Italian Towns Devastated by Alpine Landslide Flood
A massive landslide into the Piave River reservoir sent a tidal wave over the Vaion dam near Belluno Italy. Longarone town with 4600 residents bore the heaviest losses with 1500 to 1700 feared dead. Several villages vanished and dozens of bodies were recovered as rescuers watched the floodwaters advance toward the Adriatic.
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Belluno
Italy
Vaioni
Piave
Dino Menardi
Harvey C. Mayse
Wenatchee
Wash
Mayse
Longarone
St. Martino
Viaspesse
Carlo Prestamburgo
Cadissago
Rivalta
Pirago
Castellazo
Adriatic
Macmillan Absent From Leadership After Health Surgery
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan says he cannot lead the Conservative party at the next general elections. Doctors report a successful prostate gland operation with no complications and the prime minister expected to be inactive for two to three months.
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Blackpool
England
Harold Macmillan
Macmillan
Lord Home
London
King Edward VII Military Hospital
Hos
Sir John Richardson
Ohio Auditor cites tax law in $40 million surplus
State Auditor Roger W. Tracy reports the general revenue fund finished in the black for the past quarter ending Sept 30, aided by a new quarterly utility tax collection law. Paris sets beefsteak price ceiling at $1.20 a pound to curb inflation. Igor Stravinsky, age 81, wins the International Sibelius Prize worth $27,000 in Helsinki.
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Columbus
Ohio
General Revenue Fund
Roger W. Tracy
Paris
Stravinsky
Helsinki
Igor Stravinsky
Ohio GI Defects Soviet Bloc Says
Communists in East Germany claim US master sergeant William E. Valentini defected and sought asylum. The U S Army in Heidelberg confirms a missing man from the 504th Signal Battalion Mannheim, Lorain Ohio native, last seen Sept 24 in East Berlin on a one day visit. He was assigned to S 2 intelligence and lived near his post with his wife and four children.
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Berlin
East Germany
Heidelberg
East Berlin
William E. Valentini
504Th Signal
Mannheim
West Germany
Army
Lorain
Ohio
ADN
504Th
Valentini
Kennedy approves private wheat sales to Soviet bloc
President Kennedy clears private sales of millions of bushels of U S wheat to the Soviet Union and other Communist bloc nations for use in those regions only. He cites possible further deals and notes the plan could bolster U S balance of payments and farm income while triggering mixed political reactions. In Tokyo the US Japan Security Consultative Committee says limited nuclear test ban should not slow defense efforts.
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Washington
Kennedy
Soviet Union
Europe
Cuba
United States
Strom Thurmond
Vermont
George Aiken
National Security Council
Congress
Tokyo
Japanese Security Consultative Committee
Brooks Buys Godman Co Move Offices To Lancaster
NELSONVILLE The Wm Brooks Shoe Co announces purchase of H C Godman Shoe Co in Logan. George Utley becomes operating manager at Godman until formalities are settled. Administrative offices will move to Lancaster with Drew Shoe Corp offices. Logistics and staffing adjustments outlined to shift shipping and production.
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Brooks
Godman Co
Lancaster
Nelsonville
Wm. Brooks Shoe Co
H. C. Godman Shoe Co
Logan
George Utley
Godman
Kenneth Orwiler
Orwiler
Irving Drew Shoe Corp
Drew Pur
Jack Wilson
Dr. Hiss and Drew
Kennedy denies CIA backing of policy in South Viet Nam
President Kennedy told 258 reporters at his first news conference in nearly five weeks that speculation the CIA backs administration policy in South Viet Nam is wholly untrue and harms the CIA. He confirmed John Richardson has been moved from his post as chief of the CIA mission in South Viet Nam.
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Washington
Kennedy
Central Intelligence Agency
Administration
South Viet Nam
CIA
John Richardson
Eisenhower Calls Exploiting Sino Soviet Split Advantageous
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower advocates exploiting the split between the Soviet Union and Red China to widen tensions. He notes Khrushchev may see no gain from war but asserts Communist world domination remains objectives. He also urges robust inspection safeguards in any nuclear ban treaty for space satellites.
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Gettysburg
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
Soviet Union
Red China
Eisenhower
Associated Press
Khrushchev
Negotiations End At Shipyard Amid Violence Reports
Negotiations for seven crafts of the Tu Endie Wei Metal Trades Council and Mari etta Manufacturing Co. ended at the Lowe Hotel with no rescheduled date. Contracts for all crafts ended at midnight Tuesday and a walkout by about 600 workers sparked a picket line clash.
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Point Pleasant
Tu-Endie-Wei Metal Trades Council
Marietta Manufacturing Co
Lowe
Roy Newell, Sr
Twelve U.S. Marines Dead in Viet Nam Helicopter Crashes
In South Viet Nam near Saigon two U S Marine H34 helicopters crashed killing four officers five enlisted Marines a Navy doctor and two Navy hospital corpsmen The bodies of 12 Americans were recovered late today marking the heaviest American loss in a single operation since 1961.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
United States
South Viet Nam
Navy
Police Head Will Testify
Washington police chief George Edwards will testify as an expert witness before a Senate subcommittee. The panel focuses on the legal aspects of police accounts tied to investigations of the Cosa Nostra murder case and mob activity. Subsequent weeks will bring spokesmen from other cities to share insights.
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Washington
Joseph Valachi
Senate
Cosa Nostra
Detroit
George Edwards
Nobel Peace Prize Won By Linus Pauling In Oslo
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Linus Pauling for 1962 honors his nuclear test stance. He is a Caltech chemist and two time laureate, previously winning chemistry in 1954. Red Cross groups share the 1963 prize totaling 265000 kroner.
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Pauling
Oslo
Norway
Linus Carl Pauling
U.S
California Institute of Technology
Nobel Committee
International Red Cross Committee
League of Red Cross Societies
Dr. Pauling
Red Cross
Mrs Nhu Urges Informing People Over Communism
Ngo Dinh Nhu criticizes Kennedy during a 21 day U S tour telling an Overseas Press Club audience that if she were president she would inform the people about the Communist danger rather than lull them into false security. She spoke after her first speech to more than 1000 attendees.
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New York
iPi
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Kennedy
United States
Ngo Dinh Diem
South Viet Nam
Overseas Press Club
Slain Man Left Estate Worth Over Million in Slaying Case
Cleveland officials reopen clues from the Richards murder as Richard S. Richards 38 is said to have left an estate over 1 million with no will. His mistress Mrs. June Wasko and her husband Andrew 35 and their two daughters reportedly headed toward Pennsylvania. In Columbus a factory blast at W C DeLille Co. injures one worker.
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Cleveland
Sheriff's Deputies
Richard S. Richards
Richards
June Wasko
Andrew
Waskos
Pennsylvania
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W. W. Badenoch
JFK
Sen
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Latin America
Honduras
Dominican Republic
Mrs. Nhu
W. C. DeLille Co
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