Queen Mary Nears End Of Last Voyage
The Queen Mary steams north off the Mexican coast as passengers and crew finalize a farewell party for the final night of the cruise. In Long Beach officials outbid rivals for the vessel at 3.4 million dollars to convert her into a floating hotel and maritime museum. the ship will keep its name but be struck from the register.
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John Lowry
UPN
Disneyland
Mexican
Point Conception
Oceanside
Long Beach
California
England
Maly
Weather Year Ago and Five Day Forecast for Southern California
Weather summary notes last year temperatures with a high of 60 and low 37 and a day of 0.16 inch rain. Five day outlook shows mostly clear and cooler tonight, warmer Saturday, gusty winds in mountains and canyons, no precipitation expected. Local gusts and smog rules referenced with burning permitted in some days.
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San Bernardino Valley
California
Police Break Up Mob at Yale and New York Demonstrations
Police dispersed antiwar protests at Yale University and in New York City as hundreds gathered across campuses and streets. Dozens were arrested in New Haven and Manhattan with police using nightsticks and barricades while clashes were limited and some demonstrators continued toward induction centers.
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Yale
United Press International
Union Senate
Lenny
Hershkoff
University
York
Cleveland
New York
Ve Yale
New Haven
Manhattan
Linda Morse
Lynda Bird Johnson's future as Marine wife seen in focus
Washington report portrays Lynda Bird Johnson easing from glamor girl phase to life as a military wife. The 23 year old daughter of the president appears happy about marrying Marine captain Charles S. Robb, likely serving in Vietnam, after a public life influenced by magazine features and high school achievements.
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Helen Thomas Washington
UPI
Lynda Bird Johnson
Charles S. ‘Robb
Vietnam
Lynda
George Hamilton
Luci
McCall's
Robb
Navy shifts crew to Southeast Asian waters in moves
UPI reports the Navy is reshaping its fleet manning with sailors reassigned to Southeast Asia and Atlantic duties. President special adjustments reduce crews on several ships to skeleton staffing while praising past readiness. The article also profiles Luci and her fiancé Bernard Rosenbach, noting her White House years and later relationships.
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Vere Enté
Atlantic
Lynda
New
de An Ee Hee
Philadelphia
Vietnam
James
Robb
Milwaukee
Annapolis
Bernard Rosenbach
Comfort
Tex
White House
Hamilton
US and South Vietnamese drive on Viet Cong stronghold
U.S. and South Vietnamese troops closed in on a North Vietnamese regiment trapped on the Bong Son plains 300 miles north of Saigon. The three day toll reached 252 Communist dead with 16 Americans killed and 90 wounded. Fresh fighting flared near the Cambodian border as troops repelled Viet Cong assaults on a new base. Civilian casualties from Dak Son reached 202 confirmed dead with about 500 unaccounted for.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
Bong JSON
Bang Son
China Sea
South
Dak Son
Postal rates up next month and military pay rise favored
A House Senate conference backed a $3.5 million military pay hike to align with civilian raises for about 2 million workers. Postal rates would rise next Jan 7, boosting first class letters to 6 cents and air mail to 10 cents. The measure also includes a $35 million annual boost to federal employee insurance and a commission to study top government salaries every four years.
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Washington
UPI
House Senate
I ‘Hine
Johnson
House
Senate
Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
Rusk praises U S honoring agreements at AFL-CIO talk
Secretary of State Dean Rusk told AFL-CIO delegates in Miami Beach that honoring U S commitments abroad is the pillar of peace. He compared appeasers of North Vietnam to the prewar drive to appease Hitler and defended President Johnson's Vietnam policy while urging steadfast pursuit of peace in Southeast Asia.
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Miami Beach
Dean Rusk
Johnson
United States
Rusk
Hitler
Vietnam
State ‘Department
U.S
Busk
Southeast
Asia
California Senate Ends Five-Week Special Session
Sacramento lawmakers completed a five week special session at noon with compromises on medical care and a tax loophole fix. The agreement closes the urgent agenda and sets policy for relief and revenue adjustments.
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Sacramento
UPI
McNamara defends napalm linked campus protests
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara urged students to stop hindering private company campus recruiting over Vietnam. He said private industry controls do not cover military policy and noted Dow Chemical’s napalm sales, while defending napalm as a military necessity and stressing noncombatant precautions amid Viet Cong terror.
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Midland
Mich
UPD
Defense
Robert McNamara
McNamara
Herbert OD. Doan
Dow Chemical Co
Dow
Defense Department
Vietnam
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Wheeler
Viet Cong
Reagan's Hartford speech signals 1968 bid buildup
Reagan addressed 700 Connecticut Republicans at a Hartford fundraising dinner denouncing welfare as a failure and the Great Society as a flop. He touted California programs, mocked Kennedy, and warned against inflation while linking the credibility gap to a morality gap. He highlighted Hartford's first woman mayor and criticized federal spending.
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Hartford
Conn
Ronald Reagan
Connecticut
Johnson
Reagan
California
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
Kennedy
Bobby
Ann Ucrello
Baileywick
John M. Bailey
Renee Ee
Kwame Nkrumah
Wilbur Mills
House
Ways and Means Committee
Russians call for UN Security Council meet
The Soviet Union urged immediate UN Security Council action to place UN truce supervision in the Middle East under council control with a veto power. Israeli forces reported killing six Arab militants and seizing a cache of Soviet made weapons in Jordan as Arab leaders gathered in Cairo to plan a Rabat summit.
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Walter Logan
United Press International
Soviet Union
United Nations Security Council
Asj
U.N
Middle East
Council
Russia
U.N. Truce, Supervision Organization
UNTSO
Thant
Fedorenka
Security Council
Jerusalem
el Fatah
Nablus
Israel
France
Iraq
Cairo
Rabat
U S gold reserves fall to near 30 year low
The U S gold reserve drops close to a 30 year low after a $475 million transfer from the reserve to a special fund to cover overseas dollar sales. The shift follows Britain's pound devaluation and hoarding by central banks and private buyers.
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Washington
UPI
U. S
The
Treasury
Britain
Federal Reserve Board
George S. Moore
First National City Bank of New York
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