Radar Plane Crash Kills Nine Near Nantucket
Coast Guard reports nine dead three survived and seven missing after an Air Force radar plane ditched in fog off Nantucket 145 miles east-northeast. Otis Air Base earlier cited 10 rescued eight dead one missing with the Barry and Wasp aiding in rescues amid heavy fog and rough seas.
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Falmouth
Mass
Coast Guard
Wasp
Air Force
Atlantic
Nantucket Island
Warren Mitchell
Boston
Thomas Fiedler
Davenport
Fiedler
Salem
Otis Air Base
Barry
Newport
R. J
U. S
Anthony
Blotter
Fresh Blasts In Chicago Baffle Authorities
Explosions hit downtown Chicago and the near west side as investigators hunt two men linked to four earlier bombings. No deaths reported though damage runs into thousands. Wrigley Building blast involved a black powder device under a car. two ice cream trucks were damaged on the west side.
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Chicago
West Side
Wrigley Building
Michigan Avenue
Police Department
Jerome Wells
National Boulevard Bank
Softee
Iinois Corp
Richard Gordran
Astronauts Consider Gemini Flight Without Space Suits
Space officials weigh sending Frank Borman and James Lovell on a 14 day Gemini flight without suits. Borman notes lack of study time kept Cooper and Conrad from attempting a suitless flight on Gemini 5. Lovell and Borman slated for late 1965 or early 1966 launch.
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Harold R. Williams
Houston
Frank Borman
James Lovell
Borman
Air Force
Tucson
Gordon Cooper
Navy
Charles Conrad
Cmdr
Lovell
Titan
Edward
Grinnell Names New President Grinnell Names New President
Grinnell College appoints Dr. Glenn H. Leggett 47 provost of the University of Washington as its eighth president effective Sept. 1. Leggett has taught at Ohio State and MIT and leads English education initiatives.
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Grinnell
Glenn H. Leggett
University of Washington
Grinnell College
Howard R. Bowen
University of Iowa
Leggett
Washington
National Council of Teachers of English
Ashtabula
Ohio
Middlebury College
Mason, 59, Named to High Court
Mason City lawyer M. L. Mason, 59, was appointed to the Iowa Supreme Court by Gov. Harold Hughes to fill the vacancy from Justice Henry Peterson’s retirement. A Democrat and former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Iowa, Mason will begin an initial term ending Jan. 1, 1967 and may seek retention in 1966.
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Des Moines
L. Mason
Mason City
Iowa Supreme Court
Harold Hughes
Mason
U.S
Iowa
Henry K. Peterson
Council Bluffs
Supreme Mason Court
Judicial Nominating Commission
Peterson
Thompson
Supreme Court
Cerro Gordo
U. S
King Warns Of Aggressive Violence Trend In Civil Rights
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr warns the civil rights movement could turn to aggressive violence if a southern vigilante group, the Deacons for Defense and Justice, persists in its methods. Speaking at a Los Angeles rally, he said such actions risk playing into opponents' hands and escalating conflict.
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Los Angeles
Martin Luther King, Jr
King
Mariner 4 Faces Cold, Slow Start On Mars Mission
Pasadena AP report details Mariner 4 in space 132 million miles away with internal temps near 130 F below zero on the shaded side. A plasma probe malfunction, a failed resistor, and hopes the camera heat or Mars atmosphere changes will revive the instrument before July 14 picture-taking.
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Ralph Dighton
Pasadena
Calif
U.S
Mariner 4
Mars
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Earth
Earth’s
Poles
First Big Red One Infantry Arrives in Vietnam
The 1st Infantry Division began landing in Vietnam with 3,900 men. The first 1,000 landed at Cam Ranh Bay and dug in on sand dunes, while the rest of the second brigade was to land Tuesday. Total U.S. troops in Vietnam rise to 71,000. Col. James Simmons said the unit is the first from the continental United States to arrive in Vietnam.
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Vietnam
Cam Ranh Bay
South Vietnam
Saigon
U.S
James Simmons
Omaha Beach
Africa
United States
U S Air Force Hits Vietnamese Ammunition Depots
U S air force jets launched a two wave strike against ordnance centers at Yen Sen and Yen Bai 65 and 77 miles northwest of Hanoi in the Red River valley. The raids followed weekend attacks as part of the campaign linking Hanoi to Red China.
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Saigon
Red River
Hanoi
Red China
Yen Sen
Yen Bai
First US Vietnam brigade arrives to protect engineers
The Fort Riley based brigade joins 24 000 Marines in Vietnam as the 1st division brigade becomes the first sizable infantry unit sent to the theater. The group will guard the US Army 35th Engineer Group working on harbor improvements at a large bay as Viet Cong activity remains limited nearby.
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Kaw
United States
Vietnam
Simmons
U. S. Army
35Th Engineer Group
Bay
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