Narcotics Crisis Hit Yonkers Youths Across Classes
Public Safety Commissioner Daniel F. McMahon reported 900 youths in Yonkers use drugs with about 100 addicts from upper middle class families. The survey notes heroin use is widespread in northwest Yonkers, not just slums, and 24 youths arrested this year. Examples include teens prostituting in Times Square for narcotics money and an 18 year old missing after escaping a hospital.
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Yonkers
N.Y
New York
Public Safety
Daniel F. McMahon
McMahon
Yonkars
Hudson River
Times Square
Frank E. Vescio
Marriage Looks Like A Dying Institution
London UPI reports that a University of California professor says three of four British husbands would choose different wives and four of ten British wives would make another choice. He cites rising divorce rates in Britain and the US as an epidemic and argues unrealistic expectations strain marriages. He estimates only about 5 percent of marriages are truly happy.
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London
UPI
University of California
Norman Brill
Brill
First
International Congress of Social Psychiatry
Britain
United States
Don Juan
Nevada DC3 crash lets 37 survive after emergency landing
A Hawthorne Airlines DC3 carrying 37 from Burbank to Hawthorne crash landed seven miles south of Tonopah on Mud Lake. All aboard survived though 32 were hospitalized with injuries. Pilot Harry W. Hopkins and co pilot Stanley Nielson were trapped nine minutes before rescue.
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Tonopah
Nev
UPI
Nevada
Hawthorne Airlines
Burbank
Calif
Hawthorne
Harry W. Hopkins
Mud Lake
Rick Blakemoor
Nye County Hospital
Hopkins
Stanley Nielson
Reno
Shadegg Appointed Regional GOP Director for West
Stephen Shadegg of Phoenix was named regional director for the Republican Party and the Goldwater-M Miller campaign across 11 western states. GOP chairman Dean Burch announced the post, completing the western field command.
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Stephen Shadegg
Phoenix
Ariz
Republican Party
Goldwater-Miller
Dean Burch
Tucson
GOP
Mississippi
Richard L. Herman
Omaha
Neb
Colorado
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
North
South Dakota
Oklahoma
Herman
Shadege
Alaska
Arizona
Idaho
Hawaii
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New Mexico
Nevada
Oregon
Utah
Wyoming
Barry Goldwater
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ARMY
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Panney
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