Loren Ponti Bigamy Trial In Absentia Postponed
In Rome Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti faced bigamy charges in absentia but hearings were postponed until October 21 after a 36 minute session. They testified they entered a Mexican proxy marriage to give their union a legal abroad aspect while Loren said they lived as a wife.
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Sophia Loren
Carlo Ponti
Rome
Miss Loren
Ponti
Italy
Roman Palace of Justice
Tommaso D’arienzo
Miss Scholane
Hollywood
Panti
London
Loren
Miss Fiastri
Mexico
Voting Rights Debate Sparks Federal Reform Push
The House heard McCulloch press for a uniform national standard on voting rights to end delays from court actions. Celler urged rapid registration measures to defeat discrimination in deep south counties. Lindsay praised the administration bill but warned about its mechanisms and free speech gaps. A Miami reader note recounts a two year old making a coast to coast call from a southwest Miami home, confusing El Monte, California with a local housing development.
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McCulloch
Missippi
Celler
William Fitts Ryan
D-N.y
Puerto Rico
New York
Senate
John V. Lindsay
R-N.y
Lindsay
New York City
Ford-McCulloch
Miami
Elizabeth Ann Reider
Ronald Reider
Mrs. Reider
Elizabeth
Southwest
Amendment proposed to supersede Cabinet in presidential succession
The article discusses a proposed constitutional amendment to clarify succession and disability rules. It would place the vice president in acting capacity during disability or vacancy, with Congress resolving disputes and defining process for restoration. It traces support and objections, noting past presidential illnesses and assassinations as catalysts.
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Congress
Supreme Court
Gere
Everett M. Dirksen
Rml
Dirksen
House
Senate
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson Land
Hubert H. Humphrey
Ling
Johnson
Medicare dreams and Social Security reform debate
Senate discussion centers on the impact of a major Social Security bill, highlighting growth from humble origins to a vast program and projected disbursements near $25 billion by 1967. Amendments pass except one on self employment income, with Javits vowing to press House version changes including drug coverage and higher premiums for a drug plan.
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Anderson
Long
America
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Finance Committee
Mhouse
Warning labels on cigarettes under federal compromise
The measure imposes a $10 000 fine for violators and allows state and local governments to require warnings in cigarette advertising after a moratorium ends. Senator Warren Magnuson notes the compromise preserves state powers and federal authority, emphasizing the warning signals health risks and the surgeon general's advisory on smoking.
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House
Warren G. Magnuson
Senate Commerce Committee
Federal Trade Commission
Magnuson
Surgeon General
United States
Crisis finance bill showdown. government clings to budget vote
The crisis finance bill pits Conservatives against Labor as MPs debate clause by clause. Heath urges resignation after a 13 vote opposition majority while Wilson’s Labor government seeks to push through tax reforms and a new capital gains framework amid expectations of possible electoral changes.
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Labor
Heath
House
Wilson
Laborites
House of Commons
Malawi Leader Declares Path to Republic as China Tension Rises
President Banda faces regional frictions over Chinese influence after dismissing cabinet members for alleged bribes. He accuses ex-finance minister Chiume of plotting rebellion in Tanzania while Malawi quietly ponders a republic status within the Commonwealth with Queen Elizabeth II as symbolic head. China’s Chou En-lai touts a favorable revolutionary climate in Africa, drawing mixed reactions from Kenya and Algeria amid Boumedienne’s leadership and Algerian advisers’ departure.
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Ben Bella
Total
Co. Houari
Chiume
Tanzania
Banda
Malawi
Red China
Chou En-lai
Africa
Jomo Kenyatta
Kenya
Chouw
Peking
Algeria
Boumedienne
Elizabeth II
Raiders strike across North Viet Nam targets and fuel depots
Task Force reports 10 raids with groups of two to eight aircraft sinking three barges and hitting eight bridges while striking two ferry landings. Three buildings destroyed in Than Hoa railroad yards and 10 at a naval base 60 miles north. Raids avoid Hanoi with the latest coming within 40 miles of the capital. State Department notes two missile sites near completion and two more ready. Bomb scares hit Saigon and Da Nang as searches find no explosives. Navy says patrol boats hunt a sampan said to cross the Da Nang River carrying bombs.
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Than Hoa
Hanoi
Viet Nam
U.S. State Department
Haiphong
Gulf of Tonkin
State Department
Robert J. McCloskey
Washington
McCloskey
North Viet Nam
Saigon
da Nang
U.S
Rex
Plaza
A.S. Navy
da ‘Nang
U.S. Ith
Gemini 6 Crew Details and Weightless Flight Plan
Navy Cmdr Walter M Schirra Jr and Air Force Maj Thomas P Stafford lead the Gemini 6 primary crew with Virgil I Grissom and John W Young as backups. The October two day mission will rendezvous with a space object while testing space medicine, calcium loss, and a ground to space laser communication experiment using a White Sands beam to replace radio communication.
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Navy
Walter M ‘Schirra Jr
Hackensack
N.J
Air Force
Thomas P. Stafford
Weatherford
Oklo
Virgil I. Grissom
Mitchell
Ind
John W. Young
San Francisco
Calif
Apollo
Ler Lovell
Cleveland
Ohio
Borman
Ef Gary
Collins
White Sands
N.M
Rome
Italy
Caving Dangers Highlight Missouri Club Rescue Steps
In Rolla Missouri the Spelunkers Club at the University of Missouri trains cave rescue teams to handle lost or injured explorers. They warn against entering caves with flashlights and stress careful planning, teamwork, and first aid.
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Missouri
Spalunkers Club
University of Missouri
Rolla
James Maxwell
Terral Young Jr
Young
Spelunkers Club
Rolla School of Mines
Villa Ridge
Pulaski County
United States
Missouri Highway Patrol
Maxwell
Art Hebrank
St. Louis
Hebrank
Missile sites near Hanoi near ready status
State Department press officer Robert McCloskey said two Communist missile sites near Hanoi are essentially completed and two more may be in an advanced readiness state. Secretary of State Dean Rusk noted on May 26 that preparation to receive Soviet missiles signals deepening Russian commitment to North Viet Nam as the Soviet Union announces intensified support.
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State Department
Robert McCloskey
Hanoi
Dean Rusk
North Viet Nam
Soviet Union
Vatican priest condemns indiscriminate rebaptism critique
The Vatican linked priest criticized the rebaptism as unecumenical and against canon law. He cited that baptism is a sacrament with an indelible spiritual mark and should not be repeated unless doubt exists about prior validity. Bishop Pike praised Luci's independence but called the second baptism a deliberate act denigrating another branch and asked for apologies.
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Vatican
Miss Johnson
Luci
Ishe
Father Montgomery
Pike
Montgomery
Mars craft to take 21 pictures after 5 p.m. July 14
The spacecraft plans a sequence of up to 21 pictures starting shortly after 5 p.m. July 14. Tape-recorded frames will be sent to Earth about 12 hours later once Mari ner 4 clears Mars, with the first image arriving by midafternoon July 15. Processing will delay release of the first photo until the next day.
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Earth
Mariner 4
Mars
Dark holiday traffic tolls hit by year end
The record worst four day Christmas traffic toll was 706 deaths nine years ago. This year the Independence Day boating incidents caused 36 deaths and 124 drownings in non boat related accidents.
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Fernando Natilli
Sophia Scicolone
Britain
Jacob K. Javits
Javits
Club
By Jerry Curry
Pounder
Art
Spelunkers
Luei
A Crio Seas Ar
Moscow
Leopoldville
Associated Press
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