Record-Courier
B6 Tuesday, June 21, 2016
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Non Sequitur
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BLONDIE
FUNKY WINKERBEAN
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
DOoNESBURY
BABY BLUES
TODAY IN HISTORY
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Associated Press
kkToday is Tuesday, June 21, the 173rd day of 2016. There are 193 days left in the year. nnToday’s Highlight in History: kk On June 21, 1964, civil rights workers Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney were slain in Philadelphia, Mississippi; their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later. (Fortyone years on this date in 2005, Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, was found guilty of manslaughter; he was sentenced to 60 years in prison.)
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GARFIELD
Beverly Hills, California. Heritage says the lock comes ASSOCIATED PRESS from a former employee at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London. She snipped some Mass. woman of Bowie’s hair in the 1980s to skydives to mark create a wig for a wax figure of the singer. Heritage says she her 87th birthday kept it as a souvenir. ORANGE, Mass. — A MasThe rock superstar died in sachusetts woman can check January at 69 after a battle something off her bucket list: with liver cancer. She celebrated her 87th birthday by skydiving. The Recorder reports Ja- Man tries to sneak nis Lefebre’s children bought iguana into court her the skydiving package from Jumptown, a skydiving BOULDER, Colo. — The Boulcenter based in Orange, after der County Justice Center allearning that jumping out of a lows service animals into the plane was something she al- building, but security guards ways wanted to do. drew the line when someone A crowd of family and friends tried to sneak his pet iguana gathered on Sunday to cheer through the X-ray machine. on Lefebre’s descent from Sheriff’s spokeswoman Carrie 13,500 feet. Haverfield tells The Daily Camera that security staff caught reptile as it passed through David Bowie’s hair the the machine Friday. The pet’s to fetch more than owner was turned away and waited outside for his friends $4,000 at auction to come out of the courthouse. LOS ANGELES — An aucThe sheriff’s department tion house is expecting a lock tweeted an X-ray image of the of David Bowie’s hair to fetch iguana, or at least its skeletal more than $4,000 this weekend. outline, inside a bag. Heritage Auctions says BowHaverfield says people have ie’s hair will go on the block Sat- tried to sneak dogs, cats and urday as part of an auction in mice into the building.
ODDS AND ENDS
SALLY FORTH
ZITS
BUCKLES
SUDOKU
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3 5 6 8 2
8
Difficulty Level
1
By Dave Green
6 9 4 5
2
9
6 9 3 5 8 1
4 6 7 9 6
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Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. Each row must have the numbers 1 to 9; each column must have the numbers 1 to 9; and each set of 3-by-3 boxes must have the numbers 1 to 9. Answer for previous day’s puzzle
7 9 4 2 5 1 3 6 8
8 3 5 6 7 4 2 1 9
Difficulty Level
6 2 1 9 3 8 4 7 5
1 5 3 4 8 6 9 2 7
4 7 9 1 2 5 6 8 3
2 6 8 3 9 7 1 5 4
3 8 6 7 4 2 5 9 1
9 1 7 5 6 3 8 4 2
5 4 2 8 1 9 7 3 6
2016 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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CRYPTOQUOTES
2016 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
FAMILY CIRCUS
1788, the United States Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it. kk In 1834, Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine. kk In 1913, Georgia “Tiny” Broadwick became the first woman to parachute from an airplane as she jumped over Los Angeles. kk In 1932, heavyweight Max Schmeling lost a title fight rematch in New York by decision to Jack Sharkey, prompting Schmeling’s manager, Joe Jacobs, to exclaim: “We was robbed!” kk In 1942, German forces led by Generaloberst (Colonel General) Erwin Rommel captured the Libyan city of Tobruk during World War II. (Following his victory, Rommel was promoted to Field Marshal; Tobruk was retaken by the Allies in November 1942.) kk In 1955, the David Lean movie “Summertime” starring Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi opened in New York. kk In 1963, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen during a conclave of his fellow cardinals to succeed the late Pope John XXIII; the new pope took the name Paul VI. kk In 1966, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” Mike Nichols’ film version of the Edward Albee play starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, had its world premiere in Hollywood. kk In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Miller v. California, ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards. kk In 1982, a jury in Washington, D.C. found John Hinckley Jr. not guilty by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three other men. kk In 1985, scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele (MEN’guh-luh).
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