Belgians Pull From Congo After 1700 Saved
Belgian paratroopers extracted from the Congo on Sunday after rescuing 1,700 white hostages from Congolese rebels. About 500 or more foreigners remained in rebel areas with maudden rebel reports and ongoing danger. The death toll among white hostages reached 85.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
Congo
Leopoldville
Donia
Soviet Union
Paul-Henri Spaak
Belgium
Stanleyville
Paulis
Bunia
Brussels
Belgian Defense Ministry
Ascension Island
Christophe Gbenye
Middle East
Cairo
Equatorial
Sudan
Khartoum
Old Shell Explodes Killing Two at Texas Ranch
An old World War II artillery shell picked up near Abilene exploded at Loud Sears ranch near Camp Barkley. Two ranch hands were killed and others wounded in the blast as the shell dropped at a ranch house.
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Abilene, Tex
Sears Ranch
Camp Barkley
Texas
Death Toll on U.S. Roads Rises Over Thanksgiving Weekend
The Associated Press reports 507 people killed on streets and highways during the four day Thanksgiving period ending midnight Sunday. Weather hazards in New England and the Pacific Northwest, plus Midwest snow, contributed to crashes including several triple and double fatalities.
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New England
Pacific Coast
Midwest
Weather Bureau
Associated Press
United States
Holland
Mich
South Carolina
Kansas
Slade Fined $100 for Negligent Homicide
David William Slade an 18 year old of Bluefield Virginia was fined 100 dollars plus costs on a negligent homicide charge. Justice of the Peace Lewis Perdue said the charge followed a Sunday morning crash on Airport Road near Bluefield in which Garnett N Stassin 20 of Bluefield Virginia was killed and Slade plus another passenger were injured. The hearing occurred over the past weekend.
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David William Slade
Bluefield
Justice of the Peace
Lewis Perdue
Slade
Airport Road
Garnett N. Stassin
Perdue
Navy pilot survives bailout near Weems Virginia
A Navy pilot ejected from a disabled aircraft and landed in waist-deep water of the Rappahannock River near Weems. A woman on a pier witnessed the splash and the pilot gathering his parachute, with the flyer replying casually when asked good morning. The incident involved T. M. Kastner of Patuxent River Naval Air Station Maryland, who was aboard the sea craft.
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Weems
Tidewater Virginia
T. M. Kastner
Patuxent
Naval Air Station
Rappahannock River
Inside Abby 12 Movies 3 Add Years
A brief page listing sections and features across Abby issues. The note highlights film reviews and additions, with Variety style notes on upcoming year-end items and society columns.
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Abby
Princeton
New Show Of Force In Saigon As Paratroops Crack Funeral
Vietnamese paratroopers clashed with about 2 000 Buddhists at a funeral for a 15 year old boy shot during antigovernment protests. Soldiers seized the coffin and arrested 87 demonstrators amid martial law signs and Viet Cong suspicions.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
van Tran Huong
U.S
Huong
le van Ngoc
Lost Youth Is Rescued
In Harlan Kentucky a boy missing on Big Stone Mountain since Saturday was found Sunday afternoon under a cliff ledge by the Harlan County Rescue Squad. David Brooks Jr. endured mild shock and exposure with frostbitten feet but was otherwise fine, while 15 year old Johnny Mills, who rode with the rescue party, suffered severe frostbite on his feet.
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Harlan, Ky
Big Stone Mountain
Harlan County
David Brooks
S. H. Bowen
Johnny Mills
David
San Cave
St. Paul Va
Eight Killed On State Roads
Eight people died in traffic accidents over the 102hour Thanksgiving weekend in West Virginia raising the state highway death toll to 421. In Charleston a pre dawn crash killed 17 year old Roy Roger Holmes as his car struck a building. Lois Adams 19 of Dunbar is missing and presumed drowned after a car plunged into the Kanawha River. driver Charles W. Tysor 21 swam to safety.
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West Virginia
Charleston
Roy Roger Holmes
Lois Adams
Dunbar
Kanawha
Charles W. Tysor
London Paper Accuses Miss World Contender of Improper Entry
The People, a London Sunday newspaper, claims Ann Sidney won Miss World under false pretences. It alleges she entered Miss Manchester from a nonresidential address outside the 10 mile residence rule radius. The promoter says disqualification would have occurred if known, but action is now barred.
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London
The
People
Ann Sidney
Sidney
Manchester
Miss Sidney
Spacecraft Mariner 4 Misguides Star En Route to Mars
Spacecraft Mariner 4 selected the wrong guiding star after launch from Cape Kennedy on a 325 million mile Mars voyage. Jet Propulsion Laboratory officials say the error is not mission threatening as the craft aims to televise 22 Martian surface photos next July and gather space radiation data en route to the 1969 goal.
