Derailment Closes Tracks North of Hoosick Falls
Rose ton and Maine wrecking crews cleared debris after a Sunday night derailment of a 150 car freight headed to Mechanicville. One empty boxcar jumped rails triggering a chain of 39 cars and two locomotives to derail. Twenty cars were demolished. some wreckage spread into nearby woods as state police and railroad detectives investigated the cause.
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Boston & Maine
Hoosick Falls
Grimm
N.Y
Roseton & Maine
Here
Mechanicville
Iraqi coup topples Baath regime and seizes power
Beir ut report says President Abdel Salam Aref and Iraqi military leaders ousted the Baath Socialist government. Aref declared full powers, dissolved the National Guard, warned against resistance, and promised unity with Arab states especially Syria and the United Arab Republic. He pledged to continue the Syrian Iraqi military union.
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Lebanon
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Aref
Iraq
Syria
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United Arab Republic
Nasser
Abdel Karim Kassem
National Guard
Ba’ath Socialist Party
Ali Saleh el Saadi
Baghdad Radio
Baghdad
Ba’ath
Second Jet Crash Kills Guard Pilot
Capt Hugh A Lavallee 29 of Springfield Mass., an Air National Guard pilot, died when his jet crashed into a Adirondack mountain range 13 miles west of Stony Creek New York. His body was found in the wreckage the day after the crash. Three months earlier Lavallee ejected from a disabled jet over the Atlantic and was rescued by a Russian fishing trawler.
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Stony Creek
N.Y
Hugh A. Levallee
Adirondack Mountains
Massachusetts Air National Guard
Lavallee
Springfield
Mass
Air Force
Atlantic
Crook on Display Nabbed by Police
In New Haven Connecticut Patrolman Ernest Pepe spotted a man peering through a market display window then found Graddie Thompson 20 dangling from a ceiling vent Police charged him with breaking and entering and theft and held him on $5000 bond
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New Haven
Prelates Challenge Crucifixion Declaration At Vatican Opening
At the Vatican the Ecumenical Council opened a debate on the schema on Christian unity with a declaration blaming all mankind not just Jews for Christ's crucifixion. Cardinal Ruffini and three Middle Eastern patriarchs voiced reservations about the document, urging broader religious acknowledgment and discussions.
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Middle East
Ecumenical Council
Vatican
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Palermo
Sicily
Ignace Gabriel Cardinal Tappouni
Antioch
Stephanos I Sidarouss
Alexandria
Egypt
Maximos IV Saigh
Appropriations Bills Occupy Congress This Week
Congress focuses on appropriations with over $19 billion at stake as Senate and House examine military construction public works and agency funding. Committees plan hearings and side attractions amid ongoing budget action and investigations.
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Congress
Washington
Senate
House
Senate Finance Committee
Cuba
U.S
AFL Leaders Press Union Stand on Civil Rights Issue
Aiming to mobilize public sentiment A. Philip Randolph says Kennedy and AFL-CIO fall short on equal rights for Negroes James B Carey urges active support for House Judiciary Committee civil rights bill Meany forms a special task force as 1000 delegates debate race policy amid broader budget and tax actions in Congress.
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United States
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George Meany
Carey
House Rules Committee
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Congress
Labor Federation
New England Ministers Refuse Release in North Carolina Jail
Seven white ministers from New England chose to stay jailed in Williamston North Carolina in solidarity with Negro demands for civil rights. About 50 demonstrators were freed on bonds of 500 dollars each after talks between Sheriff Raymond Rawls and SCLC official Golden A Frinks. Remaining ministers include Charles Glenn Colin Gracey Harry Bird John Harmon Roger McDonald and David King.
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N.C
New England
Paul Chapman
Stoughton
Mass
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Martin County
Raymond Rawls
Golden A. Frinks
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Frinks
Recorder’s Court
Greenville
Washington
Warren McKenna
Holbrook
Harold Melvin
Fall River
Mr. Chapman
Charles Glenn
Roxbury
Colin Gracey
Concord
Harry Bird
Martha’s Vineyard
John Harmon
Roger McDonald
Rutland
David King
Amherst
New York 64 elections face three hot potatoes
Columnist Kirtland King notes three political hot potatoes in New York's 1964 elections. The recap references upcoming issues and political stakes as the state gears for local campaigns while other pages cover a viola-violin recital and the Giants' rise to the Eastern Division lead in the NFL.
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New York
Kirtland King
Soviet Trade Offensive Lags as Kremlin Faces Disappointment
Washington reports that the Russian trade and aid drive aimed at pulling Africa and Asia into the Communist bloc has disappointed. Analysts say Moscow remains a minor commercial rival outside the Communist world, with two thirds of trade still with Europe and little penetration of Western and developing markets.
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Moscow
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Asia
Russia
United States
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West
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U.S
Leon Herman
Library of Congress
Herman
Khrushchev
Ghana
Guinea
Mali
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Iraq
India
Cuba
UAR
Afghanistan
Indonesia
Kennedy predicts space flight soon during Florida Texas swing
President Kennedy tours the South after Palm Beach stay predicting space travel speeds over 15,000 miles per hour within reach. He contrasts Tampa St Petersburg flight costs with future jet travel and foresees metroplanes operating from city centers by 1975.
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Tampa
Fla
Kennedy
Palm Beach
St. Petersburg
America
Surfside Hotel Fire In Atlantic City Leaves 25 Missing
Fire swept a block of hotels near the Atlantic City boardwalk. Police say 25 guests at the Surfside Hotel are missing as crews search the ruins. The blaze destroyed four hotels and a rooming house and spread to three others before being controlled. The Surfside catered mainly to elderly Jewish guests, with most residents year round or on brief vacations from New York and Philadelphia.
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Atlantic City
N.J
Albert Wilson
Surfside
Surfside Hotel
Milton Bauer
New York
Philadelphia
Raymond Elwell Found Dead Near Cambridge, N Y
The missing 70 year old Raymond Elwell of Shaftsbury was found dead near Cambridge New York. Police say he likely died of natural causes with no unusual circumstances. He had been missing for a week and a county and regional search followed.
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N. Y
New York
Raymond Elwell
Shaftsbury
Mr. Elwell
New York State
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