Kennedy selects Zuckert for air force secretary
President elect Kennedy names Eugene Zuckert as secretary of the Air Force. Zuckert, 49, former assistant secretary of the Air Force and Atomic Energy Commission member, was chosen after consulting with defense nominee Robert McNamara. Connally named Navy secretary designate. Kennedy to meet Fulbright and Roosevelt Jr. at Palm Beach.
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Palm Beach
Fla
John F. Kennedy
Eugene Zuckert
Air Force
Atomic Energy Commission
Zuckert
Kennedy
John B. Connally
Texas
Lyndon B. Johnson
Navy
Connally
Atlantic
Sen. J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
U. S. House of Representatives
New York
Pierre Salinger
Roosevelt
McNamara
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Ford Motor Co
Harry S. Truman
Yale College
Yale Law School
Harvard Business School
Securities and Exchange Commission
Stuart Symington
U. S
Missouri
Surplus Property Administration
Symington
Uncle Sam Guides Sales Tax Deduction for North Carolina
Greensboro AP report outlines an IRS table to estimate deductible state sales tax without receipts. It lists adjusted gross income brackets and expected annual sales tax deductions from under 1000 dollars up to 10 000 dollars with figures ranging from 9 to 98 dollars.
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Greensboro
Uncle Sam
U. S
U. S. Internal Revenue Service
Dr Dooley In Good Condition After Spine Ailment
Dr. Tom Dooley, age 33 and famed as the jungle doctor of Laos, was reported in good condition at the Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases. He arrived from the Orient in a frail state after suffering spine degeneration and a cancer scare, aided by his brother Malcolm at Idlewild Airport.
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New York
Tom Dooley
Memorial Center For Cancer and Allied Diseases
Orient
Dooley
Laos
Hong Kong
Idlewild
Malcolm
Medico
Publisher Karl Easton dies at 64 in Lake Worth
Karl Easton publisher of the Lake Worth Herald died Sunday of a heart attack at age 64. The Lake Worth native began in journalism as advertising manager of the Dowagiac Daily News in Michigan and moved to Lake Worth in 1926.
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Karl Easton
Lake Worth
Fla
Cuba Accuses U S of Supplying Explosives in Havana Attacks
Revolucion reports renewed charges that the United States supplies explosives to extremist actors after a string of hazardous devices injure 15 at a Havana department store and other blasts strike a variety store a power station and a nightclub. A Camaguey-Havana train collision injures over 50.
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Havana
United States
Revolucion
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Yankee Tnt
Eisenhower Pentagon Falangist
Fulgencio
Batista
Revolution
Camaguey
Central Park
Can War's Horrors Be Avoided
New York AP reports psychologist Dr. Charles E. Osgood says war horrors can be avoided by realizing human nature fuels the arms race and seeking new ideas. He cites Sir Charles Snow warning of rising nuclear threats and calls for global cooperation or world government as lasting solutions.
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New York
Charles E. Osgood
University of Ilinois
Charles P. Snow
Red
China
Charles
Ralph Lapp
Arlington
United States
Hiroshima
American Association For the Advancement of
Committee On
Science
Osgood
Jathers
Truman Says He Planned To Restore Ike To Five Star Rank
Former President Harry S Truman said he would have restored Dwight D. Eisenhower to five star Army grade if defeated in 1952. He spoke during a morning walk in cold weather and noted congressional talk of restoring Ike to general of the Army. Truman and Bess head home to Independence, Missouri after the stroll.
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New York
Harry S. Truman
Eisenhower
Congress
White House
Truman
John F. Kennedy
Thomas E. Dewey
Independence
Tear Gas Flares as Belgian General Strike Spreads
Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse Ghent protesters as socialist unions call for a general Antwerp strike. The eight day walkout aims to topple Premier Gaston Eyskens, touching Ghent Antwerp Brussels and the south with paralyzed ports and power stations.
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Brussels
Belgium
Ghent
Antwerp
Gaston Eyskens
Eyskens
Congo
Hitler
Charleroi
Hotel Clerk Stabbed During Robbery Attempt in Dunn
In Dunn North Carolina the night clerk Thomas Jackson about 45 was stabbed in the right lung during an apparent robbery attempt at the Cottondale Hotel. A bandana masked attacker with a knife fled. no money was taken and no suspect identity is known.
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DUNN
N.C
Dunn Hotel
Thomas Jackson
Jackson
Cottondale Hotel
Neighborhood Bully Admits Killing Youth
Edward Vogt, 17, confessed to stabbing Robert Guitarri, 14, after demanding his money during a Christmas tree delivery in the West Side building. He described the encounter aboard an elevator before fleeing to his apartment. Vogt faces homicide charges while police note a lengthy prior record including a 1958 molestation conviction.
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Edward Nickerson
NEW York
Edward Vogt
Arthur Morgan
Bureau of Criminal Identification
Young Vogt
Vogt
Guitarri
Upper West Side
Robb
New York Police Chief Held in Contempt over Promotions
New York Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy was held in contempt for defying a court ban on promoting officers without higher titles or pay. Justice Arthur G. Klein gave Kennedy 10 days to purge contempt or face jail, amid long running disputes with department personnel and opposition to outside work by officers.
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New York
Stephen P. Kennedy
Police
Walter Arm
Kennedy
Supreme Court
Arthur G. Klein
Justice Klein
Klein
Street Blast Smolders in California Apartment Front
A gasoline bomb exploded outside an apartment building in Wilshire district Los Angeles injuring no one and triggering a street evacuation. The target was Frank B. Wilkinson executive secretary of the Committee to Preserve American Freedoms, with previous ties to the Los Angeles Housing Authority and contempt of Congress citations. Four six fire companies fought a flash fire as residents rushed outside. Wilkinson was in New York addressing a separate council meeting at the time.
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Los Angeles
Wilshire District
Frank B. Wilkinson
Committee
Preserve
Wilkinson
Los Angeles Housing Authority
Congress
House Un-American Activities Committee
New York City
New York Council
Tito To Get Grant From West
Belgrade Yugoslavia AP reports President Tito will receive a $200 million credit from the United States and seven other Western nations to reform exchange rates and liberalize foreign trade. He attacked the West for lack of rapprochement and urged renewed contacts while noting shared attitudes with other Communist countries.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Tito
United States
U S Plane Hit by Gunfire During Soviet Airdrops Near Vangvieng
In Laos, a U S Air Force observer plane on a visual recon over Vangvieng was hit in the left engine and fuselage during Soviet airdrop operations for Pathet Lao forces. Maj. Armand Riser and a four man crew returned safely to Vientiane, with uncertainty over who fired. The incident marks the first time observer aircraft were shot at in the area amid reports of North Vietnamese or Vietminh presence and possible Soviet artillery support at Vangvieng.
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Vientiane
Laos
U.S
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Armand Riser
Vangvieng
Riser
North
Viet Nam
Pathet Lao
North Viet Nam
Kong le
Eisenhower Prepares Messages to Congress After Farm Visit
President Eisenhower kept his day free to finalize the State of the Union and budget and economic reports. He was to present the State of the Union within days after Congress convenes on January 3. He flew to his Gettysburg farm for a spur of the moment visit that lasted about an hour.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Mental Patient Surrenders After Gun Battle
Granville Johnson, 43, wounded two officers in a Tuesday gun battle and surrendered meekly to 12 state troopers near his Jackson Kentucky home. A daughter handed him 29 cents as he walked out with hands raised, while temperatures remained in the 20s.
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Jackson
Granville Johnson
Johnson
Laura
Graf
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