11 Dec 1972
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1972
Page
1
Fragmentary notice from the Daily Mail of Hagerstown dated Monday May 11 reports a local event with sparse readable details. Identifiable names or places are not clearly legible in the surviving text.
At the Stockholm ceremony a victory dance honored the physics prize recipients. John Bardeen and John Selirleffer shared recognition alongside the main awardee. AP Wirephots provided by cable from Stockholm.
Washington AP reporting on the post election leadership contest within the Democratic Party. New chairman-elect Strauss faces balancing liberal reformers and conservatives while reconciling defectors to the Republicans. He vows to foster dialogue and avoid pre judgments as he takes on a fraught national campaign era.
HOLLYWOOD AP says Louella Parsons, the first and most powerful Hollywood gossip columnist, died in a convalescent home at 91. Her career spanned four decades with features in some 1,200 papers worldwide. She chronicled private lives and celebrity scandals, shaping star coverage.
Spiegel Inc. pleads guilty to bribery to avoid trial in former Sen. Daniel Brewster case. Key witness Betty Norton testified of company efforts to kill postal rate legislation. Norton immunized. Brewster convicted of accepting an illegal gratuity. lobbyist Cyrus Anderson also convicted. Sentencing delayed pending post trial motions.
Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Herbert Denenberg released a shopper’s guide showing term life policies vary up to 140 percent in true cost over 20 years. The guide lists the 15 lowest and 15 highest cost policies from 40 major Pennsylvania insurers, with premiums for a 25 35 and 45 year old male on a 25 000 five year policy, illustrating potential savings of about 3716 over a century by choosing the lowest cost option.
North Vietnamese units infiltrated toward Saigon from Cambodia as a South Vietnamese militia battalion clashed with them nine miles south of Tay Ninh. U S air strikes followed, targeting staging areas and a Ba Tom district, with 91 enemy bodies found and about 87 killed in the Tay Ninh sector.
A brief enclosure quotes biblical verses 11 Corinthians 4:8 9 and Johann Wolfgang Goethe remarks on solitude. It presents a reflection on affliction endurance and the value of character shaped by hardship in a compact, period tone suitable for a newspaper card.
Washington views the second week of Viet Nam peace talks as a potential turning point. Kissinger and Le Duc Tho met in Paris while technicians discussed draft terms and Haig spoke with Nixon in Washington. Hanoi radio said no cease fire had been signed, with analysts noting progress but no final plan.
Investigators sift through charred wreckage of United Airlines Boeing 737 that crashed into a Chicago neighborhood near Midway Airport killing 45. NTSB engineers study debris while authorities identify victims by dents and fingerprints. 12 of 18 survivors remain hospitalized.
Tokyo reports Liberal Democratic party wins a general election mandate for Tanaka plan to remodel Japan but strong Communist and Socialist gains raise trouble. Conservatives capture 271 of 491 seats with 14 independents boosting potential majority to 79, 21 short of last house. Socialists gain to 118, Communists rise to 38 the highest in 12 postwar elections.
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