Mariner 2 Nears Venus Flyby Target
NASA reports Mariner 2 expected to pass within about 20 000 miles of Venus on December 14 at 7 a.m. EST. The craft was 34 021 772 miles from Earth and 700 444 miles from Venus with a good radio signal as it nears the encounter.
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Los Angeles
Mariner 2
Venus
Mariner
William H. Pickering
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena
Pickering
Washington
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Earth
Wirtz Urges Jobs for Displaced at Farm Bureau Meet
Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz urged broader federal efforts to create jobs for workers displaced by technological progress. He spoke at the American Farm Bureau Federation convention in Atlanta and warned against any move to regulate the manpower structure.
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Atlanta, Ga
W. Willard Wirtz
Wirtz
American Farm Bureau Federation
Big Farm Organization
Bureau
Charles B. Shulman
Organized Labor
Antag
Farm Bureau
U S Proposes Blue Ribbon Lines to Prevent War
The United States proposed a six point program to prevent war by miscalculation or accident. Key ideas include a hot line between Washington and Moscow, advance notice of major movements, observation posts, exchanges of military missions, and public disclosure of steps taken.
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Geneva
United States
Kennedy
Khrushchev
Washington
Moscow
Dean
Soviet troop withdrawals from Cuba slow and uncertain
US sources estimate between 2000 and 3000 Soviet troops have left Cuba recently, leaving 9000 to 15000 still there. Analysts say the pace is disappointing and uncertainty remains over the status of antiaircraft missiles and whether these withdrawals include combat troops or advisers.
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Cuba
U.S
Khrushchev
Kennedy
Kremlin
Indonesia
Record Cold Grips State Across North Carolina
Record cold spread across North Carolina with subzero readings in the mountains and single digits or teens in Piedmont and coast towns. Authorities warned of hazardous road conditions and many schools closed as an arctic air mass swept the nation.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Asheville
Charlotte
Greensboro
Raleigh
Wilmington
United States
Piedmont
South Coast
McDowell County
Alice Hendley
Old Fort
S. J. Westmoreland
Pisgah
State Highway Patrol
U.S
Madison County
Hell
Mich
Mt. Pisgah
North Carolina Smoky Mountains
Mt. Mitchell
N.C
International Falls
Minn
Huron
S.D
Midwest
Jacksonville
Fla
Pensacola Naval Air State
Florida
Miami
Columbus
Union
Ture
Soviet Says Pledges On Cuba Must Be Kept
The Soviet Union charges British and American intelligence breached its central science administration. Penkovsky, head of the foreign department of the State Committee on Coordination of Scientific Research, is arrested for selling secret material. Tass says a British businessman and two U S Embassy staff were accused of buying secrets.
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Cuba
Moscow
Soviet Union
Penkovsky
Soviet State Committee On
U.S
Tass
Richard Carl Jacob
U. S
Karlson
Rodney Carlson
Khrushchev Issues Warning Over Cuba Pledge
Premier Khrushchev told the Supreme Soviet that the Soviet Union will act if pledges against invading Cuba are not kept and praised Kennedy for seeking peace in the Caribbean. He warned against aggression from U.S. circles and called Cuba a victory for peace while stressing negotiations to honor pledges.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Kennedy
Cuba
Supreme Soviet
Soviet Union
United States
Kremlin Hall
Caribbean
Republic of Cuba
Skybolt Plan Strains British American Alliance
The United States considers scrapping the Skybolt missile prompting Britain to warn of a potential reappraisal of defense commitments including Holy Loch in Scotland for a Polaris submarine base. McNamara and Thorneycroft faced a blunt, stormy discussion as NATO meets in Paris ahead of a Bahamas summit.
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London
British American Alliance
U.S. Defense Department
Britain
Holy Loch
Scotland
U.S
Robert McNamara
Peter Thorneycroft
The
Daily Sketch
McNamara
Laborite
Daily Herald
Thorneycroft
NATO
Paris
Kennedy
Macmillan
Bahamas
United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Virginia-born witness refuses to answer on communism links
Rose Clinton of New York invoked the Fifth Amendment 25 times under a House subcommittee probe into communist influence in peace groups. The witness denied forming or directing the West Side Peace Committee or connections to Women Strike for Peace and declined to identify any communist ties or members.
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Washington
House
Subcommittee On UN
Rose Clinton
New York
Virginia
FBI
Miss Clinton
West Side Peace Committee
National Guardian
Peace Committee
Rebecca Shelley
Battle Creek
Mich
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Hungary
Firestone
South Tryon Street
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