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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1963
Page
7
C K Yen, 58, assumed the premiership in Taipei promising to continue the prior policy of fighting Communism and recovering the mainland. He said anti Communist guerrilla operations on the mainland would be intensified and succeeds Chen Cheng who stepped down due to ill health.
In Tampa a carnival showman Robert E. Stover and a girl named Tammy were aboard a sports car with Tammy steering and Stover braking and accelerating. John McLeod alerted police after seeing the pair on Interstate 4 near Lakeland. Trooper Lamar Maxwell stopped them outside Tampa. Stover was charged with reckless driving and lacking a driver license. The chimpanzee driver was praised by the trooper for handling speed between 60 and 70 mph.
Pan American Airways broken Paris to Boston flight record with a 6 hours 34 minutes run. The aircraft carried 64 passengers and nine crew under Captain G. G. Gallagher of Melvinville NH and landed in Boston at 5 15 am EST. The previous record stood at 6 hours 37 minutes on the route slated for 7 40 flight time.
Wisconsin Governor John Reynolds said at a news conference he quit smoking ten days earlier but then pulled a cigar from a box and smoked one. He stated he is not afraid of dying but fears lingering illness.
South Korean strongman Chung Hee Park dissolves the military revolutionary council he led to seize power, ending its banners. He plans to take an oath as elected president the next day as South Korea moves toward a new republic amid martial law.
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