Paris Jet Crash Kills 130 Americans on Orly Takeoff
A charter Air France Boeing 707 crashed after lifting off from Orly for New York killing 130 people including 121 Americans. Only two hostesses survived as the plane careened into Villeneuve le Roi and exploded. Mayor Ivan Allen of Atlanta aided in identifying victims. Pilot Captain Roland Hocie reportedly fought to stop the aircraft after engine trouble.
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Nixon and Kennedy Face Major Primary Tests
California voters prepare to cast ballots as Richard Nixon pursues the Republican gubernatorial nomination while Massachusetts hosts the Kennedy McCormack contest for the Democratic Senate nod. The three day California convention and Massachusetts gathering begin the party strength test ahead of September primaries.
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House Debates Tax Bill Extending Wartime Levy
The House plans action on a tax measure this week to extend for another year the wartime corporate income and excise taxes from the Korean conflict. If not enacted by June 30 the government would lose 4.3 billion annually. The bill also drops 10 percent wartime taxes on railroad and bus tickets and lowers airline ticket taxes from 10 to 5 percent starting June 1.
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West German air strike halts national air traffic
Flight control personnel at West German airports walk off for two days over wage demands. Civil aviation stops nationwide except for military planes and flights to isolated West Berlin.
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Meat Market Owner Robbed At Gunpoint In Ohio
Fred Hatton, owner of a North Olmstead meat market, reported two men robbed him of 1800 to 1900 dollars shortly after opening. He was forced to surrender a bank bag and was locked in a rest room. one robber used a pistol.
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Venezuela Crushes Its New Revolt
Loyal forces took Puerto Cabello after a weekend of fierce fighting to subdue a Communist backed uprising against President Betancourt. Be tancourt announced the rebellion ended with the surrender of top rebel navy officers amid ongoing clashes in the old city. casualties listed well over a hundred dead and hundreds wounded.
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Carrier Prize Theft Sparks Cleveland Police Arrest
Cleveland police arrested Joseph Bell, 26, a maintenance man for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sunday in connection with the theft of prizes valued at 1900 dollars kept in a stock room for carrier boys.
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US Thrown Off High Altitude Nuclear Test Above Johnston Island
A Thor missile failed tracking and was destroyed 100 seconds before detonation over the mid-Pacific. The warhead sank harmlessly, with no danger to Johnston Island personnel, after two delays and weather and technical doubts.
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England and France ease fears on Common Market entry
A two day meeting between Charles de Gaulle and Harold Macmillan reportedly cleared many French objections to Britain's entry into the European Common Market. A joint communique stressed shared interests and future negotiations with the six continental states. Officials said talks at the Chateau de Champs reaffirmed Anglo French camaraderie and support for a Western European political union.
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First Refugee Family Reaches U S Under New Quota
Eng Lesney a 45 year old Chinese refugee, his wife and three children became the first to be admitted under President Kennedy’s emergency provisions after fleeing Communist China and arriving in Chicago from Hong Kong to seek sanctuary and to visit a dying father while pursuing American citizenship.
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Bern death investigation widens as suspects questioned
Warren Pie Tabler 66 was found beaten to death at a Bern Two residence along Federal Creek. Sheriff Harold Shields said Mer Thomas Roberts 68 and Percella Roxenna Schumann 58 are being held on unlawful habitation charges while investigators pursue leads and await autopsy results showing blunt force brain injury.
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Rail union mobilizes against NY Central Pennsylvania merger
Members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen from 12 states gather in Cleveland to oppose the proposed New York Central and Pennsylvania railroad merger. W P Kennedy, head of the 105000-member union, warns the merger would cause economic mayhem for the eastern half of the nation, likening it to stripping a main vein from a healthy person.
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Reston Urges Graduates to Face Facts for World Peace
SCOTTY RESTON told 126 Kenyon College graduates to plan for a peaceful world, criticizing police court style reporting on world affairs and urging acceptance of current realities. At Defiance College, George W. Cornell received an honorary doctor of humane letters. Ohio Wesleyan heard Wallace R. Brode predict tighter college admissions in the coming decade.
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Connally Secures Democratic Nomination For Texas Governor
Former Secretary of the Navy John Connally wins the Democratic runoff with 564652 votes to 538578 for Don Yarborough, securing the party nomination to face Republican Jack Cox in the November election. Connally, a Kennedy ally and Lyndon Johnson confidant, favors limited federal aid. Also notes Texas weather outlook with above normal temps and scattered rainfall this week.
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Reject Deal But Truce Continues In Algiers
In Algiers the Secret Army Organization bid for compromise was rejected by Moslem nationalists while the city stayed quiet. Capt Taieb Boualem rejected the offer in the name of the National Liberation Army autonomous Algiers zone command. Boualem warned the zone would call out its commandos again if the secret army resumes terror.
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Weekend Ohio deaths fall as four die in Ashland crash
One accident on U S 42 at Ashland edge killed two elderly couples when a car lost control struck a guard rail and sign then rolled down a steep embankment. Four occupants were pinned under wreckage. A Cincinnati teen died when a jack slipped and a car toppled onto him. dedication marks Lorain harbor project valued at 22 million dollars and hailed as Lorain County's biggest development.
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New Look In Men's Suits Advances In 1960s Fashion
Atlantic City reports the envoy suit leads next year with a one button coat featuring double piped pockets and no cuffs on trousers. The waist is slimmer to reveal light between sleeve and body. In Tokyo a group opposes nuclear tests and urges Kennedy to cancel high altitude tests in the Pacific.
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