Washkansky Buried After Historic Heart Transplant
Cape Town mourns Louis Washkansky 63 who died of pneumonia after receiving Denise Dervall's heart from Dr. Christiaan Barnard's team. Rabbi Abrahams called the operation a fight for all human life as medical authorities note no inquest.
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Cape ‘Town
South Africa
UPD
Louis Washkansky
Washkansky
Pineland Cemetery
Mr. Washkansky
Israel Abrahams
Cape Province
Christiaan Barnard
Denise Dervall
Cape’ Province
Barnard
London
New York
Winds, Bridge Recovery Slowed in Point Pleasant
High winds and a mechanical breakdown slowed recovery efforts for the Silver Bridge disaster in Point Pleasant West Virginia. Cranes paused for repairs while river traffic crawled through a cleared Ohio River channel as 32 bodies were recovered and 23 remain missing.
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Point Pleasant
W. Va
UPI
Ohio River
Pam
William D. Falck
Gunmen Rob Northside Phoenix Home in Nighttime Heist
Two masked gunmen raided the north Phoenix home of Thomas Somoza and Robert Holland, fleeing with a diamond ring valued at 2500, two watches, a portable TV, a typewriter, and cash totaling about 3000. A neighbor, Mrs. Edward Herta, also faced a gunman at her door. Police say the city had four similar nighttime robberies that week.
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Phoenix
UPI
Thomas Somoza
Robert Holland
Holland
Somoza
Edward Herta
Northside
Joan
Herta
Train collision injures 36 near Wamego Kansas
A Union Pacific passenger train carrying about 199 people collided with a freight train east of Wamego on Thursday night. Thirty people were injured with one serious, engineer John Miller, 66, of Kansas City, Missouri, transported to Stormont Vale Hospital in Topeka. Some passengers were treated in Manhattan and Wamego hospitals.
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Kan
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Kansas City
Miller
Stormont Vale Hospital
Toneks
Manhattan
Here
Wamego Hospital
Paralyzed boy’s Christmas wish grows into gift drive
Richard Church, eight, of Bottom Creek West Virginia, with welfare income of 165 dollars a month, inspired NEA writer Tom Iede to tell his story. Readers sent over 250 fire trucks worth cash and pledges totaling 1500 dollars. Richard saved four and shared the rest with neighbors. A 400-person party at Vivian Community Center provided toys for disadvantaged children as three trailer loads of food and clothing were en route.
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Bottom Creek
W. Va
UPI
Richard Church
Tom ‘Iede
New York
Richard
Newspaper Enterprise Association
NEA
West Virginia
Community Christmas Spirit Amid Flood Aid Efforts
In Loloma and Scottsdale areas, students and teachers gathered clothes blankets food and toys for Gila Indians on flooded reservations. Groups from Paiute and Saloma schools organized drives and deliveries with Friends of Arizona Indiana and the VFW aiding.
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Loloma
Bill Asmussen
Gila
Estey Reed
Friends of Arizona
Indiana
The
Salvation Army
Paiute Student Council
New Postage Stamps Showcase Franklin D Roosevelt Release
A new basic First Class postage stamp is introduced featuring Franklin D Roosevelt. At the bottom row the 1 cent Jefferson, the Lincoln five cent postal card, and the 10 cent Air Mail stamp are shown from left to right.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jefferson
Lincoln
Short Viet Nam truces eyed amid limited war materiel resupply
Washington reports say upcoming Christmas New Year and Tet truces in Vietnam are likely to be brief with three day pauses at Christmas and New Year and seven days at Tet. Allies aim for shorter periods to limit Viet Cong resupply while bombing pauses accompany the cease fires.
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UPI
Vietnam
U.S
United States
Tet
Tel
Abe
New Years's
State Department
North Vietnam
Copper unions set talks with Kennecott and Phelps-Dodge
Two copper companies Kennecott Copper Corp and Phelps-Dodge Corp plan meetings with the unions next week as the five month strike seeks an end. A joint union negotiating committee led by the United Steelworkers of America will meet Kennecott officials in Salt Lake City Wednesday morning and Phelps-Dodge in Douglas, Arizona at the same time. The Kennecott talks will be the first since October 10 when 17 days of talks in Salt Lake City broke down. Union representatives met Phelps-Dodge officials in Douglas Thursday but federal mediators declined comment on progress.
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Kennecott ‘Copper Corp
Phelps-Dodge Corp
United Steelworkers of America
Kennecott
Salt Lake City
Phelps-Dodge
Douglas
Ariz
Salt Ake City
ASU Professors Author Graduate Physics Textbook
Scottsdale physicists Dr. Radha Roy and Dr. Bishan Nigam of Tempe completed Nuclear Physics Theory and Experiment last August. The book, adopted as a graduate text at leading institutions, was highlighted as a top selling graduate publication in October. Roy joined ASU in 1963 and Nigam in 1961 after extensive research and writing over three years.
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ASU
Radha R. Roy
Oak
Bishan Nigam
Terrace
Tempe
Roy
Carless six year old drives uncle’s car on Bayshore Freeway
A six year old boy named Glen Roy Gordon, 3 feet 2 inches tall, appeared from a driverless sedan after it rear ended a trailer on the Bayshore Freeway. The boy had borrowed his uncle’s car, kept the accelerator pressed, and only popped up to aim the auto. he was unhurt.
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Calif
UPI
Bayshore
Cal Mendonca
Glen Roy Gordon
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