Norman Mailer hints at Fifth Estate at golden birthday party
Norman Mailer, 50, announced plans for a project called The Fifth Estate to fund and organize investigations into the FBI and CIA at a New York Four Seasons party for about 600 guests. Attendees included Bernardo Bertolucci, Eugene McCarthy, Peter Maas, Jimmy Breslin, and Andy Warhol, with speculation about alimony, Jackie Onassis, and a potential book by Mailer.
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Norman Mailer
Fifth Estate’ 9 Foundation
FBI
CIA
New York
Four Seasons
Bernardo Bertolucci
Paris
Eugene McCarthy
D-Minn
Peter Maas
Valachi
Jimmy Breslin
Cowse
Mailer
Arthur Schlesinger
Robin Moore
Las Vegas
Norman
Jackie
Onassis
Murray Kempton
Andy Warhol
Byrne Knocks Reshevsky In Chicago To Lead Chess Playoff
Samuel Reshevsky blundered on the final moves and lost the third game of the U.S. Chess Championship playoffs to Robert Byrne in Chicago. Byrne also drew with Lubomir Kavalek, giving him the lead in the six game tourney as Kavalek and Reshevsky resume today after an adjournment Saturday.
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Samuel Reshevsky
Robert Byrne
Chicago
Lubomir Kavalek
Byrne
Frankfurt war crimes verdicts fastened on Nazi police six
Six former Nazi police officers were sentenced in Frankfurt to prison terms from 2 to 18 years for aiding in the murder of about 30,000 Russian and Polish Jews during World War II. Five belonged to a police battalion that rounded up Jews in 1942 ghettos and led them to mass executions. Adolph Petsch received 15 years. The trial ran 14 months and may be West Germanys last large war crimes case.
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Pinsk
Stalin
Adolph Petsch
Waffen SS
West Germany
Walter-Heinrich Gross
Heinrich Plantius
Heinz-Dieter Teltz
Rudolf Eckert
Johann Buhr
Paralyzed San Francisco boy wins record $4 million verdict
Kelley Niles, 11, son of radio announcer Dave Niles, was awarded $4,025,000 for brain damage suffered in a 1970 playground fight. The jury found Mt Zion Hospital and Dr Haskin liable for $4 million and $25,000 from San Rafael authorities. Kelley, IQ 140, remains able-minded but paralyzed from neck down, uses eye movements to communicate.
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San Francisco
UPI
U.S
Kelley Niles
Dave Niles
Kelley
Bruce Walkup
City of
San Rafael
Mt. Zioo Hospital
Toom
David Haskin
Walkup
Mt. Zion Hospital
Haskin
FTC orders credit card firm to stop false protection claim
The Federal Trade Commission ordered Credit Card Service Corp of Alexandria Virginia to halt claiming it will shield customers from large charges after card loss. The FTC notes laws cap liability at 30 dollars if loss is not reported timely and conditions are met.
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Washington
UPC
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Credit Card Service Corp
Alexandria
POW prisoners to gain back pay and daily $5 in Southeast Asia
Washington notes that hundreds of U S service members listed by North Vietnam as prisoners may collect up to 100000 in back pay plus 5 a day for time in captivity. Air Force records show many accounts exceeding 20000 with 10 percent deducted for spouses. Estates may receive funds for deceased, while missing personnel’ accounts grow as they are located or declared dead.
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Washington
Southeast Asia
U. S
Les
Air Force
Pentagon
U.S
Kin of POW believed dead may have to repay insurance
Ronald L. Ridgeway, listed as killed in Vietnam, returned as a living prisoner of war. The VA may seek repayment of 10 000 in government life insurance paid to his divorced parents, who each received 5 000 in 1968. A VA spokesman said a compassionate decision will be made, based on hardship, on whether the debt is pursued.
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Mildred Ridgeway
Ridgeway
Bank seeks LBJ will payout to Sam Johnson
A Washington bank filed suit in U S district court claiming Lyndon B Johnson willed $5,000 to his younger brother Sam Houston Johnson and that Lady Bird Johnson as executor should not distribute the money. The bank says Sam Houston Johnson borrowed $10,000 in 1968 and only seven payments were made before 1969.
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UPI
Lyndon B. Johnson
Sam Houston Johnson
Washington
Riggs National Bank of
D.C
Lady Bird Johnson
Johnson
Rebekah Bobbitt
Austin
Lucia Alexander
Fort Worth
Johnsons
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