28 Dec 1972
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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1972
Page
1
Paul Petzoldt, 65, will live in a snow cave on Grand Teton's 13766 foot summit hoping for an eighth ascent with National Outdoor Leadership School graduates. He aims for New Year's Eve or Day, pausing climbs for a few years if successful.
Pte Richard Zarko and Pvt Bernard Winger staged a six hour roof-in on a three story Schofield Barracks building near Wonolahy to protest Army life. They disregarded a morning command and formation. They were persuaded down by 4 p.m. and face action by their battalion commander.
In a Gallup Poll released Wednesday President Richard Nixon led the field as the most admired man, ahead of Rev. Billy Graham and former President Harry Truman who died Tuesday but was alive when the survey was taken on December 1. Nixon widened his margin over past years as Graham remained second. Truman has ranked among the top 10 in 22 of 27 surveys since 1940. Henry Kissinger, Edward Kennedy, George Wallace, Spiro Agnew, Pope Paul VI, Mrs. McGovern, and Willy Brandt also ranked highly.
Marge Champion filed for divorce from her husband of 24 years in Santa Monica Superior Court citing irreconcilable differences. The Champions, once the top dance team in America, announced an amicable separation with a property settlement in progress. Champion will have custody of sons Gregg 16 and Blake 10. They rose to fame in show business before Champion retired in 1961 and both pursued choreography.
About 30 000 people queued for hours to glimpse the flag draped coffin of President Harry S Truman at the Truman Library in Independence Missouri. Visitors spoke of the honoring, while wreaths from Nixon and Queen Elizabeth II rested by the casket as funeral preparations began.
Former Canadian prime minister Lester Bowles Pearson, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and longtime diplomat, died at his Ottawa home. A state funeral is planned at Christ Church Cathedral with burial at Wakefield Quebec. Pearson, who led Canada 1963 68, shaped welfare policy and the flag era before retiring to write memoirs.
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