Repelling Practice Grows Confidence For Mountain Test
A faculty sponsor Miss Bobbi Sheer leads a roof top repelling drill at the school to build students’ confidence ahead of the final mountains test.
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Winchester Evening Star in Winchester, Virginia
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1970
Page
10
AT&T Chief Denies Discrimination Charges
H I Romnes, board chairman of American Telephone and Telegraph, angrily denies EEOC charges that the Bell system discriminates against blacks, women, and Spanish surnamed Americans. He says the system recruits and promotes without discrimination and vows to fight the FCC case linked to a rate increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Bell System
Federal Communications Commission
EEOC
Hazards in Toys Highlight Safe Shopping for Holidays
President Nixon's consumer aide urges careful toy checks as FDA urges bans and manufacturers adjust designs. The effort cites dangerous items from sharp pins in toy instruments to hot electrical sets and choking risks, with unions and regulators warning about lingering dangers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Kaplan
Consumers 'Union
Kaplan
FDA
National Commission On Product Safety
Khrushchev Claims Personal Triumph in Caribbean Crisis
Khrushchev says the 1962 Cuban missile deployment protected Cuba from invasion and marked a personal triumph in his career. Life magazine excerpts recount Kennedy’s appeals to Khrushchev to remove missiles and warn of military pressure, with Robert Kennedy cited as doubtful on army takeover claims.
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Associated Press
NEW York
Nikita Khrushchev
Cuba
Chicago
Washington
Khrushchev
Life
United States
Bay of Pigs
John F. Kennedy
U.S
Caribbean
Francis Gary Powers
America
McGehee Hartvey
Department of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Soviet Union
Khr
Robert Kennedy
Dean Rusk
Kennedy
Vietnam
Little, Brown and Co
Moscow
Baby Dies as Apartment Fireclaims Infant Victim in Hampton
In Hampton on Sunday a two story apartment fire killed 4 month old Angela Coats. Neigh bor John Rasmussen suffered burns over 65 percent of his body and is being treated at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. Coats’ mother escaped from a second floor window.
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J.W. Schwartz
Coats
Rasmussen
Van Peebles Wins Image Award For Watermelon Man Score
Marvin Van Peebles won the 1970 Image Award for best score in a motion picture. The NAACP honors outstanding achievement in entertainment. Watermelon Man stars Godfrey Cambridge and Estelle Parsons as a white suburbanite who becomes Black after waking up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Image Award
New York
Marvin van Peebles
Columbia Pictures
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Godfrey Cambridge
Estelle Parsons
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Alameda High School
Denver
At&t
H. I. Romnes
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Rommel
E. Boscawen
Oe Hester
Nixon
Virginia Knauer
Santa Claus
Food and Drug Administration
Consumers Union
Knauer
Commission
Bicycle
RED Cross Blood Program
Red Cross Bloodmobile
Episcopal Parish
Amoco
American Oil Company
Ebenezer Scrooge
Scrooge
the Plaza Theatre
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