Protests Rise Over Manhattan Towaway Program
Protests mount against the mid Manhattan auto towaway plan with complaints from the handicapped and doctors. City aides traffic cops bus and taxi drivers praise the unclogged streets as 160 handicapped drivers use police taxi service to reach work while diplomats and foreign consuls with special plates escape tow charges. The city considers parking for handicapped drivers in certain towaway zones and analyzes site details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mid Manhattan
Handi
Arthur Palmer Jr
66Th Streets
Hudson Rivers
Wnew Radio
New York County Medical Society
Manhattan
Russian Mine Found in Saigon Shipping Channel
The U S Navy announced a New Year’s Eve present from the Viet Cong a contact mine found in the Tau River main shipping channel to Saigon. The 10 000 pound Russian made mine bore barnacles and was among enemy mines fished from the Tau River now on display on a barge near Saigon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nha Be
Saigon
Long Tau
South China Sea
South Vietnam
U.S. Navy
Tau River
Navy
Paul Gray
St. John
Kan
Vietnam
Rung Sat
Gray
Frank Talarico
Red Bank
N. J
Talarico
United States
Library questions on permanent collection and strike zone
A Q and A explains Library of Congress selection for permanent versus reserve collections. The text also notes baseballs strike zone defined as over home plate between the batter's shoulder top and knees in natural stance. Navy details describe a mine found in Long Tau and possible Viet Cong routes near Rung Sat region with disarming efforts and planned U S study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Librarian of Congress
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Havana Carnival Postponed To November
Havana will hold its pre Easter carnival in November to avoid disrupting the sugar harvest. Mayor Levy Farach announced the change and urged volunteers for cane cutting as Cuba observes Holy Week. The Miami monitored Cuban news service notes Fidel Castro and other officials joined cane cutting previously.
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Havana
Miami
Fla
Levy Farach
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Osvaldo Corticos
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John V. Lindsay
Daniel Fields
Bernard Robins
Garden City
Long Island
Lindsay
Library of Congress
Ford
Ared
Ford Cares
Ford Motor Company
GW Motors, Inc
Loudoun St
Lamar Sloan Ford, Inc
Valley Ave
Winchester
Babylon
Hammurabi
Fantastic Room
Group Value
Sealy
Tio
Drench
W. Cork St
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