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Pasadena
Calif
Mars
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Earth
United States
Mariner 4
U.S
Argo
Canopus
Jet Propulsio Laboratory
Mariner
County Parade Opens 1964 Christmas Shopping Season
Thousands are forecast to attend the 49 unit Christmas Parade in the city tonight. The event features Karen Nicholson Miss West Virginia, band queens, other entrants, floats and marching units. The parade forms on Thorn Street and proceeds via Second and Mercer to the Mercer County Court House.
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Princeton
Karen Nicholson
West Virginia
Thorn Street
Mercer
Mercer County
Churchill Finishes 90th Birthday Marked By Global Messages
Sir Winston Churchill greeted well-wishers outside his London home as he neared his 90th birthday. A freezing drizzle failed to dampen cheers and celebrations with world messages pouring in. Critics reviewed two new Churchill books while Parliament pressed on with debates about his legacy.
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Sir Winston Churchill
London
Winston Churchill
Winston
Chatchill
Lewis Broad
Isaiah Berlin
Emrys Hughes
Labor
Wales
Tribune
Hughes
Churchill
Mussolini
Hitler
Kingsley Martin
The
New Statesman
Mississippi Valley Snowstorm Dumps Eight Inches Across Midwest
A powerful Arctic air outbreak followed a mid Mississippi Valley storm that dropped eight inches in parts of Nebraska Iowa Missouri and Illinois. Roads clogged and temperatures plunged with Bismarck recording minus 29 F the coldest November in memory.
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Great Plains
Midwest
Mississippi Valley
Nebraska
Iowa
Missouri
Illinois
Houghton
Mich
Weather Bureau
Santa Forces Bailout On NJ Flight To Midget Game
In Green Brook New Jersey Santa Claus bailed out of a failing Cessna 180 near Manville on a trip to a Midget Football League game He landed safely with no injuries to pilot Marvin Everett 18 passenger Peter Ehmann 24 and Santa Roland Thoren 24 They hitchhiked back to the airport for a replacement plane and completed the halftime appearance.
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Green Brook
N. J
Santa Claus
New Jersey
Santa
Manville
Union
Marvin Everett
Peter Ehmann
Roland Thoren
Bear Recaptured After Two-Hour Standoff in Glens Falls
A 200-pound Himalayan bear escapee from a tourist attraction eluded captors for hours in a Glens Falls parking lot. Police and the owner finally nabbed the bear by luring it with food, then restraining it with a chain and guiding it into a cage.
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Glens Falls
N.Y
Canadian Soldiers Killed by Land Mine in Gaza UN Mission
Two Canadian soldiers with the United Nations emergency force were killed when their car ran over a hand mine during a routine inspection tour in the 500 foot wide no man’s land between Israel and the UAR. A Bedouin in the vehicle also died.
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Gaza
United Nations Emergency Force
U.N
No Man’s Land
Israel-U.a.r
Record Low, Freezing Temps Hit Midwest and Plains
The previous low for the date was -23 in 1875. Dawn temperatures ran 10 to 20 degrees below zero in the Dakotas and Minnesota, 5 to 10 above in Nebraska and northern Iowa. Williston North Dakota marked -21 and Havre Montana -22, with Sunday afternoon readings from 8 below Fargo to 83 at Fort Myers. Two funnel clouds were spotted near Miami as thunderstorms formed in the tropical air. A Pacific Northwest storm brought rain and gales to the coast and snow inland, Spokane reporting two new inches for a four inch ground cover.
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Dakotas
Minnesota
Nebraska
Iowa
Williston
N.D
Havre
Mont
Fargo
N.C
Fort Myers
Fla
Miami
Pacific Northwest
Spokane
Wash
California Hit By Unexpected Heat Wave
A sudden heat wave struck southern California on a Sunday. Long Beach reached 86 and Palm Springs 82 while Los Angeles hit a record 87 for November. Smog settled in normally clean sections of coastal Orange County as Santa Ana winds intensified the unusual conditions.
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Los Angeles
California
Beach
Desert
Long Beach
Palm Springs
Mercury
Orange County
Santa Ana
India Relaxes Liquor Import Rules for Eucharistic Congress
In Bombay the strict prohibition regime eased to allow sacramental wine imports for the 38th International Eucharistic Congress. Prohibition officers reportedly looked the other way as hundreds of wine bottles were unloaded from ships at Bombay Harbor.
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Bombay
India
Stampede Kills 20 at Veracruz Stadium Tribute
In JALAPA Mexico crowd crush after a governor's tribute turns deadly. About 3 000 farmhands gathered for a dancing exhibition in the main square. after the governor Fernando Lopez Arias departed a stampede caused 20 deaths and 36 injuries, state officials said.
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Jalapa
Mexico
Fernando Lopez Arias
Veracruz State
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van Huong
National Safety Council
Council
Para
Kastner
Viet Nam
Peter Arnett
Cong
Thich Tam Chau
Tran van Huong
Tokyo
Wayward Marvel
Arctic Deep Freeze
By Leonard Kirschen
Michigan
Bismarck
North Dakota
Bear
Paul Lukaris
Lukaris
Theodore Rhem
Rhem
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