President Johnson’s Easter Seals fundraiser with Alan Nagao scene
President Johnson kicks off the 1966 Easter Seals campaign with Alan Nagao a 4 year old Hawaiian boy who has an artificial leg and comedian Jimmy Durante. Nagao sang Old MacDonald for the President and presented a donation on behalf of about 200000 disabled people aided by the Easter Seal Society. Durante serves as national fund drive chairman.
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Alan Nagao
Jimmy Durante
MacDonald
Alan
Easter Seal Society
Durante
Thomas
Norman Thomas
United States
C. W. Post College
Brockville
N. Y
Viet Nam
Pittsburgh
Julian Broughton
Vladimir Komarov
Ling Wittman-Komarov
Weissenburg
Germany
Russia
Munich
Komarov
Mittgeschaur
Caspian Sea
Iilins
Vladimir
Sheila Moran
Nassau Tan
Princeton
N. J
Elmer Stout
Nassau Inn
William G. Boehm
Innmanger
Boehm
Miss Moran
Statehouse
Star-Ledger
Newark
Snina
Students Launch Boston Crimson Amid Newspaper Strike
Cambridge Mass Harvard students publish the Boston Crimson edition to cover local news during a Boston newspaper strike. About 20 students work as reporters covering City Hall State House and police with co editor Donald Graham stating the effort serves the community. Linda G McVeigh Radcliffe junior helps with writing as the first female editor this year. Proceeds go to charity and the paper sells for 10 cents.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Harvard Crimson
Spet Crimson
Boston
Boston Crimson
City Hall
State House
Police
Donald Graham
Linda G. McVeigh
Radcliffe
Simulated Flights Prepare Gemini 8 for Rendezvous
CAPE KENNEDY UPS reports a simulated countdown and flight tests of the Gemini 8 craft and Titan 2 rocket to validate ground and flight systems for a three day rendezvous and spacewalk mission. NASA engineers paced the 7500 pound capsule through electronic simulations and a nightlong test to ready for final launch steps. Astronauts Armstrong and Scott, in their suits for parts of the test, planned to join the afternoon sessions without suits as the exercise progressed.
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UPS
Titan
Astro
Neil Armstrong
David Scott
Armstrong
Scott
Fragmentary text from historical page
Readable fragment mentions individuals and places in a sparse record. Not enough context to define a clear event or outcome. The item lacks a complete sentence structure and identifiable actions.
Shriver Ends Poor Elections Funding Move
Washington reports that the Office of Economic Opportunity will lose federal funding for elections among the poor to select antipoverty board members. Shriver cited low turnouts in Cleveland Kansas City Philadelphia Los Angeles and Chester as reasons. Subcommittee chair Adam Clayton Powell questioned the role of poor residents in antipoverty programs and urged a complete report. Labor Secretary W Willard Wirtz discussed a five year unemployment plan tied to postwar economic adjustments and noted potential jobs in construction and slum clearance.
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UPI
Sargent
Congress
Shriver
House
Cleveland
Kansas City
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
Chester
Subcommittee
Adam Clayton Powell
D-N-Y
W. Willard Wirtz
Wirtz
Communist barred by North Carolina U. speaks to students
CHAPEL HILL North Carolina. Communist Herbert Aptheker, barred from the campus, was threatened with arrest by police but spoke to about 2,000 students on a sidewalk while a Moscow University professor, Vladimir Alexandrov, agreed to speak at Indiana University. Student groups plan legal action challenging the state's speaker ban law.
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N.C
Herbert Aptheker
University of North Carolina
Aptheker
Institute of Marxist Studies
New York City
Vladimir Alexandrov
University of Indiana
Gordon Cleveland
North Carolina
Hope Raised for End of Paper Strike in Boston
Indications that publishers and two striking unions may settle differences raise hope that the five day Boston newspaper shutdown could end. Mediators held a 90 minute closed door session with both sides, the first joint meeting since the strike began. A joint statement noted flexibility but said talks needed more time to evaluate positions. The strike idles about 4,500 workers at the Globe, Herald, Traveler, and Record American. the Christian Science Monitor is unaffected.
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Maiders
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Evening Globe
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Morning Herald
Evening Traveler
Record American
Christian Science Monitor
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