15000 Guards at Democratic Convention in Chicago
Chicago braces for the Democratic National Convention with about 15000 guards including National Guardsmen police and federal agents. Security around Amphitheatre and nearby hotels will be tight under Secret Service coordination as protests loom from antiwar and civil rights groups.
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Chicago
Chicago International Amphitheatre
National
Cook County
Sheriff's Office
State Police
Coast Guard
FBI
Man
Secret Service
Air Force
Union
Democratic National Committee
Rennie Davis
National Mobilization Committee
John —M. Bailey
Richard J. Daley
South
Blackstone Rangers Street
Symbolic Elephant's Style Shifts Over Eight Years
In eight years the Republican elephant evolved from a snarling figure to a grinning decor with top hat and drum. William Fleishell, art director of the Republican National Committee, creates these images including platform report covers and Lincoln ghost imagery to be chosen by the Platform Committee.
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Miami Beach
Fila
William Fleishell
Republican National Committee
Fleishell
The
Platform Committee
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Potomac Edison
Greensboro artist drawn into politics by posters
Charles Edward Goins, a 27 year old Greensboro native, has drawn portraits for policemen and plans an art career after jail. Fleishell promotes a 1960 elephant poster as a Republican fundraising device selling for 1 and 50 cents in bulk, with the drummer elephant design being especially popular among GOP buyers and voters.
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Greensboro
N.C
Charles Edward Goins
Pho
GOP National Committee
Fléishell
Fleishell
Spoonerisms Highlighted by World Almanac Note
The World Almanac recalls W Archibald Spooner an Oxford clergyman famed for humorously swapping initial sounds in phrases. A contemporary crafted a spoonerism example with a church usher mispronouncing a sentence about a pie and a sheet.
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the World Almanac
W. Archibald Spooner
Oxford
Fruit Growers Meet Set at Winchester Aug 8
Frederick County fruit growers plan a twilight meeting at the Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory on August 8 starting at 6 30 p.m. A plot tour led by George R Williams K D Hickey and C H Hill will open the program. Apple Commission plans for 1968 69 and the Quality Apple Contest sign up will be discussed. Refreshments will be served.
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Frederick County
Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory
George R. Williams
K.D. Hickey
C. H. Hill
Apple Commission
Overloaded Truck Fine Linked to Passenger Claim
Herb's Feed Service of Braymer Missouri was fined ten dollars after a magistrate found a truck carrying an 870 pound overload. The owner said part of the excess weight was a 325 pound friend who asked for a ride. The note includes an unrelated line about a Gila monster.
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St, Joseph, Mo
Herb’s Feed Service
Braymer
Margaret Young
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