Editors pick Vietnam war as top story of 66
The Vietnam War was named the top U.S. news story in 1966 by editors in the United Press International poll. Second place went to race riots in major northern cities. third, Charles Whitman’s Austin shooting. Other top stories covered GOP gains, space progress, and Johnson’s Asia trip.
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Ed Belasco Defends Slam To Earn Top Bridge Score
In a Anaheim tournament, Ed ward M. Belasco of California defends a slam as South and wins an overtrick. He ruffs the first trick, draws trumps, and leads through East to locate hearts, discards a club, then takes the rest of the tricks for a top score. East’s overtake of the king of hearts cost match points.
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Queen of Hearts
Murrow Brother Lacey Murrow Found Dead in Baltimore Hotel
The brother of Edward R. Murrow, Brig. Gen. Lacey Van Buren Murrow, 62, was found dead from a shotgun wound in a Baltimore Lord Baltimore Hotel room. A 12 gauge shotgun and a note cited illness and despondency. He lived in Washington, D.C., and had a long career in the Air Force and railroads.
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Washington, D.C
Leftists Protest Bomb Attacks in Paris Rally
About 2,000 leftist youths marched in Paris defying a police ban to denounce U S air attacks in Hanoi. Riot police blocked banners calling it brutal American aggression with 300 arrests reported amid a citywide traffic jam and a security ring around the U S embassy.
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Painting prize in loan drawing at Arizona Bank
Art enthusiasts may enter a drawing at the Arizona Bank main office in Scottsdale to win an original oil painting by Dorothy Le Fevre of Studio 8 Scottsdale. The drawing takes place at 3 p.m. on December 23.
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