Powell Refuses to Answer Questions at House Hearing
Powell, a New York Democrat, refused to be sworn in or answer questions beyond age, citizenship, and residency as the House panel weighs his qualifications to sit in Congress. Speaker Emanuel Celler led the nine member panel as Powell, flanked by seven lawyers, declined further testimony. The committee will recommend seating or barring him, despite his deposition as a committee chair.
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Washington
Adam
Clayton Powell
House
Congress
Powell
New York
Emanuel Celler
D-N.y
Commission to Revamp Draft with Lottery and Younger Exemption
The National Commission on Selective Service plans to urge President Johnson to adopt a lottery draft targeting 18, 19, and 20 year olds, keep student deferments, and standardize national classifications. It also favors a national draft quota and reduced local board autonomy to prevent uneven draft calls.
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Washington
National Commission On Selective Service
Johnson
Defense Department
Department
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Commission
Congress
Johnson Plans Aid To Youth
President Johnson outlined a broad youth aid program in a special message to Congress. He proposed strengthening Head Start and increasing Social Security payments for children, aiming to reach disadvantaged youngsters through a long-term education and health effort.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Fire sweeps Montgomery Penthouse Restaurant kills several
A blaze at the Penthouse Restaurant atop a 12 story Montgomery apartment building causes mounting deaths. The morning reports note freezing weather hampering snow removal and ongoing efforts to restore normalcy across the East.
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Montgomery
Ala
America
Georgia
Lester G. Maddox
New Orleans
Vietnam
United States
National Draft Commission
Johnson
Photo Plane Shot Down as Lunar New Year Truce Begins
A U S photo reconnaissance plane was shot down over North Vietnam as the Tet truce started. The pilot bailed out. a destroyer rescued him in the Gulf of Tonkin. The truce lasts four days with ongoing reconnaissance and sporadic skirmishes reported in South Vietnam.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
North Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin
Dong Hoi
North
Fire kills at least 26 in Montgomery dining room blaze
A rapid fire from a cloakroom spread through a rooftop Montgomery dining room killing 26, including former Public Service Commissioner Ed Pepper and his wife Ann. Firefighters faced ice as identification teams and FBI help traced victims while guests crowded nearby hotels for shelter.
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Alabama
Montgomery
Ala
FBI
Dale
Walter Bragg Smith
Public Service
Ed Pepper
Ann
Pepper
Birmingham
PSC
Jack Doane
Montgomery Advertiser
Doane
Lurleen Wallace
George C. Wallace
Executive Mansion
John English
Bill White
Dothan
White
Jesse Williams
Mao Forces Step Up Anti Soviet Campaign in China
The New China News Agency reports anti-Soviet demonstrations across mainland China in cities such as Peking Shanghai Nanking and many others. Maoist leaders warn of palace or armed coups as army posters accuse troops of suppressing revolutionary elements.
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Tokyo
Mao Tse- Tung
Kremlin
New China
China
Peking
Yomiuri
Mao
Red Capital
Red Guard
Kwangming Daily
Peking Wall
Soviet Union
Albania
Romania
New China News Agency
Shanghai
Lunar Orbiter 3 Aims for Safe Moon Landing Sites
Lunar Orbiter 3 reaches the moon to map twelve potential landing zones along a 200 by 1700 mile equatorial belt. NASA and JPL note deboost maneuvers will place the 850 pound craft into an oval lunar orbit to photograph rough terrain. Earlier orbiters provided data, with Orbiter 1 crashed and Orbiter 2 ongoing observations. Safest sites include Sinus Medii and Mare Tranquillitatis.
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Pasadena
Calif
U.S
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Moon
Lunar
Lunar Equator
Sinus Medii
Middle Bay
Mare Tranquillitatis Sea of Tranquility
Maine Weather Eases Yet Snows, Two Die In Storm
Maine escaped the northeast blizzard as the storm veered off Cape Cod. Five inches fell in Portland, a foot at Eastport, with Augusta four and Bangor three inches. Two deaths were reported and many services disrupted while bitter cold followed, with subzero readings statewide.
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Portland
Maine
Atlantic
Cape Cod
Eastport
Weather Bureau
Gulf of Maine
Augusta
Bangor
Rumford
Greenville
Auburn
George A. Moreau
H. Joel Fine
Phippsburg
Casco Bay
Curtis
State House
Old Town
Houston
Brunswick
Caribou
Blind St Andre's Student Chooses Independence
Carol Roy of Biddeford a 19 year old senior at St Andre's High School is blind yet maintains top half class standing. She drives herself to school and plans to become a nun possibly serving in a hospital. She uses Braille reads braille writer and attends the Brooklyn Industrial Home for the Blind during summers.
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Peggy Welch
Carol Roy
Biddeford
Carol
St. Andre’s High School
Brooklyn
Perkins School For the
Watertown
Mass
Louis Braille
iCarol
Joseph Roy
United States
Canada
St. Marie Agnes
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Benjamin C. Bubar
Su- Cee
Maine Christian Coleague
David Redmond
Biddeford High School
Paul M. Stebbins
Samuel Zaitlin
Extreme Right
Story
Watchman Kesslen Shoe
Kennebunk, Maine
THE
Associated Press
Mao Tse-tung
Adam Clayton Powell
Uncle Sam
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
Afl-Cio
Labor Federation
Willy Brandt
West Germany
International
Tasmania
South
State Department
Robert J. McCloskey
WRR
Fea, Corp
Ted Dyer
Strifen
Tsingtao
Nanking
Kunming
Sining
Nanchang
Chungking
Tsinan
Yinchuan
Hefei
Lanchow
Australia
N.Y. Trankov
Canberra
Red China
Moscow Radio
Orbiter
St. Andre’s
Barbara Crudell
Maine Linoleum CO
Alfred Street
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