Negro Leader Denounces Beatnik Protests at World’s Fair
Rev Harold Nixon criticizes World’s Fair demonstrations by the Congress of Racial Equality as punks paranoids and psychopaths. At a Bennington meeting he links bitterness of Negroes to discrimination and urges action toward equal opportunities in housing voting and employment.
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Congress of Racial Equality
New York City
Harold Nixon
New York Training School For Girls
Hudson
N.Y
Second Congregational Church
Social Action Committee
Bennington County Association of Congregational Churches
Nixon
Brookwood
E. Edward Hoffman
CSE
Holy Cross Novitiate
Bennington
U.S. Senate
Tucumcari, N.M
Fr. Hoffman
United States
America
Heavy Firing Continues in Ayios Theodoros Cyprus
Heavy firing by Greek and Turkish Cypriots roared through Ayios Theodoros despite U N cease fire efforts. One Greek Cypriot was hit in the leg. in Nicosia area shootings left one Turkish Cypriot dead and one Greek Cypriot wounded, with a businessman feared held after his car was found abandoned.
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Ayios Theodoros
Cyprus
UPI
United Nations
Inniskilling Regiment
Nicosia
Daylight Saving Time Reminder and Phrase Explained
The article reminds readers to set clocks one hour ahead tonight as Daylight Saving Time begins. Bennington observer Paul W. Bohne explains the memory aid spring ahead fall behind to avoid confusion with clock hands.
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Paul W. Bohne
Harwood Hill
Bennington
U.S
Vermont figures honored at LWV convention in Pittsburgh
A brief note cites two Vermont women receiving honors at the League of Women Voters convention in Pittsburgh. The item hints at statewide civic engagement and the organization’s activities beyond Vermont.
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Vermont
League of Women Voters
Pittsburgh
Nazi Underground Seen Operating In Escape of War Criminal
Basel authorities disclosed that Hans Walter Zech-Nentwich, 47, an ex Nazi convicted of mass murder, fled Germany for Switzerland in a borrowed plane with Margit Steinheuer. Police suspect Nazi underground aid and plan arrest on sight for extradition to West Germany.
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Basel
Switzerland
UPS
Hans Walter Zech-Nentwich
Russia
Braunschweig
Margrit
Little Angel) Steinheuer
Zech-Nentwich
West Germany
Frankfurt
Hesse
Ulrich Krueger
UPI
Johnson vows action on Appalachian poverty after Midwest tour
President Johnson, after visiting five states with heavy poverty, announced plans to seek Congress approval of a 4.5 billion five year recovery program for Appalachian areas. He met with governors and pledged federal effort to boost highways airports recreation and mineral and timber industries.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Midwest
Appalachian
Congress
Washington National Airport
Chicago
White House
Huntington
W. Va
Appalachian States
Appalachian Commission
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Ohio
Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
North Carolina
Georgia
West Virginia
William Scranton
George C. Wallace
Inez
Paintsville
Tobacco Road
South Bend
Ind
Pittsburgh
Appalachia
Soviets Back Cuba Protests Over U S Recon Flights
Moscow denounces U S reconnaissance flights over Cuba as illegal provocations and warns of obstructed U S Soviet relations. Cuba appeals to the U N secretary general to intervene and halt the overflights while Izvestia defends Cuban sovereignty and international law.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
U.S
Cuba
Geneva
Fidel Castro
U.N. Trade and Development Conference
Izvestia
Nuclear Device Detonated at Nevada Test Site
An underground nuclear explosion occurred Friday beneath the Nevada desert and registered as a quake on California seismographs. The blast, rated from 20 000 to 200 000 tons of TNT, was delayed by weather and no damage was reported in Las Vegas, about 85 miles away.
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Nevada Test Site
Nevada Desert
California
The
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Las Vegas
McNamara Opens Door to VP Run Amid GOP Ties
Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara said he is not a registered Republican and did not rule out accepting the Democratic vice presidential nomination if President Johnson offers it. Johnson signaled no guilt by association and urged McNamara to avoid partisan politics while remaining defense chief. McNamara noted his past GOP links but emphasized current nonpartisanship and service.
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Washington
UPI
Robert S. McNamara
Johnson
McNamara
Boomlet
GOP
McNaemara
Michigan
Dean Rusk
John F. Kennedy
Philip A. Hart
Senate
Charles Potter
Six Bennington Youths Hurt in Rt 9 Crash
Six area youths were injured when a car left the south side of Vermont Route 9 near Bennington Village, crashed through a fence, struck boulders, and burned. They were taken to Putnam Memorial Hospital by the Bennington Rescue Squad. The vehicle, owned by Enos Cornell, was completely demolished. Exact injuries and accident cause were not clarified by midnight.
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Rt. 9
Bennington
Vermont 9
Bennington Village
Putnam Memorial Hospital
John
Tom Cornell
Dennis Maloney
Leo Parker
Larry Guetti
Eddie Phillips
Enos Cornell
Maple St
Notch
Bennington and
Woodford Road
Buckler
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Philipp
U.N
New J.S. Department of Commerce Survey
Warren Buckler
Page
Hans Alten
Krueger
Fritz Bauer
LBJ
Thomas Fletcher
Secret Service
Johnsons
Steel City
Havana
Cua
Thant
Raul Roa
Nevada Site
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