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Conservatives win 6 London boros; predict 70-seat majority in next gen election; cite apathy toward Labor policies as factor
Hospitalized injured and scores of eyewitnesses graphically described the damage and disorder that resulted yesterday from the chemical fire and explosion in the Holland Tunnel. Their stories re-created scenes of near panic in the gas-filled and debris-littered section of the tunnel, embracing an area of about 200 feet and about half a mile from the New Jersey entrance.
UN Assembly approves Conv on Internatl Transmission of News and Right of Correction, 33-6, over USSR bloc opposition; USSR last-min attempt to amend conv defeated; Deputy Min Gromyko scores, E D Canham and Min McNeil defend it
Holland Tunnel: eastbound sec damaged by truck chem blast
One hundred and fifty Port of New York Authority employes were hacking away last night to clear the Holland Tunnel of wreckage with equipment ranging from sledge hammers to bulldozers.