Six Remain Aboard Ship Off Hatteras
The Pegasus captain and five crewmen stayed aboard the Liberian freighter in stormy Atlantic waters 245 miles off Cape Hatteras. Helicopters from the carrier Wasp rescued 14 crew and took them to the liner Franconia. earlier 13 were saved by the Arquimedes. The Franconia diverted to Bermuda with survivors aboard, while 300 vacationers on board watched the rescue.
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NEW York
Pegasus
Atlantic
Cape Hatteras
N.C
U.S
Wasp
Franconia
Arquimedes
Cunard
St. Thomas
V.I
Bermuda
Radical British divorce bill sparks Commons debate
In London MPs debate a reform bill allowing divorce on grounds of irretrievable breakdown, with two contested provisions: two years apart with consent or five years apart even against one party. Critics warn midlife wives face compulsory divorce and loss of pensions. Baroness Summerskill questions financial safeguards for the first wife.
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London
House of Commons
Britain
Summerskill
Wallace Gambles On Throwing Presidential Election Into House
Wallace seeks to force a presidential decision by the House if no candidate gains a majority in the Electoral College. The piece traces historic deadlocks and the enduring winner-take-all method, notes reform options including direct national vote and district plans, and discusses Supreme Court one man one vote implications.
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Wallace
Washington
White House
George C. Wallace
House of Representatives
M Ace
United States
George Washington
Mount Vernon
Congress
Samuel J. Tilden
Rutherford B. Hayes
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
House
James Madison
Benjamin Franklin
Supreme Court
Representatives
Grave Excavation Stopped in Arkansas After Murder Burials
Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller halted excavation for convicts' graves at Cummins Prison Farm pending legal clearance. The state police will review the legality as Prison Supt. Thomas O. Murton had planned to resume digging next week after three skeletons were found on January 29 following inmate reports of prisoners killed and buried there.
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Little Rock, Ark
Winthrop Rockefeller
Rockefeller
State Penitentiary Board
Thomas O. Murton
Will
Murton
Cummins
Morton
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E. Green
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S.D. Pierce
Bill Lee
Gordon Smith
Eddie Oakly
Marcus Ledwell
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Red Hayworth
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