Kuwait Returns to Normal After Iraqi Threat
Kuwait shrugged off Iraq’s challenge and resumed normal operations as crowds filled markets and workers headed to oil fields. Kuwait’s ruling family dismissed Iraq’s claim as mere talk while Arab states debated mediation and Saudi Arabia offered limited military support if Kuwait were attacked.
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Kuwait
Iraq
Gs Nerally
A Karim Kassem
Persian Gulf
Sir Abdulah As-Salim As-Sabah
Beirut
Sheik Abdullah Mubarak
Lebanon
Kassem
Cairo
Saudi Arabia
Gamal Abdel Nasser
United Arab Republic
Chuckle Defines Alarm Clock as Day-Starter Mechanism
An alarm clock is described as a mechanical device used to wake people by parting them from sleep, with the origin credited to a general feature of daily routines and a note on its role in starting the day for readers of the feature.
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Fea. Corp
Postal rates set to rise Saturday in Biddeford
Money order rates climb on domestic and international mail. One to ten dollar orders increase to 20 cents for domestic and 40 cents for international, with higher tiers at 30 and 60 cents for 10.01 to 50 dollars and 35 and 70 cents for 50.01 to 100 dollars. International parcels simplified to two zones covering North America Caribbean and the rest of the world.
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Biddeford
R. B. Gosselin
North America
Caribbean
Ford and GM Press for Noninflationary Pacts in Talks
DETROIT AP Ford Motor Co joined General Motors in demanding noninflationary wage deals from the United Auto Workers as the two carmakers opened 1961 bargaining to replace three year pacts expiring Aug 31. UAW leader Walter Reuther planned talks with Chrysler and American Motors following GM and Ford statements urging restraint amid inflation concerns.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
General Motors Corp
United Auto Workers Union
UAW
Ford
General Motors
Walter P. Reuther
Chrysler Corp
American Motors Corp
Malcolm Denise
Denise
Reuther
Washington
Lacking In Grandmas Fairfield Birth Triggers Genealogy Tale
Relatives near Fairfield Vermont react to the birth of Jeanette Franciskovitch in Canton Hill on June 23. They tally her line of grandmothers and great ancestors, noting two grandmothers, two great grandmothers, three great great grandmothers, and one step great grandmother plus one step great great grandmother. Jeanette is the daughter of Dianne Sheltra of Fairfield, now Mrs Bancil Franciskovich.
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Fairfield
Jeanette Franciskovitch
Canton
Hill
Jeanette
Dianne Sheltra
Bancil Franciskovich
Union Charts Course For Pay Increases Amid Wage Restraint
UNITY HOUSE PA AP The AFL-CIO launches a new drive for higher wages despite a Kennedy administration call for restraint. George Meany says unemployment near five million proves the recession end is not here. The council blames the status quo on policy advisers urging wage restraint to avoid inflation.
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Unity House
Afl-Cio
Kennedy
George Meany
Meany
Afl-Cio Executive Council
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Walt Rostow
Kennedy proposes permanent U.S. disarmament agency
President Kennedy urged Congress to create a permanent U.S. disarmament agency with sweeping powers to draft plans negotiate enforce arms control. Aimed at world peace and security the autonomous agency would be first of its kind and elevate U.S. focus on disarmament.
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Washington
WAP
Kennedy
U.S
United States
Congress
United States Disarmament Agency For World Peace and Security
Seder
Tax Hikes Take Effect Saturday Across Beers Cigarettes and Liquor
The 100th Maine legislature approved tax increases on beer cigarettes and liquor effective Saturday with July adjustments. Cigarettes rise one cent per pack and ten cents per carton. Beer tax jumps from 16 to 25 cents per gallon, first since 1937, with retailers or venues likely passing costs to consumers. Liquor prices up with a fifth ten cents higher pints five cents higher quarts fifteen cents higher. The state mark up on liquor rises to 55 percent from 61 percent of case price before deductions for recent federal increases.
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Wildlands
Maine
Maritime Negotiations Pressed in National Strike
New York AP report says talks on the two week old national maritime strike resumed under Kennedy board efforts with slight concessions. If progress continues the board may delay its return, Kennedy to decide on possible injunction to end the strike for an 80 day cooling off. About 250 ships idle on coasts, foreign-flag crews opposed to organizing American flagged ships.
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NEW York
David L. Cole
Kennedy
Cole
Washington
Tion
Robert F. Kennedy
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf
United States
National Maritime Union
Seafarers International Union
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots
American Radio Association
Northern Great Plains Faces Severe Drought Per AP
The Associated Press reports a widespread drought darkens the Northern Great Plains from Minnesota through North and South Dakota to Canadian prairies. Small grains suffer as scarce winter snow and lack of summer rain persist, prompting disaster declarations and new feed grain allowances under the soil bank. Canadian troops battle a large forest fire haze near Winnipeg area.
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Associated Press
Great Plains
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Prairie
Canada
Seattle
Washington
North Dakota
Soil Bank
Whiteshell Reserve
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Nixon to write book on public life for Doubleday
Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon will author a book about his experiences in public life. Doubleday & Co. announced on Wednesday that the publisher will release the work.
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New York
Richard M. Nixon
Doubleday & Co
Kennedy Signs Law to Complete Interstate System by 1972
President Kennedy signed a law to assure completion of the interstate highway system by 1972. The measure funds the program with 11.7 billion dollars, including 600 million annually from the gasoline tax, plus 150 million from other highway taxes and 150 million from diverting 5 percent of the excise tax on trucks and buses. It also extends billboard ban bonuses and raises several highway taxes.
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Washington
Kennedy
White House
Pone Treasury
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Howard Shaffer
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