Goldwater Attacks Pentagon Off Limits Directive
Senate clash erupts over a Pentagon move to bar servicemen from visiting segregated areas near bases. Goldwater cites police state fears and cites aides allegedly compiling tax data. defense officials deny misuse of records. Critics label it political maneuvering tied to civil rights debates.
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Pentagon
Washington
Barry Goldwater
Arizona Republican
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Senate
Attorney General's Office
Alfred B. Fitt
Secretary of Defense For Civil Rights
Illia Wins Argentina Presidency in Landmark Transfer
Dr. Arturo Illia, 62, wins 261 electoral votes to become Argentina's 29th president as military rule releases former president Frondizi. Inauguration set for October 12, amid economic woes and looming oil contract renegotiations with foreign firms.
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Buenos
Atres
Arturo Ilia
Argentina
Illin
Arturo Fran Frondizi
Plate River
San Carlos
Bariloche
Andes
Tiia
Congress
Guido
Ilfia
Frondizi
Norwegian Aviatrix Lands After North Pole Flight
Ingrid Pedersen 30 becomes first woman to complete a flight from Fairbanks Alaska to Bodo Norway in a single engine plane. She lands at Bodoe after a 49 hour 46 minute journey with husband Einar navigating across the ice cap near the pole. A large crowd welcomes them at the airport during the midnight sun.
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Bodoe
Norway
North’ Pole
Alaska
Ingrid Pedersen
Fairbanks
Nord
Greenland
Einar
Scandinavian Airlines System
McDonald Named New Navy Chief of Operations
Adm. David L. McDonald was installed as chief of naval operations at a change of command ceremony at the naval station Washington. Adm. George W. Anderson retires to become ambassador to Portugal. both officers have served nearly four decades in the Navy and are praised by Secretary of the Navy Ired Korth and President Kennedy.
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Washington
Navy
Adm
David L. McDonald
Naval Operations
George W. Anderson
McDonald
Maysville
6Th Fleen
Eastern Atlantic Command
Pentagon
Anderson
Secretary of the Navy
Ired Korth
Naval Station
Kennedy
Portugal
Korth
Record profits across industries boost 1962 earnings
A survey shows major firms posting record profits for the year with GM leading gains in both the second quarter and first half, while Ford, Chrysler, oil majors, and chemical companies report higher profits and sales. Airlines, steel, tobacco and utilities also show strong performance, aided by higher gasoline prices and robust production.
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General Motors
Ford Motor Co
Chrysler Corp
Standard Oil
New Jersey
Texaco
Phillips Petroleum
Indiana
Standard of Indiana
Dow Chemical Co
Monsanto
United Air Lines
National Steel Corp
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
U.S. Steel Corp
Philip Morris
American Tobacco Co
Booker T Bonner Dismissed After Civil Rights Outing
Booker T Bonner the Negro waiter who won an appointment with Gov John Connally to discuss civil rights after a two day sit in at the governor s office has been fired from his job He disclosed this on Wednesday night outside the governor s mansion with nine other pickets The discharge the assistant manager says has no relation to Bonner s integration activities
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Austin
Tex
Booker T. Bonner
John Connally
Governor’s Mansion
Bonner
Villa Capri
Tommy Castillo
Connally
Kennedy
Unionist leader attacks discrimination claim in construction
C J Haggerty president of the AFL CIO building and construction trades denounces the notion that construction shows more job discrimination against Negro workers. He cites a 65 firm study showing 2.6 percent nonwhite employment versus a 5.3 percent Negro share in federal construction jobs and argues the building trades offer higher opportunities for Negro craftsmen.
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Washington
C. J. Haglgerty
Afl-Cio Building and Construction Trades, Department
W. Willard “Wirtz
Haggertty
Haggerty
U.S
Committee On Equal Employment Opportunity
Labor Department
Scientists may know in 3 months can humans tame hurricanes
U S scientists may learn in three months if man can tame hurricanes through silver iodide seeding tested from now to November 1, repeating 1961 experiments during Hurricane Esther. Navy and Weather Bureau will use eleven planes to observe cloud changes and wind effects, with potential nonmilitary as well as strategic considerations.
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Navy
U.S
Weather Bureau
Kennedy Ervin Row To Be Aired Again In Hearings
Washington AP report notes House Civil Rights hearings near end with Daniel R. McLeod testimony while Kennedy returns for a sixth session before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Ervin’s questions limit future appearances and King’s testimony remains uncertain as antidiscrimination proposalsface split views between 14th Amendment basing and interstate commerce powers. The administration seeks to withhold funds where segregation exists, while party divisions complicate a fair employment practices addition.
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Washington
House
Senate
Robert F. Kennedy
Sam Ervin
D-N.c
South Carolina
Daniel R. McLeod
Subcommittee
House Judiciary Committee
Kennedy
Judiciary Committee
Capitol Hill
Ervin Whas
Martin Luther King
King
Manuel Celler
D-N.y
GOP
Executive Branch
Celler
Africans push UN to back broad boycott of South Africa
African diplomats at the United Nations pursue a Security Council resolution calling for a general economic and diplomatic boycott of South Africa to pressure an end to apartheid. Liberia’s Grimes and Malagasy’s Rakotomalala prepare to speak in support of complaints from 92 African countries.
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United Nations, N.Y
United Nations
U.N. Security Council
South Africa
L-nation Council
J. Rudolph Grimes
Liberia
U.N
Louis Rakotomalala
Malagasy
Council
John Karefa- Smart
Sierra Leone
Mongi Slim
Tunisia
General Assembly
USN
Erle Louw
Louw
Westinghouse to Shut Down for Vacation
Westinghouse will close its steam divisions for vacation Monday and resume operations August 19, per L. E. Hedrick. A small group will stay to perform repairs and alterations and to view prospective employees. Unemployment in Pennsylvania stood 7.0 percent in July, down from 7.4 percent in June.
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Lester
Westinghouse Bleestrie
L. E. Hedrick
Harrisburg
Pennsyla
Ania
Torchlight Ritual Opens 11th World Scout Jamboree
On the Plains of Marathon Greece the torchlight ceremony launches the jamboree with 14 000 scouts from 76 nations. Crown Prince Constantine opens the event as thousands await demonstrations, displays, and field tests of scouting skill amid a multi nation pageant of tents and gear.
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Greece
Constantine
Trier
Germany
Trie
B.C
Leva
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