Color television to reach a billion in 1964 sales
RCA and industry sources foresee color TV hitting the billion-dollar annual sales mark in 1964. Consumers will account for about three fourths of the total with price cuts aiding adoption as color sets rise from roughly 1 in 7 to a larger share.
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New York
UPI
Electronic Age
Radio Corporation of America
Raymond W. Saxon
RCA Sales Corporation
Joseph S. Wright
Zenith
Sion
David Sarnoff
Johnson Signs Bill Paying Indians for Land
President Johnson signed a 15 million bill to compensate Seneca Indian families for homes flooded by the Kinzua Dam. The payments cover communities in northwestern Pennsylvania and southern New York as they relocate from their tribal reserve when the dam opens later this fall. The move ends a long dispute dating to 1957 over treaty terms.
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Washington
UPI
Presint Johnson
Kinzua Dam
Pennsylvania
New York
Kinzua
Johnson
Indian Territory
George Washington
Court Clears Detective Gilligan of Criminal Liability
New York police Lt. Thomas R. Gilligan was cleared by a grand jury of criminal liability in the fatal shooting of 15 year old James Powell near the Robert F. Wagner Junior High School. The case followed days of rioting and property damage after the incident on July 16.
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NEW York
UPI
Thomas R. Gilligan
New York County Grand Jury
Dist. Atty
Frank S. Hogan
Gilligan
James Powell
Robert F. Wagner
Yorkville
Manhattan
Upper East Side
Powell
Boston NAACP Starts Anti Riot Publicity Program
Boston branch of the NAACP launches an education and publicity drive to prevent racial rioting. Newspapers and broadcast outlets are asked to relay messages from law enforcement, political, and church leaders and civil rights figures warning that violence will not be tolerated. Tapes include Sen. Edward Kennedy and NAACP official Thomas Atkins. others pending from Attorney General Edward Brooke and Mayor John F. Collins.
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Boston
API
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Thomas Atkins
Massachusetts
Edward W. Brooke
John F. Collins
Arab Leaders Meet On Israel Policy in Cairo
In Cairo, foreign ministers from 13 Arab nations reviewed joint military preparations for possible war with Israel over the Jordan River diversion. They pledged concerted action to curb Zionism and imperialism and planned to discuss a regional water diversion project. The meeting precedes an Arab summit in Alexandria.
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Cairo
UPI
Israel
Jordan
Alexandria
Mahmoud Riad
United Arab Republic
Egypt
Palestine
Meredith Begins Study In Nigerian University
Meredith and his American wife Mary Jane arrive at Ibadan University Nigeria for three years of postgraduate study in political science with their son John Howard. They will live in a professor’s quarters and may move to a government housing project. he plans a future book about Mississippi.
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Lagos
Nigeria
UPI
James Meredith
University of Mississippi
Ibadan University
Meredith
Ole Miss
Ibadan
Misssissippi
Mary Jane
John Howard
Currenty
Merediths
United States
Mississippi
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U.S. Senate
Kenneth B. Keating
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Bosworth Sales & Service
North Bennington Road
Bennington, Vr
Nigerian University
Reds
U.S
Tokyo
North Viet Nam
Radio
B.B.P
Depot Street
Bennington
Grantmaster
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