Tear Gas Barrage and Riots Hit Savannah Port City
Demonstrations by almost 2,000 Black marchers in Savannah, Georgia ended in tear gas, arrests, and damaged property as police moved in with state troopers. A Baptist church was burned, while in Cambridge Maryland eggs and firecrackers targeted marchers. Related rulings and protests across the region reflect ongoing civil rights tensions.
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Atlanta
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Kennedy appoints six man rail dispute subcommittee
President Kennedy creates a six member Labor Management Advisory Committee subcommittee to study the four year old rail labor dispute and report by July 22 as a nationwide strike delay is announced. Wirtz named chair and Hodges to attend planning session with carriers and unions ahead of possible legislation.
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Joseph Block
Inland Steel
Chicago
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George Meany
Stuart T. Saunders
Norfolk & Western Railroad
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McNamara Sees Billion Dollar Defense Spending Cut
Secretary of Defense Robert S McNamara said his cost reduction program trimmed 1 billion dollars from Pentagon spending in the just completed fiscal year. He told President Kennedy the saving exceeded his prior estimate and projected nearly 4 billion in five years, with most gains from logistics reforms.
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Defense
Robert S. McNamara
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McNamara
Kennedy
Europe
Department
Battle Creek
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Demonstrators Boo Queen Elizabeth During Greek Visit
British officials were stunned as Queen Elizabeth II was booed by protesters during the state visit of King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece. Communist and ban the bomb demonstrators insulted the royal party as it arrived and departed a gala performance, leaving Elizabeth shaken and driving to Buckingham Palace with Prince Philip.
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Embezzlement Charge Against Hoosick Falls Banker Indicted
Hoosick Falls banker Robert P. Brott 35 of 15 Snow St was indicted on 11 counts of embezzlement and two counts of causing false bank entries. He allegedly embezzled from 1961 through last April at the National Commercial Bank and Trust Co. He was held on 1000 dollar bail after appearing in federal court in Albany. Brott had been suspended last April pending an audit and was active in local affairs.
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Troy
U.S
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Prouty Opposes Forced Arbitration in Rail Dispute
Vermont Senator Winston L. Prouty warns a permanent compulsory arbitration system could kill collective bargaining as the nationwide railroad work rules dispute unfolds. Kennedy's rail agenda includes a possible Railway Labor Act amendment for arbitration. Union leaders and railroad negotiators race toward a resolution by July 29.
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Vermont
Winston L. Prouty
Prouty
Commerce and Labor & Public Welfare
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Supreme Court
Arthur J. Goldberg
Kennedy
Labor
No-Show in Moscow Case of the Missing Communist Delegates
Soviet and Chinese negotiators failed to appear at the hilltop villa in Moscow where they have debated ideological differences. Western observers link the absence to ongoing talks and a possible recess amid tensions over Khrushchev policies and Yugoslav China relations. Tass reported Khrushchev met with Brezhnev Mikoyan and others in the Kremlin.
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Kremlin
Peking-Moscow
Court Orders South Carolina To Integrate University Parks
U S District Judge J Robert Martin ordered the University of South Carolina to admit Negro coed Henri Monteith and directed the state to desegregate 26 state parks by mid September. Harvey B Gantt had already entered Clemson College earlier under a separate court order.
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State of
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College of Notre Dame For Women
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The
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Charleston
R. R. Monteith
Henrien Rolls
Parks
State Forestry Commission
Hoff Plans Conferences With Party Legislators
Governor Philip Hoff announces multiple meetings through January with Democratic legislators and his administration to discuss the program for the next legislature. The first session covered state needs and political strategy for 1964, with input from administration officials and Democratic leaders including Speaker Billings Jr. and Bern ard Leddy, a former gubernatorial candidate.
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State of
Vermont
William F. Kearns Jr
Paul Guare
Alexander B. R. Drysdale
Frederick J. Fayette
Dchittenden
Bernard J. Leddy
Court of Appeals bans sale of Tropic of Cancer in effect
Inside coverage notes the New York State Court of Appeals ruling effectively bars sale of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. The article lists related court action and potential impacts on publishers and retailers.
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