OAS Considers Coexistence Proposal With Castro
Argentina and Brazil push a compromise plan to bar Castro’s government from OAS deliberations while keeping Cuba in the hemispheric fold. The outer seven group aims to isolate Havana without full expulsion, as U.S. hopes for stronger penalties face regional opposition.
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Punta del Este
Uruguay
Latin America
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Argentina
Brazil
Organization of American States
Castro
OAS
Kennedy
Inter American Foreign Ministers
Alliance For Progress
U.S
Mexico
Chile
Ecuador
Bolivia
Haiti
Seven Nations
Water Line Reimbursement Ask Rejected by Bennington Selectmen
Bennington selectmen rejected a Prudential Committee request to insert a March Town Meeting article seeking about $20,000 reimbursement for Molly Stark School water line installation. They cited no expense basis and the district as its own taxing unit should bear the cost. A clerical error was acknowledged in the original mis cited 1960 warning.
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Prudential Committee
Greater Gennington Schools, Inc
Molly Stark
Bennington
Banner Classified Ad Finds Tenants
Mrs Caslin reduces six day advertisement to one and urges rental ads. A Banner Classified lets you pick the most convenient days and reach tenants at a lower cost. Call 6300 to place the ad and start seeing results.
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Basil Caslin
House Approves Big Jump in Postal Rates
The House tentatively approves a bill raising postage a penny per letter and boosting third class rates, aiming for a total increase of about 700 million if Senate accepts. First class and air mail rise to 5 and 8 cents respectively, with extra funds for newspapers magazines and direct mail ads.
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Washington
House
Kennedy
Senate
Ken Hechler
D-W. Va
European Settlers Demonstrate Opposition in Algiers
In Algiers European areas the French tricolor flew as a mass display against Algerian independence. The European Secret Army Organization ordered a 75 minute general strike and urged lighting curfews for the last 15 minutes. Muslims left walls and windows bare while Europeans showed the flag in a tense show of resistance.
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Algiers
European Secret Army Organization
Vermont funds allocated to Searsburg road modernization
Vermont receives 200000 from the Commerce Department to reconstruction 1.6 miles of Vermont 9 through Green Mountain National Forest on Searsburg Mountain part of Molly Stark improvement. Planned total project cost about 610000 with prior and future federal adds. design not yet finalized.
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Montpelier
Vermont 9
Bennington
Wilmington
State Highway Department
U. S. Department of Commerce
Green Mountain National Forest
Highway Department
Molly Stark
Searsburg Mountain
Searsburg
Woodford
Commerce Department
American Airlines and Eastern Air Lines Plan Merger
American Airlines and Eastern Air Lines announce plans to merge into a single system called American Airlines. The deal would create a $900 million asset, 39 000 employee, 400 aircraft carrier with stockholder and government approvals needed. Eddie Rickenbacker would remain in top posts if Eastern stays as an entity.
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New York
American Airlines
Eastern Air Lines
Pioneer Eastern Air Lines
American
Civil Aeronautics Board
Eddie Rickenbacker
Eastern
Rickenbacker
United Air Lines
Capital Airlines
United
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Glenn ready for Saturday launch after leak repair
John H. Glenn Jr. eyes a possible orbital flight Saturday after crews fixed an oxygen leak in his capsule. Three days before launch he rests and prepares with a new valve, while backup pilot Carpenter rehearses a three orbit mission.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
John H. Glenn Jr
Earth
Glenn
M. Scott Carpenter
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Carpenter
Cocoa Beach
Rocket Failure Scuttles Project Buckshot Mission
The Defense Department reported an upper stage ignition failure after liftoff from Cape Canaveral. The 80-foot Thor A ble Star rocket carrying five satellites plunged into the Atlantic, ending the United States most ambitious multi payload experiment to date.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Cape
Defense Department
Atlantic Ocean
United States
New York Tax Change Won't Increase Vermonters' Payments
New York ends its reciprocal tax with Vermont, affecting about 200 Vermonters in Bennington and over 1,000 workers. Vermont will allow claiming New York taxes as a credit on Form 103 Line 8, reducing Vermont liability on Line 7 and showing any balance on Line 9 with refunds on Line 10. Vermonters must attach their New York return.
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New York State
Bennington Area
New York
Vermont
Charles Shea
Shea
York
Graded School District Votes on Fire Safety Projects
Bennington Graded School District voters will decide tonight on spending up to 17 000 for fire safety upgrades and renovations in three schools. The special meeting at 7 30 p m in Bennington Elementary’s all pur pose room seeks district authorization to proceed to qualify for an estimated 4 600 in state aid.
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Bennington
Mother's Efforts Prove Futile As Car Is Bumped Over Banking
In Pownal Mrs Judith Holt 22 with her 17 month old daughter Lee Anne jumped from a sliding car to stop it from going down a glare ice embankment on Barber's Pond Road A chain reaction with two other vehicles and a tractor sent Holt s 1960 Ford station wagon down the hill into trees and boulders causing about 100 damage The wife suffered a bruised knee and her husband and others were involved in the incident Deer were killed in Arlington and a separate vehicle collision caused 75 damage to a left front of a 1960 Austin driven by Margaret Parker of Westchester NY a UVM student.
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Pownal
Judith K. Holt
Pownal Center
Barber’s Pond Road
Mrs. Holt
Kenneth George
Holt
BC Runner Earns Invitation to Boston A A Games Trophy Mile
Boston AP Larry Rawson becomes the first Boston College runner in 27 years invited to the Boston A A Games trophy mile on Feb 3 at Boston Garden. Meet director Will Cloney cites Rawson’s 4 12.2 clocking at the Knights of Columbus meet. BC coach Bill Gilligan says Rawson could reach 4 08. Last year Istvan Rosza won the race.
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Boston
Larry Rawson
Boston College
Boston Garden
Will Cloney
Rawson
Knights of Columbus
Bill Gilligan
Hungary
Istvan Roszavolguyi
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Josh Billings
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