Jordan Premier Hazza Majali Killed by Amman Bomb
Premier Hazza Majali of Jordan, 44, was assassinated by a time bomb in his Amman office. Ten killed and 50 injured in the blast. another bomb in a separate government office injured people. Amman radio announced Majali's death on orders of King Hussein.
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London
Hazza Majali
Jordan
Amman
Majali
Amman Radio
Hussein
Nasser Ben Jamil
Lebanon
Ibrahim Hashem
United Arab Republic
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Nasser
U.A.R
Katanga Border Tensions Rise In Congo Crisis
Forces loyal to Premier Lumumba near Katanga press frontier 20 miles from the secessionist province. Tshombe orders troops northward and plans to fly to the front to rally his men as rail bridges are blown and roads mined. Local forces in Luputa and Mwene City edge toward invasion, with Belgians moving to withdraw by UN deadline.
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Elisabethville
Congo
Katanga
Patrice Lumumba
Moise Tshombe
Tshombe
Lumumba
Kasai
Luputa
Luluabourg
Bakwanga
Albert Kalonji
Luputi
Mwene
Tsnombe
Sasai
Kalonji
United Nations
$10,000 Copper Penny Is Myth Says Official
Washington AP report notes the Mint denies 1943 copper pennies exist. Assistant director Leland Howard says only zinc coated steel cents were produced that year. Fakes include copper plating steel cents or altering dates, detectable by magnet or magnifier. reports of offers up to $10,000 persist despite official denial.
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Washington
Federal Mint
Leland Howard
Mint
Howard
San Francisco
Jacksonville War-Era Order Pauses Sit-Ins Amid Violence
After two days of racial clashes in Jacksonville emergency police powers were in force. Police arrested 138 people as bricks and firebombs damaged several businesses while a federal probe was urged by a 1400-strong Negro mass meeting. The NAACP council then suspended sit-ins to allow peace and order to be preserved.
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Jacksonville
Fla
W. A. Miller
Miller
Hayden Burns
Eisenhower
Department of Justice
Polaris Subs Based at Charleston for Strategic Fleet
Sen. Strom Thurmond said five Polaris missile submarines will be based at Charleston South Carolina. They will be built in the FY beginning July 1 and assigned to the Second Fleet Ballistic Missile Squadron. By mid 1963 they will deploy overseas with alternating crews one at Charleston and one at sea. The Navy will establish special training facilities at Charleston likely in 1963.
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Washington
Charleston
S.C
Strom Thurmond
D-Sc
Second Fleet
Thurmond
Navy
Cargo Vessel Collides With Hudson Ferry in Fog
In a Hudson River collision near lower Manhattan the cargo ship Seatrain Georgia struck the ferryboat Chatham carrying hundreds of passengers. At least 13 were hospitalized. one woman was reported seriously injured.
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Hudson River
New York
Lower Manhattan
Seatrain
Georgia
Chatham
Hoboken
N.J
Manhattan
Chamber St
Delaware,Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Seatrain Georgia
Edgewater
Savannah
Seatrain Lines Inc
Roy O. Waring
Waning
Orleans Parish School Board seeks up to one year delay in integration
The Orleans Parish School Board plans to seek a delay of up to a year in the federally ordered school integration set to begin next week. Board members will ask U S District Judge J Skelly Wright for the delay, while one member opposed the move. Gov Jimmie Davis could close schools to block integration.
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New Orleans
Orleans Parish
Lloyd Rittiner
U.S. Dist
J. Skelly Wright
Emile Wagner Jr
Jimmie Davis
Wright
Gov. Davis
Jack Gremillion
Wage Bill Debate Tightens as House Advances Social Security Measure
The House passed a wage bill liberalizing Social Security provisions and funding to aid medical costs for the elderly. Senator Long condemned House concessions, delaying the vote while the Senate prepared a broader appropriation push. The adjournment drive hinges on a House Senate conference clash over minimum wage and foreign aid funding.
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Senate
State House
Long
White House
House
Eisenhower
Washington
Senate House Conference
District of Columbia
Intervention of Ethiopian Troops Averts American Casualties
Dr. Ralph Bunche said United Nations Ethiopian troops saved eight American airmen and two Canadians from a brutal beating at Stanleyville airport. Bunche, visiting wounded, praised the intervention and urged protection as the men recover in a Louvainium hospital near Leopoldville.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
Ralph J. Bunche
United Nations
Stanleyville
Bunche
U.N
Patrice Lumumba
French Plane Crashes Off Africa Killing 63 Aboard
A four engine Air France Super Constellation crashed while circling to land near Dakar Senegal sinking in about 60 feet of water. All 63 aboard including 55 passengers and 8 crew presumed dead eight hours after the crash. Bodies located but no survivors.
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Dakar
Senegal
Air France
Dakar-Yoff
Atlantic
Paris
Abidjan
West Africa
Ivory Coast
Africa
OAS Condemns Soviet Cuban Threat At San Jose Meet
Foreign ministers of the Organization of American States close a two week conference condemning Soviet and Chinese use of Cuba as a springboard into the Americas. They reject a Cuban call to refrain from aggression and walkouts by Cuban and Dominican delegates color the session. They vow to oppose intervention by external powers in the hemisphere.
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Stanford Bradshaw
San Jose
Costa Rica
Organization of American States
Cuba
Americas
United States
Fidel Castro
Raul Roa
Dominican Republic
Rafael Trujillo
Romulo Betancourt
Castro
OAS
Collision Wipes Out Family Near Wingate
Five people died in a head on crash on U.S. 74 near Wingate North Carolina. Mrs. Thomas Floyd Butler 21 of Rossville Ga was pregnant. Also killed were her husband 25, their five year old daughter Annette who survived then died later, Phyllis Furr 15, and Bruce Tomberlin 43 who ran a cafe near Marshville. Tomberlin had reportedly sped before the wreck. Traffic delayed for nearly two hours.
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Thomas Floyd Butler
Rossville
U.S
College Town
Annette
Union Memorial Hospital
Monroe
Phyllis Furr
West End
Teacher Identifies Assailant In Grant Park Attack
In Chicago a London based teacher Joy Rosemary Grant 30 identified her attacker Jasper Mines 16 a juvenile male after police arrested him on rape and attempted rape charges. Mines admitted assault on the older woman and the waitress but denied attacking Miss Grant while a red bicycle connected him to the case.
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Chicago
London
Grant Park
Joy Rosemary Grant
Jasper Mines
Mines
Miss Grant
Carolinas to Get First Steel Furnace and Mill
The Carolinas will gain their first steel furnace and rolling mill near Charlotte to produce reinforcing bars for concrete. The $3.3 million plant will employ about 150 people at startup in about a year, built by Florida Steel Corp of Tampa after acquiring Easterby & Mumaw, Inc. of Charlotte, with another Florida Steel plant in Statesville, N.C.
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Charlotte
Carolinas
Florida Steel Corp
Tampa
Easterby & Mumaw, Inc
Florida Steel
Statesville
N.C
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