Two Mig-21s Downed by Americans in Vietnam Skies
AP reports American jets shot down two MiG-21s over North Vietnam within three minutes on Thursday after destroying a slower Mig-17 a day earlier. The air action used heat seeking Sidewinder missiles as B-52s bombed near the 17th parallel, where thousands of communist troops were believed massing.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
17Th Parallel
Hanoi
U.S
Soviet Union
South Vietnam
South Vietnamese
Mig Kills and US Casualties Reported in Vietnam Conflict
A US spokesman said 10 Americans were killed in combat last week, 620 wounded, and seven missing or captured. Two Mig-17s were shot down near Hanoi with pilots from Alamogordo New Mexico and Chesterton Indiana credited. Ground action near Saigon persisted with patrol skirmishes as air battles continued.
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Saigon
Eight-Inch Rains Flood NE Iowa For Fort Atkinson Evacuations
Torrential rains up to eight inches drove sixty residents from Fort Atkinson as creeks and rivers surged. Flood waters overwhelmed a dike flooding the town’s southern area while wind and hail damaged farms from Luana to Mnana and Farmersburg. Firefighters aided in evacuations amid the northeast Iowa deluge.
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Iowa
Fort Atkins
Luana
Mo‘nana
Farmersburg
Roger’s Creek
Fort Atkinson
Turkey River
Eldorado
Mississippi
Doubek
Winneshiek
Death Toll Rises From Torrid Wave Across States
Storms and record heat sweep the nation. The toll climbs with at least 192 dead in the heat wave, many from heat exhaustion, as floods along the Turkey and other rivers cause farm losses and widespread damage. Storms lash the Mississippi Valley and Midwest, with cities like St. Louis recording 106 degrees and power rationing affecting hundreds of thousands.
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Fort Atkinson
ST. Louis
Natation
Illinois
Mississippi
Helen Taylor
Union Electric Co
Five Die in Missouri Plant Explosions
Five people were killed and many injured as a series of explosions rocked the Hercules Powder Co plant near Carthage Missouri. Fire spread through the plant with workers reportedly trapped in the magazine area and debris sent over a mile. Cars were blown from highways by the blasts.
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Carthage
Hercules Powder Co
Here
Magazine
US agent foils Czech plot to plant listening device
An American double agent disrupted a Czech plan to bug U S State Department offices. The sophisticated device carried a $3440 payment to the U S agent Frank Mrkva 38 who helped expose Juri Opatrny and Zdenek Pisk. The incident led to Opatrny being expelled from the U S after multiple meetings with the agent.
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State Department
U. S
Raymond Lisle
George Ball
Juri Opatrny
Zdenek Pisk
Mrkva
Frank Mrkva
Passport Division
Mikva
Elec
Born an Adult Now The Only Relief For Orphans
A humorous quip notes modern psychology labels various birth positions as burdens from orphan to oldest and suggests only adult birth offers relief. Copyright
GOP to Probe Busch Antitrust Case Dismissal
The Republican leadership plans a congressional inquiry into the government's dismissal of an antitrust suit against Anheuser-Busch after the firm contributed 10 000 to a Democratic fund. The suit sought divestiture of a Wisconsin malting plant from Bahr Malting. The dismissal was without prejudice. Attorney General Katzenbach cited voluntary dismissals of two antitrust cases earlier the same year.
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Anheuser- Busch Co
Busch Family
President’s Club
Justice Department
Wisconsin
Bahr Malting Co
Katzenbach
Anheuser-Busch
Eight Nurses Slain in Chicago Dormitory Horror
A lone killer strangled or stabbed eight student nurses in a Southeast Chicago dormitory during a two and a half hour rampage. Survivor Corazon Amarao, 23, escaped by hiding. a 48 year old neighbor alerted police after hearing her screams. The victims hailed from the Philippines, Illinois and Michigan.
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Chicago
New Orleans
FBI
E. 100Th Street
South Chicago Hospital
Corazon Amarao
Philippines
Miss Davy
Merlita Gargullo
Valentina Pasion
Pamlela Wilkening
Lansing
Ill
Susan Farris
Patricia Matusek
Roseland
Til
Marianne Jordan
Nina Schmale
Wheaton
Robert Hall
Here Comes Tomorrow clue puzzles Chicago police
A clipped newspaper headline reading Here Comes Tomorrow was found pinned in a dormitory bedroom where eight women were slain. Detectives cannot identify the paper or the reason the line was placed on the bulletin board.
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Chicago
Night intruder binds nurse students in dorm house
Miss Amurao recalls an upstairs bedroom scene as Gloria Davy is killed and five nursing students are found bound in a second floor dorm in South Chicago. Police say the intruder entered through a rear kitchen window and demanded money to go to New Orleans.
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Miss Amurao
Gloria Davy
Dyer
Ind
Miss Davy
Edward Sheehy
Chicago
Miss Amarao
New Orleans
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William Snender
Alamogordo
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Duane A. Buttell
Chillicothe
Buttell
Ronald Martin
Lake Villa
Richard Kriepa
Chesterton
Navy
William McGuigan
Spearfish
J.g
Robert Fowler
San Francisco
Constellation
Fire Department
Faul Doubek
Froden Lumber Co
Donald Pape
Ken Myers
Eldorado Area
Elkader
Bohemian Creek
Protovia
Fredericksburg
Elgin-Clermont
Oliver Roland
Clermont
Turkey
Mary Howard
Elgin
Castalia
Missouri
Yank
Donald H. May
Washington
Pisk
Opatiny
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