Communist Poet Neruda Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Pablo Neruda, Chilean Communist poet and former ambassador to France, wins the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy cites his poetry as endowing a continent with its destiny and dreams while noting his controversial political stance and past exile.
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Stockholm
Pablo Neruda
Chile
Neruda
Communist Party
France
Salvador Allende
Santiago
Nervali
Ricardo Reyes Y Bascalto
la United Fruit Company
Latin America
Swedish Academy
Paris
Gabriela Mistral
Karl Ragnar Gierow
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Morning Glory vines and persimmon mentioned in town notes
Mrs Pauline Good reports two bright pink blooms and a blue Morning Glory seedling that reseeds annually. Mrs Clyde Kirby from Cedarmeade shares a Japanese Persimmon tree with bright orange fruit. Lovett Bros. Shoe Store cites remodeling sale with discounts as does Drug Fair and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer offers.
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Pauline Good
Westwood Drive
Clyde Kirby
Wentworth Drive
Cedarmeade
The
Crier
Clear Contest in Race Kostel Backed by Miller in Frederick Rally
Democratic Atty Gen Andrew P Miller told a Frederick crowd that Kostel is the clear choice for lieutenant governor noting a two horse race with Shafran and Howell. He warned voters not to overlook Kostel and announced a Godwin Kostel breakfast at the George Washington Hotel October 28.
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Andrew P. Miller
Frederick County
Izaak Walton League
Winchester
Monwealth
Dabney W. Watts
Miller
Democratic
Richard G. Dick
David Smith
Star
Democratic Party
George J. Kostel
Clifton Forge
George P. Shafran
Henry E. Howell, Jr
Richmond
Izaak Walton League Park
Mills Godwin
Kostel
House of Delegates
Godwin - Kostel
George Washington Hotel
Izaak Walton
Frederick
Shafran
Howell
Commonwealth
Byrd Opposes Nixon Welfare Plan in Senate Speech
Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. announced he cannot support the Nixon administration welfare proposal after 18 months of study. He outlined five reasons, including weak work incentives, higher annual cost, beneficiaries rising to 25 million, need for 80,000 new federal workers, and doubts about a guaranteed annual income.
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Washington
Harry F. Byrd Jr
India
Senate
Nixon
Byrd
Richard P. Nathan
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Joint Economic Committee
Proxmire
House Banking Committee
Treasury
John B. Connally
Senate Finance Committee
Nixon to Announce Two Supreme Court Nominees Tonight
President Nixon plans a live TV and radio address at 7:30 p m EDT to reveal two Supreme Court nominees amid ABA committee controversy. The White House notes Senate consent role while ABA reports questioned Friday and Lillie and Friday named as frontrunners amid opposition.
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Washington
Nixon
White House
Washington Post
American Bar Association
Committee On the Federal Judiciary
Ronald L. Ziegler
ABA
Senate
High Court
Ziegler
Mildred L. Lillie
California Court of Appeals
Herschel H. Friday
John L. McClellan
Senate Judiciary Committee
McClellan
The
Friday
ABA Board of Governors
Lillie
Post
John Mitchell
Mitchell
Justice Department
School Lunch Bill Sent to President
The Senate approved a bill ordering the Nixon administration to drop plans to end lunch subsidies for about 1.5 million children and raised the minimum federal subsidy per lunch for needy students from 35 to 46 cents. The House supported the measure 340 to 0 earlier, with Sen. Herman E. Talmadge noting it addresses hard pressed school officials' funding needs.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Nixon
Herman E. Talmadge
D-Ga
Senate Agriculture Committee
House
Kosygin Visits Montreal in bid to boost Canada Soviet Ties
Soviet Premier Kosygin assured Canada of growing friendship with the USSR and said it would not threaten ties with the United States. He faced protest chatter in Montreal and Ottawa while meeting Prime Minister Trudeau, promising expanded Canadian Soviet trade and a lasting northern friendship.
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Ottawa
Alexei N. Kosygin
Moscow
Canada
United States
Montreal
Kosygin
Soviet Union
T Bintot
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
War Toll Lowest In Six Years In Vietnam
Five Americans were killed in combat in Vietnam last week, the lowest weekly death toll in more than six years, as U S forces withdrew. Wounded rose to 84, and 15 servicemen died last week of nonhostile causes, including illness and accidents.
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Saigon
Vietnam
U.S
U.S. Command
Texas Firm Agrees to Rollback In Propane Gas Price Increases
Wanda Petroleum Co. Houston agreed under government pressure to roll back about 6 million dollars of propane price hikes. The move could trigger a 100 million dollar rollback by seven other major oil companies. The Cost of Living Council and IRS will review practices for potential violations of seasonal price increase guidelines.
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Texas
Washington
Nixon
Wanda Petroleum Co
Houston
Internal Revenue Service
Cost of Living Council
Arnold R. Weber
Council
C. Jackson Grayson
Southern Methodist University
School of
Weber
Wanda Petroleum
Ashland Oil Co
Ashland
Durham seeks venue change for re trial in 1963 knife slaying
Luther Durham Jr a Prince George County farmhand awaiting retrial in Frederick County Circuit Court for the 1963 murder of Annie Snow 85 at Double Tollgate petitions for a change of venue requests permission to hire Research Group Inc to research legal questions and seeks disclosure of prosecution witnesses and statements Judge George S Whitley Jr set pre trial motions hearing with reporters named as witnesses and judges Elliott Marshall and Robert K Woltz disqualified from presiding
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Luther Durham, Jr
Prince George County
Frederick County
Annie Snow
Double Tollgate
Durham
David G. Simpson
Research Group, Inc
Charlottesville
Commonwealth
George J. Bonebreak
FBI
Washington
George S. Whitley, Jr
Elliott Marshall
Robert K. Woltz
Whitley
Supreme Court
Shots Break Windows In Soviet Mission
Four shots fired from Hunter College shattered three windowpanes at the Soviet Union’s United Nations mission on East 67th Street. No injuries. Police later found a semiautomatic rifle on Hunter College’s top floor and planned tests to confirm weapon use.
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New York
Hunter College
Soviet Union
United Nations
A. Skotnikov
East 67Th Street
68Th Street
Park and
Lexington Avenues
College
Weather control by high over New England and Florida low
Weather in Richmond shows cloudy and wet conditions influenced by a large high over New England and a low off Florida. Also notes Schenck Foods will be closed Monday October 25 for Veterans Day observance.
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Richmond
Virginia
New England
Florida
Schenck Foods
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