Security Net Tightened As Tuscaloosa Crisis Nears
Gov. George Wallace mobilized about 600 National Guardsmen to Tuscaloosa to back up 825 state, county, city and campus police amid the planned integration show down. Barricades closed the campus to all but authorized persons as federal and state forces prepared for possible enrollment of two Negro students.
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Bill Jones
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Montgomery
Artificial gravity eyed to aid long space missions
U S space researchers discuss counteracting weightlessness on long flights. Capt Duane Graveland of Brooks AFB says artificial gravity via centrifugal force could help during re entry, with spinning capsule shells proposed to simulate gravity throughout weightless periods.
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Poland
U. S
Duane Graveland
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Brooks Air Force Base
Tex
Graveland
Cospar
International Committee For Space Research
Cardinals To Decide Policy With Election
Vatican City AP reports two cardinals among possible new popes stand out as symbols of the Church’s path. Giovanni Battista Montini is seen as an innovator like John XXIII, while Giuseppe Siri leads the traditionalists. The conclave of 82 cardinals meets in the Sistine Chapel June 19 to choose a pope and faces the innovator versus traditionalist policy choice with potential global diplomacy impact.
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John XXIII
Giuseppe Cardinal Siri
Sistine Chapel
John
College of Cardinals
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Cardinal Siri
Milan
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Genoa
Pius XII
Vatican
Rockefeller Remarriage Faces Mixed GOP Reactions
Washington AP report notes Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s marriage to a divorced mother of four drew positive early welcome at state Republican events. Analysts say initial receptions may not predict national support, as some party voices express concern over his personal life while Javits remains confident the marriage won’t hurt his presidential prospects.
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Nelson A. Rockefeller
Jacob K. Javits
R.N.Y
New York
Rockefeller
Prescott Bush
Rconn
Bush
Connecticut
United States
Javits
Don Sharp Beats Odds After BB Eye Injury
In Phoenix a 13 year old boy named Don Sharp survived a BB gun accident that could have blinded him. A fall dislodged the BB from his eye and doctors now expect a return of full sight. His family notes the boy was playing blindman’s bluff when the mishap occurred.
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Ariz
Don Sharp
Ed Sharps
Eddie
Sharps
Don
Briton and Khrush to Discuss Test Ban
Harold Wilson leader of Britton's Labor party arrived in Moscow to meet Premier Khrushchev and discuss a nuclear test ban. The talks aim to ease Cold War tensions and advance disarmament efforts between the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union.
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Moscow
Harold Wilson
Britton
Labor Party
Khrushchev
Doctor Ward jailed in Britain's sex scandal
London AP reports socialite osteopath Dr Stephen Ward tied to the Profumo affair and accused of living off prostitution earnings. Ward, 43, unable to post bail, faces a Monday hearing in a case linking him to prominent figures including Sir Winston Churchill and Elizabeth Taylor.
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Stephen Ward
Ward
John Profumo
Christine Keeler
Profumo
Harold Macmillan
Winston Churchill
Scotland Yard
DR. Ward
Britain
Marily Rice-Davies
Paula Hamilton-Marshall
Chamber of Commerce chief urges rapid racial integration
Edwin P. Neilan, head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said the board should consider a belief declaration backing prompt peaceful desegregation. He urged business leaders to draft plans with Negro spokesmen to end segregation in public facilities, warning against slow timetables and extremist voices. He linked business leadership to President Kennedy’s desegregation push.
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Edwin P. Neilan
Wilmington
Del
Chamber
Direc
Tors
Neilan
Kennedy
South
National Chamber
Birmingham
Ala
Bank of Delaware
Kennedy presses tax cut and civil rights push
President Kennedy rallied Democratic women at a Hollywood breakfast to back a 10 billion dollar tax cut while linking the fight for civil rights to economic recovery. He was joined by Senate Leader Mansfield for talks en route to Hawaii as Washington previews a major civil rights push.
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Kennedy
Washington
American University
Congress
Hawaii
Mansfield
Hollywood
Underground Action Rises in Grim Cuba Unrest
AP News outlines growing underground resistance to Castro in Cuba with internal sabotage against the economy. Reports describe arson in tobacco and sugar fields, raids on nickel mines, and hit-and-run assaults on militia barracks. Exile groups and external arms shipments fuel continued counterrevolutionary activity.
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Cuba
Mayar
Oriente
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