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...Dover, Del., U.S.O. Worker Pansy Pendergrass collected 8,000 books. In Michigan, with Republican Governor George Romney's blessing, a newspaper reporter organized a drive that amassed 7,000 cans of soft drinks, 6,500 cans of foot powder, 5,000 bottles of aspirin, 45,000 tubes of toothpaste, 4,500 packages of gum, and thousands more handy items from applesauce to shaving cream...
...Erikson, 37: a successful, round-trip swim of the English Channel, from Dover to Calais and back in 30 hrs. 3 min., slashing more than 13 hrs. from the old record set by Argentina's Antonio Abertondo in 1961. A Chicago research chemist, Erikson battled cold, exhaustion, schools of jellyfish and hallucinations ("when the pilot boat turned into a rosebush, I just closed my eyes...
...wire to reproduce an authentic, outlandish armada of vintage aircraft. These flaphappy contraptions include at least six flyable full-scale models, among them a facsimile of the plane in which France's Louis Blériot made his historic 1909 flight across the English Channel from Calais to Dover...
...have you." Guest Speaker Sir Richard Acland, 58, an ex-Labor M.P. who left the party because it was too conservative in 1955, sniffed that he considered Harold Wilson's administration capable of assessing the national peril "only if 50 million Siberian soldiers were climbing the cliffs of Dover in muffled boots...
...marshals are: Emily L. Deiman, of Warner House and New York City; Anne J. d'Harnoncourt, of Warner House and New York City; Catherine B. Fitch, of Jordan J and Nahant; Sarah Jackson, of Cabot Hall and Dover; and Miranda C. Sampsell, of Moors Hall and Chicago...