Aid Bill Delays Congress
Congress likely will not adjourn today as a clash over foreign aid funding and a grain sale provision to Russia stalls progress. McCormack predicts at least one more day of work with conferees to meet again while Johnson presses for a resolution on Export-Import Bank guarantees to Communist countries.
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Washington
Congress
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
McCormack
House
Senate
Russia
Johnson
Charles A. Halleck
Mike Mansfield
Jailed Student Defends Kennedy Threat as Joke
Rus sell W. McLarry, 21, a part time college student, says he meant no harm when accused of threatening President Kennedy. Investigators found no link to the assassination. He remains jailed in Dallas County on a $2,500 bond after arrest Thursday. U.S. Attorney Barefoot Sanders says there is no known connection to the President’s death.
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Fort Worth, Tex
Kennedy
Russell W. McLarry
McLarry
Secret Service
U.S
John ~. Kennedy
Christmas Star Goes Into Orbit Over Twilight Skies
The Christmas Star satellite has reached orbit after a late sighting by Australia. The 12 foot balloon and its canister were tracked by binoculars at an optical station. It will be visible at twilight when its polar orbit aligns with sundown.
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Point Arguello
Calif
U.S. Space Agency
Australia
Berliners Reunited Across the Wall in Christmas Crossing
West Berliners flooded through the wall into East Berlin for a one day visit aimed at reuniting families. Officials logged 1,000 passings in three hours and anticipate up to 800,000 more visiting relatives before January 5. East German guards allowed passage though strict shooting orders remained in force for escapes.
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John D. Koehler
Associated Press
Berlin
West Berlin
ADN
East Berlin
Sonnenallee
Bitter Arctic Cold Grips Nation From Rockies to Gulf
The deep freeze persisted across the United States with thirty below readings in northern states and subzero depths in the Dakotas Minnesota and Wisconsin. Travel and schooling faced disruption as blizzards and heavy snow closed roads and forced closures from New York to Florida.
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Associated Press
Midji
Minn
International Falls
Mains
New York
Adirondack
Midwest
Watertown
N.Y
Bis
N.D
Weather Bureau
Florida
Buffalo
Gulf Region
South
Tampa
Fla
Pensacola
Mobile
Ala
New Orleans
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
O'Hare International
Chicago
Sleet or Snow Forecast for North Carolina Weekend
A high pressure system extends from Western Canada to the Southeast, bringing continued cold weather to North Carolina through the weekend. Cloudy skies may bring rain sleet or snow Saturday as a weak disturbance moves off the South Atlantic coast. Thursday readings ranged from the upper 20s to mid 30s inland and 40s near the SC border, with mountain valleys as cold as the 10s.
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Canada
United States
North Carolina
South Atlantic
South Carolina
Asheville
Rocky Mount
Nazi SS guards begin big Auschwitz war crimes trial
In Frankfurt, Germany, twenty guards and an ex trasty face charges of murder or complicity in crimes at Auschwitz. Chief suspect Rudolf Mulka testifies he did not know Auschwitz was a concentration camp before joining in 1942. Trial could run into next fall with about 250 witnesses.
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West Germany
Frankfurt
Wilhelm Boger
Victor Capesius
Oswald Kaduk
Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Germany
Auschwitz
Trasty
Poland
Adolf Hitler
Rudolf Mulka
Rudolf Hoess
Hoess
Imony
Franz Lucas
Mulka
Hans Hofmeyer
Breslad
Presidency commission urges 18 voting age and end to poll taxes
A presidential commission urged states to lower the voting age to 18 and to eliminate poll taxes and literacy tests. It said many youths delay voting until adulthood, and noted Georgia and Kentucky already allow 18-year-olds to vote while most states set higher limits.
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Washington
Johnson
White House
Georgia
Kentucky
Alaska
Hawaii
Christmas gifts reach out to Vicki Wray in South Carolina
Seventeen-year-old Linda Byrd and her brother Brad rush Christmas presents to two year old Vicki Wray in Bowling Green as she faces retinal glaucoma and eye cancer evaluation next month. Linda says the act aims to brighten Christmas for Vicki and her eight siblings.
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Linda Byrd
Danvers
Mass
Brad
Vicki Wray
Bowling Green
S.C
Linda
Vicki
Duke Hospital
Durham
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