DC-4 Crash After Mechanical Repairs Near Miami Airport
A converted cargo DC-4 with four engines crashed into a Miami area street minutes after takeoff from Miami International Airport. Ten people died and about a dozen were injured as the craft, damaged by a prior mechanical repair, circled back and fell. Investigators from the NTSB and Miami police surveyed the wreckage amid an estimated 1 million dollars in damage.
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Miami
Federal Aviation Administration
Richard Skully
Miami’s International Airport
National Transportation Safety Board
Skully
Dominicana Air Lines
Jack Minix
Westbrook Pegler Die at 74 in Tucson Columnist Known for Labor Fight
AP report from Tucson states Westbrook Pegler died early Tuesday at age 74 after hospital admission June 9. The Pulitzer Prize winner exposed labor union racketeering in the 1920s and had long written opinion columns, later with King Features Syndicate and the John Birch Society magazine American Opinion. He had left Hearst in 1962 over irreconcilable differences and had cancer stomach operation noted in 1966.
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Tucson
Westbrook Pegler
Pegler
Arizona
King Features Syndicate
Hearst Corp
Hearst Organization
American Opinion
John Birch Society
Robert Welch
May Shows Smaller Living Cost Hike
Washington AP The cost of living rose three tenths of a percent in May the smallest monthly jump since January. The CPI reached 126.8 up 5.4 percent from a year earlier. Weekly earnings averaged 113.55 dollars in May, 1.05 higher than April and 6.86 or 6.4 percent above last year.
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Washington
Labor Department
Department
Forced Isolation of Colleges Seen
A National Commission on Violence report warns colleges may be forced into screened and guarded camps if presidents, faculty, and students cannot unite during crises. It cites San Francisco State unrest and says decisive action is needed to prevent further isolation from mainstream American life.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
National Commission On Violence
San Francisco
San Francisco State
Battle near Ben Het押 heavy siege as convoy breaks through
U S spokesmen said a relief convoy reached Ben Het from Dak To amid the heaviest artillery bombardment since May 1. North Vietnamese gunners fired 195 shells as 105 enemy troops were killed around the camp, while South Vietnamese casualties reached five dead and 15 wounded.
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U.S
Ben Het
U.S. Air Force
Katum
9Th Regiment
Okinawa
Nixon
Khe Sanh
Campus Squares Hold Parley At Lake Forest College
About 100 students in the National Student Conference in Revolution meet at Lake Forest College to plan counter tactics against campus takeovers next fall. They practice a locked-arm wall, attend lectures, and debate revolutionary issues with American Nazi party members, jeered by the crowd. The event is sponsored by the Information Council of the Americas, with delegates from large state schools and groups from Young Americans for Freedom to Young Democrats.
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Lake Forest, Ill
Lee Edwards
Lake Forest College
American Nazi Party
U.S
America
New Orleans
The
Fire at Rocky Flats halts US nuclear weapon work for months
A sweeping blaze at the Rocky Flats plutonium facility on May 11 halted nuclear weapon production for possibly six months to a year. AEC officials sought 45 million dollars for repairs while test warhead work shifted to Hanford and Los Alamos. The disruption was not linked to sabotage and did not delay the 1974 Safeguard deployment plan.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee
Rocky Flats
Colo
AEC
Congress
Air Force
E. B. Giller
Subcommittee
Allen Ellender
D-La
Giller
Glenn Seaborg
House
Appropriations Committee
Nevada
Hanford
Wash
Los Alamos Research Center
New Mexico
Los Alamos
Cyclist McKenna Killed in Decorah Area Crash
William James McKenna 35, of Chicago formerly Decorah, died after a motorcycle crash 6 miles north of Decorah on highway 52. He lost control on a straightaway, struck an embankment, and sustained skull fracture. He was not wearing a helmet and died in Rochester hospital after Decora h hospital care. He survived by wife, two children, and parents.
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Decorah
William James McKenna
Chicago
Highway
Winneshiek County
McKenna
Decorah Hospital
Rochester Hospital
Emmett McKenna
Steine Funeral Home
FBI Reports 10 Percent Crime Rise in First Quarter 1969
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover announced a 10 percent national rise in serious crime for the first quarter of 1969 based on Uniform Crime Reports. Violent crimes climbed 15 percent with robberies up 22 percent and murders 7 percent while regional increases ranged from 9 to 12 percent across the Northeast, North Central, South, and West.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
North Central
South
West
Glue holds life on the line at Madame Tussaud’s
Michael Booty, 27, will risk his life by placing his head in a guillotine at Madame Tussaud's waxworks to test Power Pack glue from Borden Chemicals. If the ropeed blade holds, the device should stop above his neck. if not, it will sever. Booty, his wife Susanne, and the company claim 100000 pounds in life insurance.
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London
UPI
Michael Booty
Booty
Chamber of Horrors
Madame Tussaud’s
Borden Chemicals Ltd
Chuckle Cartoon Reacts To Taxes And Congress Meetings
Comic panel from 1969 humor page notes that death remains inevitable while taxes grow harsher with each congressional session. The caption plays on political frustration and everyday life politics.
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Congress
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Marioa
Society
William Orrick
Mitchell
Orrick
Seaborg
Robert Byrd
D-W. Va
Appropriations Subcommittee
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