New York City Suffered Historic Holiday Traffic Surge
The article recalls a Christmas week flood of Manhattan visitors, with 26,000 at Radio City Music Hall and massive curbside lines. It notes Mike Quill’s bus negotiations, the Fifth Avenue Coach Company strike, and Wagner’s pressure to settle. It also mentions Grand Central’s new office towers, Park Avenue gentrification, and UN Secretariat Building staff observations.
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Grand Central
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Waldorf
New York
UN Secretariat
Fast River
Nasser
Burma
Indonesia
Egypt
England
Sweden
Raton
N.M
Baltimore
Barnes
Penn Station
Wes Izzard
U S and Britain to Discuss United Nations Role
Washington and London will review the UN's role and possible changes without Charter revision. British officials stress broad principles and peacemaking tools, while the U S favors strengthening UN machinery and Congo policy, with tension over Afro Asian positions and Red China.
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United States
Britain
United Nations
U.N
Congo
General Assembly
Washington
Foreign Office
Duncan Wilson
Adlai E. Stevenson
U.S
Lord Home
India
Goa
Ormsby-Gore
Weather Summary For Amarillo 1962 Clear Skies
Readings show Amarillo had seven straight sunny days with clear skies at 3 p.m. Sunday. Wind speeds around 10 to 25 MPH varied by location including Dallas and Houston reported in the passage.
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Houston
Dallas
Okia
City
Cattle Drive Resumes Through Snow in South Dakota
Rancher Don Hight leads 1800 Herefords on a 65 mile trek from Hight’s ranch to market as snow and wind hampered the drive. Improvements in weather allow the herd to continue aided by cake feed from Winner and hay from a neighboring ranch.
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Hight
South Dakota
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S.D
Bomb explodes during Sukarno visit in Makassar
A blast in Makassar killed three and wounded 25 as President Sukarno arrived to speak. He remained unharmed but shaken, later touring a military base while Indonesian forces reinforced South Celebes amid talks of action in West New Guinea.
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Celebes
West New Guinea
New Guinea
Bentham
U.S
Howard J. Jones
Netherlands
Karel Doorman
West Irian
Twistracted reader quips on foreign aid and domestic buying
A letter from D. Fe. Scott of Wellington argues against cutting foreign buyers free of U.S. goods. He mocks economists and links the logic to domestic spending by General Motors. The note reflects ongoing debate on trade and consumer finance.
Kennedy and Clay agree on Berlin crisis handling methods
President Kennedy and General Lucius D. Clay discussed Berlin and Germany. They reportedly fully agreed on how to handle possible crises, with Clay seeking greater authority for emergencies. Salinger said no policy differences exist among Kennedy Clay and Rusk.
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Kennedy
Lucius D. Clay
Berlin
Germany
Clay
Dean Rusk
U.S
Uny
Salinger
Algerians Discuss Chances for Peace
Algerian rebels meet at the Miramar Hotel near Casablanca under guard from Moroccan troops and Algerian agents to discuss peace prospects. Rebel Foreign Minister Saad Dahlab says others are preparing war while they prepare peace. No cease-fire announced yet. meeting seen as significant but not decisive.
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Morocco
Mohammedia
Miramar
Saad Dahlab
U S Blocks Russian Bus at Berlin Border
A Soviet officer bus was halted for 75 minutes by U S military police at Checkpoint Charlie in West Berlin delaying entry to the U S sector. MPs cleared the convoy after confirming the adviser was not aboard among 18 officers. Mayor Willy Brandt called the border wall a growing obstacle.
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Willy Brandt
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Friedrichstrasse
Guinea President Declares Nonalignment with World Blocs
In Conakry President Sekou Toure vowed Guinea will not choose sides in the Cold War. He said Guinea will accept aid from any nation on equal terms and rejected bloc confrontation. Mikoyan’s visit followed by tensions over the Soviet ambassador’s departure.
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Guinea
Sekou Toure
Anastas I. Mikoyan
Toure
Mikoyan
David Soloed
Enoy
Officers arrest 74 in Missouri Sunday sales raids
Police in St Louis County arrested 74 people as Missouri enforcement of the 36 year old Sunday sale ban expanded. The operation targeted non essential item sales on Sundays across the county.
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Missouri
St, Louis
St. Louis County
Rail Cars Derailed and GEM Discount Stores Run Aground
Thirty four cars of a Santa Fe freight train derailed twenty miles west of Fort Sumner New Mexico causing passenger trains to be rerouted over Rock Island tracks. An axle failure on the 24th car sparked a fire in an oil tanker but it was put out by Vaughn Fire Department with no injuries reported. GEM stores facing Missouri action claim private membership status to evade law. Police will issue warning letters to violators and seek arrests if needed while Eagleton moves to block GEM's Missouri operations.
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Santa Fe Railway
Rock Island
Herman D. Hill, Jr
Santa Fe
Vaughn Fire Department
Hill
Kansas City
C. M. Kelley
Amended Weather Summary for Amarillo and Northwest Texas
U S Weather Bureau reports fair to partly cloudy in Amarillo and Andover vicinity with increasing clouds and scattered snow showers this afternoon and tonight. Northwest Texas sees considerable cloudiness in the north, snow flurries possible, turning colder. New Mexico has partly cloudy conditions with a gradual cooling trend and light snow possible in the mountains. Temperatures range from around 15 to 52 degrees across regions with sunrise at 7:56 a.m. and sunset at 5:50 p.m.
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Hieh Feday
AMD
Asedee
Midwest hits by winter storm batter states from Michigan to New York
A new blizzard spreads snow from Missouri and Iowa into the Great Lakes region as temperatures plunge to the teens. Michigan's lower peninsula sees fresh nine inch fall atop 30 inches, Milwaukee 14 inches, Chicago eight inches with drifts, and power outages affect 40,000 Bay City residents after winds topple lines.
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