Milton Tornado Devastates Town Killing and Wounding Children
A devastating tornado cut through Milton, Florida, leaving pulverized cars, homes, stores, and trees. Rescuers searched rubble as a woman screamed for a baby found among the debris. Ensign Paul H. Hill reported near misses at Whiting Field and лед Milton residents described two young daughters injured and trapped in the destruction. Emergency aid flooded in from Pensacola as funeral homes prepared for the casualties.
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Pensacola
Florida
Gayle Norton
Pensacola News-Journal
Paul H. Hill
Chicago
Whiting Field
A. C. Lewis
Wolfe-Lewis Funeral Home
Ted M. Childers
Milton
Vonnie Jo
Linda
College Park
Munson
Pleasant Hill
Columbus
Miss
Georgia
Tifton
American Legion Club
Deeran
Alma
Tornado Lashes Florida Town Leaves 15 Dead
A tornado ripped through Milton Florida injuring 75 to 100 and destroying about 75 houses in a 4000 resident town near Pensacola. Nine white residents and six Black residents were among the 15 killed. The disaster occurred shortly after 9 am Saturday.
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Florida
Milton
Fla
Pensacola
Florida Highway Patrol
Steel contract approved amid hopes for stability and jobs
The two year labor pact between steel negotiators and the United Steelworkers Union was approved. it preserves no immediate wage increase but includes vacation and pension improvements aimed at easing unemployment in the industry. President Kennedy praised the settlement as noninflationary and a basis for price stability.
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Pittsburgh
Kennedy
David J. McDonald
Steelworkers Union
McDonald
Invasion Trial Details Faulty Intelligence Behind Bay of Pigs
A letter read at Principe Prison trial alleges U S led to disaster by faulty intelligence. Jose Perez San Roman claims landings failed, air cover absent, and invaders faced demoralized troops and tanks on a populated beach. Trial recess until Monday.
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Havana
United States
Principe
Miami
Fla
Jose Perez San Roman
San Roman
Bay of Pigs
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Castro
Wagner says Kennedy will seek re election in 1964
Raleigh audience hears New York mayor Robert F. Wagner say Kennedy will win a larger margin in 1964 and criticize Republicans for obstruction on housing and elder care. He notes Nixon Romney Rockefeller Goldwater and McKinley as current GOP figures and stresses Kennedy's broad goals for America.
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Raleigh
N. C
Robert F. Wagner
New York
Kennedy
Republican Party
North Carolina
Dick Nixon
White House
George Romney
Michigan
Ford
Romney
American Motors Corp
Wagner
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
William Jennings Bryan
Goldwater
William McKinley
McKinley
Barry
Rockefeller
U. S. Senate
Taylor Burton Nightclub Visit Sparks Romances in Rome
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were seen holding hands dancing and kissing many times at Rome nightclubs on Via Veneto. Eddie Fisher denied reports of trouble with Taylor in New York. The couple, prominent in the Cleopatra project, drew Italian press and public attention while remaining tight lipped.
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Richard Burton
Cleopatra
Mark Antony
Rome
Via Veneto
New York
Miss Taylor
Eddie Fisher
Fisher
Burton
Soviet limits U.S. observers in East Germany Potsdam
Soviet Marshal Ivan S. Konev barred movement of the U. S. military mission in Potsdam East Germany and forbade leaving the town without high command permission. Col. Ernst von Pawel met Konev as an escort awaited him at the lakeside villa. U.S. Army said moves were limited anyway by prior U.S. decisions. British and French missions faced no announced restrictions.
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Berlin
Ivan S. Konev
U. S
East Germany
Europe
Konev
Potsdam
Ernest von Pawel
von Pawel
U. S. Army
Heidelberg
ADA Role In Nation Stirs Critics
Senator John G. Tower leads conservative criticism of the Americans for Democratic Action and its influence in national policy. The piece notes ADA figures in the Kennedy administration and outlines tensions between liberal and conservative camps, with references to Sorenson, Schle posinger, Wofford, Stevenson, Humphrey, and ADA’s 1952 1956 presidential support.
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Ada
Washington
Americans For Democratic Action
John G. Tower
Texas
Lone Star
Tower
Chester Bowles
Texan
Bowles
Asia
Africa
Latin America
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Kennedy
Martin Luther King
Georgia
Adlai Stevenson
United States
United Nations
Stevenson
Ada Roosevelt
New York
CIO
Wall Street
Truman
Dixiecrats
Hubert Humphrey
Minnesota
U.S
Humphrey
ADA All Right
Richard M. Nixon
Ken
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H. R. Cox
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T. G. Melson
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Naceville
Ft. Walton Beach
Panama City Beach
Youngstown
Alabama
Mississippi
Montgomery
Ala
Jackson Camp
Elberta
Gop
New York State
America
Robert Wagner
New York City
Gov. Sanford
Carolina Democrats
Marjorie Hunter
New York Times
Taylor, Burton
Elizabeth Taylor
Twentieth Century-Fox
J. W. Davis
R. Ariz
Ted Sorenson
University of Nebraska
Ihe Senate
Nebraska
George W. Norris
Sorenson
Paul H. Douglas
D-Iil
White ‘House
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
Harvard
Schlesinger
Harris Wofford
Henry Clay
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