Gls in Saigon Warned To Watch Their Steps
In Saigon U S authorities urged American servicemen to avoid night travel and crowds during the September 3 presidential election. An order may restrict personnel to their bases or workplaces for the election weekend to prevent terror incidents and show U S restraint. Tran Van Huong accused a 390000 increase in registered voters of fraud, claiming soldiers may vote twice with two cards.
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Saigon
U.S
South Vietnam
United States
South Vietnamese Constituent Assembly
Tran van Huong
Vietnam
Huong
Tech wins NIH grant for anaerobic bacteria lab
Virginia Tech received 376000 from the National Institutes of Health to help build a 1.2 million information research laboratory. The facility will house lab and training spaces for anaerobic bacteria research with relevance to food production waste disposal and pollution. The remaining costs are included in VT's 1968 70 capital outlay request.
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Blacksburg
Virginia Tech
National Institutes of Health
Vintage Quilt Pattern Catalog Excerpts
A fragment lists several pattern books with prices: Book No 2 Museum Quilts offering 12 quilt designs for 50 cents, Book No 3 Quilts for Today's Living with 15 complete patterns at 50 cents, and a Book of Prize Afghans featuring knit and crochet patterns for 12 afghans priced at 50 cents.
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Alice Brooks
Winchester Evening Star
Needlecraft Dept
P.O
Old Chelsea Station
New York
N.Y
Jumbo
Needlecraft
Museum
Separate bedrooms stir readers in Dear Abby column
The Abigail Van Buren advice column offers three vignettes on marital strain and neighbors. A wife worries about separate bedrooms after upgrading to a three bedroom home while her smoker husband seeks more sleep in a private room.
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Abigail van Buren
Chicago Tribune-N. Y. News Synd., Inc
Abby
RSVP
Plucky Copter Crew Rescues 4 GIs Under Viet Cong Fire
Four wounded U S Marines on a Da Nang beach were rescued by a CH47 Chinook crew after a Viet Cong assault. Captain Steve Pless and crew ferried 15 wounded aboard while heavy fire raked the area. One rescued GI died on the beach and another died en route to Ay Ha. two survived. The crew claimed to have left about 20 Viet Cong dead.
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DA Nang
South Vietnam
Steve Pless
Foley
Alan
Pless
Rupert Fairfield
Lake Charles
Polson
Lance Cpl
John Phelps
Louisville
Fairfield
Ay Ha
English Exchange Student in Critical Condition After Park Fall
A 19-year-old exchange student from England was in critical condition at University of Virginia Hospital after a fall at Shenandoah National Park. She lost footing from Black Rock onto stones, plunging about 100 feet while descending from Big Meadows around 2 p.m. She, and two companions from Mt. Airy Maryland, were airlifted to medical facilities for surgery.
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Charlottesville
England
University of Virginia Hospital
Shenandoah National Park
Luray
Mary B. Sellers
Big Meadows
Page Memorial Hospital
Mt. Airy, Md
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