McNamara Says U.S. Has More Nuclear Warheads
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara testified before the Senate that the United States holds tens of thousands of nuclear warheads and that the limited test ban treaty would help preserve a nuclear lead over the Soviet Union. He noted U.S. superiority, discussed delivery capabilities, and cited plans to expand to over 1,700 missiles by 1966 with SAC bombers on alert.
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Washington
Robert S. McNamara
United States
Russia
Senate
Soviet Union
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
McNamara
Dean Rusk
Capitol Hill
Atomic Energy Commission
Nevada
Britain
Moscow
U.S
Soviets
Minuteman
Strategic Air Command
SAC
Henry M. Jackson
D.wash
Jackson
Lawyer T Eugene Thompson May Enter Plea Next Week
Court schedule tightens as lawyer Thompson tied to wife murder case may plead next Monday after judge denies motions. Hyama Segell plans a demurrer challenging grand jury charges while venue changes loom. Thompson, 35, and two co defendants indicted, Mrs Thompson valued at over a million dollars was stabbed at home.
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Robert V. Renseh
Hyama Segell
Rensch
Thompson
Miss Italy Leads Mutiny at Long Beach Beauty Contest
Anna Luisa Rispoli, Miss Italy, rallying 16 dissidents at the International Beauty Congress in Long Beach California, opposes posing on the floor for photographers. Contenders from 46 nations press on as judging begins with Friday night winner to be named.
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California
Long Beach
Calif
Anna Luisa Rispoli
Long Beach Arena
Miss Rispoli
Japan
Shizuko Shimazu
Tokyo
Lori Lechner
Judi Cahill
New York
Anna Luisa
Luxembourg
Catherine Paulus
United States
Cost of Capital March Grows
Washington AP reports ballooning costs for the August 28 march on Washington for jobs and freedom. Organizers expect 100000 to 250000 people with travel, lodging, and a $15800 loudspeaker system budget, largely financed by marchers and NAACP dues, bequests, and sponsor funds. Delegations from Maryland and New York are sizable, with special trains, buses, and seven doctors and nurses sought for volunteer aid.
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Washington
Washington Monument
Lincoln Memorial
Walter Fauntroy
District of Columbia Co
National Association For the Advencement of Colored People
South Carolina
NAACP
Maryland
A. Philip Randolph
Brotherhood of
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York-Washington
Hawaii
Midwest
Cleveland
Ohio
Carriebell Cook
Car Found Without Owner in Jersey City Breaks Case
Jersey City police found Joseph Hayes’s car, missing plates, parked on a street. Hayes reported the vehicle stolen on September 16, 1958, but he moved four years ago without a forwarding address, leaving police unable to locate him.
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Jersey City
N.J
Joseph Hayes
Ersey City
Hayes
McCormack Sees No Delay on Tax Passage
House Speaker John W. McCormack said there will be no delay in passing tax legislation this session. He spoke after a White House breakfast with President Kennedy and other Democratic leaders.
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McCormack
Washington
John W. McCormack
Massachusetts
Kennedy
White House
French to Test Nuclear Device in Algerian Sahara
AP reports French army convoys move test materials from an Algiers depot amid speculation of an underground nuclear test in the Algerian Sahara. The London Telegraph cites secrecy with experts suggesting a hydrogen bomb trigger device and about ten underground detonations in a series begun last year.
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Algiers
Algerian
Sahara
London Daily Telegraph
France
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
Moscow
Navy Reserve Chaplain to Attend San Diego Seminar
The Rev. Donald M. Sterling, a reserve Navy chaplain and pastor of the First Congregational Church in Spring Valley, will attend a seminar on Trends in Modern Theology in San Diego August 12 through 17. He will then serve one week on duty at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego. During his absence, services will be led at the Spring Valley congregation by the Rev. Walter Ross, former pastor, at the Methodist church.
