Veterans of stadium hunts and Russian pavilions in Expo 67 chatter
A rambling town page notes autograph seekers chasing Ronald Reagan at a Cubs game, brief mentions of George Halas and Jack Brickhouse, and a forthcoming Wat Cat restaurant near Trader Vic's. It also recalls Lew Alcindor’s tall doorway incident, Expo 67 Russian pavilion promotion featuring Yuri Gagarin, and midcentury club chatter rebranding Scandia to Swede's Broiler with Vic Wilmot radio notes.
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California
Ronald Reagan
Cubs
Ron Santo
Paps
George Halas
Chicago
Jack Brickhouse
Dick Bale
San Francisco
Trader Vic’s
Pal Joey
UCLA
Lew Alcindor
Statler- Hilton
Big Lew
Joe Haat
Russia
Yuri Gagarin
Gagarin
Kremlin
Maurice Chevalier
France
Victor Borge
Scandinavia
George Jessel
Israel
Lana Turner
Kathryn Windsor
Ava Gardner
Scandra
Alan LeWinter
Lloyd Ellis
Vic Wilmot
KXIV
Nelsova Steals Spotlight in Phoenix Symphony Concert
Zara Nelsova delivered a virtuoso cello program highlighted by Bloch Schelomo. Guy Taylor led the Phoenix Symphony with strong Bloch performance and a mixed Beethoven opener. The Moldau closed the program before a night cap at Grady Gammage Auditorium.
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Phoenix Symphony Orchestra
Grady Gammage Auditorium
Ernest Bloch
Schelomo
Zara Nelsova
Guy Taylor
Beethoven
Taylor
Smetlana
Bloch
Tehaikavsky
Nelsova
Phoenix Union High School
Jonathan Marshall
Torrey Canyon bombed to burn oil threat off British coast
RAF jets dropped 42 half ton bombs on the Torrey Canyon oil tanker after salvage efforts failed. The blast set the 974 foot vessel ablaze and sent a vast black smoke plume miles into the sky, as thousands of tons of crude oil continued to wash ashore along southern England. The government declared a 1,070 mile coastline a battle area and ordered civilian ships away while pursuing an emergency plan to burn oil on the water.
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Land’s End
England
Royal Air Force
Torrey Canyon
Britain
Seven Stones Reef
HAF
Coast Guard
Beas
Harold Wilson
RAF Bomber Command
Winston Churchill
London
Defense Ministry
Reds distort figures on Viet Cong strength in South Vietnam
UPI reports U S officials say Hanoi is misreading Viet Cong troop data. Intercepted messages show Viet Cong reports to Hanoi exaggerate strength while actual South Vietnamese casualties and defections have kept pace with infiltration. Westmoreland told Johnson the distortion suggests Hanoi believes rising enemy strength despite leveling off over six to nine months.
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Washington
UPI
Hanoi
South Vietnam
U.S
North
South
William C. Westmoreland
Vietnam
Johnson
Guam
Russian Skipper Loses License After Fishing Fine
A Soviet shrimp trawler captain, Leonid Kushchenko, 29, will lose his master’s license for a year and must repay the $10,000 fine paid by the Soviet government to secure his release from an Alaska jail. He pleaded no contest to violating the U S 12 mile fisheries zone.
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Anchorage
Alaska
UPI
U.S
Leonid M. Kushchenko
Kushchenko
Yuri V. Chemokhud
Washington, D.C
Richard McVeigh
U.s.8.r
Chemakhud
George Bayer
Bayer
Coast Guard
Kushchenka
Kodiak
Milk farmers picket dairies across nine states
United Press International reports the National Farmers Organization intensified its milk boycott with pickets at dairies in Minnesota, Colorado, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois and Pennsylvania. Cyanide-tainted milk found in Ohio highlights ongoing disruptions as NFO signs contracts with processors at 2 cents more per quart.
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National Farmers Organization
NFO
Ohio
Oren Lee Staley
NIQ
Minnesota
Colorado
Michigan
Wisconsin
Indiana
Tennessee
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Nashville
Tenn
Teamsters Local 327
Meat Cutters Local 405
NFC
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Omaha
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Phoenix
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Portland
Cincinnati
Red Bluff
Denver
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Des Moines
Salt Lake City
Detroit
San Diego
Fresno
Helena
Seattle
Kansas City
Spokane
Las Vegas
Prah Sands
Messinger Yiuary End Chapel
MC Dowell Roal He
Messinger
East Indian School Road
Scottsdale
Scotts
Lincoln
Camelback Road
Nicholas G. Zernov
Vladivostok
asTess
OrFa
Alvare
Elena Corral
E. Thomas
Scottsdale Rad
Salt River
Scottsdale Stadium
Chicago Cubs
San Francisco Giants
California Angels
Cleveland Indians
B. Osborn Road
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Scottsdale Charros
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Arizona Ia
Necean
Equitable
Warren J. Heath
the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the
United States
New York, New York
Esquire
Los Pavos
Hayden Road
Tempe
McDowell
Hayden Rd
Ilene Shay
Sas
Carl Raulston
Chicago Title Insurance Company
Third Ave
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