House Arms Bill Sets New Record
The House approved a record 816.9 billion defense authorization to fund 45,212 missiles 2,700 aircraft and 53 new warships plus 92 million for bomber and interceptor design. The measure, sent to the Senate, passed 336 to 0 with limited dissent.
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Washington
UPS
House
Curtis E. LeMay
Navy
Senate
Robert F. Ellsworth
R-Kan
Craig Hosmer
R-Calif
Defense Secretari
Robert 5. McNamara
Ber
Armed Services Committee
Vinson
McNamara
Air Force i
Marine Corps
Army
Court Clears Way To Fire 30,000 Railroad Firemen
The U S Court of Appeals upheld railroads right to eliminate thousands of firemen jobs by attrition and to review up to 19,000 brakemen and trainmen roles. The ruling supports an arbitration board's finding that about 9 percent of 33,000 firemen positions could be abolished over time, with dismissals expected to begin March 2 and transfers possible. A full nine judge panel may hear an appeal, and a potential strike moratorium ends Tuesday.
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Washington
UPI
U.S. Court of Appeals
Congress
John F. Kennedy
Two Astronauts Likely to Die in Moon Landing Pool
Washington AP Alan B Shepard Jr says in a news luncheon that about two of the first 30 astronauts may die in the Moon landing program a casualty rate of about 8 percent. NASA Deputy Dryden and others caution against a fixed figure while planning.
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Washington (Ap
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Hugh L. Dryden
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Shepard
Dryden
NASA
Donald K Slayton
John Glenn Jr
Knowledge of how to speak dominates Rocky Mountain conference
In Denver Colorado AP reports Prof. Paul Hunsinger of the University of Denver warned that in an election year the four little knowledge of or is extractopady should be learned. He defined the art as keeping one’s foot out of one’s mouth or getting it out once it’s in during the annual Rocky Mountain Speech and Communication Conference.
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Denver
Colo
Paul Hunsinger
Hunsinger
University of Denver
Rocky Mountain
White Coed Gets 18 Months' For Atlanta Sit-in Action
In Atlanta a white coed, Mardan Rose Walker, a Connecticut College sophomore, was convicted of violating antitrust laws during a restaurant sit-in and sentenced to 28 months in jail plus a $1,006 fine. The 11 to 1 white jury took 5½ minutes to verdict. Walker's attorney plans an appeal. a new hearing was set for April 24 with bond at $15,000. A contempt sentence against witness Melvin Drimmer was reduced from 20 days to one day.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Mardan Rose Walker
Connecticut College
Miss Walker
Durwood Pye
Pye
Melvin Drimmer
Drimmer
Spelman College
GAO finds $300 million missile waste by Army
The General Accounting Office charged the Army with wasting $300 million on a missile that never performed. The GAO noted the missile had defects, unreliable accuracy, and high maintenance, while the Army and contractor pressed on. Figures show a 1953 guidance jam risk, 1956 changes, and continued production through 1959 despite testing failures.
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Army
Washington
General Accounting Office
White House
Pentagon
GAO
Secretary of the Army
Mall vandal, Colorado man arrested for glass window damage
Lewis McClung, 46, walked through a Littleton shopping center Thursday, shattering 10 plate glass windows with a soft drink bottle. Deputies arrested him on a malicious mischief charge, noting he stated he dislikes shopping centers.
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Littleton
Colo
Lewis McClung
McClung
Banker Insists Baker Good Risk for Loan
Washington bank loaned Robert G. Baker about 134000 amid questions of his friendships and connections. Senate Rules Committee heard on Baker's meat imports into Puerto Rico and loans from a new Washington bank. Subpoenas were issued for Baker aide Carol Tyler to testify publicly while bank execs defended the loans as sound.
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Washington
UPI
Robert G
Bobby
Senate
Carol Tyler
Baker
Lennox P. McLenden
Tennessee
Miss Tyler
District of Columbia National Bank
Serv-A Corp
Spring Valley
U.S
William F. Collins
Puerto Rico
Haiti
Jose A. Benitez
Democratic National
Murchison
Benitez
Thomas D. Webb Jr
Webb
Francis Law
Law
Revenuers Use Horse Sense In Oklahoma Moonshine Case
IRS agents used a horse to locate an Oklahoma liquor operation near McAlester. A horse tied near a liquor still led investigators to a farmer who admitted ownership of both the horse and the still, solving part of the 1963 alcohol tax case.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
Oklahoma
McAlester
Okla
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