Cuban Prisoners Reunite With Joy in Miami Welcome
Cuban exiles celebrate as 426 Bay of Pigs fighters return to Florida from Havana on a Pan American World Airways airlift. Families crowd the Miami area as prisoners arrive at Homestead Air Force Base and proceed to the Dinner Key center for embraces and tears of joy.
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Miami
Fla
freedom/American World Airways
DCGS
del Castro
Homestead Air Force
United States
Florida
Pan
DCG
Pan American World Airways
Havana
Freedom
Fidel Castro
Cuba
San Antonio de Los Banos Military Air Base
Homestead Air Force Base
Brigade
Bay of Pigs
Isidro Lopez Hernandez
Dinner Key Stadium
Jury Deadlocked Hoffa Escapes Jail Again
The $1 million Hoffa conspiracy trial ends in a hung jury after 17 hours of deliberation. Judge Miller orders FBI testimony review amid questions of juror influence. Hoffa, awaiting verdicts over Taft Hartley payoffs, expresses disappointment at not being acquitted.
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Nashville, Tenn
Justice Department
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Linden Wne Annend
Annoninines
Iwiia
Coldspu IE
Michigan
U.S
Miller
Hoffa
James F. Neal
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
Washington, D.C
McClellan Committee
New York
Kennedy
Atty Gen. Kennedy
Traffic Toll Falls Short Of Holiday Estimates
The National Safety Council reports 304 road deaths so far in the Christmas weekend, with 44 fires and 37 other accidents totaling 385. Weather and lighter traffic may have reduced fatalities, with last year’s holiday toll at 524 and the all time high 706 in 1956.
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Howard Pyle
National Safety Counci
Pyle
White Christmas Expected in North Carolina
A Gulf of Mexico storm was set to reach North Carolina bringing a white Christmas to the western and central sections with sleet or freezing rain elsewhere. Snow would begin in the west before midnight and continue into Christmas Day, likely mixed with sleet or rain, extending into the Piedmont. Hazardous driving conditions were expected in the west by Christmas morning with temperatures near the upper 20s on Christmas Eve.
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Gulf of Mexico
North Carolina
Piedmont
Burgaw supermarket holdup leaves mother dead
In Burgaw a gunman robbed a local supermarket where Hazel Pierce, a 34-year-old mother and cashier, was shot and killed. The incident ties to a holiday violence wave. authorities describe the suspect as a dark skinned Negro about 5 foot 9, 170 pounds, possibly driving a 1960 Chevrolet. The SBI aids the search alongside the Pender County Sheriff.
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Burgaw
Hazel Pierce
Rhodhils
Jo Ann Lingle
Washington, D. C
Ray Lee Lingle
Lenoir
Caldwell
Barbara Bryar Ross
Mooresville
Statesville
Andy Phillips
Timothy Dellinger
Rt. 5
Lincolnton
William Brown
Cherryville
N.C. 150
Roy Thomas Searce
Me. Leansville
Guilford County
Paul L. McCoy
Ft Bragg
Dunn
John Wallace Jester
Rt. 1
Boonville
N.C
East Bend
Lincoln County
Charles Albert Webb
State Bureau of Investigation
Pender County
SBI
Prisoners Recall Poor Prison Meals in Castro Custody
A Bay of Pigs returnee Tulio Diaz 22 described meals given to prisoners as unfit for pigs. He said breakfast included a cup of very bad coffee and bread with later meals featuring macaroni in watery sauce and a grain called fatherland or death with a dirt-like taste and squash.
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Miami
Fla
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
Tulio Diaz
Castro hosts 24 hour state of peace at Havana dockside
Fidel Castro observes a jovial one day state of peace with the United States as 1,113 invasion captives are swapped for food and medicine. He tours the African Pilot dockside, escorts visiting Americans, and comments on bureaucracy while highlighting a low rent housing project.
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United States
Havana
Fidel Castro
Castro
Ernest Hemingway
F. Barrett Prettyman Jr
Washington
U.S
Leonard A Scheele
Strange Will Prompts Talk in Nashville North Carolina
Mrs Lucy J Allen Lewis left a 25000 estate naming her second husband Alvin J Lewis as administrator and directing 1800 for a casket for herself and a like amount for her first husband exhumed and reburied beside her. She willed most to Middlesex Free Will Baptist Orphanage and other church orphanages. The widow died in December at age 76. the first husband Johnny Allen was buried 12 years ago.
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Nashville, N.C
Santa Claus
Lucy J. Allen Lewis
Middlesex Farm
Johnny Allen
Middlesex Free Will Baptist Orphanage
The Faces Of Christmas Mixed Emotions Across Towns
A mixed image of Christmas shows humor and sorrow in towns from Waterville Maine to Vineland New Jersey. A bus driver detours to help riders, children roam a Cambridge department store overnight, and families cope with losses like 37 miners' deaths in Carmichaels Pennsylvania as 65 children lose fathers and 34 wives lose husbands this season.
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Louis Carey
Providence
A.J
Peewee
Fatty
Cambridge, Mass
Carmichaels
Derek Boyd
Vineland
N.J
William Jones Jr
Billy
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Miami International
Julio Monzon, Jr
Julio Monzon
Dinner Key
Associated Press
Great Lakes
Ohio Valley
THE
Gunmans
Middlesex Cemetery
George W. Cornell
Waterville
Maine
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