Cosmos III Satellite Launch Marks Space Race Milestone
The Soviet Union launched Cosmos III, a unmanned scientific satellite with radiation research instruments and a multichannel radio system. Tass reported near planned orbit at 93.8 minutes with 48 deg 59 min inclination, while Ranger 4 headed for the moon. The launch came as a rare simultaneous spaceflight event and was announced after a brief Soviet radio break.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
America
Moon
Earth
Tass
Supreme Soviet
New York
Life or Death Awakening on San Francisco Rooftop
Wendy Rose Kaufmann, 22, clung to a ledge 14 stories above Market Street for five minutes on her first day at work. A coroner's inquest will determine if she fell or leaped after an employer described how Kaufmann loosened her grip amid an apparent suicide bid.
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San Francisco
Wendy Rose Kaufmann
Market Street
Helen Buchan
Miss Kaufmann
Continental Pacific ‘Coast Medical Bureau Agency
Corsoner
Peronist Victories Nullified in Argentina Power Shift
President Jose Maria Guido decreed the annulment of all elections since 1961 and placed federal control in all provinces. The move followed army seizures in Entre Rios, Santa Fe and Corrientes as Peronists won 45 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and five governorships in March elections.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Jose Maria Guido
Chamber of Deputies
Guido
Entre Rios
Santa Fe
Corientes
Arturo Frondizi
Juan D. Peron
Car Hits School Bus in Sumter County Incident
A passenger car collided with the rear of a school bus near Sumterton South Carolina injuring two people. The report mentions political turmoil and a Navy show of force related to Guido and Peronists as part of the broader context.
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Summerton
S.C
Sum
Guido
Morton
Chamber of Deputies
Navy
Gromyko Attacks Western Disarmament Proposals in Geneva
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko charged that Western disarmament plans aim to spy on the USSR. He spoke before the Supreme Soviet as Khrushchev resigned and was overwhelmingly re elected to resume office. Brezhnev was re elected chairman and Voroshilov to the Presidium, amid party faction drama. He defended a Soviet three stage disarmament plan and warned of nuclear tests while urging neutral Berlin with a UN or neutral force supervision and a peace treaty with East Germany.
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Supreme Soviet
Geneva
Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
U.S.S.R
Klementi Voroshilov
Voroshilov
Gromyko
United States
Soviet Union
Pacific
Berlin
Germany
U.S
Dean Rusk
East Germany
West Berlin
United Nations
West Germany
Nehru Urges Delay in Nuclear Tests Until Geneva Talks End
Indian Prime Minister Nehru appealed to the United States and the Soviet Union to refrain from resuming atmospheric tests until the 17 nation disarmament conference in Geneva concludes. He warned that a resumption could derail talks and raise the risk of war. In London, anti nuclear protesters massed at the U S Embassy while leaders pressed Kennedy to halt tests. Tokyo ordered daily radiation checks on fish from U S test zones to monitor fallout.
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Associated Press
Nehru
United States
Soviet Union
Geneva
London
U.S
Hyde Park
Britain
Aldermaston
John Collins
St. Paul's Cathedral
Kennedy
Japan
ANPA marks 75th anniversary as newspapers meet shifting era
The American Newspaper Publishers Association reports a record 857 member papers in the United States and Canada as it opens its annual convention at Waldorf Astoria. ANPA president Mark Ferree says papers are rising to meet rapid changes, with education, travel, reading and culture drawing growing interest.
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New York
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Mark Ferree
ANPA
United States
Canada
Ferree
Scripps-Howard
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
James S. Copley
Corporation of the Copley Press, Inc
la Jolla
Calif
Living Costs Rise to New High on Government Index
The March consumer price index reached 105.0 amid a 0.2 percent rise driven by clothing, fruits and vegetables, drugs, used cars and furnishings. Egg prices fell and gasoline eased as price wars and lower octane grades hit costs. Wage adjustments will boost about 67,000 workers, including 30,000 at Douglas Aircraft and 37,000 across Northup Aviation Switchmen's Union and Milwaukee Transit contracts.
