SCM chairman dies in Lake Michigan plane crash
SCM Corp. chairman Edward H. Litchfield 53 of Coudersport and five others including family members were killed when their twin engine plane vanished into fog over Lake Michigan while approaching Meigs Field Chicago. The body was recovered five miles off the lakefront.
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Chicago
Edward H. Litchfield
SCM Corp
Lake Michigan
Litchfield
Coudersport
University of Pittsburgh
Meigs Field
Coast Guard
Mary
Ethel
Edward
de Forest
James Looker
Wellsville
N.Y
R.T. O’neill
Munster
Ind
Mary Litchfield
Marines Repel Heavy Assault at Khe Sanh and DMZ
In a series of battles near the DMZ from Khe Sanh to Gia Linh, Marines and South Vietnamese forces reported heavy fighting and claimed 332 Communist deaths. Tear gas and shell bursts filled bunkers as Marines defended northern South Vietnam while Saigon area operations tallied 49 killed in one clash and 713 in a month-long push.
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Saigon
UPS
Tam Ky
Khe
Sanh
da Nang
Dong
South Vietnam
Dmz
Khe Sanh
Gia Linh
Army
William B. Rosson
Five Die in Meriden Fire at Heritage House Annex
A blaze at the Heritage House Apartments Annex on Broad Street Meriden killed five people age 24 to 52 after smoke inhalation in top floor units. Nine residents were hospitalized along with two firefighters. the fire was controlled after about four hours with cause undetermined.
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Meriden
Conn
Peter Howard
Howard
Ralph Howard
Methuen Mass
Florence Baginski
Heritage House
Broad Street
Cal Kish
Karen Walter
Meriden Hospital
Miss .Walter
Indicted undercover agent Itkin looms in Marcus kickback case
Herbert Itkin a de facto undercover informant described by federal officials as infiltrating organized crime and reporting to the FBI. He is under 24 hour guard and will be a key government witness in a federal conspiracy case alongside James L Marcus Antonio Corallo and others. He faces potential prosecutions in labor racketeering gambling bribery tax evasion and related felonies across city state and federal levels.
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New York
Herbert Itkin
New York City
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Itkin
James L. Marcus
Antonio
Tony Ducks
Corallo
Henry Fried
Daniel J. Motto
la Union
Charles J. Rappaport
Manhattan
Marcus
Police and Students Clash in Warsaw Amid Protests
Police dispersed thousands of Polish students chanting for freedom and democracy after a protest at the Polytechnical University. Riot sticks and tear gas were used as clashes erupted for the second day, marking the first police invasion of a Polish university in memory.
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Warsaw
UPI
Polytechnical University
Ajby
Damp, Cloudy Tonight With Mild Seas On Tap
A prespring rain is in the forecast with rain chances 30 percent tonight and 20 percent tomorrow. Temperatures will be in the mid 30s tonight and high 40s tomorrow with partly cloudy skies expected.
Train crash kills 19 pilgrims in India near Venkatachellam
An express train collided with a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims at a grade crossing near Venkatachellam in South India. The crash killed 19 people and injured four others.
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Hyderabad
India
Madras
Venkatachellam
South
Snia
Czechs press Novotny resignation amid reform push
In Prague the reformist leadership and army general staff call for the resignation of Communist President Antonin Novotny. They blame him for covering up an alleged corruption case involving Maj. Gen. Jan Sejna who defected to the United States.
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Vakia
Antonin Novotny
Novotny
Army Chieis
Jan Sejna
United States
Today’s Chuckle Stone Age joke pun
A brief pocket gag notes a theme about dating the Stone Age from 16 to 3 and jokes that larger stone makes someone happier. The quip plays on furniture or hand stone humor with a playful misread of preferences.
Oil slick washes Eleuthera beaches. tanker grounded
A 355-foot tanker grounded on a reef near Point James on Eleuthera Island released heavy black oil washing pink beaches. One crewman is missing after a rescue boat capsized in the slick. Detergents were flown from Florida and New York to emulsify the spill as Navy tugs work to free another tanker, Ocean Prince, off San Juan harbor, spilling two million gallons into a 14 mile area.
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Nassau
Stratos Mastrotainis
National
Bahamas Air Sea Service
Florida
New York
Bahamas
U.S. Navy
San Juan Harbor
Ocean Prince
Rockefeller convenes GOP leaders on strategy for nomination
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller summons about 25 Republican leaders for a strategy session in New York to discuss the party’s presidential race after Gov. Romney’s withdrawal. He suggests a possible run and hints at an Oregon primary possibility, while denying any commitment from participants.
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New York
UPI
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Republican Party
GOP
Rockefeller
Oregon
New Hampshire
Leslie Slate
George) Romney
Sloate
Fifth Avenue
Richard M. Nixon
Slate
Romney
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Rock
Kish
Mia
Mia Farrow
Frank Sinatra
Miami
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Sinatra
New York Times Service
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Prague
Czechoslo
Teleshitn
General Colocotronis
Eleuthra
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