Nixon Aides Admit Bombing Halt Endangered Victory
Nixon aides say the bombing halt announced Oct 31 shifted voter sentiment enough to threaten his win. Key advisers in Florida discuss transition plans, delays in cabinet picks, and no planned meeting with Humphrey or Agnew before Dec. 5.
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Key Biscayne
Fla
UPD
Richard M. Nixon
Johnson
North Vietnam
Nixon
Washington
Florida
George A. Smathers
Nixons
Robert Finch
California
Robert Haldeman
Bryce Harlow
White House
Eisenhower
John Mitchell
John Ehrlichman
Dwight Chapin
Vietnam
Spiro T. Agnew
Maryland
Hubert H. Humphrey
John F. Kennedy
Humphrey
U.S
United Nations
Scotland Yard arrests last of 1963 train robbers
In Torquay England UPI reports Scotland Yard captured Bruce Reynolds the final member of the 1963 Great Train Robbery gang. He was seized at dawn in the Baba combe suburb with his wife and children and driven to London for processing.
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Scotland Yard
Torquay
England
UPI
Bruce Richard Reynolds
Reynolds
Babacombe
London
Glasgow
Scotland
Cheddington
Bank of England
Babbacombe
Supt
Tommy Butler
Orbit Sun Detective Outlasts Robbery Gang Leader
Detective superintendent vows not to retire until all men behind the world’s costliest train robbery are found. Eleven gang members had been arrested and convicted. Ronald Biggs, one of them, escaped imprisonment on July 8, 1965 and remained at large.
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Ronald Biggs
Biggs
Charles F. Wilson
Canada
Weather Watcher Pioneer 9 Launch Eyes Solar Flares
UPI reports the United States launched Pioneer 9 aboard a Delta rocket to observe solar radiation storms and aid Apollo 8 preparations. The 148 pound satellite orbits the sun, aiding space weather forecasts from Boulder. A linked robbery case in England ends with multiple 30 year sentences.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
United States
Earth
Moon
Pioneer 6
Sun
Boulder
Colo
Project Apollo
Frank Borman
James Lovell
William Anders
Venus
North Vietnamese Rockets Hit Marines Near DMZ in Quiet Week
North Vietnamese gunners fired 40 rockets from three sites one mile below the DMZ into Leatherneck camps, causing light losses. US headquarters questioned if the ceasefire timing aided the attack as battles raged near Saigon with 53 Communists killed and assessments of renewed threats to the capital. Eight B52 waves pummeled suspected guerrilla bivouacs near the Cambodian border as helicopter losses rose to seven in four days. Police in Berkeley search for a dog suspected of purse snatching, following an incident reported by Lily V. Tabler.
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UPS
U.S
South Vietnam
Johnson
North Vietnam
Border Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Leatherneck
Vietnam
Do Cao Tri
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
Highlands
Air Force
Berkeley
Calif
UPI
Lily V. Tabler
Bennington Banner contact and subscription rates notice
Bennington Banner lists newsroom and advertising phone numbers and states daily publication with a Bennington address. It outlines home delivery options and subscription rates within Vermont and nationwide, including 3 months to 1 year plans with varying prices.
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Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
The
Banner Publishing Corporation
United Press International
UPI
Vermont
U.S
Renewed Push to End Electoral College Fight
Washington UPI reports opponents of the Electoral College press renewed efforts to switch to direct presidential elections. Sen. Birch Bayh releases plans to require a 40 percent national vote to win. otherwise a runoff would follow. Nixon leads Humphrey by about 273000 votes out of 69.5 million, with Wallace as a potential swing.
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UPI
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Richard M. Nixon
Hubert H. Humphrey
Bayh
Nixon
Humphrey
George C
Wallace
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Troy-Bennington Road
Eaturing
Eddie Weiss
Nashville
Starlite
Frank Kaye
Weight Watchers
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Saratoga
N.Y
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