Lady Bird Johnson seeks own path after 70 years in shadow
In a Johnson City interview, Lady Bird Johnson says she will shed burdens from her late husband Lyndon Johnson, focus on her own life with her children and grandchildren, the Wild Flower Research Center, and travel. The piece also covers Boston Mayor Kevin White resigning, Carol Burnett’s split, Rev. Dr. Robert Schuller’s fame, and entertainment industry notes on Trene Cara, John Wayne, Doris Day, and Sarah Vaughan.
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Lyndon Johnson
Lady Bird Johnson
Johnson
Johnson City
Texas
Congress
Boston
Kevin H. White
White
Robert H. Schuller
California
Crystal Cathedral
Schuller
Doris Day
Hubert Humphrey
Mary Martin
John Wayne
Maine girl Samantha Smith seeks peace on Soviet voyage
Samantha Smith, an 11 year old from Manchester Maine, sealed a peace message with red wax and tossed it into the Black Sea aboard the Artek camp voyage. She spent a night in a cruise like setting away from the dormitory and befriended Natasha Kashirina of Leningrad while campers pressed messages to end the arms race.
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Samantha Smith
Black Sea
Samantha
Artek
Yester
Yalta
U.S.S.R
Maine
Natasha
Jane Smith
Soviet Union
United States
France
Britain
Yuri Andropov
Natasha Kashirina
Leningrad
Arthur
Manchester
Communist Party
Pravda
Andropov
UPI
Miss Universe 1983 Final Tonight in St Louis Stage
The Miss Universe pageant crowns one of 80 international contestants tonight at Kiel Auditorium in St Louis. Winners receive over 150000 in cash and prizes including a New York City apartment and a 90000 purse, as Miss Universe Inc oversees the Midwest debut amid controversy over press access and a swimsuit appearance by Miss Indonesia.
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ST. Louis
UPI
Kiel Auditorium
New York City
Karen Baldwin
Midwest
Miss Universe Inc
Paramount Pictures
Switzerland
Lolita Morena
Abby Janich
Gambia
Angelita Diaz
Kansas City
Vincent Schoemehl
Kansas City Star
The
Kansas City Times
Harold L. Glasser
Claudia Kuehl
the Star
Karen Uhlenhuth
Times
Trial nears for radicals in Brink's holdup case in Goshen
Screening of jurors begins as three defendants stand trial in the 1981 Brink's armored car robbery in New York. The case links Weather Underground and Black Liberation Army members, with multiple murders and 3 million spent on security. Defendants act as their own attorneys, facing up to life in prison if convicted.
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Brink
Goshen
Freedom Fighters
Weather Underground
Black Liberation Army
FBI
Nanuet
Nyack
Kathy Boudin
Greenwich Village
Tourdin
Samuel Brown
Judith Clark
David Gilbert
Kuwasi Balagoon
Rockland County
Orange County
Kenneth Gribetz
Free the Land
Republic of New Afrika
Vocates
United States
U.S
Peter Paige
Waverly Brown
Edward O'Grady
Gilbert
Clark
Balagoon
Donald Weems
Bronx
Chicago
Columbia University
BLA
Sekou Odinga
Nathaniel Burns
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Carol Burnett
Joe Hamilton
Miss Burnett
Ladies’ Home Journal
Hamilton
Trene Cara
Frank Mancuso
Hollywood
PolyGram Records
Ms. Cara
Jennifer Beals
Sarah Vaughan
National Enquirer
Miss Vaughan
Kevin C. Devine
Concord
N.H
New Hampshire
Irrational Inquirer
Andi Botenri
Indonesia
Bob Harker
Joan van Ark
Hopps
British Virgin Islands
Anna Marie Joseph
Road Town
Neuchatel
Eileen Putman
Associated Press
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