Hunt Fails to Halt Viet Nam War Rising Tensions
Washington debates peace as Hanoi and Peking show little interest in ending the conflict. McNamara adds 21,000 US troops to reach about 75,000. UK proposed a top level peace mission with multiple Commonwealth leaders amid doubts from Moscow and Hanoi.
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Hunt
Goldwater
Associated Press
Peking
Hanoi
Washington
Johnson
Dean Rusk
Robert §. McNamara
Viet Nam
Rusk
Red China
United States
Harold Wilson
Britain
Ghana
Nigeria
Trinidad
Ceylon
Moscow
Saigon
British Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference
Chutists Plans 21 Mile Jump for New Record
A New Jersey parachute jumper aims to set a world record with a 21 mile plus ascent from 115000 feet. Nickolas J. Piantanida, 32, of Brick Township, N.Y., will jump from a balloon gondola near Minneapolis St Paul between Sept 10 and 16, challenging Air Force Capt Joseph Kittinger Jr.’s 102000 foot mark.
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Duluth, Minn
New Jersey
Air Force
Duluth Air Force Base
Nickolas J. Piantanida
Brick Township
N.Y
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Joseph Kittinger Jr
Rain Too Plentiful Endangers Georgia Peach Crop
Fort Valley Georgia farmers warn that excessive rains in recent weeks threaten Georgia's peach crop after a dry spell in May hampered spraying. Hundreds of acres in central Georgia have been abandoned, compounding losses from last year's late spring freeze and prior damage totaling millions.
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Fort Valley
Georgia
First Cholera Case in 50 Years Noted in DC Area
AP report from Washington notes the first U S cholera case in over half a century. A 32 year old man assisting in lab cholera research in Washington developed illness June 3 after travel to New Jersey and New York. Eleven contacts were isolated and remain free of restrictions.
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Washington
United States
Public Health Service
Atlanta
Murray Grant
District of Columbia
New Jersey
New York
Risk elected president of Minnesota League of Municipalities
Donald Risk of Minneapolis was elected president at the Minnesota League of Municipalities 51st annual convention in Moorhead Minnesota. He assumed office at the close of the gathering Friday, with local government leaders attending the event.
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Dominican Republic
Johnson
Peace Committee
The
Organization of American States
Moorhead
Minn
Donald Risk
Minneapolis
Minnesota League of Municipalities
Johnson acts to shore up confidence in economy and stock market
The Johnson administration sought to reassure markets amid a month of decline. Officials claimed solid economic health, predicting a healthy upturn through 1965, as stock prices reversed after top statements. Industrial output rose in May and payrolls hit record levels, while payrolls and factory pay climbed.
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Johnson
New York
Wall Street
Viet Nam
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Fowler
John T. Connor
Gardner Ackley
Ackley
William McChesney Martin
Federal Reserve Board
Martin
Labor Department
California U. Head Denies Communists on the Payroll
UC President Clark Kerr rebutted a state Senate un-American activities report calling the university’s Communist ties unsubstantiated. The 13th biennial panel linked Berkeley bacteriology professor Leon Wofsy to Communist organizing and to the Free Speech Movement which led to campus arrests. Kerr insisted the university’s policy bars Communist employment and offered no contrary evidence.
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Sacramento
Calif
Clark Kerr
University of California
State Senate
Kerr
Leon Wofsy
Berkeley
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Louis C. Page
Jack E. Batson Jr
San Diego
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Bliss
Senate
Carl Hayden
Arizona
Hayden
Col
Francisco Caamano Deno
Congress
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Manned Orbiting Laboratory
Space Station
Martin Buber
Jerusalem
H. V. Kaltenborn
Carl L. Norden
Zurich
Switzerland
Winston Churchills
Richard M. Nixon
Seagram
Hemisphere
Chutists
Franklin
Sterling
Golden Dairy
Rinso
By Jack Lefler
House
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
California
U. Head
Wofsy
Communist Party
Chicago
Dorothy
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Wash & Wear Fabrics
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