Maryland Celebrates January Independence Day Ceremony
Maryland keeps observing Independence Day on January 14 each year. The 1784 ratification of the Treaty of Paris by Continental Congress ended the Revolutionary War. A 13 star flag will fly at the State House rotunda as the Maryland Line reenactors drill and a fife and drum corps plays Maryland My Maryland. Delegates from the original colonies will attend a Revolutionary War era dinner commemorating British withdrawal.
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Jr High Students Lead Christmas Food Drive in Frederick County
Frederick County junior high students collected enough food to fill over 100 baskets for needy families. The Salvation Army will distribute the baskets. The Future Farmers of America ran the drive at Frederick County and Robert E. Aylor junior high schools, with Aylor’s effort co sponsored by the Student Cooperative Association.
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Lament by Solzhenitsyn Over Ousted Soviet Editor Tvardovsky
Russian Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote a lament for Alexander Tvardovsky, criticizing Soviet literary officials who removed him as editor of Novy Mir. He notes Tvardovsky’s death from a stroke after a long cancer fight and denounces the Secretariat of the Writers Union for dismissing him.
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Hints From Heloise Riddles for Birthday Candles Fun
A Heloise column shares playful candle riddles to celebrate birthdays without exposing ages. Readers discuss using candle arrangements to symbolize families, and share tips for practical party fixes from drying shoes with a hair dryer to protecting plants from a fish.
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Bangladesh adopts official spelling for AP dispatches
The nation formerly East Pakistan is officially spelled Bangladesh. Some sources use Bangla Desh or Bangladesh. the one-word form mirrors Viet Nam. M R Akhtar notes Bangladesh as the standard, though Dacca papers and stamps once used Bangla Desh.
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California banks plan SCOPE payroll electronic deposits
Early next year banks in California will offer a computerized payroll deposit system called SCOPE. Employers will feed payroll tapes to their bank computer to credit employees who use direct deposit while others receive traditional paychecks and statements. The plan aims to speed payments though initial reluctance is expected.
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Churchill's vow after RAF victory in Battle of Britain
Prime Minister Churchill proclaimed that never in the field of human conflict had so many owed so much to so few following the RAF decisive defeat of the German Luftwaffe in 1940. The World Almanac cites RAF persistence despite being outnumbered and longer combat time.
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A Clockwork Orange Tops 1971 Film Critics Poll
New York critics name A Clockwork Orange best motion picture of 1971 and Stanley Kubrick best director. Jane Fonda wins actress for her role as a harried call girl. Gene Hackman best actor for The French Connection. Ben Johnson and Ellen Burstyn cited for The Last Picture Show. tied screenwriting vote between The Last Picture Show and Sunday Bloody Sunday. Plagues to be presented Jan. 23 at Sardi's.
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Maryland man sentenced 35 years for murder in Virginia
Gary Francis Dunham, 21, of Baltimore, received a 35 year prison term for first degree murder in the April 9 stabbing death of Morris D. Williams, a fellow soldier in Fort Lee area. Dinwiddie County Circuit Court Judge D. Carleton Mayes handed down the sentence.
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