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Spring Valley
Minn
Donald M. Sterling
San Diego
Calif
Navy
Sterling
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
First Congregational Church
Methodist Church
Walter Ross
House Tax Cut Plan Nears House Ways and Means Vote
Treasury backed plan to reduce most Americans income taxes by about 15 percent faces a pivotal Ways and Means Committee vote. The package lowers rates nationwide and halves corporate tax, with staged implementation and altered itemized deduction rules.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Secreary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Kennedy
Minnesota to lead trade mission to Europe and Britain
Gov. Karl Rolvaag announced a three week Minnesota trade mission to the Common Market countries and Great Britain Oct 4 24. Sponsored by the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce the delegation aims to expand foreign exports and bolster the Duluth seaport with talks in London Amsterdam Brussels Paris and other capitals. Cost per delegate is 1269 with up to 100 businessmen invited.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota
Great Britain
Karl F. Rolvaag
Minneapolis
Sota
Duluth
Rolvaag
Europe
Vernon R. Wexler
State Department of Business and Development
U.S. Commerce Department
State Department
Washington
London
Netherlands
Belgium
France
West Germany
Switzerland
Italy
Airmen Use Fingernail File to Fix Faulty Landing Gear
Three Air Force pilots circled Hanscom Field with a twin engine A3B when a gear light failed. Capt. Weidner and Maj. Grimm worked with Lt. Col. Lyall and Capt. Strait using a nail file to remove screws and wedge a bracket back in place. The plane touched down safely after repairs.
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Bedford
Mass
Air Force
Hanscom Field
Charles Weidner
Dayton
Ohio
Eugene Grimm
John Lyall
Horlick Sidley Dies After Sleeping Pill Overdose
Chicago AP report says 50 year old William Horlick Sidley, heir to the Horlick malted milk fortune, died from an apparent sleeping pill overdose after collapsing in a woman friend's apartment.
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Chicago
William Horlick Sidley
Horlick
Pickets Climb on Poles in Chicago School Protest
Pickets climbed utility poles to disrupt the construction of mobile classrooms for public school pupils in a Negro neighborhood of Chicago. In New York the stock market showed lively trading with Chrysler standout amid broad fractional gains and notable profit taking on weak issues.
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Chicago
New York
Chrysler
Suburban Waterloo Man Shot and Killed in Evansdale Visit
Lloyd Kramer 46 of Evansdale was killed by a shotgun blast in Waterloo. A visiting woman, Lillian Wygle 46 also of Evansdale, is jailed for investigation. The incident occurred as Kramer and his wife visited a local home.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Lloyd Kramer
Evansdale
Kramer
Lillian Wygle
Mason City Bowler Wins Second 1963 Car Prize
Mason City’s Jack Williams won a bowling tournament at Le Sueur Minnesota earning another 1963 car. Earlier he had won a car in a Independence Iowa event over two months ago. Williams collected the prize after prevailing in the Le Sueur event.
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Mason City
Iowa
Jack Williams
Independence
Sunday Williams
le Sueur
Minn
New Jailer Calls Lockup Obsolete in Hennepin Jail
In Minneapolis AP a new Hennepin County jailer Robert McLane 41 emerged after months as a jail consultant to Minnesota. Former Willmar police chief McLane described the lockup as old and obsolete before being named sheriff Ed Ryans choice for the head jailer role.
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Minneapolis
Hennepin County
Ed Ryan
Robert McLane
Willmar, Minn
McLane
Minnesota
Sullivan backs Johnson's runoff rival in Mississippi race
Charles Sullivan, who finished third in the Democratic first primary, says he will back former Governor J. P. Coleman in the August 27 runoff against Lt. Gov. Paul Johnson Jr. Sullivan spoke during a statewide television program, asserting Coleman would lead Mississippi better.
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Jackson, Miss
Charles Sullivan
J.P. Coleman
Paul Johnson Jr
Sullivan
Mississippi
Coleman
Rainwater Floods Buffalo After Earlier Big Dams
A new downpour drenched Buffalo and western New York following two prior major storms. At Buffalo International Airport 1.92 inches fell by 10 am, flooding basements of hospitals and homes. Fos ter Hall basement fire near a transformer was quickly extinguished and campus power was disrupted.
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Buffalo
N.Y
New York
Weather Bureau
Buffalo International Airport
Cheektowaga
State University of Buffalo
Foster Hall
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