Betancourt Visits Washington Amid Hijack Crisis
President Kennedy hosts Venezuela's Romulo Betancourt in Washington while a hijacked Venezuelan freighter Anzoategui drifts toward Belem Brazil. Betancourt stresses defeating communism in the hemisphere as U.S. officials deem the hijack a closed incident.
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Maraca Island
Brazil
Belem
Washington
Kennedy
Venezuela
Romulo Betancourt
United States
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Betancourt
U.S
San Juan
Latin America
Americas
White House
Alliance For Progress
Hketancourt
Anzoategui
House Bill Would Halt Multi-Party Candidacy
Republicans in Vermont House push a bill banning candidacy under more than one party citing Gov Hoff’s 1960 win as Independent and Democrat. The package also adds restitution in larceny penalties and expands learner’s permit renewals for teens. Senate focus on aid to dependent children.
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Montpelier
Philip H. Hoff
Vermont House
Hoff
F. Ray Keyser Jr
George W. Neil
Pittsford
State Highway Board
Senate
Inside Waitress Escapes Strangler in Boston
A 28 year old waitress in Boston evades a strangler’s grasp as police search for clues. The incident highlights rising crime concerns in the city.
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Strangler
Boston
North Bennington Urged To Approve School Bond
North Bennington residents heard Union Board members argue that joining the union high school plan is the least expensive way to relieve overcrowding. Merritt Hewitt Jr. outlined tax-rate projections from 4.20 in 1957 to 6.40 now and about 9.93 in 1965 with the union option including 12 percent local share and $1.65 million bond, plus $198000 in debt service over 20 years.
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Union Board
Merritt Hewitt Jr
Hewitt
The
Union School
Merchants Lose Bid to Reinstate Diagonal Parking
Downtown Bennington merchants failed to gather 250 signatures to place a petition on the village meeting warning. The effort sought to restore diagonal parking on Main Street, challenging the 1961 board order that switched to parallel parking to ease congestion.
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Bennington
Main Street
John P. Proud
Bennington Village
Vermont Supreme Court
Valentine Streets
Congress Leaders Briefed on Cuba Conference
President Kennedy briefed congressional leaders for 40 minutes at the White House on Cuba and Latin America. Attendees included McNamara McCone and Rusk, with Mansfield saying it was a general intelligence roundup and Goldwater accusing bipartisanship issues.
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Kennedy
Cuba
Latin America
White House
Executive Mansion
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Central Intelligence Agency
John A. McCone
Dean Rusk
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
McNamara Addresses Senate on U S Versus Red Power
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara testifies to the Senate Armed Services Committee behind closed doors on the United States and Soviet military power and the administration’s flexible response program to absorb a nuclear attack and retaliate.
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Cuba
McNamara
Senate Armed Services Committee
Secretary of Navy
Fred Korth
Naval Operations
Adm
George W. Anderson
Soviet Union
Latin America
CIA
McCone
House Foreign Affairs
Senate
U.S
Red Power
Washington
Robert S. McNamara
Supreme Court Rules Rhode Island Morality Commission Unconstitutional
The Supreme Court, in an 8 1 decision, ruled the Rhode Island Commission to Encourage Morality in Youth violated free speech by censoring materials. Justice Brennan led the majority, while Justice Harlan dissented. Bantam Books, Dell Publishing, Pocket Books and New American Library appealed, arguing First Amendment protections.
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Rhode Island
Washington
Rhode Island ‘Commission
Commission
Brennan
Harlan
New York
Justice Brennan
U.S. Supreme Court
Bantam Books, Inc
Dell Publishing Co., Inc
Pocket Books, Inc
New American Library of World Literature, Inc
Vermont House Advances Merger Plan for Bennington Schools
The Vermont House passed a bill creating a framework for a voluntary merger of the Bennington Graded School District and Greater Bennington Schools Inc elementary units. It would allow a townwide elementary system pending local approvals and a possible union high school.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Bennington
Greater Bennington Schools Inc
North Bennington
Senate
Union High School
Two Men Face Arson Charges in Slaughter House Fire
Hyde Park AP report says La Mobille County authorities hold Joseph G. Lussier 34 and Landon Jayal 17 on arson charges for a Walcott slaughter house fire on January 14. Lussier is jailed on 2500 bail. Jayal released on 1000 bail. Each pleaded innocent to second degree arson in the fire at George Rushford's slaughter house.
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Lamobille
Walcott
Joseph G. Lussier
Fletcher
Landon Jayal
Bakersfield
George Rushford
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