Harlem River tragedy claims eleven of one big Brooklyn family
Eleven members of a single Brooklyn family died when a returning christening party car veered into the Harlem River after missing a dead end. Police blamed vandalized river edge warning lights. one survivor, I Martinez, 40, recalls the crowded car and a wrong turn toward the river.
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New York
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John T. Carroll
I. Martinez
Brooklyn
Lincoln Avenue
132Nd Street
Third Avenue
One Dead in Chilhowie Train Collision
A Smyth County tragic crash in Chilhowie left Mary Evelyn Russell 53 of Marion dead at 5 40 p m after a Norfolk and Western train struck a car carrying her and two others E W Heldreth 62 of Wytheville and his wife Ethel Russell Heldreth, injured at 4 23 p m on Route 762 near U S 11.
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Marion
E. W. Heldreth
Ethel Russell Heldreth
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Smyth County Community Hospital
Roanoke
B. J. Atwood
Norfolk and Western Railway
U. S. 11
Norfolk and Western
Fitzhugh Talmadge Nichols
Bristol
Five Children Die In North Carolina House Fire
In Woodland North Carolina five preschool children of Willie Vaughan and his wife perished when a four rooom home caught fire Saturday night. The youngsters aged 14 months to 7 years slept in the five rooms. The parents, who had checked on them earlier, found flames roaring from the roof when they returned with a neighbor. Firemen could not save the structure as it collapsed.
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Woodland
N.C
Willie Rawls Vaughan
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Vaughan
Russian cosmonauts wed in televised ceremony in Moscow
Cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Andrei Nikolayev married in a royal televised wedding at the Palace of Marriages. Premier Khrushchev hosted a reception with 300 guests as a symbolic gift a doll for the couple. Khrushchev hinted the pair may return to space amid Soviet space triumphs.
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Andriea Nikolayev
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Soviet Union
Nina Khrushchev
Defense
Rodion Malinovsky
Konstantin Vershinin
Nikolayev
Anna Nikolayeva
Yelena Tereskhova
Ice Show Toll Reaches Sixty Eight in Indiana Disaster
In Indianapolis the Halloween explosion at the state fairgrounds Coliseum killed 68 people and injured nearly 400 as gas from a cooking tank leaked under the stands. A 15 year old concession worker spoke of a blue haze from a toppled cylinder moments before the blast. The 68th victim was Mrs. Bessie Ginns of Muncie.
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State Fairgrounds Coliseum
Indiana
Bessie Ginns
Muncie
James Turner Jr
Casey
Stella Mahr
Arnold Phillips
Edward O. Carter
Shorty
Charleston Woman Found Floating in Kanawha River
The body of Lois Maxine Brookman aged 36 of Charleston was recovered from the Kanawha River after she had been missing for five days. Police opened an investigation.
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Charleston
Lois Maxine Brookman
Kanawha River
Rescued Miners Calm After Len gede Mine Flood
Surface workers reach 11 trapped miners in the Len gede iron mine near Broistedt Germany after a dam break flooded the ore wash. 29 others were rescued a week earlier as a narrow shaft was sunk to the 13 by 10 by 23 foot gallery where the men waited.
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Germany
Lengede
Kellner
Adolf Herbst
Gertrude Herbst
Hannover
Saigon Celebrates Coup as Nightlife Returns to Normal
Saigon people celebrate the coup against Ngo Dinh Diem with open night clubs and removed morality laws. Bar girls discard hospital smocks for revealing skirts while crowds cheer soldiers and Buddhist supporters. Monks roam pagodas freely as troops disperse demonstrators outside the National Assembly.
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National Assembly
Diem
Vietnamese Junta To Seek U S Aid
In Saigon the revolutionary Buddhist led junta works on a new cabinet likely to win quick U S recognition. Maj Gen Doung Van Minh leads the military committee with Nguyen Ngoc Tho as premier. Bodies identified as Diem and Nhu shown. U N mission heads home. Lodge delays return awaiting U S recognition.
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Viet Nam
Ngo Dinh Diem
United States
Doung van Minh
Diem
Inside ACE cease 12 Movies 7 Add Years 32 Princeton 6 Classified
Inside ACE feature notes the end of a film slate with 12 movies and 7 added years for a 32 Princeton layout plus 6 classified items and 10 pages covering society comics sports editorials TV Goren weather.
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ACE Cease
Princeton
Goren
U.S. Officials Regret Diem and Nhu Death in Saigon
U.S. officials voiced regret over the deaths of South Vietnam leader Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu after their capture in Saigon during the coup. They repudiated earlier private judgments and stressed the United States bears no responsibility for the killings. The State Department declined to comment on Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu’s accusation that the deaths stain the United States.
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Washington
U.S
South Viet Nam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Saigon
Red Defector Chooses Fate In Tokyo Hunger Strike
Chou Hung Ching, a defector from Communist China, staged a hunger strike in Tokyo to press for repatriation to Peiping. Japanese officials said he will be released from detention for illegal aliens once a deportation date is set. He arrived in September with a Chinese oil hydraulic mission, fled, then fluctuated between Formosa and staying in Japan.
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Tokyo
Chou Hung- Ching
China
Peiping
Chou
Formosa
Japan
Nhu Children Unharmed After Vietnam Coup Middle East
The State Department telegram to Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu said three of her children aged 15 11 and 4 were unharmed after the weekend military coup. They will fly to Rome for a reunion with their mother and sister Le Thuy. The message was sent to Beverly Hills lodging as a private citizen.
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State Department
Ngo Dinh Nhu
South Viet Nam
Rome
le Thuy
Department of State Operations Center
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