Slain Olympic Skier Sonja McCaskie Identified in Reno
The 24 year old former British Alpine skier Sonja McCaskie was found murdered in her Reno apartment. Police found bloodstained blades and knives in the kitchen and noted no signs of a struggle. Neighbors heard nothing, a babysitter alerted authorities after McCaskie failed to pick up her child, and she had been married, divorced, and involved in a paternity case. McCaskie, born in Elgin Scotland, competed in the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics and taught at Slide Mountain ski school. Police had no leads on motives or suspects.
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Reno
Great Britain
Sonja McCaskie
Miss McCaskie
Elgin
Scotland
Tahoe-Truckee
Calif
Squaw Valley
Sierra College
Auburn
Slide Mountain
Dorothy McCaskie
Tahoe City
Science Fair Opens in Coe Fieldhouse
The fourth annual Eastern Iowa Science Fair opened at Coe College Fieldhouse with 36 judges evaluating more than 140 students competing for over 2000 dollars in scholarships and awards. Exhibits ranged from a flip flop digital computer and wind tunnel to animal memory tests and ion exchange separations.
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Cedar Rapids
Coe College
Bowles Named Ambassador to India by Kennedy
President Kennedy selected Chester Bowles to be ambassador to India, replacing J Kenneth Galbraith. Bowles previously served as under secretary of state and was ambassador to India from 1951 to 1953.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Chester Bowles
India
J. Kenneth Galbraith
Bowles
Dick Gregory Returns North
Dick Gregory says Greenwood Mississippi officials allowed Negroes to participate in voter registration drives and provided a bus to transport participants to registration sites. He announced the North visit followed the Mississippi event claiming a victory for Negro voter registration efforts.
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New York
Dick Gregory
Greenwood
Miss
Hopkinton Man Killed in Car Tractor Crash
Lloyd Sabers 50, a farmer from Worthington Hopkinton, died Friday evening when his tractor sideswiped a car and overturned on him four miles north of Hopkinton at the Harry Cook corner. C J Robinson Maquoketa Valley superintendent and his 16 year old daughter Janet were not seriously hurt. Sabers recently bought part of the Cook farm and was returning home from the Cook farm with oats gear loaded.
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Hopkinton
Lloyd Sabers
Worthington-Hopkinton
Harry Cook
C. J. Robinson
Maquoketa Valley
Sabers
Robinson
Janet
Cook Farm
Exiles Hide-Seek With U S British Forces In Caribbean
Cuban exile raids aimed at Fidel Castro keep U S and British forces in the Caribbean active. British marines search Williams Bay near Nassau for caches while coast guard units monitor small craft for hidden fighters. The 35 foot Violynn III with 17 aboard arrived from a Cuba raid and faced a coast guard boarding dispute near Bahamas waters.
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Violynn
Miami
U.S. Coast Guard
Florida
Bahamas
Cuba
U. S
Florida Keys
Fidel Castro
Seventh Coast Guard District
Violynn III
Nassau
Mislaid Kennedy Paper Linked to Canadian Peeve
Montreal Star reports a confidential working paper mislaid in Ottawa in 1961 by Kennedy party contained marginal notes in the President's handwriting. It alleges the document urged Canada toward joint nuclear control, OAS membership, reduced trade with Communist China and Cuba, and ratification of the Columbia River treaty.
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Montreal
Montreal Star
Ottawa
Kennedy
U.S
Diefenbaker
Star
Charles Lynch
Southam News Services
White House
Walt Rostow
Lynch
Canada
Organization of American States
China
Cuba
Ole Miss Art Protests After Ban on Desegregation Paintings
An Ole Miss art professor was ordered to remove six paintings symbolizing desegregation tensions, triggering faculty protests over freedom of expression. Pro-segregation groups lodged objections while art classes were canceled as faculty debated the university action and the impact on expression.
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Ray Kercin
University
Kerciu
Charles Noyes
Noyes
Citizens Council
United Daughters of the Confederacy
James Meredith
Chuckle: Genealogist traces family history for money
A humorous line notes a genealogist tracks your family history as far as your money will go, delivering a satirical take on the profession and its value.
Kidnaping of Oxford Police Ends With Safe Return
In Oxford Michigan a three member morning police team was abducted by Fred Hannah 24 of Oxford. They were bound and left unharmed at a Detroit hotel after a car chase. Detroiter authorities said Hannah was armed with three pistols and considered dangerous.
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Oxford
Mich
Michigan
Detroit
Fred Hannah
LeLora Westfall
Richard Lamphere
Wendell Hill
Hannah
Lamphere
Toledo
Ohio
Hill
Beagle Slinky Becomes Astrodog After Wind-Powered Flight
In Altoona Pennsylvania a 6 month old beagle named Slinky rode a gusty 55 mile per hour wind lifting her doghouse and tossing it over a garage into a field. The resilient pup escaped unharmed and now seeks a new doghouse or spacecraft.
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Altoona
Slinky
Rusk Postpones Berlin Talk to Await European Talks
Secretary of State Rusk postponed a Berlin meeting with Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin to prepare for allied talks in Europe. The discussion was rescheduled from Saturday to Friday, after Rusk returns from Paris where he attends conferences starting Monday with de Gaulle and other leaders.
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Washington
Rusk
Berlin
Anatoly Dobrynin
Europe
de Gaulle
State Department
Paris
Russians claim Lunik IV flies past Moon at 5281 miles distance
Moscow based Tass reported that the Soviet Lunik IV space probe passed the Moon at 4 26 am Moscow time on a trajectory intended to become a sun orbiting satellite. The 3130 pound craft launched Tuesday, with experiments and measurements described but goals not specified.
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Moscow
Tass
Russians Aimed Lunik IV for Moon Landing, Jodrell Bank Says
The director of Jodrell Bank reported that Soviet engineers planned Lunik IV to land on the moon but the mission failed. The statement was released Saturday by the English observatory.
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Jodrell Bank, England
Jodrell Bank
Soviet lunar probe Lunik IV mission described
Tass issued a final communique noting radio contact would continue for days and that extensive experimental material had been obtained aiding moon conquest problems. The probe would circle Earth in 1963 on an elongated orbit, reaching up to 700 000 km and as low as 90 000 km, before drifting into solar orbit. Observers at Jodrell Bank reported beeps as contact was lost after 44 minutes.
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Tass
Jodrell Bank Radio Observatory
Britain
Jodrell Bank
Moon
Polaris Missile Pact Sets U S Britain Nuclear Arms Pace
The United States and Britain announced a Polaris missile trade pact. The agreement allows the U S to sell Britain up to 100 Polaris missiles for arming their planned submarine fleet.
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Washington
U.S
Britain
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