Senate Confirms Marshall As Negro Supreme Justice
Thurgood Marshall, longtime NAACP chief counsel, on a 69 to 11 Senate vote, is confirmed as the nation's first Negro Supreme Court justice. He will fill the seat created by Justice Tom Clark's retirement with swearing in expected in October.
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Thurgood Marshall
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Supreme Court
Johnson
Marshall
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
U.S
Tom C. Clark
Ramsey Clark
South
Robert C. Byrd
D-W.va
NAACP
Justice Department
Senate Judiciary Committee
Howard University Law School
Baltimore
Nazis Seek Civil Liberties Union Aid Over Rockwell Burial
The American Nazi party asks the Northern Virginia ACLU to seek a court injunction against the Army to permit interment of George Lincoln Rockwell in a national cemetery. Cremation completed after multiple cemetery rejections. Rockwell's urn to be held in sacred trust at headquarters.
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George Lincoln Rockwell
Lawrence Speiser
Northern Virginia
The
American Civil Liberties Union
Department of the Army
Rockwell
National
ACLU
Army
Navy
Culpeper National Cemetery
Virginia
Arlington
Matthias Koehl
John C. Patter
Robert Rockwell
West Barrington
R.I
Now Church Is Compressed Times Square
In New York a cardboard maze dubbed a house of prayer forms a temporary chapel at an international congress. Sister Lenore Navarro calls it a kind of church, amid Times Square like chaos, blending faith with provocative art and social commentary created by Sister Mary Corita Kent and Immaculate Heart College students.
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House of ‘Prayer
Lenore Navarro
God
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Ana
Times Square
Lenore
Immaculate Heart College
Los Angeles
New York Hilton
Mary Corita Kent
Flash Flood Strikes Beatty Nevada Wrecks Homes
A flash flood tore through Beatty Nevada leaving about 30 people homeless. It destroyed three houses and damaged roads after a late night cloudburst in the timber mountains. No injuries were reported as residents sought shelter at the Exchange Club. County deputy says floods rival the worst in 25 or 30 years.
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Nevada
Timber Mountains
Exchange Club
Nye County
Bob Mullins
Nigeria jets raid airport in Biafra conflict
Nigerian government says first raid by new jet fighters knocked out Benin Airport used by Biafra and damaged Lagos takeoff points. Midwest radio counters that homemade bombs caused little damage. Jets mark Nigeria's first use of Soviet Czech and British aircraft.
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Biafra
Midwest Radio
Benin
Lagos Radio
Lakoja
Idah
Midwest State
Nigeria
Central China fights reported as Maoist struggle surges
Reports from Wuhan and Szechwan depict escalating clashes between Mao’s backers and opponents. Civilians flee Chungking and other cities while travel witnesses claim varied Red Army activity in Canton. Authorities blame anti-Mao forces for violence.
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Hupeh
Peking
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Chentu
Chengtu
Liu Chieh-ting
Chang Hsiting
Spin
Yangtze
Chunking
Red Guards
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Red Army
Auto Workers Set To Pick Strike Target Among Big Three
The United Auto Workers executive board will choose the target firm for a pattern-setting three-year contract. Walter Reuther plans a news conference to announce the choice as union councils ratify the decision. Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors negotiate amid offers viewed as inadequate with GM favored by insiders to become the target.
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United Auto Workers Union
UAW
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
Walter P. Reuther
Young Negro Hopes To End Discrimination
Washington AP reports Clifford L. Alexander Jr., 33, newly named chair of the EEOC, says the agency must end discriminatory hiring especially subtle forms. He cites three work areas: using employer data to reveal patterns, speeding complaints amid 1,800 backlog cases, and expanding training with technical assistance. He seeks cease and desist power and more funds to grow staff.
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Clifford L. Alexander Jr
New York City
Harlem
Commission
Howard University
Alexander
Johnson
Congress
Fieldston School
New York
Harvard University
Yale University Law School
Auto Makers Report Mixed First-Half Profits
General Motors posted a first-half profit of 912 million dollars, down 20 percent from the same period in 1966. Chrysler earned 66.6 million, a 43 percent decline, and Ford reported 267 million, down 37.5 percent.
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Chrysler
Ford
American Troops Boosted In Vietnam
American troop strength in Vietnam rose to 462000, up 5000 from last week, the U S Command announced. The 2nd Squadron 1st Cavalry from Fort Hood Texas arrived aboard a troop ship at Qui Nhon and will join the 4th Infantry Division in the central highlands, a unit of 833 men.
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Vietnam
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1St Cavalry
Ft.Hood
Tex
Qui Nhon
U.S. 4Th Infantry Division
Central Highlands
Bond Issues Endorsed At Augusta Meeting
About 100 people attended a session by the Educational Conference Board endorsing eight bond issues on the September 12 referendum. Dr. Frederick W. Whittaker chaired five minute talks while the $16.7 million state construction measure received extra attention. Dr. William E. Schumacher of the Mental Health Bureau called the issues expedient financing and noted normal funding would differ.
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Educational Conference Board
Frederick W. Whittaker
State Board of Education
Bureau of Mental Health
William E. Schumacher
Blind Attorney Takes 1-Year Leave for Studies
Augusta AP reports Courtland D. Perry a blind assistant attorney general will leave his post for a year to study at George Washington University graduate school of public law in Washington DC He will pursue an LLM focusing on criminology and medical and psychiatric law. Bowdoin opens Peary MacMillan Arctic Museum highlighting explorers alumni.
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Augusta
Department of Mental Health and Corrections
Courtland D. Perry
George Washington University Graduate School of Public Law
Washington, D.C
Perry
Bowdoin College
Brunswick
Peary-MacMillan
Robert E. Peary
Donald B. MacMillan
Bowdoin
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Rosecrest
Pandora & Hunter Kilts
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Isnak
Comfort
Main St
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