Plane crash Kills Nine in Southern Japan
A Fuji Airlines Convair twin engine plane crashed while landing at Oita Airport in Kyushu. Police say brakes failed causing the craft to plow into a river dike, breaking into three sections and bursting into flames. All 36 passengers and five crew members were aboard. nine were killed and 22 hospitalized. Oita police headquarters reported the toll. The disaster occurred about 650 miles southwest of Tokyo.
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Oita
Fuji Airlines
Kyushu
Texan Wins Right to Counsel in New Trial
A Texas man, James M. Bushnell, convicted of robbery in Orange County on June 16, 1944, and sentenced to five to 35 years, is granted a new trial after the U.S. Supreme Court rules indigent defendants must receive legal counsel. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ordered the retrial. Dan Topping is noted as former co owner of the New York Yankees since 1945.
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Dan Topping
New York Yankees
Space Cabin Test Delayed At Brooks AFB
A malfunction in a small electric motor delayed a space cabin experiment at Brooks Air Force Base School of Aerospace Medicine. Four airmen inside breathed pure oxygen at simulated 27,500 foot altitude. Cabin pressure was returned to normal and repairs proceeded with normal air. The high altitude phase will resume Saturday through March 30. The project aims to test environments for future spacecraft laboratories and Gemini and Apollo cabins.
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San Antonio
Air Force
Manned Orbiting Laboratory
British Firm Wins Soviet Order To Make ITV Tubes
A British firm announced it has received a Soviet order worth 5.6 million dollars for equipment to manufacture television tubes. General Engineering (Radcliffe) Ltd. of Lancashire said the order covers labour and materials for tube production for ITV broadcasts.
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General Engineering (Radcliffe) Ltd
Lancashire
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