Mayor trims Los Angeles film over rain joke
City Los Angeles cut a segment from a $50,000 promotional film after a line joked about how little it rains. The change came as storms dumped over 24 inches in two months, with the 23 minute color movie shown Tuesday omitting the remark. Former President Truman left Kansas City Hospital for Independence home amid health tests and family departures. A Santa Ana man charged with desertion in Vietnam argues AWOL fits the case, while a hijacking over Cuba ends with passengers safe in Miami after the gun was hidden in a safari jacket.
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Notes from Sirhan reveal plots against President and RFK death
Writings from notebooks and a diary by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, the RFK assassin, show he sought the overthrow of the U S president and the president's death. The judge ruled two pages inflammatory and kept them from the jury and press. The pages urged revolution, praised communism, and called for Kennedy's assassination with obsessive intent.
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Rice University President Resigns Amid Campus Protests
Dr. William Masterson, named Rice University president, bowed to demonstrators and resigned before taking the post. About 1,000 of 3,000 students and 200 faculty gathered in Houston to protest the trustees’ selection without consulting the student faculty committee. Masterson, 54, said accepting the post would create dissension and will remain at the University of Chattanooga in Tennessee.
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Record January price rise in Los Angeles area
Consumer prices in the Long Beach Los Angeles metropolitan region rose four tenths of a percent in January to an all time high. Gasoline led the gain accounting for more than 85 percent of the increase with higher costs also seen in food housing and medical care. Declines in apparel offered limited offset to the broad rise.
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Ex-Officer Receives Death Sentence in Double Indemnity Slayings
In Los Angeles a seven member jury condemned former patrolman Paul Perveler to death for the December 1966 double murder of Marlin Cromwell and Cheryl Perveler and the girlfriend Kristina Cromwell to life in prison. The cases involved a plan to collect life-insurance proceeds in the killings tied to a girlfriend. The trial also touched on related transportation and price details from the era.
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Las Vegas Trio Paid for A Test Damages
Three Las Vegas residents received 575 dollars for damages to their homes from an underground nuclear test near the Nevada Los site. The Atomic Energy Commission reported investigators found it credible that the explosion could have caused the damage and paid the claims on Tuesday.
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Nixon's Conduct Draws Praise of Britain's Press
London reports say Nixon has won surprising approval from British papers during his European tour. Analysts note a calmer, more personable president, with newspapers praising his deliberate handling of duties and contrasting it with past scrutiny.
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