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This is the early evening edition of the news. |
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The recent fight in the House of Representatives was over the open housing |
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section of the Civil Rights Bill. |
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Brought traditional enemies together but it left the defenders of the |
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measure without the votes of their strongest supporters. |
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President Johnson originally proposed an outright ban covering discrimination |
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by everyone for every type of housing but it had no chance from the start |
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and everyone in Congress knew it. |
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A compromise was painfully worked out in the House Judiciary Committee. |
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In Los Angeles today comedian Lenny Bruce died of what was believed to be an |
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overdoes of narcotics. |
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Bruce was 42 years old. |
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Dr. Martin Luther King says he does not intend to cancel plans for an open |
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housing march Sunday into the Chicago suburb of Cicero. |
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Cook County Sheriff Richard Ogleby asked King to call off the march and the |
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police in Cicero said they would ask the National Guard to be called out |
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if it is held. |
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King, now in Atlanta, Georgia, plans to return to Chicago Tuesday. |
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In Chicago Richard Speck, accused murderer of nine student nurses, was brought |
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before a grand jury today for indictment. |
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The nurses were found stabbed an strangled in their Chicago apartment. |
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In Washington the atmosphere was tense today as a special subcommittee of the |
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House Committee on Un-American activities continued it's probe into anti- |
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Viet nam war protests. |
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Demonstrators were forcibly evicted from the hearings when they began chanting |
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anti-war slogans. |
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Former Vice-President Richard Nixon says that unless there is a substantial |
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increase in the present war effort in Viet nam, the U.S. should look forward |
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to five more years of war. |
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In a speech before the Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in New York, |
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Nixon also said opposition to the war in this country is the greatest single |
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weapon working against the U.S. |
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That's the 7 o'clock edition of the news, |
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Goodnight. |
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Silent night |
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Holy night |
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All is calm |
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All is bright |
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Round yon virgin mother and child |
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Holy infant so tender and mild |
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Sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace. |
