Chrysler Shows Experimental Turbine Driven Auto in New York
The Chrysler Corp displayed an experimental turbine driven automobile and said mass production is a possibility. Tests, engineering and consumer reaction could lead to volume production within five years. Dealers will have booklets after the new year, and executives emphasized the trend toward turbine power.
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New York
Chrysler Corp
Robert Anderson
United States
Chrysler
George Huebner Jr
Huebner
El Train Crash Kills One In Philadelphia
A fourcar elevated train derailed near York and Dauphin Streets in northeast Philadelphia, destroying a concrete cat walk and injuring 36 others. One man, Earl Giberson, 45, was killed as debris rained onto nearby streets while guard rails prevented the car from plunging 35 feet to the roadbed. Electrical flashes lit the area for 15 minutes after the crash.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Transportation Co
York and Dauphin Streets
Earl Giberson
British Armada Sets Sail to Counter Iraqi Threat in Kuwait
London reports an armada of at least six warships led by the Centaur has left Mombasa for a Kuwait area destination to counter a suspected Iraqi invasion. The force includes two frigates and a tank landing ship. intelligence indicates Kassim massing troops as a possible prelude to expansion in the Persian Gulf.
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London
Persian Gulf
Kuwait
Admiralty
Centaur
Mombasa
Abdel Karim Kassim
Defense Ministry
Nairobi
Kenya
Britain
Sheik Abdullah as-Salim as-Sabah
Kassim
New US Trade Program Moves To Front Burner in 1962
Washington AP Kennedy pushes a broadened reciprocal trade program as Congress plans to reconvene January 10 1962. Administration aims to rush a bill to the House floor to counter European market power while addressing vulnerable domestic industries through diversification and relief measures. Strong support exists in the Ways and Means Committee though substantial Republican backing is uncertain.
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Washington
Congress
Kennedy
United States
Hale Boggs
D-La
House
Ways and Means Committee
Primer For Common Market Explains European Community
Washington AP outlines the six nation European Economic Community, France West Germany Italy Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg, reducing intra bloc tariffs while forming a common external tariff. The guide notes potential impact on American buyers and producers from cotton farmers to bicycle workers as trade patterns shift.
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Arkansas
New England
Free World
France
West Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
Weatherman Acting Up In Florida
A sharp cold snap hit northern Florida for the third straight morning while southern Florida saw temperatures warm after recent unseasonable cold. Miami dropped to 42 Tuesday and was 60 early today, with Key West at 65. Tallahassee logged 31, down from 20 yesterday. Forecasters expect 65 to 70 across the state, with 70 to 75 in the south, as citrus and vegetables suffer damage in north central areas. The frigid trend extended from the northern Plains to upper Great Lakes, with subzero readings in the Dakotas and single digits in Minneapolis while the east saw 20s. Snow lighted the middle Mississippi Valley and western Plains.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Florida
Miami
Key West
Tallahassee
Plains
Lake Superior
Ohio Valley
Upper
Great Lakes
Inter
National Falls
Minn
Minneapolis
Dakotas
Rockies
Northern Plains
Great Lakes Region
Atlantic Coast
Mississippi Valley
Western Plains
Diamond joke kicks off Chuckle column
The Chuckle column notes a pun about diamonds as one of the hardest substances, humorously suggesting they resist being retrieved. The quip credits Gen. Fea. Corp for the line and showcases light editorial text in a playful tone.
Controversial Badman Of West Dies With Boots Off
Alfonso Jackson Jennings known as Al Jennings, famed but controversial Oklahoma outlaw, ex-convict, lawyer, lecturer, evangelist and later adviser to film makers, died at 98 in Tarzana California. His life spanned railroading, a 1895 train robbery, a brief prison stint, and public roles as lecturer, evangelist and political candidate amid debate over his legendary status.
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Tarzana
Calif
Alfonso Jackson
Jennings
Oklahoma Badlands
Tillman V. Eggleston
Maude
Jesse James
Dalton Gang
Tiny al
Stuart Lake
Wests
Wyatt Earp
Oklahoma
Texas
Arkansas
Kansas
Rock Island
Theodore Roosevelt
Lake
al Jennings
Tazewell County
Comanche County
Kan
el Reno
Okla
California
Bomb Proof Shelters For World's Newlyweds Asked
Anthropologist Margaret Mead urged bomb proof shelters for the world is newlyweds at the 128th AAAS meeting in Denver. She proposed an internationally financed shelter system to save a cross section of newly married people from every country for two weeks after marriage to ensure continued human reproduction.
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Denver
Colo
Margaret Mead
Mead
American Museum of Natural History
American Association For the Advancement of Science
United States
United Nations
Kennedy visits father as Belgium backs Congo unity
President Kennedy tours StMarys Hospital in West Palm Beach with Mrs Kennedy and sisters amid a busy day on budget work and the State of the Union message. Belgium resumes diplomatic ties with the Congo as Katanga’s parliament readies changes to the constitution under Adoula.
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Preston Wade
New York
White House
Pierre Salinger
Kennedy
Oceanside
David E. Bell
Bell
State of the Union
Theodore C. Sorensen
Walter W. Heller
Council of Economic Advisers
Lawrence F. O'Brien
Myer Feldman
Salinger
Congress
Stephen Smith
Sargent Shriver
Washington
Joseph P. Kennedy
Leopoldville
the Congo
Belgium
Congo
Cyrille Adoula
Katanga
Adoula
Moise Tshombe
The
Patrice Lumumba
Tshombe
Brussels
Laotian princes' meeting collapses before talks
In Vientiane, neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma and pro-Communist Souphanouvong met with pro-Western Premier Boun Oum to discuss forming a coalition government. Boun Oum avoided the arranged meeting, and the talks lasted under an hour before a courtesy call at his residence. Diplomats reacted with disappointment as weeks of maneuvering yielded little.
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Vientiane
Laos
Souvanna Phouma
Souphanouvong
Boun Oum
Ribicoff May Be Candidate For Senate
Abraham A. Ribicoff said he would accept a draft to run for the U.S. Senate from Connecticut next year. He denied plans to seek the Democratic nomination at the state convention but confirmed the Courant report he would accept a draft. The piece recalls Stratton and Alford entering governor races in New York and Arkansas.
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Associated Press
Abraham A. Ribicoff
U.S. Senate
Connecticut
Ribicoff
Kennedy
Hartford Courant
Samuel S. Stratton
Schenectady
New York
Dale Alford
Little Rock
Arkansas
Prescott Bush
Courant
Stratton
Robert F. Wagner
New York City
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Alford
J. W. Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Orval E. Faubus
Fulbright
Faubus
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