German Urges NATO Summit Amid Nuclear Force Debate
NATO defense chiefs in Paris met to discuss countering Soviet threats and plan a spring summit. US pressure centered on a new Polaris missile and nuclear submarines under NATO control, with talk of reducing American troop deployments in Europe while maintaining alliance strength.
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Tragic Air Tragedy Details Surface In Sidelights
AP report from Los Angeles outlines the daydreams and last conversations of those aboard the United Air Lines flight that ended in tragedy. Personal notes reveal how Sue planned a Christmas trip to Columbus, Ohio, while others faced a sudden departure. The piece weaves survivor memories with scattered weather updates and city notices.
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Temperatures Far and Wide and a Birthday Notice
An unusual weather list shows temperatures across many cities and a note about a family birthday party for flight engineer Richard FE. Prewitt and his wife Millie Ann lacking a father due to a crash. The children await their father’s return, while the forecast varies from clear to cloudy across locations from Albany to Washington.
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Selassie Returns Amid Ethiopian Tension
In Asmara and Addis Ababa the ailing Ethiopian monarch Selassie arrives in the capital to cheers while rebels near stamp out. Crown Prince Assix Wasson is exonerated from blame for last week’s palace uprising as royal family members remain imprisoned. In California, a suburban Woodland Hills scene shows a unfinished fence and a Christmas tree scene amid a jet collision that killed a Las Vegas gambler and a VAL Jet pilot, with families grieving and recalling lives.
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Tragedy Kills SF Pair But UC Coed Okay
SAN FRANCISCO AP Two San Francisco women died in the New York City plane catastrophe Friday. An 18 year old University of California coed, Leslie Picker of Lyubrosk New York, survived after canceling a United flight and boarding another. The two women killed were Edna H. Parker 55 of Tae to Philadelphia and Beverly Parks 22 formerly with Pacific Southwest Airways aboard the United jet. Picker expressed sorrow for the other victim and relief at surviving.
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Sole Survivor Boy 11 Fights for Life
A burned and badly injured 11 year old, Stephen Ballz, lies in critical condition in a Brooklyn hospital. He is the sole survivor of Friday's United Airlines collision near Idlewild. His father William Baltz and mother and sister wait by his bedside as two priests administer last rites and friends rally around the family. Stephen, from Wilmette, Illinois, was en route to New York to celebrate the holidays with relatives, his first airplane trip alone. The tragedy shattered the Christmas plans of a Chicago suburb family as police and bystanders aided him at the crash scene before he was rushed to Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn.
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Koala birth sparks name mix up at Fleishhacker Zoo
Vic toria the koala gave birth to a offspring for Sydney but keepers cannot tell if it is a boy or girl. They have temporarily named the joey Francesand and may change the name if future tests reveal a gender. Separately in Berlin a Polish joke circulating about U S Soviet progress is published by B Z newspaper.
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Flight 526 Crash Survivors Stir New York City
A United Air Lines passenger agent broke down as she faced family members awaiting loved ones from Flight 526 on a doomed New York landing attempt. Across Idlewild, relatives mourned or prayed for survivors while recounting last moments and hopes for missing relatives.
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Almanac Today Highlights Historic Dates and Quotes
Almanac notes this Saturday marks mid year in 1960 with Mars as morning star and the evening sky showing Mars Saturn and Venus. It recalls 1807 birth of John Greenleaf Whittier, 1903 Wright brothers first flight, 1925 Billy Mitchell court martial, and 1986 Bergen and Charlie McCarthy debut on NBC radio.
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Four Die in Head-On Crash Near Auburn
A Placer County road head-on collision killed four people and seriously injured seven others, including six or more children. Driver Robison of Sacramento survived in his car, while Margaret Case of Roseville, her two children Donna and David, Rosalie Butler of Roseville, and several of Case’s other children perished or were critically hurt. A following car overturned while avoiding the crash.
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