Rusk Attacks Aid Foes as Defeatist
Secretary of State Rusk criticized opponents of Kennedy’s foreign aid plan calling them defeatists who would let communists take over the world. He told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that cutting aid betrays freedom and warned against another Cuba in Latin America.
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Washington
Rusk
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Europe
Latin America
Kennedy
Thomas Morgan
Dpa
Congress
Moscow
Peking
Cuba
Africa
Wind-Fanned Fires Ravage States From Maine to Georgia
Wind driven fires scorched vast areas across multiple states with gusts up to 81 mph and snow hail and cold. Fatal incidents occurred in New York City Syracuse Passaic and other locales as hundreds of acres burned and towns faced extensive damage. National guard units were deployed by Governor Sanford alongside Fort Bragg support as forests and homes were consumed.
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Maine
Georgia
New York City
Syracuse
Passaic
N. J
Weather Bureau
Canada
Missouri
New England
Cheshire
Mass
Williamstown
New York
Geneva
N.Y
Philadelphia
New Jersey
Fort Dix Military Reservation
Delaware
Virginia
North Carolina
Terry Sanford
National Guard
Fort Bragg
Lunik IV Nears Moon as Soviet Probe Closer to Earth
Tass news agency reported Russia's Lunik IV was near the moon on Friday, a 3,130 pound probe about 226,800 miles from Earth at 6 p.m. Moscow time. Radio communications were reported good, but mission details and capsule conditions were not provided. Publicity has lessened and no further specifics were announced.
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Moscow
Russia
Tass
Lunik
Constituent Compliments Lawmakers During Tight Session
In Olympia Washington AP reports a state senator received a letter from a constituent as the third week of a special session ended. The writer praised the work while noting the session seemed confusing and urged continued effort.
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Olympia
Wash
Reuben Knoblaugh
LeMay Silent on TFX Overrule by Civilian Officials
Air Force Chief Gen Curtis LeMay testified before a Senate subcommittee that civilian action overruling military findings on the TFX plane contract had no explanation. He said he protested to Air Force Secretary Eugene Zuckert with Gen McKee, but was told nothing.
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Washington
Air Force
Curtis LeMay
Senate Investigation Subcommittee
LeMay
Gen. McKee
Eugene Zuckert
Sen. McClellan
Actress' Son Admits Playing With Matches Before Hotel Fire
An 8-year-old son of an actress in The Sound of Music admitted to police that he struck matches in a sixth floor room of the Sherry Biltmore hotel where the fire originated. Four people died. many cast members were staying there. He said a rug caught fire and he stomped it out, and that he got the matches in the lobby saying his mother wanted them. The blaze was reported the next morning.
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Boston
Sound of Music
Sherry Biltmore
Bill O’brien
Columbus
Minneapolis
Baltimore
Argentine Navy Rebels Stall Over Surrender Terms
Argentine navy rebels near agreeing to end their revolt against President Jose Maria Guido stalled at their naval base 350 miles south of Buenos Aires. Loyalist forces, estimated at 25,000 troops, waited to strike if surrender terms drawn up by Rear Adm. Eladio Vazquez and Guido loyalists were accepted.
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Jose Maria Guido
Here
Adm
Eladio Vazquez
Pro- Guido
Kennedy Leases Summer Home for Season in Hyannis Port
A spokesman confirmed President Kennedy has leased the Brambletyde summer home on Squaw Island at Hyannis Port for the season. The house is owned by Louis Thun of Reading, a textile manufacturer, with leasing handled by Bill O’Neill the Hyannis Port postmaster.
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Reading
Pennsylvania
Kennedy
Squaw Island
Hyannis Port
Brambletyde
Louis Thun
Bill O’neill
Anti Fidel Contingent Off Miami Sails Toward Immigrant Officials
A 35-foot Cuban cabin cruiser Violynn III with 17 aboard including 16 Cubans and one American appeared off Key Biscayne and said they would surrender to U S authorities. Coast guard planes had searched since it vanished Thursday night and the group claimed no arms aboard.
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Miami
Key Biscayne
Coast Guard
Nassau
Jerry Buchanan
Charles Ashmann
U. S
Andros Island
Bimini
Florida
Florida Straits
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Bahamas
Fidel
Evelio Duque
Escambray
Nor
Oppenheimer Receives AEC’s Highest Fermi Award
J Robert Oppenheimer the atomic physicist who lost security clearance in 1954 has been chosen for the Atomic Energy Commission’s top honor the $50000 Fermi award The selection stirs speculation about possible secret work and aims to dispel the cloud over his security case Oppenheimer now 59 will be honored for meritorious contributions to atomic energy He directed 4500 workers at Los Alamos from 1943 to 1945 and has since led the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton He headed the AEC general advisory committee 1947 1952 The award does not restore his clearance and the matter remains politically sensitive
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Washington
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Atomic Energ Commission
AEC
Oppenheimer
Los Alamos
N.M
Institute For Advanced Study
Princeton
N.J
Lewis Strauss
Eugene Zuckert
Joseph Campbell
Thomas Murray
Henry Smyth
Smyth
Enrico Fermi
White House
John von Neuman
E. O. Lawrence
Eugene Wigner
Hans Bethe
Edward Teller
Glenn Seaburg
U S Line To Kremlin Acceptable
Geneva AP Russia says it will discuss a direct telecom link to the Kremlin to prevent a nuclear clash. Soviet ambassador Tsarapkin backs immediate talks while rejecting two U S disarmament steps. U S Ambassador Stelle welcomes the move as Washington weighs a teletype circuit link. East German Bolz proposes a nonaggression pact between Germanys, a plan rejected by West Germany.
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Geneva
Russia
Washington
Kremlin
Semyon Tsarapkin
U. S
Tsarapkin
Charles Stelle
West Germany
Lothar Bolz
East Germany
King Hassan Shoppers in New York with Royal Style
King Hassan II of Morocco visited New York and ordered extensive royal purchases in hours. He bought at least five Cadillacs and a large stock of home goods, with 150 blankets and vast linens, all to bear royal crests and monograms before departure.
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New York
Hassan II
Morocco
General Motors
Sifting Committee Appointed in House in Des Moines
In Des Moines the House appointed a 31 member sifting committee led by Rep. Sam Robinson to decide which bills reach debate. Speaker Robert Naden named Robinson to head the panel, with 25 Republicans and Democrats on the committee.
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Des Moines
UPI
Sam Robinson
Guthrie Center
Robert Naden
Webster City
Robinson
Naden
Man fined for riding in a clothes dryer in laundry
Fayetteville Arkansas police fined James McCollum twenty two for riding in an automatic clothes dryer at a help yourself laundry charged with mischievous mischief and fined ten dollars and fifty cents
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Fayetteville, Ark
James McCollum
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Buenos Aires
Anti-Fidel
Buchanan
Deny Arming
Lone Backer
Dorian Falk
Khrushchev
U.S
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