21 Nov 1968
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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1968
Page
1
The Central Ohio Boy Scout Council will award an obsolete Air Scout badge to astronaut Donn F. Eisele during a Columbus visit. Eisele, a charter member of Troop 161 and Air Scout Squadron No. 3, fulfilled the ten day away from home requirement with an 11 day Apollo 7 mission.
Washington reports the gun industry opposing a proposed federal rule requiring buyers to list name address description and a signed eligibility statement. IRS Commissioner Cohen backs the rule while NRA officials push for technical changes amid debates on a Dec 16 enforcement date.
Police clash with students as Robert McNamara arrives in Calcutta for World Bank talks. Demonstrators burn an effigy, set a state bus ablaze and damage trams. Rallies and strikes disrupt city life amid anti US and anti Vietnam War slogans. Government warns of further unrest.
Charleston dispatch reports Gordon Langley Hall once Dawn Pepita, adopted daughter of Dame Margaret Rutherford, plans to wed her Negro butler John Paul Simmons. The ceremony was delayed by bomb threats and shifted to England, with Hall claiming common-law marriage to the former chauffeur.
More than 60 students staged a hunger strike at the University of California San Diego campus over Gov Ronald Reagan's proposed faculty power cut. Reagan’s plan will go to the regents Friday at the San Diego campus. The action began with the Mexican American Council led by Israel Chavez and drew more student groups. The group set up headquarters in Blake Hall dorm lounge as more than 600 faculty and students met to urge calm after last month's regents meeting in Santa Cruz.
In Biddeford Maine Richard J Spath leads St Francis College students in a 10 mile relay style marathon to Harvard University Cambridge Massachusetts to boost the college building program. About 600 students will take turns running laps with faculty and police escort and a book passed along from runner to runner to be donated to Harvard.
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