Stars Send Extravagant and Humorous Holiday Gifts
Hollywood presents a peek at star gifts as David Janssen surprises Ellie with a $90,000 airplane and Sandra Dee buys a mink coat for herself. Others gift limousines, horses, books, vacuum attachments, typewriters, and even a mechanized snow remover, with mutual gifts among couples.
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Hollywood
David Janssen
Ellie
Sandra Dee
Bobby Darin
Steve Forrest
Peter Graves
Lana Turner
Bob Eaton
Greer Garson
Texas
Buddy Fogelson
Jeffrey Hayden
Eva Maria Saint
MacDonald Carey
Betty
Robert Redford
Utah
Kathryn
Bing Crosby
George Gobel
Alice
Jim Hutton
Berlin
Taggespiegel
Jim Backus
Henry
Neb. city turns meter poles into 245 Christmas trees
In Kimball Nebraska the city abandoned parking meters over a year ago leaving bare poles along Main Street. Junior Chamber of Commerce initiative with help from local school children added small fir trees and weatherproof decorations to create 245 colorful Christmas trees.
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Kimball
Neb
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Austria Faces Criticism as Nazi War Crimes Trials Continue
Twenty years after World War II Austria is criticized as a haven for war criminals while authorities draft charges against about two dozen individuals linked to Auschwitz. Trials proceed amid debates over justice, denazification, and past compromises.
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Hans Benedict Viena
Austria
Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Adolf Hitler
Justice Ministry
Sicherhertsdienst Security Service
Poland
Soviet Union
Adolf Eichmann
Auschwitz
Istanbul No Longer a Spy Haven
Istanbul’s role as a spy hub faded after World War II as East West relations eased. Foreign attachés left by Sept. 30, shifting intelligence work to Vienna Beirut and Ankara while Park Hotel lore and figures like Cicero linger in memory.
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Istanbul
Kim Philby
Soviet Union
Balkan
Vienna
Beirut
Ankara
Middle East
Turkey
Old Park Hotel
Bosporus Straits
Sea of Marmara
Franz von Papen
Park Hotel
Cicero
Five Fingers
Canova Getting Back into Biz
Judy Canova plans to sell Florida and Hollywood real estate to resume TV work. Her January 9 CBS appearance in Pistols and Petticoats marks her first acting return since Oh, Golly. George Segal reflects on Virginia Woolf and his film career amid a mobster role in The St Valentine’s Day Massacre. Turkish moves and spy talk color Bosporus shifts.
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Hollywood
Judy Canova
Florida
Cbs-Tv
Virginia Woolf
Richard Burton
Elizabeth Taylor
Sandy Dennis
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Dishonest Peso Eases Yet Faces Government Clampdown in DR
In Santo Domingo the once bustling black market is drying up as contraband liquor and unlicensed gambling vanish. Balaguer moves to curb government bonuses while unrest flares over prices and austerity, with Dominicans wary but hopeful about a peaceful end to his term.
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Robert Berrellez
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Council of State
Post
Balaguer
Sunams
Trujillo
Japonesa Trujillo
Alliance For Progress
Leo Acosta Aboard USS Ticonderoga
Seaman Apprentice Leo Acosta, son of Mr and Mrs Rudolph B Acosta of Artesia, serves aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga off the coast of North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin. The Ti is on its third Vietnam tour, serving as flagship for Commander Carrier Division 3.
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USS
Ticonderoga
Leo Acosta
Rudolph B. Acosta
W. Dallas
Artesia
North Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin
Carrier Division 3
Navy
Divining rod leads workers to sewer pipe in Charleston
In Charleston West Virginia a sewer line break stumped crew until a foreman used a divining rod and directed digging. Twenty two feet down they found a sewer pipe but not the broken line, prompting further search.
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Charleston
W.va
Monroe Serving At Da Nang Base
Marine Lance Cpl. Warren Monroe, son of Mr. and Mrs. D.A. Monroe of 410 N. Kansas, serves with VMCJ 1 in the First Marine Aircraft Wing at Da Nang Air Base South Vietnam. The unit uses EA 6A Intruder and RF 4B Phantom to collect photographic and electronic data in support of U.S. and Allied ground forces in combat.
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DA Nang, Vietnam
Fhtnc
Cpl
Warren Monroe
D.A. Monroe
Kansas
Marine Composite Reconnaissance Squadron
VMCJ)-1
First Marine Aircraft Wing
da Nang Air Base
South Vietnam
VMCJ-1
Marine Air Group 11
U.S
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Josef Klaus
Austrian People’s Party
American Jewish Congress
American Jewish Committee
Canada
Europe
Simon Wiesenthal
Viennas
Jewish Documentation Center
Eichmann
Austran Nazis
Franz Douda
Dr. Douda
West Germany
United States
Israel
Franz Novak
Continents
Balkans
Black Sea
Canova
Biz
France
British
Joaquin Balaguer
Federation of Dominican Women
University Students’ Federation
Sam Wilkerson
Agee
The
Corps of Cadets of the
New Mexico Military Institute
Monroe
da Nang Base
Valley Farm & Ranch
Exter Mino
J. Istmas
Onan Seoansadyy Sen
Sears
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