate, will start mid January. He favors capital punishment as crime deterrent and has argued before California and U.S. Supreme Courts. He is married with three children.
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Helmet Contract Awarded for 60 Crewman Helmets
The Defense Personnel Supports Center announced a $1,283,000 contract to Sierra Engineering Co. of Sierra Madre for 15, 60 crewman combat helmets.
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