Guinness Book of Records Announces New Edition
The 25th annual Guinness Book of Records, published in London, lists new marks across diverse fields. Highlights include balloonists’ Atlantic crossing in 137 hours, a 78 foot cactus, the longest fingernails, and 270 cigarette smoke rings in a single puff.
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Atlantic
Empire State Building
Ben Abruzzo
Max Anderson
Larry Newman
Presque Isle
Maine
Evreux
France
Gary Muhroke
New York City
New
York
Jan Forman
Copenhagen
Denmark
Guinness
Cave Creek
Ariz
Shridhar Chillal
Poona
India
University of Texas
Walter Cavanaugh
Santa Clara
Calif
Amelia Finch
Lakehurst
N.J
Paul E. Warburgh
Huntington
Norris McWhirter
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Church Council Urges Anti Gambling Sermons Across Virginia
Virginia Council of Churches plans to have about 6000 pulpits preach against legalized horse race betting on November 7. Clergy letters urge congregations to vote no in the statewide pari mutuel referendum. Religious leaders condemn pro pari mutuel spokesman remarks as a moral issue.
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Richmond
Virginia Council of Churches
Dennis Peterson
Kenneth Goodson
Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church
Goodson
Five Deaths Include Mother Father in Grisly Case
Billy Edward Hardesty, 21, accused of three murders after a siege at his parents home left his mother Jan and father Ronald dead. He remains in critical condition after police shot him. authorities link the killings to an ongoing violent spree and also report two other men killed during an earlier confrontation.
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Hardesty
Fred Fensch
Billy
Robert Pifer
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital
Ann Arbor
Jan Hardesty
Ronald Hardesty
Washtenaw County
William Delhey
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