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Washington
Labor Department
Douglas Aircraft Co
Northup Aviation Co
Switchmen’s Union
Milwaukee Transit Co
Bus Crash Near Sumter Injures Two. Driver, Passenger Hospitalized
A school bus occupants escaped injury while a man and a woman in a nearby automobile were taken to Clarendon County Memorial Hospital in Manning after a morning crash. The incident happened about 8 a.m. eight miles south of Sumter on U S 301 near a bridge over the Santee River.
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State Highway Patrol
Clarendon County Memorial Hospital
Manning
Summerton
U.S. 301
Santee River
Students Rescued From Cave After 3 Day Ordeal
Three collegiate explorers kept between mud holes for 36 hours were rescued from Lookout Mountain cave near Trenton Georgia. James Mason Bill Bartee and Martin Huddleston endured hunger and thirst before a rescue team reached them. Mason and Huddleston attend Emory University Bartee studies at Presbyterian College.
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Trenton
Lookout Mountain
James Mason
Bill Bartee
Atlanta
Martin Huddleston
Ormond Beach
Fla
Mason
Bartee
Huddleston
Emory University
Presbyterian College
Clinton
S.C
Bar
State Senator Speaks Out On Discrimination Against Northern Migrants
New York State Senator Henry A. Wise warns Southern African Americans planning to move north that subtle discrimination exists in New York City. Reports say at least one bus from New Orleans is ready to head to New York this week, with free trips offered by a segregationist group and welfare agencies urged to assist northeastern relocation efforts.
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Albany, N. Y
New York State
New York City
New Orleans
Louisiana
Henry A. Wise
Watertown
Senate
Wise
Charles Deichman
Wallana
Donors Back Plan to Move Negroes North by Train
New Orleans AP report details a proposed one way train funded by unnamed donors to move about 1000 African Americans to New York and other northern cities. Clarence Laws of the Citizens Council criticized the plan while George Singelmann of the NAACP denied prior involvement.
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Ernest Fischer
New Orleans
Clarence Laws
Secre
NAACP
Zens Council
Eost
New York
George Singelmann
National Association For the
Boyd
North Carolina firm to develop gel solid rocket propellant
Atlantic Research Corp plans a rocket research and development site near Corolla on the Outer Banks. At a Raleigh news conference officials Hargrove Bowles and Philip K. Reily Jr. said the firm has an Air Force contract to develop a gel solid propellant with thrust potential in multi millions. The plant site 40 miles north of Nags Head already houses several lodges with more construction planned as tests of the aluminized solid propellant continue.
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Raleigh
Atlantic Research Corp
Corolla
North Carolina Outer Banks
Hargrove Bowles
Philip K. Reily Jr
Air Force
Bowles
Gov. Sanford
North Carolina
Nags Head
Reily
Magazine Hits Abolish Peabody Awards Over Minow Honor
New York AP The broadcasting trade weekly calls for abolishing the Peabody awards after Newton Minow FCC chairman receives a special prize. It accuses the committee of defiling its purpose by honoring a government official for statements on television. The 13 member panel includes critics educators and lawyers.
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New York
Newton N. Minow
Federal Communications Commission
Minow
Peabody Awards Committee
FCC
Bennett Cerf
Random House, Inc
Peabody Committee
Federal Communications
John Crosby
The
New York Herald Tribune
Paul Porter
Washington
Edward Weeks
Atlantic Monthly
Ralph McGill
Atlanta Constitution
Edgar Kobak
Harriet van Horne
New York World- Telegram & Sun
University of Georgia
Henry W. Grady School of Journalism
Peabody Board
George Foster Peabody
Columbus, Ga
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
William H. Pickering
Pasadena
Atlas
Agena
Pickering
Dents
William Bartee
Peronist
Andrei A. Gromyko
Osh
Dobbin
Riding Academy
Joe M. Dealey
Dallas (Tex
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