Evel Knievel Given Six Months in County Jail
Evel Knievel was sentenced to six months in Los Angeles County jail after admitting to assaulting Sheldon Saltman with a baseball bat and pushing several other people. Judge Edward Kaleedie called his actions frontier justice while praising his blunt honesty in court. Kneeivel acknowledged the book Saltman wrote about him, and admitted many claims but said 85 to 80 percent were truthful.
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Sheldon Saltman
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Ford NBC scrambles special on Nixon pardon delays
TV Guide reports Ford plans to avoid discussing the Nixon pardon until his memoirs appear in 1979. The first of five NBC news specials, set for December 21, will address Ford and his initial White House days, but the topic is pushed back.
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NBC
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Richard Nixon
TV Guide
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Huston improves after two surgeries says agent
John Huston the actor director has shown improvement from fall to good condition after two operations this fall. Doctors warn it is early to judge when the seven year old double Oscar winner will come home.
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Heyerdahl Prepares Tiaris Voyage To Unknown Seas
Thor Heyerdahl plans a voyage aboard the raft Tiaris with two square reed cabins amid toasts, oars, and steering gear being readied. The boat, built in Qurna Iraq, follows a 500 year old Sumerian pattern. The expedition aims to test how far ancient Sumerians could have transported their civilization.
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Capote heckled at Towson State College talk
Truman Capote spoke at Towson State College Sunday night but after about ten minutes audience members described his comments as rambling and incoherent. He was asked to stop talking and escorted to his hotel. College officials called him incoherent and said it became necessary to ask him to leave. Capote’s retinue said they did not know why he was asked to leave and that Capote could not answer questions because he was sleeping.
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Towson
State College
Robert Roll
College News and Publication
Capote
Baltimore
Burger in hospital for back pain
Chief Justice Warren E Burger was hospitalized in Arlington Virginia with recurrence of a lower back problem. He was admitted to a private room around 11 am and placed in traction with a back brace. Doctors expect a week to 10 days of treatment while he continues working. He is 70 and in generally good health.
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Supreme Court
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Marines Search for Bell Stolen from Recruit Depot
At the San Diego Marine Corps Recruit Depot a bell once chiming the eight time all's well message was removed by theft after being bolted to a red wooden post for 50 years. The Blaze Corps reported the bell was tipped from its stand and stolen.
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Princess Anne Delivers Son. Queen Announces Birth at Investiture
Princess Anne has given birth to a seven pound nine ounce son this morning at St Marys Hospital. Queen Elizabeth II arrived late to an Investiture at Buckingham Palace and announced the birth to the crowd saying she had just received a message from the hospital. The infant and Princess Anne are reported fine, with obstetrician George Pinker present. Prime Minister James Callaghan sent a telegram of congratulations. An antiroyalist MP commented skeptically on the monarchy.
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St. Mary’s Hospital
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Three teen runaways describe life as prostitutes in New York
Three Minneapolis teens aged 14, 16, and 18 testified before a state crime committee in New York about being lured to the city, forced to hustle for pimps, and subjected to beatings and money seizures. One girl endured jaw breaking and a broken nose, with arrests and fines during a 15 month period.
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Minnesota
Advertising slogans spark debate on women and smoking
Dr. Paul Stolley of the University of Pennsylvania argues that female lung cancer mortality rose sharply from 1965 to 1974 and urges bans on cigarette ads. He notes ads exploit women’s status and compares trends to early male lung cancer rates, citing Sweden’s ban and the UK debate.
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Philadelphia
Paul Stolley
University of Pennsylvania
Stolley
New England Journal of Medicine
Sweden
United Kingdom
Lakewood Fashion Gallery fur coats in limited stock
A Lakewood fashion item notes a polyester cotton shell wrap in brown with Golden Glory possum lining and a price of 565 dollars. It lists sizes 6 to 14 and mentions fur products labeled to show country of origin for imported furs.
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