Four Missing In Collapse At Tennessee Rocket Cell
Rescue workers searched the bottom of a 250-foot deep test cell in Tullahoma for four men feared dead after a 304-ton wedge of concrete collapsed. The pie shaped segment was part of six sections to cap a ten million dollar test facility built to simulate high altitude conditions for a Saturn booster engine. The hole, blasted through limestone, measures 150 feet in diameter and was to be modified to test a 1.5 million pound thrust.
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Tullahoma, Tenn
Simu
Kennedy Macmillan Talk Focus On Skybolt and Soviet Ties
President Kennedy flew to Nassau for talks with Prime Minister Macmillan on Western alliance strains, Skybolt missile program, and East-West relations. The summit aimed to assess global dangers and potential shifts in NATO planning and Soviet challenges.
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Bahamas
Kennedy
Harold Macmillan
Western Alliance
Moscow
Peking
Soviet Union
West
Andrews Air Force Base
Washington
Macmillan
Welanweine Weber
Test ban talks fail to secure year end deadline
At Geneva the United States Britain and the Soviet Union end their 50th three power meeting without a formal end of year accord on a controlled test ban They warn of possible one side suspensions and demand on site inspections while Russia promotes black box monitoring ahead of resumption January 15.
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Geneva
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
U.N. General Assembly
General Assembly
Semyon K Tsarapkin
Russia
Senghor Seizes Power in Senegal After Assembly Vote
President Leopold Senghor ends premier Ma madou Dia era as National Assembly votes 51 to 0 with three abstentions to abolish the premiership and name Senghor head of state and government. Dia’s immunity is removed amid a failed coup attempt, while troops pledge loyalty and a referendum is authorized.
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Dakar
Senegal
Leopold Senghor
Mamadou Dia
West African Republic
National Assembly
Senghor
Dia
France
Senegal Progressist Union
God Told Me To Do It Trifari Murders Family In New Jersey
Gabriel Richard Trifari, 26, confessed to bludgeoning his father Maxim and mother Maria Trifari, brother Maxim Jr., and sister Olga at the Lakewood farm with a crowbar. He was jailed without charges after the confession and awaiting medical exam. Police described his remark of divine orders and asked for a priest.
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Freehold
Gabriel Richard Trifari
Trifari
Maxim
Maria Trifari
Maxim Jr
Olga
Lakewood
Hodges Urges Tax Cut as U S Production Hits Record Pace
Secretary Hodges said GNP surpassed 560 billion dollars in the last quarter of 1962 and total output for the year stood at 554 billion, a new high. He urged a prompt tax cut, favoring cuts in personal income taxes to spur long term growth and backing a corporate rate drop to 47 percent.
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Washington
Luther H. Hodges
Hodges
Kennedy
Congress
Economic Club of New York
Wilbur Mills
D-Ark
House
Ways and Means Committee
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Senate Finance
Donovan Flies To Havana
New York attorney James B. Donovan and Cuban Families Committee members flew to Havana by special Pan American flight to press Fidel Castro for release of 1,113 Cuba invasion prisoners in exchange for food and medicine. Medical shipments to Miami were organized by Trans World Airlines for delivery to Cuba via the International Red Cross and Port Everglades bound vessels.
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Miami
Fla
New York
James B. Donovan
Havana
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Idlewild
St. Louis
Los Angeles
Air Transport Association
International Red Cross
Baltimore
Port Everglades
Nike Zeus Production Held Up
President Kennedy signaled he will deny funds to start Nike Zeus antimissile production despite two successful intercept tests this year. He said the system must be perfected and would cost billions before any production. He previously vetoed Nike Zeus funding in the Eisenhower and current administrations.
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Washington
Kennedy
Army
Pacific
United States
Eisenhower
Kennedy says Khrushchev learned but world still dangerous
President Kennedy says the Cuban crisis showed Khrushchev the dangers of a nuclear age and that it will take time before real understanding emerges. He warns Soviet and Chinese goals could raise risks this decade, while expressing optimism about resisting Communist expansion. The interview aired on television and radio, conducted in the Oval Office.
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Nal
Kennedy
United States
Khrushchev
U.S
Britain
Macmillan
Skybolt
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Washington
Kremlin
Cuba
Supreme Soviet
Russia
Soviet Union
William H. Lawrence
ABC
George Herman
CBS
Sand ‘Er Vanocur
NBC
Oval
White House
Andrei A. Gromyko
Herman
Gromyko
Dominican vote clears as priest retracts charge
Dominican Republic moves toward a dictatorship free election as Rev Landico Garcia retracts a claim that a major party was communist. The Dominican Revolutionary party plans to drop its boycott threat and Jorge Bosch remains a leading candidate.
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Dominican Revolutionary Party
Landico Garcia
Juan Bosch
Bosch
Father Landice Garcia
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Robert Berrellez
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Emilio de Los Santos
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National Civic Union
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