Senate Filibuster Looms Over Satellite Bill Debates
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds a truce hearing on the administration's communications satellite bill as Sen. Morse vows to answer Sen. Wiley after Aug. 10. The bill would create a private government regulated company to operate U S satellite relays, facing opposition from some Democrats who fear private monopoly control.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Senate
Alexander Wiley
R-Wis
Wiley
Morse
Newton W. Minow
Federal Communications Commission
Minow
House
U.S
Six Deaths Linked to Enovid Drug Under Investigation
U S officials confirm six deaths among Enovid users and 20 nonfatal thrombophlebitis cases while the FDA and manufacturer conduct an intensive inquiry. No direct causal link proven yet. Thalidomide also under crash control as authorities destroy supplies and pursue missing prescribers.
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Washington
D AP
U.S
Food and Drug Administration
G. D. Searle & Co
Chicago
FDA
British Medical Journal
Britain
United States
Frances Kelsey
Searle Co
Edwin J. de Costa
Journal of the American Medical Association
Hills Beach residents fight erosion for federal aid
Hills Beach residents and landowners in Biddeford refuse to quit as erosion erodes private land and threatens about 75 homes. They seek federal aid despite no funds. A 1961 Army Corps report blamed south jetty deterioration and proposed sand fill and breakwater reconstruction costing about 4.4 million, which the corps said the federal government would not fund.
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Hills Beach
Biddeford
Hills Beach Association
Portland
Ing
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Saco River
Corps
Clement H. Deschambault
Maine
Effort To End Eastern Air Lines Strike Augurs New Talks
Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg schedules a Monday meeting with Eastern Air Lines president Malcolm McIntyre to resolve the 43 day old strike over crew complement. The dispute splits the Flight Engineers International Association and the Air Line Pilots Association as Eastern seeks rapid approval of a revised pilot training program.
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Federal Aviation Agency
Eastern
Flight Engineers International Association
Engineers
Air Line Pilots Association
Neers
Federal Aviation Administration
Son All That's Left For Blind Deaf Dad
In Akron AP report Harold Hathaway clings to his 7 year old son Clarence after his wife Georgia dies. Harold, who has been blind since 1947 and deaf since birth, says he wants Clarence to stay with him always as the boy had served as eyes and helper for the family. Georgia had rheumatic fever and heart weakness and had been in hospital multiple times this year.
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Akron
Ohio
Clarence
Harold Hathaway
Georgia
No man is completely worthless humor line
A quip notes that no man is entirely without value as he can still serve as a horrible example. The wry remark attributes the line to a Senate figure and lampoonish source, reflecting a dry, period voice.
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Sen
Fea
Corp
McIntire Hit Again in Maine Campaign Row
Democratic candidate William D. Hathaway of Auburn accuses Rep. Clifford G. McIntire of harming small farmers in Maine s 2nd District. At a Friday meeting Hathaway says McIntire voted against a federal housing act allowing farmers loans to enlarge or improve farms, claims the act passed despite McIntire s opposition.
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McIntire
Skowhegan
William D. Hathaway
Auburn
Clifford G. McIntire
Maine
Hathaway
MelIntire
Reds Expected To Reject New American Proposals
In Geneva U S Ambassador Dean brings new control and inspection ideas to break the East West deadlock on a nuclear test ban. Moscow signals rejection while Kennedy touts a simpler detection method and continued insistence on international inspection.
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Geneva
U.S
Arthur H. Dean
Dean
Soviet Union
Moscow
United States
Kennedy
West
Khrushchev
Tokyo
Estes Case Indictments Reach Texas and New York
New York firm Commercial Solvents Corp. chief Maynard Wheeler faces a Texas antitrust indictment tied to the Estes operation. Wheeler and Estes, along with R. E. Clements, were charged by a grand jury with price fixing and restraint of trade in hydrous ammonia fertilizer. Wheeler will surrender Monday in Manhattan, while Estes and Clements posted bonds and were released in Amarillo.
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New York Corporation
Maynard Wheeler
Commercial Solvents Corp
Farflung
Billie Sol Estes
Whitman Knapp
Wheeler
Manhattan
Superior Manufacturing Co
Estes
Wheeler and Estes
New York
Estes and
Clements
Townsend Plan For
Potter County
Amarillo
Dallas
Morris D. Jaffe
San Antonio
Tex
Harry Moore
el Paso
Jaffe
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
McClellan
Department of Agriculture
British Watch Keeps Close On Pneumonic Plague Cases
London AP report says health officials quarantined 12 people including the scientist’s widow and his two children, while 30 hospital staff and ambulance workers are vaccinated and observed. George Bacon, a Porton Downs researcher, died of pneumonic plague and an investigation was ordered into the death.
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George Bacon
Frederick Lishman
Salisbury
Bacon
Britain
Porton Downs
Wiltshire
War Office
Europe
Man
England
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