Country music figures set for Senate hearing at Grand Ole Opry House
Senate hearing in Nashville December 4 will probe a bill to create an American Folk Life Foundation to promote U.S. folklore. Roy Acuff Bill Monroe and others may testify while WSM will broadcast live before the Opry program and a tape will be entered in the Congressional Record.
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Roy Acuff
Bill Monroe
Billy Edd Wheeler
Minoie Pearl
Senate
Grand Ole Opry House
Nashville
Fred Harris
D-Okla
American Folk Life Foundation
WSM
the Opry
Harris
Thanksgiving Snowstorm Latest in 20 Years Parade
Thousands of motorists in the Northeast and Mid Atlantic faced Thanksgiving travel chaos as a historic snowstorm dumped heavy snow across New York Albany and New Hampshire. Up to 18 inches fell in parts, stranding drivers and prompting shelters, while troopers aided travelers and even helped deliver a baby. Maryland and surrounding states saw widespread delays and a jackknifed truck on I-70. Weather stretched from the Dakotas to the Great Lakes with lighter rain and floods inland, and mild Florida gulf regions reported warmer upsides.
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Mid- Atlantic
New York
Albany
National Weather Service
New Hampshire
Ralph Lawrence
Franklin
N.H
Milford
John Seleski
Maryland
Frederick
Hagerstown
Pennsylvania
Chicago
South Mountain
Boston
Cape Cod
Rhode Island
Dakotas
Upper
Great Lakes
Pacific
Plains
Mississippi Valley
Florida
Texas
Big Viet buildup linked to Ho Chi Minh trail
South Vietnamese forces hunted an elusive foe in eastern Cambodia amid reports of a major North Vietnamese supply buildup on the Ho Chi Minh trail. Informants counted 150 to 200 truck movements daily, well above the 10 daily during the monsoon, with road-building squads active despite U S air strikes and a predicted push toward three divisions in rubber plantation country near the Cambodian border, taking about 90 days to reach them.
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Saigon
Cambodia
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Taos
Monson
U.S
Radiation leak at Nevada test few chest X-ray levels
MERUORY Nev. A nuclear device detonated 90 feet underground released a small amount of radiation, about 12 microroentgens, detected four hours later by a tracker plane. AEC said exposure is thousands of times less than a chest X-ray and not dangerous to the public after lab confirmation.
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The
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Nevada
Return to Soviet Union Sought by Some Russian Jewish Immigrants
A Moscow authorized emigration wave brings thousands of Russian Jews to Israel. Some Georgian survivors among the group claim they asked Soviet President Podgorny for permission to return to the USSR due to Israel's conditions. Estimates vary from 200 individuals to 200 families. The Georgians want to live together in dreams of a shared homeland.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Soviet Union
Georgia
Russia
Moscow
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