Tex Ritter recalls 1968 hijacking drama over Cuba
UPI reports on a 1968 Boeing 727 hijack from Nashville to Havana involving 38 passengers aboard a Transwait Airlines jet. Tex Ritter remarks at length on the incident's parallel to Westerns while pilot Captain Dennis Maloney and stewardess Susan Brant describe the hijack in orderly fashion. The hijacker demanded Havana, passengers unaware until the cockpit moment, and the tale notes changing Air Force response and a stalled pursuit as Cuba treaty talks linger.
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Malumphy gets 40 to 50 years for assault
Timothy Malumphy, 26, convicted of two slayings, was sentenced Wednesday to 40 to 50 years in prison for assault with intent to commit murder in a county jail attack. The Superior Court judge gave the sentence after Malumphy pleaded guilty. he had earlier been found guilty of fatally shooting Constantine Karahogius, 30, and Robert Lee Bartebaught, 25, at a Scottsdale restaurant.
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Mayor orders quick mail out of Christmas cards
St. Louis Missouri UPI confirms Mayor Alfonso J Cervantes ordered city department heads to come to his office to collect Christmas cards for city employees then address stamp and mail the cards to themselves to speed delivery.
Nixon opens eight hour cabinet training for new administration
President elect Nixon lectures his soon to be Cabinet and their wives at the Shoreham Hotel, likening the session to a teacher’s cram course. He reads aloud bios, highlights aims for negotiation, and stresses modernization and reform across State, Treasury, Defense, and other key departments.
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Apollo 8 Flight to Moon Back on Track After Leak
CAPE KENNEDY UP I reports say Apollo 8 will proceed around the moon on Dec 21 after tests showed a fuel drainage leakage in one Saturn 5 engine is not a problem. NASA said leakage was confined to fuel drainage and would not affect crew Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders.
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Tallulah Bankhead Dies at 64 in New York
Talullah Bankhead a Huntsville Alabama born star of Broadway and screen died in New York at St. Luke's Hospital from double pneumonia complicated by emphysema. The 1904 born actress rose from Southern roots to fame after moving to New York at age 15 and later starred in The Dancers in London.
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Ethel Kennedy Delivers 11th Child by Caesarean
Ethel Kennedy gave birth to a girl via Caesarean section at Georgetown University Hospital at 8 40 a m EST. The eight pound four ounce baby is Mrs Kennedy's 11th child and fourth daughter. Mother and child are reported in excellent condition by press secretary Frank Mankiewicz.
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