Durrell tours America and Disneyland fanfare
British author Lawrence Durrell visits the United States for the first time in 56 years and calls Disneyland his favorite discovery. He and Henry Miller plan another trip, with Durrell noting a lack of travel books about America since Dickens. Durrell trips with a camping van and Henry Miller’s wife, who drives a Jaguar at high speed, as he contemplates returning amid lecture and television duties.
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Lawrence Durrell
Disneyland
Anaheim
Henry Miller
New York
Durrell
United States
Henry
America
Rites for Space Heroes Honor Guard in Moscow
In Moscow the top Soviet leaders paid tribute under a gray sky as an honor guard stood over the ashes of Yuri Gagarin and two cosmonauts killed in a MIG trainer crash. Brezhnev Kosygin Podgorny and others observed a silent ceremony before the ashes are placed at the Kremlin Wall.
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Moscow
Russia
Yuri A. Gagarin
Gagatin
Vladimir 5. Seryagin
Comibunist Party
Leonid
Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Hon‘ur
Seryogin
Kremlin
Red Square
Release of three N Vietnam seamen from captivity
Saigon announced the United States returned three captured North Vietnamese seamen to Hanoi after secret talks involving American embassy officials and North Vietnamese representatives. The men, held since 1966, were housed in a prison at Da Nang and questioned before their transfer via Vientiane, Laos, on an ICC plane. They claimed beatings and poor feeding, but they appeared unworn to reporters at the airport.
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UPL
United States
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U.S
Moscow
Johnson
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Laos
International Control Commission
International Red Cross
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Hoang Phui
Vietnam
North Korea Releases Six Crew Letters From Pueblo Crew
North Korea says six more letters from Pueblo crewmen were released claiming the ship was on a spying mission and that US apology and guarantees of no repetition are needed. Letters addressed to parents and officials urge official acknowledgment and a statement from the United States.
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UPI
North Korea
Luday
U.S
Pueblo
United States
Johnson
Daniel J. Evans
Washington
Puebla
Joh Allen Shilling
Mary Shilling
Mantua
Chin
Fearful test marriage for George Plimpton in New York
George Plimpton 40, famed Paris Review editor and author, married Freddy Medora Espy 26 after a party meeting in 1963. The ceremony followed a lunch address by Polk Memorial and featured a literary guest list including Marianne Moore, Terry Southern, Philip Roth, Styron, and Matthiessen. Plimpton compared fear of marriage to past sports highlights.
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New York
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Plimpton
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Paris Review
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John F. Kennedy
Queen Elizabeth II
Ava Gardner
Jane Fonda
Jean Seberg
Miss Expy
George Polk
Yards
Francis J. Plimpton
George
United Nations
Marianne Moore
Terry Southern
Philip Roth
Wiliam Styron
John Phillips
Peter Matthissen
Deaths of Utah Sheep Under National Probe
Officials from the National Communicable Disease Center report scientists are investigating the mysterious death of more than 6,000 sheep in Italy and Utah tissue samples are being prioritized. A CDC team has been in Skull Valley Utah since last weekend to determine the cause, amid ties to reported Army nerve gas tests on March 14.
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National
Communicable Disease Center
Italy
MiNond. Foter
Utah
Disease Center
Skull Valley
Utah Gay
Calvin L. Rampton
Local Notice for Public Court Decree No 370812
The Los Angeles Superior Court announces a public decree in a proceeding noted as Decree No 370812. The document references a formal court action with a March 21, 1924, date and details published in the local Press Telegram along with postal and filing remarks.
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Pine Ave
Long Peneng “Cand Sondke Ratadterten
Br Superior Court
Los Angeles
Assembly OKs Hayes Ban on Secret Meetings
Sacramento Assemblyman James A. Hayes saw his bill barring secret meetings by local government advisory commissions advance to the Senate after a contentious passage. The measure targets bodies exempt from the Brown Act and argues openness serves the public, despite opposition fearing government gridlock and loss of local control.
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Sacramento
James A. Hayes
Assembly
Senate
Hayes
Leo Ryan
San Francisco
Brown
Assembly Government Organization Committee
New York Dockers Back on Job
New York and New Jersey longshoremen returned to work after a one day strike, moving an estimated 500000 tons of cargo in the Port of New York. About 18000 workers were called to the docks to clear cargo backlogs and resume ship departures, with 156 vessels at anchor or pier side when the stoppage ended. Ships carrying military cargo and tankers were exempt, and the strike cost the shipping industry about 16.5 million dollars and longshoremen around 4 million in wages.
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Iogshoremen
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