Cloudbursts Open On L A Foot-Deep Lakes Created
Los Angeles faces sixth day of saturation as cloudbursts flood streets and basements. Homes washed away, people evacuated, and multiple deaths reported amid rising waters and widespread damage across Hollywood Hills Sunset Boulevard and surrounding districts.
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L.A
Los Angeles
California
Hollywood Hills
Beachwood Dr
Deep Dell Place
Sunset Boulevard
Pacific Coast Highway
Vermont Avenue
88Th
90Th
Hollywood
Fontana
Eisenhower urges youth in GOP candidate push
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower reportedly told Republicans to back young candidates for governor and national office, opposing what he called "gray-haired old men." He urged Sen. Hugh Scott to run for governor in Pennsylvania and influenced other GOP decisions including Nixon and Romney.
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Jack Bell Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Senate
House
Pennsylvania
Hugh Scott
Scott
Robert E. Woodside
State Superior Court
James FE. van Zandt
Joseph S. Clark
Woodside
van Zandt
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Fred A. Seaton
Nebraska
Richard M. Nixon
California
George Romney
American Motors
Michigan
Romney
Nixon
Rockefeller
Sen
Barry Gowater
Arizona
Paris Forces Gird For Possible Street Clashes
Paris authorities mobilized about thirty thousand police and riot units in anticipation of a banned demonstration at Place de la Republique. The Socialist party urged a peaceful yet energetic protest against the right wing and police repression. the Communist party called militants to join. Interior Minister Brey warned that if organizers do not back down, the forces of order will prevent the demonstration.
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Paris
Place de la Republique
French Socialist Party
Secret Army
French Communist Party
France
Algiers
Roger Brey
Gunbattle Kills Two Deputies Near Winfield Tennessee
In Scott County a gunfight between five sheriff's deputies and two hill country farmers Ends with two deputies dead and a wounded officer. Warrants target Bill Dingus and son Arthur. the Dinguses fled after the shooting. Authorities searched dense hills for the armed pair.
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Winfield, Tenn
Bill Dingus
Arthur
Winfield
Knoxville
Kentucky
Arthur Dingus
Alvin Jeffers
Levi Harness
Esan Massengale
Scott County
Soviet Proposes 18 Nation Summit on Disarmament
Soviet Premier Khrushchev proposes an 18 nation summit conference on disarmament to begin in Geneva March 14, with talks at the summit level. The plan, delivered to President Kennedy, faces likely rejection by the United States as consultations begin.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Khrushchev
Kennedy
Harold Macmillan
Geneva
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
United Nations
Tar Heel Among Dead In Crash
The burned wreckage of a Vietnamese C47 transport plane was found with nine bodies in a mountainside area 80 miles northeast of Saigon. The mission carried 10 men eight Americans and two Vietnamese with at least one assigned to psychological warfare. Names were withheld. The crash may have been caused by enemy fire or mechanical failure amid leaflets bearing Diem's New Year message. The February 2 crash killed Capt. Robert D. Larson of Fayetteville North Carolina.
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Malcolm W. Browne
Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S. Army
Air Force
Ngo Dinh Diem
da Nang
Robert D. Larson
Wendover Drive
Fayetteville
N.C
Powers Faces Grilling After Secret Reunion With Wife
U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers faces intense questioning by U.S. intelligence after a secret meeting with his wife Barbara. Officials say a CIA inquiry board will review the case while Donovan hints another American prisoner may gain freedom in the swap that sent Rudolf Abel to Moscow.
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Powers
Washington
Francis Gary
U.S
Soviet Union
Barbara
Maryland
CIA
John A. McCone
James Britt Donovan
New York
Abel
Frederic Pryor
Marvin W
Weather Threatens Glenn Orbit Launch In Atlantic
The Atlantic seaborn conditions jeopardize NASA's planned Wednesday orbital flight for John H Glenn Jr. Winds up to 35 knots and 10 foot seas prompt officials to keep the date, hoping calmer conditions by launch time. A second storm system may move out by Wednesday.
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Hugh A. Mulligan
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Central Atlantic
John H. Glenn Jr
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Bermuda
Glenn
Atlantic
NASA
Grand
Allies reject Soviet bid to control Berlin air corridors
Berlin and the Western Allies rejected a third Soviet bid to take exclusive use of the Hamburg Berlin and Hannover Berlin corridors up to 7 500 feet for two hours and 23 minutes. Commercial and military flights proceeded without incident despite reported turbulence heavy rain and strong gusts.
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Berlin
U. S
Hamburg
Hannover
Iron Curtain
Prisoner Makinen May Be Freed in U.S.-Soviet Talks
Brooklyn lawyer James Donovan said the lone American still jailed in the Soviet Union could gain release if Soviet U.S. relations improve. The 22 year old Marvin Makinen, a Fulbright scholar, is serving eight years on spy charges amid ongoing discussions with Ivan Shishkin of the Soviet Embassy in East Germany.
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New York
Soviet Union
Brooklyn
U.S
Marvin Makinen
James Britt Donovan
Donovan
Makinen
Ivan Shishkin
East Germany
United States
Col
Rudolf Abel
Francis Gary Powers
Frederick L. Pryor
Gems Recovered in Major Pompano Beach Jewel Robbery
Federal agents recovered 1 750 000 in gems stolen from a Pompano Beach jewelry store as police held three men and two women on robbery charges. The loot was found in a rental car along with five loaded revolvers, walkie talkies, handcuffs and ammunition. Two more suspects were sought. Local police identified the suspects as Paul Panczko Richard Kay Edward Cook Betty Moody and Mary Blanton. Four robbers entered the store and fled by boat after loading the loot into a suitcase. The case remains under investigation by the FBI and Pompano Beach authorities.
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Fort Lauderdale
Grapp
Paul Walter Panczko
Chicago
Richard Willard Kay
Three Oaks
Mich
Edward H. Cook
Oaklawn
Betty Jean Moody
Riverdale
Mary Blanton
Miami Beach
Fla
Joseph Taranove
Jessie Edwards
James Boggs
Pompano Beach
Kennedy Arrives in Indonesia Amid Anti U S Sentiment
U S Atty Gen Robert F Kennedy lands in Jakarta for a six day visit as Indonesian soldiers erase anti American slogans along his route. Kennedy and wife Ethel tour Singapore en route to Hong Kong and Japan, meeting Sukarno and other officials.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
U.S
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Ethel
Gunawan
Socialist Island Republic
Hong Kong
Singapore
British Commonwealth
United States
West New Guinea
Sukarno
Abdul Haris Nasution
Japan
U.S. Navy
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Juncal Dam
Santa Barbara County
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the Presses For Young Candidates
Mikhail N. Smirnovsky
Dean Rusk
State Department
Smirnovsky
Rusk
Middleburg
Italy
Canada
By Barry Schweid
Rudolf I. Abel
West Berlin
White House
Oliver W. Powers
Norton Va
Central Intelligence Agency
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Charles L. West
Robert Kennedy
Peter Arnett
Netherlands
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