Gag in News: Teen Escape Artist Sparks Bay Feat
Geoffrey Hanson of Orinda, 48, chained with 48 pounds of chains and padlocks leapt from a cruiser into San Francisco Bay's 48 degree water, then surfaced freed after 20 seconds as about 2,000 onlookers watched. Sheriff’s deputies had fastened the chains 65 years after Houdini.
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San Francisco Bay
Harry Houdini
Geoffrey Hanson
Orinda
Noudini
Sheriff's Deputies
Manson
Civil rights figures Bayard Rustin and Mahalia Jackson noted in arrest and estate reports
Bayard Rustin, 59, director of the U A Philip Randolph Institute, was arrested in New York for carrying a concealed sword in a cane, a felony given his record. Mahalia Jackson’s estate is put at about 1 million with real estate and cash assets and stock holdings linked to Mahalia Jackson Products. Pearl Bailey wins the American Pearl Association Heart of the Year award. Carl Ross’s ashes spread off Flamingo Beach after his death aged 73. the epitaph notes his moonshine venture and fishing life amid Flamingo’s Everglades.
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Bayard Rustin
U. A. Philip Randolph Institute
New York City
Rustin
West 42Nd Street
Criminal Court
Irving Lang
Austin
Rusti
The
Institute
War Resisters League
North Carolina
Hioss
Flamingo Deep
Everglades National Park
Flamingo
Bald Hagle
Sandy Key
Draft lottery to sequence 1953 births set for next year
Selective Service officials prepared 730 plastic capsules to assign draft order for about 2 million men born in 1953. The 365 day numbers and 365 sequence numbers will pair to reveal draft order, with first picks eligible for 1953 birthdates barring deferments or failed exams. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird said no draft calls before April 1 as the all volunteer aim grows.
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Washington
UPI
Selective Service
Defense
Melvin Laird
Laird
New panel for trial of Berrigan
A fresh panel of 42 men and women was summoned in Harrisburg for the conspiracy trial of antiwar priest Philip Berrigan and six others. Thirty-eight were excused in under 20 minutes, with 27 already holding opinions on the defendants' guilt. The second week of jury selection began, as only 44 of the original 175 remain available, many to be questioned individually by opposing counsel.
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Harrisburg
Philip Berrigan
Henry Kissinger
Washington, D.C
Selective Service
Fragmented 3972 press text yields uncertain item
A scrambled OCR snippet from PRESS-TELEGRAM dated Monday January 3 3972 presents unreadable lines and stray names. Readable fragments mention a location Peary and a code 25959 but lack coherent facts or events to summarize into a proper news item.
Tulsa Klan members interrupt Hair stage show
Four men including the Oklahoma Ku Klux Klan grand dragon disrupted a Tulsa rock musical performance of Hair during the nude scene. They attempted a citizens arrest, carried a tape recorder to gather evidence of profanity, and detained a nude cast member before city officials and police, provoking boos from the audience.
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Tulsa
Okla
UPI
Fou
Lloyd French
Donald Burris
Richard Robinett
Charles Baker
Baker
Debbie Ortega
Redwood City
Calif
Burris
Jaybirds
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Chauncey Eskridge
Miss Jackson
Chicaga Law Firm
McCoy
Eskridge
Willinon
California
Chicago
Asteridge
Mahalia Jackson Products
Mahalia Jackson Chicken System, Inc
Mskridge
Pearl Bailey
American Pearl Association
Trass Reid
Association
Miss Bailey
Bailey
St. Louis
Everglades
Carl Ross
Paradise
Robert Koch
Lena Kleine
Bavaria
Grassau
Koch
Val
Congress
Army
All Volunteer Army
Pentagon
GL Monte
Jewish Defense League
Nazi Party
League
Defense League
Star Troop 5
National Socialist White People’s Party
Joel Tommasi
Los Angeles
Orange County
Corcoran Gallery of Art
EL Monte
Berrigan
Press-Telegram
Ho. Ie
Lona
Bullock's Lakewood
Jack Morgan
Scheer
Morgatsz
Sherwyn Coats
la Pasada
Lakewood
Clark Avenue
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