FTC challenges Reader's Digest sweepstakes practices
The FTC announced a proposed complaint charging Reader's Digest with 11 promotions from 1966 to 1969 that promised prizes totaling 699,293 awards worth 5.645 million but awarded only about 274,282 prizes valued at 2.531 million. The agency seeks an order to award all prizes as represented and to disclose exact counts, values, and odds, and to stop sharing purchasers' names without written consent.
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FTC
Reader’s Digest Association, Inc
Pleasantville, N
New Misses Pattern 4912 Air Mail Offer
Advertisement for Printed Pattern 4912 by Anne Adams via Winchester Evening Star. Includes sizes 8 to 18, fabric yardage for size 12, price 75 cents plus 25 cents air mail, mail order address in New York, and references to sewing books and a fall winter pattern catalog.
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Anne Adams
Winchester Evening Star
Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York
N.Y
Basques Swear Vengeance After Death Sentences
Basque nationalists vow retaliation against military judges who sentenced six Basques to death and nine others to prison terms. ETA members name Capt. Antonio Troncoso de Castro and threaten violence as protests erupt across Europe and in Madrid.
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Spain
ETA
Antonio Troncoso de Castro
de Castro
Madrid
Europe
San Sebastian
Rome
Brussels
World Council of Churches
International Commission of Jurists
Geneva
Paris
Moscow
Eugen Reihl
Meliton Manzanas
Three WV Prison Escapees Returned for Robbery Arrest
Three men escaped from West Virginia State Penitentiary at Moundsville are sent back to Franklin after waiving extradition. They are charged with holding up Kiser Body Shop owner R B Kiser and brother, stealing their car, and were found with cash, a pistol, drugs, and pills. Suspects are Paul Ervin Chaffin, 36, Huntington. Gary Lee Hammick, 19, Charleston. Kenneth Edward Graves, 24, Buckhannon.
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West Virginia
Moundsville
Franklin
W. Va
Virginia
R. B. Kiser
Kiser
Watson Kiser
R.B. Kiser
Rockingham County
U.S. 33
Here
Paul Ervin Chaffin
Huntington
Gary Lee Hammick
Charleston
W.va
Kenneth Edward Graves
Buckhannon
Defense Says Tate Killers Still At Large In Manson Case
Defense lawyer Paul Fitzgerald asserts Charlies Manson and three women are innocent in the Sharon Tate murders and urges jurors to consider unknown killers. He claims Linda Kasabian lied under oath to save her life and questions the eyeglasses linked to the crime as evidence.
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Los Angeles
Charlies Manson
Sharon Tate
Paul Fitzgerald
Linda Kasabian
Fitzgerald
Kasabian
Manson
Miss Tate
Leno LaBianca
Tate
FTC Ready to Require Octane Ratings on Gas Pumps
Federal Trade Commission prepared a truth in gas measure posting octane ratings at service stations. Proxmire argues octane is the key quality, while oil firms and some consumers dispute its completeness. The move aims to help drivers choose gas and curb pollution amid varied engine needs.
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FTC
Washington
Federal Trade Commission
William Proxmire
Capitol Hill
Wisconsin Democrat
Proxmire
Oil Company
Dean Martin to star in Something Big
Dean Martin will lead a band of renegades in a frontier West for Cinema Center Films in Something Big. The Western pits his plans for a big haul against love interests and a vigilant U.S. Cavalry colonel. This marks his first film since Airport in 1968.
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New York
Dean Martin
James Lee Barrett
Andrew V. McLaglen
Cinema Center Films
Martin
West
U.S. Cavalry
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