Viet Cong Stage Mass Attacks On Pleiku Bases
Viet Cong forces launched two coordinated night assaults on Pleiku bases, killing seven Americans and wounding about 80. Camp Holloway suffered the heaviest hits with 30 to 40 mortar rounds. a Caribou plane and 11 Huey helicopters were damaged or destroyed.
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Saigon
U.S
Pleiku
Camp Holloway
Anital
Second Army Corps
U.S. Eighth Field Hospital
Nha Trang
Maddox to Serve Negroes Ends Segregation Stand
Atlanta restaurant operator Lester Maddox announced he would serve Black customers, ending his white-only policy after a daily loss of 200 dollars. He pledged continued civil rights compliance, saying the fight would continue in court and acknowledging God. Calvin Craig of the United Klans of America visited for lunch but no Black patrons were served.
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Atlanta
Lester Maddox
Maddox
Calvin Craig
Georgia
The
United Klans of America
Two Chicago Waitresses Ordered Out of Britain
Two shapely Chicago nightclub waitresses were sent home from London after immigration officials refused them permission to stay due to having only 150 dollars between them. Renate Benze and Bonnie Jensen, both in their early 20s, returned to Chicago and planned to resume travel to Germany to visit Renate’s relatives. They had stayed six hours in London before being placed on a return flight.
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Chicago
U.S
Britain
Renate Benze
Bonnie Jensen
London
Beling
Bonnie Bonnie
Germany
Renate
Arming For A War Past Peak
Defense chiefs say arming cost peaks have passed yet five year buildup totals more than 44 billion dollars. Deputy Defense Secretary Vance, acting for McNamara, testifies behind closed doors to the House Armed Services Committee detailing budget plans for strategic retaliatory forces including ICBMs, bombers and Polaris submarines through fiscal 1966.
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Elton C. Fay Washington
Defense Chiefs
Defense
Vance
McNamara
House
Armed Services Committee
Defense Department
Pentagon
Congress
Continental Air and Missile Defense Forces
U. S
Council on Opportunity Created by Johnson
President Johnson created the President's Council on Equal Opportunity to coordinate federal civil rights activities. Vice President Humphrey will chair a 16 member panel including six cabinet officers and agency heads from the Defense, Attorney General, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, and Welfare departments.
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John Beckler
Washington
Johnson
President's Council On Equal Opportunity
Humphrey
Eerithe
Arettorney
Agriculture
Commerce
Civil Service Commission
iHousing and Home Finance ‘Agency
Office of Economic Opportunity
Commission On Civil Rights
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
General Services
Education
Community Relations Service
Equal Employment Opportunity
Four Graduate Students End 60 Day Space Diet Isolation
Four UC Berkeley graduate students completed a 60 day isolation aboard a penthouse space diet experiment financed by NASA. Each volunteer earned 800 dollars and endured egg based liquids and wafers with no memory of food taste. They stayed indoors on campus with daily exercise and periodic exams while two plan another trial with six volunteers and a Europe trip afterward.
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Berkeley
Calif
Mars
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Sheldon
Margen
Doris Calloway
University of California
School of Nutritional Science
Europe
Boy Rescued After Five Hours in Sewer Trench
A 6 year old boy Bruce Schafer was rescued unhurt after a five hour ordeal at the bottom of a sewer in Grand Forks North Dakota. He slipped 20 feet into the opening while returning from school and called out to his father upon rescue. Authorities police firemen and volunteers joined the search, led by architect Harrie who located the hole in the snow. In New York United Nations officials weigh a plan to dispatch a five or six person mission to major capitals to raise funds for the UN balance sheet amid non payment from several powers. The group would include Alex Quaison Lackey U Thant Lester Pearson Adam Rapacki and Carlos Sosa Rodriguez.
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Grand Forks
N. D
Bruce Schafer
Bruce
Ait Harrie
United ‘Nations
N.Y
General Assembly
Assembly
Alex Quaison-Lackey
Ghana
Washington
Moscow
Paris
London
Soviet Union
France
U.N
Quaison-Lackey
U Thant
Lester Pearson
Canada
Adam Rapacki
Poland
Carlos Sosa-Rodriguez
Venezuela
Earth expanding like balloon shocks scientists
British physicist Hal R. Cooper reports evidence that the earth is expanding and nearly doubling in size, with continents once forming a complete outer shell of a smaller globe. He cites continental fits and shelf submergence as clues to a changing planet.
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Hal R. Cooper
London
K. M. Creer
Newcastle University
Nature
South America
Africa
North America
Greenland
Europe
North Vietnam Urges Soviet Chinese Unity Against U S
Premier Pham Van Dong appealed to the Soviet Union and China to settle their feud and join in opposing American imperialism. Kosygin pledged solidarity and urged restraint, while Tass distributed Dong’s harsh anti American remarks.
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George Syvertsen
Moscow
Pham van Dong
North Vietnam
Soviet Union
China
U.S
Hanoi
Alexei Kosygin
Kosygin
South Vietnam
Democratic Republic of
North
Tass
Kremlin
Dong
International Communist Movement
Peking
Chou En-lai
U. S
Vietnam
Pham
Man with Two Wives Adds Child's Marriage to Support
Humorous note remarks that a man with two wives may not be a bigamist but simply has a son who got married, courine. The quip uses light sarcasm to comment on family dynamics and social expectations.
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Courine
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Chattanooga
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N. Vietnam
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