Sailors Battle To Save World's Largest Wine Tanker From Sea
A fierce Pacific storm left the Angelo Petri, the world’s largest wine tanker, adrift off San Francisco as 14 of 40 crew members were evacuated. Coast Guard cutters and tugs battled 30 to 40 foot waves to tow the 520 foot vessel with 21 800 tons of bulk wine, amid two sand bars near Fleishhacker Zoo.
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Fleishhacker Zoo
Edward A. Lehn Jr
San Mateo
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Sea Wolf
Rash of Storms Hammers Nation Across Regions
Violent weather swept the nation with rain sleet snow and winds. Eleven deaths were reported across California Texas Arkansas Iowa and other states as storms moved from the Southwest to the Northeast. Coastal waves battered northern California and Oregon while a seven million dollar tanker drifted off San Francisco.
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Texas
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Arkansas
Missouri
Illinois
California
Iowa
Pacific
Oregon
Khrushchev Opens Tour of Asia
Premier Nikita Khrushchev leaves Moscow for visits to India and three other Asian nations to boost Soviet prestige. The party, including Gromyko and Zhukov, travels aboard an Ilyushin airliner with Khrushchev’s family and aides, refueling in Tashkent before landing in New Delhi.
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Nikita Khrushchev
India
Eisenhower
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Rada
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Izvestia
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Nikolai Mikhailov
Georgi Zhukov
Semyon A. Shachkov
Pavel Satukov
Pravda
Kennedy Ends Tour In Oregon
Senator John F. Kennedy campaigns through Oregon for the May 20 primary, denouncing Republican housing and farm policies. He lauds stronger housing aid, complains of high home loan rates, and backs higher farm support with a two price program for wheat and reduced price supports for production. He speaks in Portland Corvallis Newport and Roseburg to labor groups and crowds.
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Roseburg
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Eisenhower Tours Cape Canaveral Missile Center
President Eisenhower arrived at Cape Canaveral for a personal inspection of the missile test center. He was briefed on progress, accompanied by Defense Secretary Gates and aides, and planned a tour of gantries, blockhouses, hangars, and launch sites without any missile launches.
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Air Force
Cape Canaveral Central Control
United States
Russia
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Cardinal Stepinac Dies At 62
Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac, 62, spiritual leader of seven million Yugoslav Catholics, died in Krasic Belgrade reported by AP. He had been imprisoned since 1951 for wartime collaboration with Nazi Germany and became a symbol of church resistance to communism. His death ends a controversial saga that strained Yugoslavia Vatican ties.
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Yugoslavia
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Vanished Tycoon Adolph Coors Vows Hunt Near Denver
Adolph Coors III, 44, disappeared from his carry all on a rural road near Golden Colorado. Blood stains found on the scene. glasses and cap recovered. Sheriff and deputies with vehicles aircraft search as FBI considers entry. Coors is chairman of Adolph Coors Co and Coors Porcelain Co and has four children.
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Foothills
Adolph Coors Co
Lew Hawley
Coors Brewery
Coors Porcelain Co
Mary Brooke
Cecilly Grant
Adolph IV
James Grant
Mary Grant Coors
Hawley
Cornell University
Allies Hold Conference on Arms
The West's top disarmament negotiators from Britain, France, Italy, Canada, and the United States met in Washington to shape allied proposals for mid March Geneva talks with the Soviet bloc. The sessions discussed disarmament and Germany as major issues ahead of May summit talks with Eisenhower Khrushchev and allied leaders.
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Italy
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Payola Probers Hear Ex-DJ Recount $15,500 Kickbacks
House investigators hear former KYW disc jockeys Finan and Hopkins recount side payments totaling $15,500 over 1958-59 for promoting records. Finan also earned up to $40,000 salary plus event fees, while Hopkins denies taking payola. A Cleveland RCA Victor distributor testifies the scheme planned $50 weekly fees per plugged record.
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Joseph Finan
Wesley Hopkins
New Witness
Cleveland
KYW
Hopkins
House Legislative Oversight Subcommittee
Finan
RCA Victor
Byron Burneson
Peach Queen train collision kills two in Charlotte
The Southern Railway Peach Queen train struck a car at a city crossing in Charlotte Tuesday night. Driver Clifford Junior Richardson, 32, died at the scene, Yvonne Lyons died later of chest injuries, Annis Brown survived with a brain concussion, and another passenger was in critical condition. The train traveled from Atlanta to Washington, and engineer D C Surrett said he saw the car 25 feet away.
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Southern Railway
Charlotte Pele
Clifford Junior Richardson
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Yvonne
Lincoln Park Going To Dogs
Suburban Lincoln Park backs dogs after Mayor Jack Johns casts deciding vote against a two dog limit. City Council deadlocked 3-3 before his ballot, though he owns one dog.
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Lincoln Park
Jack Johns
Dutch radio operator on trial for life in shipboard death
Willem Van Rie, 31, Utrecht, stands trial in Boston for the murder of Lynn Kauffman, 23, a Chicago divorcee. Prosecutors say a 44 day shipboard romance began in Singapore and ended with her death. Van Rie denies any affair or murder.
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Suffolk County
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Nella van Rie
St. Louis
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Washington University
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Juanita
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