Cadet Dodds to graduate with fate uncertain in law path
Air Force Academy cadet John Bruce Dodds graduates amid plans for law school after cancer cost him a leg. Despite 2.94 GPA in political science and history, his future remains undecided as Congress intervened to allow him to finish his studies.
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Dodds
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D-Wyo
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Teno Roncalio
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Sacademy
Richard Boyle
Secretary of the
Air Force
Vacaville
Calif
Warren Afb
Cheyenne
Ford jokes on spotting talent at West Point
President Ford told West Point graduates and Army coach Homer Smith that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. He recounted a White House encounter with Raquel Welch and Army captain Robert Johnson, a cancer patient, joking that a coach prefers a 6-foot-5, 260-pound player with no front teeth. Army finished last season with three wins and eight losses.
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N.Y
Raquel Welch
Ford
Army
Homer Smith
Smith
Robert Johnson
White House
American Cancer Society
Raquel
Welch
Homer
Film figures eyed for aiding Weather Underground
San Francisco Chronicle reports a secret Los Angeles grand jury may indict a group of film makers actors and actresses for financially aiding the Weather Underground. The group reportedly includes minor actors not celebrity stature and indictments could come within two weeks. Timothy Leary is said to have testified as a witness.
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UPI
Los Angeles
San Francisco Chronicle
Newscaper
Hollywood
New York
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Chronicle
Weather Underground
California
U. S
William Keller
Timothy Leary
Three U.S. Newsmen Ordered Out of Viet Nam
The Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam ordered three American correspondents to leave within 48 hours. Paul Vogie and Chad Huntley of United Press International and AP bureau chief George Esper were expelled to reduce foreign press presence. Vogle, fluent in Vietnamese, had asked for time to attend to personal matters but was denied.
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Saigon
UPI
South Vietnam
Paul Vogie
Chad Huntley
United Press International
Associated Press
George Esper
PRG
Vientiane
Vietnam
Vogle
Matt Franjola
Death penalty sought for Halloween cyanide slayer
HOUSTON UPI. Prosecutors seek the electric chair for Ronald Clark O Bryan who killed his 8 year old son Timothy with cyanide laced Halloween candy to collect a $31,000 life insurance. A 1 man two woman jury deliberated 46 minutes and the prosecutor urged death as the only verdict other than life imprisonment for the capital murder conviction.
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O'Bryan
Hinton
Og O'Bryan
Elizabeth Lane
Timothy
Atty
Vic Driscoli
Driscoll
Jury sentences Kleasen to death for Mormon murder
Robert Elmer Kleasen, who vowed to kill over a grudge against the Mormon Church, is sentenced to die in the electric chair for the dismemberment and murder of Mark Fischer and Gary Darley. A seven to two jury reached the verdict in two minutes after Fischer, 19, and Darley disappeared following plans to dine with Kleasen.
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Tex
UPI
Robert Elmer Kleasen
Kleasen
Mark Fischer
Milwaukee
Wis
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