Youthful Jaywalker Has His Day in Court
Five year old Leigh G Barron appeared in County Court in Denver to explain a jaywalking ticket after a sun in his eyes caused him to dart into a car's path. Police tore up the summons. Judge Zita Weinshienk gave a traffic safety lecture and Leigh, facing many cameras, announced he would bring a cat named Captain Hindes to future hearings.
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House Panel Probes Tax Exempt Foundations Hearings
Washington House Ways and Means Committee opened tax reform hearings focusing on foundations and tax loopholes. Witnesses include Ford Foundation president McGeorge Bundy and leaders from Carnegie and Rockefeller. Rep. Wright Patman leads, urging closing loopholes. Mills aims for reform this year but major overhauls unlikely before 1970.
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Seized Yachts Sighted Near Macao Amid China Port Row
In a bid to end a New Year cruise from Hong Kong to Macao, three pleasure yachts suspected of being seized by Red China rested in a harbor near Macao. Fifteen aboard include four Americans, three Swedes, two Britons, one French national, an Australian girl and four Hong Kong Chinese. Diplomatic efforts to secure return of the vessels and passengers yielded no clear reply from Beijing. In a separate incident, British yachtsman David Bailey is missing after a dinghy drifted away from his anchored vessel near Lamma Island. police and village patrols search the area.
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Pueblo Officer Describes Beatings Before False Pueblo Confession
Lt. Edward R. Murphy Jr. testified at a Navy court of inquiry into the USS Pueblo seizure, recounting two brutal beatings by North Korean soldiers that led to a false confession that the ship intruded into North Korean waters. He spoke on captivity, the ship’s mission, and his view of the Code of Conduct amid psychological warfare, noting his own captain’s decisions would have been nearly same.
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Kennedy Explains Why He Won't Seek 1968 Nomination
Ted Kennedy says age inexperience and trading on brothers names deterred a 1968 presidential bid. Look magazine notes retreat with sisters and brother in law, plus pressure from Nixon era politics. The piece traces Kennedy's choice to gain experience and his later Senate leadership path.
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Desegregation Fight Tests U S School Leaders
Gregory Coffin told 20 000 school administrators that fear blocks desegregation progress and urged leaders to act. He cited Evanston Illinois as a model where district redrawn boundaries and busing reached 12 to 36 percent Black enrollment, with about 1 200 students moved to balance schools.
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Ghana Holds Soviet Fishing Crews Amid Coup Plot Suspicions
ACCRA Ghana four Soviet fishing trawlers and 52 crewmen have been detained for more than four months on suspicion of aiding the restoration of deposed dictator Kwame Nkrumah. Police confirm Life magazine report that a Ghanaian warship intercepted the vessels within 12 miles last Oct 10 and forced them to Takoradi port. The skippers admitted destroying logs and messages before capture. Authorities say the men are held due to recalcitrant attitude toward questioning about the alleged plot.
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Soviets Sign Trade Pact With Peru Widen Influence
The Soviet Union expands its reach in South America by signing Peru’s first trade agreement with Moscow, ending Peru's heavy reliance on the United States. The pact follows Peru's 18-day-old diplomatic ties and amid tensions with Washington over nationalizations and local actions against U.S. firms.
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Shaw Trial Recessed During Mardi Gras Festivity
The Clay Shaw trial paused on a private porch with Judge Haggerty and jurors viewing Mardi Gras parades Rex and Elks Krewe of Orleanians as the case continues. Shaw, 55, is charged with conspiring in 1963 to murder President Kennedy. The medical witness, Dr. John Nichols, testified the fatal shot may have come from the front.
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Bride-To-Be Elopes After Crete Church Wait
Emmanuel Aliesmenakis, 42, waited two hours at a Kolymbari church in Crete for his bride Niki Tzannaki, 30, who wed Ioannis Thomadakis, 33, in a neighboring village after eloping.
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