Prison escape attempt foiled near Jackson Ga inmate Krist
Prison officials in Jackson Ga stop an escape by Gary Steven Krist 27 a life term kidnapper of Barbara Mackle after he rode a trash truck from the Georgia Diagnostic Classification Center guards track the truck to a nearby dump area and recapture him. Krist and accomplice Ruth Eiseman Schier were convicted in a $500000 kidnapping plot. Eiseman Schier has been released and deported to Honduras.
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Jackson
Gary Steven Krist
Barbara Jane Mackle
Krist
Georgia Diagnostic Classification Center
Dumbp
Emory University
Housewife held for Nazi war crimes
Mrs. Hermine Ryan 52, an Austrian-born housewife, faces extradition to West Germany on murder charges for allegedly sending inmates to their deaths at Majdanek in 1943. U.S. Judge Jacob Mishler indicated bail would be granted only under the most unusual circumstances, citing international law.
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Jacob Mishler
U.S
New York
Hermine Ryan
Mishler
West Germany
Poland
Robert A. Morse
Majdanek
Ryan
Braunsteiner
Czeslaw Pilichowski
Commission For
Embezzler at Union Dime Bank Accused of Big Wagering Scheme
Manhattan bank supervisor Roswell Steffen allegedly embezzled over 1.5 million dollars to bet on horses and basketball by manipulating the bank computer at the 300 Park Avenue branch. Dist. Atty. Frank Hogan said Steffen used the system to shuffle accounts and feed false up to date data. A banker from the American Bankers Association called the scheme remarkable and unusually large for a savings bank.
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Manhattan
N.Y
Dist. Atty
Frank
Hogan
Roswell Steffen
300 Park Avenue
Union Dime Savings Bank
Steffen
Union Dime
Protection Committee
American Bankers Association
Gerald J. Vandorn
Chase Manhattan Bank
Princeton woman meets tenth president at White House
90 year old Princeton, New Jersey widow Mrs Bruce Bedford recalls meeting ten presidents from Harrison to Nixon. Nixon lauds her as the most well connected living American, recounting a tour of the Oval Office and a moment in the President's chair. Bedford, who has mingled with presidents since youth, jokes about future meetings.
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Washington
Bruce Bedford
Richard Nixon
White House
Nixon
Princeton, Nat
Benjamin Harrison
Oval Office
Bedford
Trenton
N.J
Harrison
Adirondacks
Rock Creek Park
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Tall
McKinley
Wilson
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
Lyndon B. Johnson
New Jersey
Retired miner bids for Tony Boyle Cadillac auctioned by union
William Barnes 70 of Luzerne Pennsylvania, a former miner with black lung, bid $2,500 for Tony Boyle’s Cadillac used by UMW leaders. He argues miners deserve better pensions and spotlight the union’s expense rich lifestyle, recalling wage declines from $1.22 a day to about $27 daily. The car, with backseat bar and tape recorder, was put up by Arnold Miller as three bidders Paul Bosak Jr. and Arthur L. Hensley also offered. Barnes expects a Washington drawing to decide the winner.
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United Mine Workers
W. A
Tony" Boyle
William Barnes
Luzerne
Pennsylvania
Barnes
Adlilive
Arnold Miller
Paul Bosak JR
Tarentum
Arthur L. Hensley
Longmont
Colo
Washington, D.C
Senator Proxmire hair tax writeoff shocks readers
Senator William Proxmire disclosed he will pay an extra 100 in federal and state taxes after revealing in the Congressional Record that he deducted 2258 for a hair transplant operation. The disclosure centers on his tax return and the public reaction to deducting medical cosmetic costs.
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William Proxmure
Davis
Prosmire Mare
Popitone Nomination to Selective Service Approved
The nomination of Hyrun V. Popitone to be director of the Selective Service System was approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee and moves to the Senate floor for full consideration.
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Waitington
Hyrun V. Popitone
Senate Armed Services Committee
Senate
Panamanian leader warned Scali of violence over veto
U S officials say Panamanian General Omar Torrijos threatened U S ambassador John Scali with physical harm if the United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on the Panama Canal. Scali reported the threat to Secretary of State Rogers and the veto followed after Torrijos urged a different location for casting the vote.
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Washington
U.S. Ambassado
John Seali
Omar Torrijos
United States
U.N. Security Council
Panama Canal
Seali
Torrijos
Scali
Torrijos Hat
Panama
Panama Canal Zone
U.N
William P. Rogers
U.S
Canal Zone
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Boyle
Panama City
Security Council
John Lennon
Yoko Ono
Immigration and Naturalization Service
England
Yoko
Vanity Fair
Antron
Dalman
Lakewood
Patty Woodard
Saturdau
Coltegienne
Baor
Mandy
Pat
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