Ward Near Death After Throat Surgery Amid Profumo Scandal
Dr. Stephen Ward, 50, was in an iron lung with bronchial pneumonia after throat surgery and a near fatal overdose. He had just been convicted at Old Bailey on two counts of living off prostitution tied to Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies, while other charges were not pressed.
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London
Stephen Ward
Britain
Society Osteopath
Ward
Old Bailey Court
W.mayne Butcher
Profumo
John D. Profumo
House of Commons
War
Christine Keeler
Home
Henry Brooke
Old Bailey
Christine
Marilyn
Mandy) Rice-Davies
Vicky Barrett
Mervyn Griffith-Jones
Hoyt
Suspect Killed Near Stolen Safe in Minneapolis
Police tried to identify a man shot and killed in a police gun battle late Wednesday as he approached a stolen safe hidden in a northeast Minneapolis wooded area. A driver’s license on the dead man aided the probe.
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Minneapolis
Hoyt
Warren J. Burns
Lawrence Bowles
Burns
Missouri Electric Group OKs State-Iowa Systems
The Missouri Basin Systems Group approved plans for 600 miles of high voltage lines to serve municipal and rural systems in southwestern Minnesota and western Iowa. The grid would tie into the Bureau of Reclamation system at Sioux Falls Spencer Denison and Granite Falls, Minnesota, and would feed about 45 municipal systems and many rural cooperatives. The group asked for further studies to assess federal construction feasibility and endorsed preliminary transmission projects across multiple 230 and 115 kilovolt lines.
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Sioux Falls
S.D
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri Basin Systems Group
MBSG
Federal Bureau of Reclamation
Spencer
Denison
Granite Falls
Minn
Southwest Minnesota Electric Consumers Association
Rural Electric and Municipal Systems
Missouri Basin
Ike Urges GOP to Study Test Ban Before Vote
Pickets returned to a Brooklyn hospital site with a new delaying tactic aimed at slowing trucks at Downstate Medical Center construction. Reverend Milton Galamison said pickets would sit to delay and then walk off, as police kept 234 officers on duty to prevent a riotous outcome amid chants for jobs for Negroes and Puerto Ricans.
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Milton Galamison
Brooklyn
Eisenhower Signals Caution on Nuclear Test Ban Pact
Eisenhower says the United States Soviet Union and Britain pact to halt most tests has advantages and disadvantages and urges full testimony from military and scientific experts. Senate Republicans seek a careful, nonpartisan review while Kennedy aims bipartisan backing for ratification.
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Associated Press
Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Senate
Eisenhower
New York
United States
Soviet Union
Britain
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Young Camper Dies in Duluth
Gregory Taylor 16 of St. Joseph Missouri died in a Duluth Minnesota hospital after being overcome by a chemical used in cleaning his sleeping bag during a family camping trip in Ontario’s wilderness north of Fort Frances. An autopsy was planned by Dr Cyril Smith of St Louis County.
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Duluth, Minn
Duluth
Gregory Taylor
St. Joseph
Ontario
Fort Frances
Ont
Gregory
Cyril Smith
St. Louis
North Korea accuses US of war plots in Korea
North Korea accused the United States of war provocation plots as it condemned U.S. imperialism in South Korea. The statement followed the Red Suicide Squad raid that killed three U.S. soldiers in South Korea this week and urged an end to long term occupation.
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U.S
Seoul, Korea
United States
South Korea
North Korean
Foreign Ministry
State Department
South
Korea
Goldwater attacks directive on segregated areas near bases
Senator Barry Goldwater denounces a Defense Department directive allowing base commanders to bar servicemen from segregated neighborhoods near bases as a police state overreach. He alleges the policy originated in the attorney general’s office and targets business leaders, while critics blame the administration’s civil rights push.
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Washington
Barry Goldwater
Pentagon
Ers
Attorney General's Office
Alfred B. Fitt
Secretary of Defense For Civil Rights
Defense Department
Fitt
Goldwater
Youth Starts His 50 Year Prison Term
Harvey L Hitch Jr begins a year term under the Youth Conservation Commission after pleading guilty to second degree murder and first degree burglary. District Judge Walter A Mann imposes 40 years for the slaying and 10 for burglary, to be served consecutively.
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Luverne, Minn
Harvey L. Hitch Jr
Youth Conservation Commission
YCC
Walter A. Mann
Marshall
Hitch
Edward Ketterling
Luverne
Ketterling
Diane Holland
28 Bodies Washed Ashore After Jet Crash
Bombay reports 28 bodies washed ashore since United Arab Airlines Comet jetliner crashed into the Arabian Sea Sunday. Thousands of fishermen aid police in recovery of the 63 passengers and crew.
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Bombay
India
United Arab Airlines
Arabian Sea
Lawyers Form Foundation to Aid Accident Victims
In Minneapolis NACCA announces a rehabilitation foundation to aid accident victims. President John J. Lane says about 10 million are injured yearly and many never recover due to lack of resources. Lawyers will donate $1 per case to fund education and return to active life programs.
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Minneapolis
National Association of Claimants Counsel
NACCA
John J. Lane
Charleston
W.va
Lane
American Bar Association
Rehabilitation Foundation
Voter Registration Drive Expands Negro Political Leverage
A sweeping Southern voter registration campaign aims to turn registered Negro voters into a powerful force against segregation. In Tuskegee a 50 year old woman learns the form, while clinics, door to door canvassing, and transportation aid boost registrations. Bishop Baker calls for at least two million new Negro voters nationwide.
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Associated Press
Tuskegee, Ala
Tuskegee Civic Association
Alabama
TCA
South
Tuskegee
Huntsville
George W. Ba
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