Miss Hitchcock Wins Miss USA Title in Miami Beach
Alabama junior Sylvia Hitchcock won the Miss USA crown at a Miami Beach pageant. Her boyfriend, a University of Miami student named Skip Hunter, had proposed earlier, saying she is the most natural and down to earth. Hitchcock, raised on a Florida chicken farm, plans to travel to New York and aspires to be an art professor.
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Sylvia Hitchcock
Miami Beach
Fla
University of Alabama
Sylvia
Herbert
Skip
Hunter
Hastings
Hitchcock
Alabama
Miami
University of Miami
New York
Haverhill
Mass
Raymond
University of Connecticut
California
Susan Bradley
Florida
Cheryl Patton
North Miami Beach
Wisconsin
Jodi Bonham
Missouri
Karen Hendriz
Freezer Home Sparrows Sojourn In Miami Warehouse
A wild sparrow inhabits a warehouse freezer near Miami for three weeks, where temperatures stay 38 to 39 degrees below zero. Workers report the bird peeks out, fluttering daily, drinks icy water, and raids frozen foods while staff leave doors ajar. The piece ends with a stray sentence about Senate age.
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Miami
Fla
Fred Dunecombe
J S Westbrook
Frozen Foods Department
Westbrook
Countdown Begins for Perfect Attendance Class
In Bristol at Chinquapin Elementary School Mrs. Betty Combs sixth grade aims for perfect attendance with 22 pupils trailing a 164 day streak and 11 days left. A special awards program is set for Wednesday ten days before A Day while a PTA fundraiser plans to send all students to Washington DC for a capital tour.
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Bristol, Tenn
Betty Combs
Bristol
Chinquapin
Chinquapin Elementary
Johnson
Humphrey
Parent- Teachers Association
No Statewide GOP Image in Virginia, Press Told
University of Virginia political scientist Dr. Ralph Eisenberg told a Virginia Press Association seminar that Republican gains in 1966 were local rather than statewide. He noted Virginia’s one time dominant Byrd machine has loosened in four to five years and urged development of a statewide image and urban appeal. Tom Wicker of the New York Times predicted the 1968 Republican Convention could back Reagan or Rockefeller, with Johnson’s fate hinging on the choice.
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Virginia
Tom Wicker
New York Times
Washington
California
Rornald Reagan
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Johnson
Preparation H Promise Stops Rectal Itch in Most Cases
An advertisement touts Preparation H with Bio-Dyne claiming quick relief from hemorrhoid itching and burning without surgery or narcotics. It says the ointment or suppository lubricates and soothes tissues to prevent further infection, with therapy available for severe cases.
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New York, N.Y
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Harry F. Byrd Sr
Eisenberg
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Lyndon Johnson
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