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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1976
Page
2
Miss Breakspeare, a 2-year-old Jamaican physical education teacher, won Miss World after a threatened mass walkout over South Africa's racial policies failed to materialize. She celebrated long into the night, then began engagements at dawn as contestants from many countries had withdrawn.
Leslie Caron 45 files for divorce from producer Mich ael Laughlin 38 in Santa Monica after a year apart citing irreconcilable differences. The Man Who Loved Women star wed Laughlin in 1988 following her 1980s marriages to George Hormel and Peter Hall. AGVA awards in Las Vegas announce Entertainer of the Year recipients including John Denver Lawrence Welk Eydie Gorme and Benji the dog for year.
Emily McLaughlin a longtime General Hospital actress, is in critical condition at Panorama City Memorial Hospital due to a bleeding esophageal ulcer. Surgeons cannot operate while her condition remains critical, and she was hospitalized after a friend drove her there.
Gene Hackman 48 is hospitalized in a luxury London clinic after serious back and other injuries. An official from Well ington Hospital said he was admitted several days ago. A poet and novelist quotes and comments about the South and political figures appear in the piece.
George Harrison traveled to New York to tape Saturday Night at NBC TV and brought a video of a song he wrote about the plagiarism suit. He titled This Lone and says I hope this song is mine. U S District Court Judge Richard Owen ruled Harrison guilty of plagiarism. The judge noted My Sweet Lord, a major hit, is virtually identical to He's So Fine from 1962 by the Chiffons.
The headless remains of Pancho Villa are being transferred from Parral after a long pursuit by Lt. Gen. Pershing and a decades old murder of his skull. The skull was reportedly stolen in 1926 by a Mexican army captain. The remains will be interred in a crypt at Mexico’s Revolution Monument in Mexico City.
Madonna Slavin Walford and the Krishna sect member filed a 2.3 million dollar damage suit in Los Angeles federal court alleging civil rights violations privacy invasion and assault after being held for six days. Defendants include sister Coleen Hughes brother-in-law Charles Howard Hughes and brothers Terence M. Slavin Gerald B. Slavin and Anna M. Slavin with a Monrovia municipal court hearing set for December 29.
Gary Gilmore remains in near isolation at Utah State Prison awaiting a Board of Pardons decision on his death sentence for the motel clerk killing. His girlfriend Nicole Barrett, 20, slowly recovers from sleeping pill overdose as guards report a tense communication setup. She awakened disoriented but walking with help, while hospital staff impose visitation limits. The Bar Commission weighs a ethics complaint against Gilmore’s attorney Dennis Boaz after revelations of financial ties and a televised interview.
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