Air Disaster Shocks New York as Jets Collide Over Brooklyn
The UAL and TWA jets collided near Idlewild and LaGuardia causing a BronxBrooklyn Staten Island triad disaster. 125 aboard died 6 survivors reported from the TWA crash while first responders battled fires across multiple blocks in Brooklyn and at Mitchell Field Long Island.
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Grand Canyon
Jne
TWA
United
Brooklyn
Nick Igelis
Rober Wagner
Coast Guard
Air Force
Themuergency
Stephen Baltz
Wilmette
Chicago
Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
Flatbush
8Th Avemues
UAL
Staten Island
Mitchell Field Airorce Fase
Long Island
Millers Field
Coast
Guard
Agnes MacDonald
William Noble
DCS
America
United Air Lines
LaGuardia
New York Harbor
Selassie Returns as Ethiopian Rebel Move Crushed
Report from Addis Ababa indicates a coup attempt against Emperor Haile Selassie failed as loyal troops and palace guards clashed with rebels. Emperors loyalists reclaimed the capital while Selassie sought to return from Sudan after the dramatic unrest. Crown Prince Asfa Wassan was named as a potential replacement during the crisis.
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London
APL
Addis’ Ababa
Radia
Haile Selassie
Nairobi
Keny
Mengesha
Mesidinde
Sints Judah
Brazil
Asfa Wassan
Eteessa
Haile
Khartoun
Sudan
Lane
Ethiopia
Iiberia
Addis Abate
Waly
Rabi
Addisi
Ababa
Drug Makers To Appear At California Assembly Hearing
Seven top drug manufacturers subpoenaed to discuss drug pricing with California officials and pharmacists at a San Francisco hearing next Thursday. Chairman Phillip Barton says this first joint discussion aims to lower government data costs and secure wholesale discounts for a state public assistance program that spent about 36 million on drugs in three years.
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Sacramento
Assembly
San Francisco
Phillip Barton
Social Welfare Committee
Barton
Eric Louw In Africa Hospital CAPE TOWNS
South Africa's Far East leader Eric Louw, 79, is a patient in the surgical section of Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town, after being readmitted three days ago. The exact illness is not disclosed.
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Sonih M
South Africa
Mini Frin Louw
Groote Schur Hospital
Junk Dealers Honored Again at President’s Award
Chattanooga based Mose and Garrison Siskin earned the President’s Distinguished Service Award for the second time for their work salvaging junk and using proceeds to aid handicapped Americans, making them the only individuals to receive the honor twice.
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Chattanooga, Tenn
Mose
Garrison Siskin
Chuckles in The News Sergeant Christ mas Stops at Stop Sign
A UPI report notes Army sergeant Merry Christmas was stopped for running a stop sign in Columbus Georgia on a Thursday but police declined charges after learning he was en route from Fort Aberdeen Maryland to LaGrange Georgia to be married. In Medan Indonesia police refrain from harsh punishment choosing to shame thieves with signs reading Hello I am a pickpocket while in New York the American Dental Association warns against using teeth to remove bottle caps during the Christmas season.
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Columbus, Ga
UPI
Ft. Aberdeen
Medan Indonesia
Bumaitra
New York
American Dental Association
Steath
German Shepherd 100 Mile Hike By Loyal Dog
MESQUITE Texas AP Milex a loyal German Shepherd named Rudy completed a 100 mile hike, ending with the dog turning up at the SPCA after a family could not afford a sturdy fence. Mrs. W. D. Skidmore recalls the dog looked like Rudy but was not theirs.
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Tex
Milex
Rudy
Tyler
Texas
Society For Jaround
W. D. Skidmore
SPCA
Ski
Skidmores Recount Wild Christmas Day Jump
Fragmentary reminiscence describes a dramatic sequence as Rudy, at home for Christmas, leaps up on land after an excursion. Tyler and MRE are mentioned amid chaotic action with a dog or animal tied to a vivid, but unclear, event.
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Leandro
Magnavou Stereo Theatre
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