Kennedy declares Berlin wall symbol of Communist failure
President Kennedy toured West Berlin during a dramatic eight hour visit. He branded the wall as a vivid sign of Communist failure and told crowds Ich bin ein Berliner. Massive crowds greeted him as East Berliners jeered and Red police watched.
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Kennedy
Pierre Salinger
White House
West Berlin
Tegel
Ireland
The
Wall
Konrad Adenauer
Brandt
German Democratic Republic
Yalta
Potsdam
Charlie
Khrushchev
East Berlin
Kennedy Urges Freedom As Berlin Wall Echoes Campaign
President Kennedy tours West Berlin amid massive crowds and a flag bedecked Brandenburg Gate, urging unity and freedom beyond the wall. He defies East German limits at Checkpoint Charlie, promising the United States will stay and support liberty.
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Brandenburg Gate
Checkpoint Charlie
East
West Berlin
Saunders Named Chairman Of The Pennsylvania Railroad
Stuart T. Saunders, 54, elected board chairman and chief executive officer of The Pennsylvania Railroad, effective Oct. 1. He leaves Norfolk & Western to join PRR, where Allen J. Greenough remains president and COO. Saunders, Harvard-educated, heads N W since 1958 and helped merge The Virginian into N W earlier.
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Philadelphia
Stuart Thomas Saunders
McDowell County
W. Va
America
The
Pennsylvania
James M. Symes
Pennsy
Allen J. Greenough
Symes
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
N&w
East
PRR
Saunders
Washington, D. C
New York Central
Oficer
Virginian
Interstate Commerce Commission
N.&w. Board of Directors
Southern Line
Roanoke
Stuart T. Saunders
Norfolk and Western Railway
Pennsylvania Railroad
House approves $47 billion defense bill with one dissent
The House passed a $47,082,009,000 defense appropriation by 410 to 1, with Rep. Thomas B. Curtis the sole dissenter citing money concerns. The bill trims Kennedy's request by about $1.93 billion, mainly through Army procurement cuts.
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Washington
House
Kennedy
U.S
Clarence Cannon
D-Mo
Senate
Thomas B. Curtis
R-Mo
Appropriations Committee
George H. Mahon
D-Tex
Yeggs Hijack Trailer Near Baltimore Edgemere
In Edgemere a trailer truck was hijacked in a clean getaway. Thieves took 43 crates of bathtubs and 78 crates of sinks from the trailer. Authorities investigate the Baltimore area incident and monitor for further leads.
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Baltimore
Edgemere
Boy Drowns In Kanawha River
Gilberto Lucero a 16 year old visitor from Price Utah drowned while swimming and boating with relatives near Marmet West Virginia on the Kanawha River. He vanished about 40 feet from shore as witnesses watched and two relatives failed to rescue him. A fire department emergency crew recovered the body in about 15 feet of water.
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Charleston
Price
Utah
Gilberto Lucero
Kanawha
E. R. Burgess
Marmet
Burgess
Jerry Davies
Salt Lake City
Lucero
WV Roads Report 168 Killed This Year
The Associated Press states West Virginia state police at Charleston report 168 road deaths to date, compared with 195 at this time last year.
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Associated Press
Charleston
West Virginia
House Space Committee Cuts Budget In Budget Revision
The House Space Committee reduced the space sciences and advanced research budget by 136 million from a 1.2 billion request, while adding 2 million for high energy fuels research. Total approved exceeds 1 billion with 3.2 billion for manned space flight and 90 million for Ranger program cut by 25 million. Rep Joseph E Karth led the subcommittee.
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House Space Committee
Washington
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Moon
Joseph E. Karth
D-Minn
Kennedy urges Congress to pass civil rights public accommodations law
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy pressed Congress to enact a federal public accommodations bill ending racial discrimination. He faced GOP objections over enforcement without juries, a minimum business threshold, and demonstrations. He argued restaurants hotels and stores are public facilities and the law would protect civil rights without violating private property rights.
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Washington
Robert F. Kennedy
Congress
Desis
D-N.y
Kennedy
Murphy
Edwin E. Willis
Dla
Lindsay
Gover nor Harrison urges slow desegregation in Virginia
In Richmond, Gov. Albertis S. Harrison Jr. says education and economic gains for African Americans are essential to racial harmony. He urges biracial talks with patience, warns against rapid school integration, and notes police reports from Danville amid ongoing protests.
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Richmond
Albertis S. Harrison Jr
Virginia
Harrison
Virginia National Board
General Assembly
Danville
Kentucky Racial Barriers Topple
Gov. Bert Combs orders end to racial discrimination in all state licensed businesses and professions. The executive order covers motels restaurants taverns bars doctors dentists nursing and funeral homes brokers attorneys accountants dairy outlets and watchmakers. It bypasses civil rights legislation during the special session as groups pressed for a public accommodations ban and reports due within 60 days.
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Frankfort
Bert Combs
Julius Rather
Combs
Eastern Kentucky
$100 000 Suit Lost By UMW
The U S Court of Appeals 6th Circuit affirmed a $100000 damage judgment against the United Mine Workers in a Tennessee mine dispute. The award favored Lyle's Coal Co Allen Trucking Co and truckers Walter Melhorn Jr and Henry Melhorn of Anderson County. Claimants contended coercion by union members over a nonunionized Lyle strip mine, while UMW claimed the mine was never unionized.
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Cincinnati
United Mine Workers Union
Tennessee
U. S. Court of Appeals
6Th Circuit
Knoxville, Tenn
Lyle’s Coal Co
Allen Trucking Co
Walter Melhorn Jr
Henry Melhorn
New River
Oliver Springs
Anderson County
Tenn
Joe R
Margaret S. Allen
Lyle
Bandit Robs St Louis Bank Again With Cash Bundle
AP reports a recurring bandit who robbed a suburban St Louis bank of 4500 in April returned Wednesday and escaped with another unknown amount. Bank cashier commented that the thefts are tiresome and that customers arrive with a gun pointed at them.
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Bandit
St. Louis
Separated Siamese Twin Ruth Ann Temoshenko Dies
Ruth Ann Temoshenko, separated from her Siamese twin sister last week, died Wednesday from a staphylococcus infection contracted during the weekend. An autopsy confirmed the infection as the cause. Rose Mary Temoshenko also contracted the infection but remained in satisfactory condition.
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Pittsburgh
Ruth Ann Temoshenko
Children’s Hospital
Ruth Ann
Rose Mary
Tass Reports Kennedy Berlin Wall Visit Sparks Tension
Moscow based Tass said Kennedy's West Berlin stop at the wall heated the atmosphere in the front-line city. The dispatch quoted the City Hall speech as whipping up anti-Communist hysteria and anti cold war agitation by West Berlin advocates.
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Moscow
Tass
Kennedy
Berlin Wall
West Berlin
World Women Congress Erupts Over China India Border Clash
In Moscow the World Congress for Women halted as Chinese delegates stormed the speakers’ platform demanding time to address the China India border dispute. The session, marked by Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy’s mention and Dolores Imbarruri’s standing ovation, reflected Cold War tensions and debates on peaceful coexistence with the West.
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World Congress For Women
Jacqueline Kennedy
Khrushchev
Kwo-Dien
Aruna Asaf Ali
India
Congress
Dolores Imbarruri
Imbarruri
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Kanawha River
Abby Add
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Bobby
House Judiciary
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Ohio
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