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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1962
Page
1
In Moscow Khrushchev viewed a Soviet abstract art show and blasted the works as meaningless daubing. Tass said he called the pieces pathological vagaries and said they imitate bourgeois art. He urged painters to rethink and serve the people.
The Atomic Energy Commission reports 286 reactors in operation or under construction in the United States versus 39 in the Soviet Union. Worldwide total estimated at 518, with the U.S. holding 55 percent. The list details counts by country and region, noting China’s limited data.
Algeria's National Liberation Front executive body announced the formation of a national purge committee. The committee will operate regionally and locally to combat administrative incompetence and eliminate gaps in national activity.
An Eastern Air Lines Boeing 720 jet returning to Logan International Airport after an engine caught fire on takeoff. The flight carried 32 passengers and seven crew members en route to Idlewild in New York.
Havana radio said a Cuban airliner arrived in Havana with the bodies of 10 Cuban officials killed in a plane crash Tuesday near Lima Peru. The AP report notes the deaths occurred as the Cuban delegation traveled for an unspecified visit.
Cornwall Ontario avoided a major crisis after a chlorine gas leak from a railcar infected about a square mile. 103 people sought medical help including 27 hospitalized with most released. doctors warn even small exposures can cause lasting effects and treated patients with oxygen and respiratory stimulants.
Miss Henrietta Swope, 60, daughter of the late Gerard Swope, and a research fellow at Mt. Wilson Palomar, provides Caltech with the most accurate distance to the Andromeda Galaxy at 2.2 million light years. Her work redefines cosmic distances, based on cepheid variable stars and photographs by others.
Belgrade Yugoslavia AP reports President Tito will depart Sunday for a private two week visit to the Soviet Union and is expected to stay about two weeks.
Dr Raymond White of the American Medical Association warned that the United States remains vulnerable to yellow fever outbreaks as the Aedes aegypti mosquito persists across 300000 square miles from North Carolina to Texas. He said Latin America has reduced the vector, but the virus persists there. The Pan American Health Organization warned that if the virus and mosquito meet in the U S, a deadly epidemic could follow.
Three unarmed pilots from the Air Force Navy and Marine Corps recount risky low level flights over Cuba to photograph Fidel Castro's island during the Cuban crisis. Cmdr William Ecker Lt Col Joe OGrady and Capt John Hudson describe approaching Havana and avoiding hostile fire while earning the Distinguished Flying Cross.
A Eastern Air Lines DC-7 crash killed 25 as it missed a runway in patchy fog while two ground systems were inoperative. Twenty six survived the Friday night crash from Charlotte to port, with officials saying the landing was legal and standard practice despite the weather and faulty equipment.
Former President Eisenhower told an AP interviewer at his Augusta cottage that he never said Richard Nixon was not presidential timber. He spoke during a vacation visit and rejected the implication of such a remark.
New York AP report details a flood of 1903 to 1904 silver dollars after treasury and mint actions. Prices plunged from up to $2,000 to under $50 as millions entered circulation, prompting mixed reactions from dealers collectors and the public.
A wry observation on how modern society hides poverty at the moment while later boasting about it in memoirs. The remark links social pretension to personal storytelling and memory.
Moscow AP reports Tass says Jehovah's Witness leader Ivan Ososov was sentenced to seven years in Omsk for anti-Soviet activity after a five day trial. Tass notes he allegedly sent information on the Soviet Union to the United States and refused military service. Another defendant, Mikhail Noskov, got three years for sect activity. Kuzmenyuk's status unclear. Tass cites hidden documents from Ososov’s home tied to the Watch Tower center in Brooklyn.
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