Five men convicted in Friars Club fleecing case
A federal court jury found Maurice Friedman Benjamin Teitelbaum T Warner Richardson Manuel Jacobs and Johnny Roselli guilty of conspiring to cheat Friars Club celebrity players in Beverly Hills over four years. The scheme allegedly netted up to 53000 a game with losses estimated at 400000 or more.
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Los Angeles
Friars Club
Spee Earlee
Tony Martin
Harry Karl
Phil Silvers
Zeppe ‘Marx
Beverly Hills
Maurice H. Friedman
Las Vegas
Benjamin Teitelbaum
Hollywood
T. Warner Richardson
Mauel Jacobs
Johnny Roselli
Grant Cooper
Friedman
Otha
Pueblo father seeks North Korean visa to aid son
The father of a Pueblo intelligence ship crewman arrived in Moscow aiming to secure a North Korean visa and travel to Pyongyang to press for his son’s release. Robert Ayling, 45, of Staunton, Virginia, declined to speak to reporters at Moscow’s airport and asked not to be photographed. He was accompanied by Norton, Virginia attorneys Carl McAfee and Hugh Cline. The U.S. Embassy offered no comment on Ayling’s efforts. The State Department would validate his passport if he succeeds in entering North Korea. Cline said, We are hoping for a humanitarian gesture from the Russians.
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Pueblo
Moscow
Pyongyang
Robert Ayling
Staumton
Carl McAfee
Hugh Cline
Norton
Charles Daniels. Furi Soviet Organization
U.S
Ayling
State Department
North Korea
Cline
New York
Fire destroys Lincoln depot in Springfield
An early morning blaze damaged the historic Great Western railway depot in Springfield. The building housed Lincoln Memorabilia and was a tourist spot. an adjoining warehouse storing 12 carloads of newsprint also burned. Lincoln gave his farewell address from this depot before heading to Washington.
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Springfield
Abra
Lincoln
Washington
Great Western Railway
Brooklyn junior high closed after disorder in Ocean Hill Brownsville
New York AP reports the state ordered JHS 271 in Brooklyn closed until further notice after a day of clashes and vandalism in Ocean Hill Brownsville and broader district unrest. Commissioner Allen relieved associate commissioner Herbert Johnson and named William D. Firman to replace him. Community leaders criticized the action as hostile to the black community while union leaders claimed the move could avert a new citywide teachers strike.
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Brooklyn
Ocean Hill
Brownsville
James E. Allen
Allen
Herbert F. Johnson
William D. Firman
Johnson
C. Herbert Oliver
JHS 271
Albert Shanker
United Federation of Teachers
Restrictions curb arrivals at key airports to ease congestion
The FAA imposes first limits on air traffic at five major hubs in Washington New York and Chicago set to take effect April 27. Hourly caps include 135 landings and takeoffs at O'Hare 80 at Kennedy 60 at LaGuardia Newark and Washington National. The move aims to ease congestion while policymakers pursue longer term airport expansion.
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Washington
New York
Chicago
FAA
O’hare
Kennedy International
LaGuardia
Newark Airport
Washington National
Kennedy
Robert Taylor battles lung cancer amid hospital care
Actor Robert Taylor, famed for his looks and restrained style, is fighting cancer in his right lung. His wife Ursula Theiss says he has known of the illness for some time and recently underwent treatment at St. Pauls Hospital to drain an abscess after surgery.
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Robert Taylor
Ursula Theiss
Taylor
St. Paul’s Hospital
Miss Theiss
Barbara Stanwyck
Mark Rudd Fails Army Physical
Mark Rudd, leader of the Columbia University student demonstrations, fails an Army physical exam in Newark New Jersey and may be required to undergo another test. The report notes his possible reassessment and continuing scrutiny of his military status.
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Mark Rudd
Newark
N.J
Last Springs
Columbia University
Fort resigns youth post amid Congress contempt indictment
Blackstone Ranger leader Jeff Fort, indicted for contempt after leaving a July hearing, resigns as youth coordinator of a Woodlawn anti poverty project. He and 43 others were arrested after a march led by Fort dissolved into a melee. Fort will work without pay on the five year, 3.5 million rehabilitation effort. Reverend Curtis E Burrell Jr says the resignation aims to curb bad publicity while Fort remains involved.
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Blackstone
Jeff Fort
South Side
Fort
Curtis E. Burrell Jr
Kenwood Oakland
Burrell
Driver Fined Held for Military Police Action
David O. Rains, 22, of Murphysboro is held in Jackson County Jail in Murphysboro after a traffic incident and was fined by authorities with military police involvement.
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David O. Rains
Murphysboro
Jackson County
Murphys
Penguins Arrive by Air for Midwest Zoo Exhibits
About 65 penguins and 20 skuas arrived at Scott Air Force Base from Antarctica aboard Air Force transport. Dan Marsh, director of the St. Louis Zoo, held a squirming penguin as the birds were prepared for transfer to Zoos in St. Louis Milwaukee Detroit and Cincinnati.
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St. Louis
Marlin Perkins
Scott Air Force Base
Antarctica
Air Force
Milwaukee
Detroit
Cincinnati
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Clifford E. Fry
Marion
Fry
Rt. 37
William H. McDowell Jr
Cambria
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Panavision
Warner Bros Sevements
Ted Sorensen
Manhattan Supreme Court
T. C. Sorensen
S. E
Rudd
Maj
Clement St. Martin
Army Administration Center
Ogilvie
Republican Governors Association
Palm Springs
Princeton
Fermi
John A. Wheeler
Princeton University
Enrico Fermi
Wheeler
The
Atomic Energy Commission
His
Alan Paton
Durban
South Africa
Anne Hopkins
Marlow
Neil Pike
Ramada Inn
West
Marion, Ill
Beatty
ARNON
Southern
Eastwood
Coogan
Kiwanis, Lions and Rotary Clubs
Rubinoff
Boston Daily Record
Los Angeles Examiner
Square Dance
Chicago Tribune
M. T. H. S. Auditorium
Lions, Kiwanis and
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Village Inn
1700
West Main Carbondale
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