Kennedy’s widow recalls Camelot and a nation’s loss
In a Life magazine epilogue Theodore White recounts Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis reflecting on Dallas, the crowd, and the assassination aftermath. She preserves memories of Patrick and John F Kennedy, the ring moment, and the aim to honor Camelot while insisting history be seen as hopeful, not merely bitter.
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Hollywood Polite Firing Phrases Outsiders Fear in TV Era
Gloria Swanson notes Hollywood uses phrases like asking for release to disguise firing and that future plans announcements mask unemployment. The piece cites Cecil B. DeMille's 1931 notice, Gary Morton stepping into Lucy's show, ABCs Jerry Lewis Show ending, and Deb Star Ball for young actresses.
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Cause of U2 Crash in Gulf Still Unknown
United States Air Force investigators ruled out enemy fire as the cause of the U2 reconnaissance plane crash in the Gulf of Mexico near Key West. Pilot Capt. Joe G. Hyde Jr. is dead. his body has not been recovered. Wreckage examined found no bullet or blast damage. the exact cause remains under investigation.
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Civil rights leaders halt Chicago school integration talks
Civil rights leaders stopped negotiations with the Chicago Board of Education after a 4-3 vote against a policy statement in favor of integration. They threatened a downtown shopping boycott and more demonstrations while the board backs a five-member committee study of segregated schools.
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Film director Robert Harmer dies in London at 52
British director Robert Ham er, age 52, well known for Kind Hearts and Coronets, died Wednesday after a brief illness in London.
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Dunnell Phone-Line Upgrade Aims for One-Party Rural Service
Dunnell Minnesota will switch to one party private telephone lines for rural customers with underground wiring and direct distance dialing. Carl Rupe who runs the Dunnell Telephone Co. secured a $150000 REA loan, expects completion in September 1964, and notes the system covers about 300 telephones in Dunnell and nearby areas. He says other firms are entrenched nearby and the change ends party line eavesdropping while not using utility poles.
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Irish labor leader William Norton dies at 63
William Norton, a long-time head of Ireland's Labour Party and former cabinet minister, died Tuesday. He led the party for 28 years before resigning in 1960.
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Suzanne Pleshette Engaged to Troy Donahue in Beverly Hills
Actress Suzanne Pleshette shows her engagement ring with fiancé actor Troy Donahue at Los Angeles airport. They plan to marry January 4 in Beverly Hills as Pleshette spends Thanksgiving with her parents in New York while Donahue works on personal appearances there.
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Guerrilla Fire Downs 2 U.S. Helicopters
Communist guerrillas shot down two U.S. helicopters at Bo Kut in Tay Ninh as evacuations from the abandoned post continued. The post near the Cambodian border came under heavy Viet Cong pressure. no injuries were reported.
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Aquarium crowds astonish officials at Steinhart
San Francisco officials report more than two million visitors in five months at the remodeled Steinhart Aquarium. Tidepool tanks showcase unusual life, including large sea anemones that capture and feed on fish as spectators watch.
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Founder of Paper in Oklahoma Dies
Richard Lloyd Jones Sr., 90, founder and publisher of the Tulsa Tribune, died Wednesday in Tulsa. He was a former editor of national magazines and a longtime Oklahoma media figure.
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Glendenning announces Alaska bound truck service
Glendenning Motorways will start scheduled trucks from Minneapolis Saint Paul to Anchorage and Fairbanks. The first 3500 mile trip departs next Tuesday via Canada and the Alcan Highway with heated tanks and specialized cabs for crews. Temperatures to 80 below zero and speeds up to 100 mph are anticipated along with caribou on the route.
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Onetime Wisconsin Journal Owner Buys Tulsa Tribune
A former owner of the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison purchased the Tulsa Tribune, then known as the Tulsa Democrat, in 1919. He was born in Chicago.
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