Peace Corps Protest Sparks Global Uproar Against War
Peace Corps volunteers in six countries held protests against the Vietnam War, with actions in Turkey the Dominican Republic Bolivia Colombia Guyana and Ecuador. In Washington about 200 staff joined the Moratorium rally and walk to the Capitol.
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Washington
White House
Vietnam
Peace Corps
Turkey
Yash Oueer
U.S
Dominican Republic
United States
Henry Kissinger
Joseph Blatchford
Tanzania
CIA
Bolivia
Colombia
Guyana
Ecuador
Handmade doily patterns and needlecraft catalog sale
Ace Brooks advertises crochet patterns for doilies in sizes 7 to 14 inches and offers multiple needlecraft catalogs with dozens of designs. Prices are 50 cents per pattern, with extra postage, and mail orders to Winchester Evening Star, New York.
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Ze Brooks
Winchester Evening Star
Needlecraft Dept
Old Chelsea Station
New York
N. Y
Needlecraft
Bugs
Hints From Heloise Store Unpackaged Light Bulbs in Glasses
Hints from Heloise suggests storing loose light bulbs in drinking glasses by size to prevent breakage and save space. Readers share tips on waffle batter, pincushions from toilet tissue rolls, reinforced picture hangers, and DIY string and ribbon organizers using a wire hanger. (1969, King Features Syndicate.)
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Heloise
Joy Austin
Priest Groppi jailed six months for probation violation
Police escorted Rev. James E. Groppi from a Milwaukee courtroom after a six month sentence for probation violation. The civil rights activist had earlier led welfare demonstrators and student supporters in a Madison Assembly chamber takeover and was later held in contempt by the legislature.
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James E. Groppi
Milwaukee County House of Correction
Civil Rights Ac
Tivist
Madison
Australian police hunt Biggs after Melbourne raid
Ronald Arthur Biggs, last fugitive from Britain's Great Train Robbery, evaded capture in a Blackburn home raid hours earlier with his wife Charmaine and two young sons. Officials say he fled before the raid and used alias Terry Cooke, while sister sightings and a former radio announcer linked to tips keep the manhunt active as authorities weigh recovered funds amounting to less than one million.
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Melbourne
Ronald Arthur Biggs
Britain
Biggs
Blackburn
Charmaine
Nicholas
Christopher
Fairley
London
Wandsworth
Terry Lamb
Europe
Canada
Eric Flowers
Flowers
Max Phillips
Australia
Phillips
Adelaide
New Evidence in Slayings Points to Killer Probe
Los Angeles police report new evidence in the two month long hunt for the Sharon Tate murder case. Homicide Lt Robert J Helder says tracing this piece could direct investigators toward the killers. The victims include Sharon Tate Abigail Folger Jay Sebring Woitych Frokowski and Steven Parent.
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Los Angeles
Sharon Tate
Robert J. Helder
Los
Angeles
Roman Polanski
Abigail Folger
Jay Sebring
Woitych Frokowski
Steven Parent
Asst
Robert Houghton
Militants Divide Methodists in Chicago
The Weatherman faction of Students for a Democratic Society split the United Methodist Church in the Chicago area by housing 400 radicals in four churches and a seminary in Evanston during October demonstrations. One man was paralyzed after a downtown clash, with injuries and arrests reported as clergy and lay leaders debated housing policies and church involvement.
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Chicago
Weatherman
Students For A Democratic Society
LDS
United Methodist Church
Evanston
Emanuel Methodist Church
Harry Conner
Covenant United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church
Temple
Thomas Jers
Dale Nelson
Covenant Methodist
Richard Elrod
Elrod
Mrs Biggs escorted to Melbourne court in Great Train Robbery case
Mrs Ronald Arthur Biggs, wife of the man still sought in Britain's $7 million Great Train Robbery, is escorted by Australian detectives into Melbourne court Saturday. She was charged with entering Australia illegally after police raid her home. The family had been living in Blackburn suburbs under the name Cooke.
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Ronald Arthur Biggs
Britain
Melbourne
Cooke
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United Methodists For Methodism
Garrett Theological Seminary
Don Kirkpatrick
Evarston
Methodist Churches
Lincoln Park
Johns-Manville
John W. Rosenberger and Co., Inc
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