Uneasy Calm Over New Orleans as Integration Court Deliberates
In New Orleans a three judge panel weighs paths for school integration after boycotts and protests. The options include delaying action, preserving a court order admitting four Negro first graders, or dismissing the suit against Louisiana over segregated systems. The decision could affect Catholic schools and state funding for districts.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Samuel J. Rosenberg
Special Tribunal
Nine Alarm Fire Kills Three Firemen in Manhattan
A nine alarm blaze in a 100 year old Broadway and Grant Street textile building trapped and killed three firefighters and injured a dozen others. The fire raged for eight hours destroying five adjacent structures as 54 units and 350 firefighters battled the flames.
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Lower Manhattan
Manhattan
Broadway
Grant St
Brooklyn
Kennedy Studies Defense For Streamlining In Nuclear Era
President elect Kennedy leads a study of the Defense Department to boost efficiency in the Pentagon while considering a 2 to 3 billion dollar spending hike. Sen Symington charts reorganization for a program to be sent to Congress after Jan 20. Kennedy also meets with Meany to discuss unemployment as he aims for a rapid transition.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Palm Beach
Fla
John F. Kennedy
Defense Department
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Air Force
Truman
Kennedy
Defense
Symington
Congress
Pentagon
Caribbean
Eisenhower
Amercan
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Central America
U.S
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Allen W. Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
Richard Bissell
Washington
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Quie questions Kennedy farm plan amid new Congress
Rep. Albert Quie says Congress must act on farm relief but doubts it will pass Kennedy’s plan quickly. He notes authority for a rapid shift rests with the new agriculture secretary and cites support for payment in kind as a potential compromise to cut surplus stocks and aid farmers.
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Congress
Kennedy
Washington
Albert H. Quie
R-Minn
John F. Kennedy
Quie
Harold Cooley
House Agriculture Committee
Eisenhower
Pastor and six children killed in Dover crash
Rochester AP report details a Minnesota tragedy as Rev. John Eastman 28 and six children under his care Pamela 7 Mary 5 James 4 Carol 3 Thomas 2 John 10 months died when his car struck a concrete abutment on a county road near Dover. Sheriff Cunningham described the scene as worst he had seen. Eastman also drove Lewiston school bus and was active in community groups. Autopsy ordered to check for heart attack or seizure.
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Rochester, Minn
Minnesota
Gerald E. Cunningham
John Eastman
Pamela
Mary
James
Carol
Thomas
John
Dover
Here
Eastman
Walter Meyer
Lewiston
John T. Eastman
Minn
UF Drive Reaches $63 519 In Fifth Week
Austin United Fund reports $63 519 25 raised by 4 901 donors in week five of the campaign. The total trails the $84 960 goal by over $20 000 as about 50 residential workers have not reported and several special gift accounts remain uncollected.
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Austin
United Fund
Recheck Sought On 423 Ballots In Bexar County Race
Bexar County Republican leaders asked for a recheck of 423 voting machines from the November 8 election. On day one of the review the Kennedy Johnson ticket gained 50 votes on a margin of 11 369.
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San Antonio, Tex
Bexar County
Soviet Advising Fidel to Moderate Course Seen
Havana sources say Moscow has urged Fidel Castro to ease anti US rhetoric and seek a more moderate path. The shift follows Kennedy's election and Cuban papers downplaying Soviet rocket aid, amid Latin American debate over a possible Rio treaty alliance and police action against Cuba.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
United States
Moscow
Washington
Kremlin
John F. Kennedy
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Castro
U. S. Navy
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Cuba
Latin America
United Nations
Miguel Ydigoras
Caribbean
Kennedy
New York Violinist Shines in Moscow Opera Hall
Joyce Flissler, a relatively unknown NYC violinist, drew an hour long ovation at Tschaikovsky Hall in Moscow. The audience demanded six encores after her solo concert during a three week Soviet tour. She previously placed runner up in the 1958 Cliburn era event and traveled to the USSR largely without embassy notice.
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Moscow
New York City
van Cliburn
Joyce Flissler
Tschaikovsky Hall
Miss Flissler
Ralph Mendelsohn
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Soviet Union
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Sabathini Baptist Church
Minneapolis
AP Photofax
By David Zinman
Howard Jones
St. Joseph
Jones
Shreveport
U.S. Dist
J. Skelly Wright
Richard P. Rives
Montgomery
Ala
U.S. 5Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Herbert Christenberry
NEW York
Edward F. Cavanagh Jr
Robert F. Wagner
Deckhand
Frank Casebolt
Cincinnati
Linda
Casebolt
Cincinnati Enquirer
Fred Straub
Kennedy Studies Defense
George Smathers
Dfla
Southern
Dulles
Donald M. Wilson
Wilson
By Richard P. Powers
Save Payments
Dover Sherift
Plainview
ASK Recheck
Fidel
By Robert Berrellez
Sergei M. Kudryavtsev
U. S
Holloway
London
England
N.Y
Soviet
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