India Congress Faces Unprecedented Election Reverses
Early returns from India's general elections show Congress suffering wide setbacks across key ministries and states. In Tamil Nadu and Madras State Assembly, DMK leads while Congress trails. gains by CPI bloc in Kerala and Swatantra and Jan Sangh rise. Majority still possible but likely reduced from 361. Parliament holds 520 seats. results continue through week end.
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NEW Deliv
India
Congress Party
Indira Gandhi
Raj Bahadur
Mehr Chand Khanna
Sham Nath
Kamaraj
Madras
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
DMK
Congress
Kerala
Swatantra
Jan Sangh
BMK
Uttar Pradesh
Bihar
Madhya Pradesh
Gandhi
Origins of the Star Spangled Banner Questioned
The library notes debate Irish origins of the anthem tune, tracing its use before 1820 with 85 word sets and linking Francis Scott Key to the lyrics after the 1814 Fort McHenry bombardment. Richard S. Hill argued Irish regiments shaped the melody, while John Stafford Smith’s drinking song and the Anacreontic tune are also cited.
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Richard S. Hill
IGM
Francis Scott Key
Ft. McHenry
Baltimore
Hill
Key
John Stafford Smith
Anacreon
Heaven
Three of Television's Oldest Programs Are Being Dropped
New York AP report says CBS will drop what's My Line I've Got a Secret Gunsmoke and other long running shows from fall schedules. Candid Camera The Danny Kaye Show Pistols n Patti Ibs About Time Mr Terrific Colosseum and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour also affected with Mission Impossible and Mannix among replacements.
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New York
Columbia Broadcasting System
Danny Kaye
Pistols
N’ Patticoals
Ips
Coliseum
Arlene Francis
Ed Sullivan
John Daly
CBS
Carol Burnett
James Arneess
Marshall Matt Dillon
Mike Connors
Sukarno and Suharto Power Struggle Deepens in Indonesia
Sukarno, still nominal president, sues for unity as Suharto and generals loom. Suharto meets political leaders and military chiefs amid a tense power struggle. Rumors swirl of a face saving seizure while Congress plans to probe Sukarno’s actions and possible loss of remaining powers. Ratna Dewi in Tokyo awaits childbirth.
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Indonesia
Republic of Indonesia
Sukarno
Suharto
Pecasasa
Congress
Ratna Sari Dewi
Tokyo
Ferrie linked to Kennedy assassination probe and Oswald ties
Garrison says 40 page FBI interrogation on Ferrie exists in National Archives with four unclassified pages. Ferrie denies knowledge of Oswald, describes Texas trip as a pleasure voyage, claims no accomplice and criticizes conspiracy notion. He recalls Oswald's New Orleans connection and cites CAP ties via Ed Voble and Frederick O Sullivan.
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Garrison
FBI
Ferrie
National Archives
Washington
Oswald
New Orleans
Texas
Houston
Galveston
Alexandria
Dong
Jefferson Parish
Warren Commission
Cleveland
Ohio
Ed Voble
Civil Air Patrol
Woble
Moisant
Lakefront
Frederick O'Sullivan
O’sullivan
Ory
O'Sullivan
Dallas
Errie
New Orleans Lakefront
President Kennedy
Two Masked Bandits Loot Cayce Bank
Two masked men armed with a pistol held up the First National Bank of South Carolina in Cayce, taking about 36000. FBI said a Wells Fargo armored car stopped nearby during the robbery. The bandits fled in a 1959 Plymouth Fury with Virginia plates after about five minutes.
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Cayce, S. C
First National Bank of
Wells Fara
Joe Baker
Alatee
Columbia
Joe Padgett
First National
Internal debate over U S moratorium on ABM defenses and Kennedy assassination links
The article cites Soviet reluctance to discuss a moratorium on ABM defenses, contrasts State Department claims of Russian interest, and recounts a series of sensational statements and investigations surrounding the Kennedy assassination including figures like Ferrie Oswald and Killam, with mentions of New Orleans inquiries, Warren Commission omissions, and Pensacola exhumation efforts.
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Soviet Union
U.S
U.S. State Department
Dallas boarding house link in Killam case emerges
Early Killam recalls Thomas Killam and a man named Jack Carter shared a Dallas boarding house with Oswald. Killam says agents and plotters sent his brother to Florida then Pensacola in December 1963, spending four months in Tampa before returning to Pensacola on March 17. Killam died shortly after, with police citing a fatal through the neck wound after a window crash and coroner noting a deep laceration. Earl Killam questions self-inflicted death through a plate glass window. Harper says he seeks concrete, not suspicious, evidence in the case.
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Tion
New Orleans
Garrison
Ferrie
States Item
Texas
Louis Tyon
Kennedy
Fort Worth
Tex
Marguerite Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald
Warren Commission
Warren
Commission
Pensacola
Fla
Thomas H. Killam
Jack Ruby
Oswald
Ruby
Dallas
Earl Killam
Thomas Killam
Pensacola Street
Pensacola News-Journal
Page One
Jack Carter
Carter
Killam
Florida
Tampa
Thomas
The
New Journal
A. H. Northup
Harper
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Calcutta
Kamaraswami Kamaraj
Pace Ehmed
PET
Bill Williams
Maracle Margarine
P.O
Chicago
Mineks
USA
Stars
S.C. Bank
Russia
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