Fidel Castro Mystery Deepens As 11 Days Pass
The Associated Press reports Fidel Castro has been absent from public view in Havana for 11 days stirring rumors none confirmed. A Mexico City paper claimed asylum rumors, dismissed as baseless by ambassador Gilberto Bosques and Cuban officials in New York called it phony.
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Associated Press
Fidel Castro
Havana
Castro
Mexico City
Gilberto Bosques
U. N
New York
Mario Garcia-Inchaustegui
Key West
Fla
Moscow
Death Claims Civic Leader In Shelby
John Samuel McKnight 79 a Shelby business and civic leader since the 1920s died at Cleveland Memorial Hospital after three days of declining health. He ran McKnight & Co. a wholesale grocery for 42 years selling it in 1957. A Presbyterian, Mason, Kiwanis charter member, trustee of the Presbyterian Orphanage and Shelby School Board treasurer, he helped local civic life. He was born in Greensboro where the family still owns the original grant site.
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Shelby
N.C
John Samuel McKnight
Cleveland Memorial Hospital
McKnight & Co
The
Presbyterian Church
Cleveland Masonic Lodge
Shelby Kiwanis Club
Board of Regents
Presbyterian Orphanage
Barnum Springs
Shelby School Board
Greensboro
John McKnight
Glenn family shows steady pride amid space hero status
Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr and his Arlington family stayed upbeat through public acclaim after his space flight. Anna Glenn 41 and teens David 16 Lyn 14 joined a reunion at an undisclosed spot while the family maintained their easy, friendly demeanor.
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Martha Cole
Cape Canaveral
Fla
John H. Glenn Jr
Glenn
Anna
David
Lyn
America
Arlington
Missile Base
Kennedy visits Checkpoint Charlie in West Berlin
Robert F. Kennedy capped a two day morale mission in West Berlin by approaching the border line at Checkpoint Charlie where East German guards and photographers watched. West Berlin crowds cheered him as two small boys offered flowers and a placard praised “Kennedy Johnson Clay.” Kennedy’s brother Edward earlier toured East Berlin calling it sterile under communism. General Lucius D. Clay stood as the president’s representative in Berlin.
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Carl Hartman
Berlin
Robert F. Kennedy
West Berlin
Checkpoint Charlie
U. S
Red Wall
East Berlin
Bonn
Ethel
Edward
Kennedy
Johnson
Clay
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lucius D. Clay
Veiicles
Edward Kennedy
United States
Glenn returns to Cape after space flight triumph
Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. ends a three month public spotlight with a triumphant return to Cape Canaveral and Patrick Air Force Base. He steps ashore to a cheering crowd and sees his wife Anna and children Lyn and David, recalling his orbital accomplishment and Kennedy praise.
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David
Lyn
Glenn
Earth
Kennedy
John Barbour
Cape Canaveral
Fla
John H. Glenn Jr
United States
Io Pad 14
Mercury Control
Cocoa Beach
Anna
Patrick Air Force Base
Peiping brands U.S. aid to South Viet Nam a threat to Asia peace
Peiping accused the United States of an undeclared war in South Viet Nam, demanding immediate U.S. military withdrawal. It warned that American aid and "cooperation" with Ngo Dinh Diem's government endanger North Viet Nam, China, and regional peace, while labeling Kennedy policy as preparing three kinds of wars.
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Viet Nam
Tokyo
Peiping
U. S
South Viet Nam
Red China
North Viet Nam
Asia
United States
New China News Agency
United States of America
South
China
Ngo Dinh Diem
Peiping Foreign Ministry
Kennedy
Astronaut recalls tense moment during re entry
Lt Col John H Glenn Jr described a dangerous reentry as heat shield doubts loomed. He recounted seeing orange glow and flaming debris near the capsule while the retropackage burned and he feared heat shield damage.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
John H. Glenn Jr
Prototype 2000 mph B70 bomber develops in Mojave hangar
In Palm Desert California a 185 foot long 250 ton B70 prototype emerges as the first of a planned three. Officials say completion by September with flight tests by year end and discuss budget totals over a billion dollars.
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Ralph Dighton
Palmdale
Calif
Mojave Desert
Alan B. Shepard Jr
North American Aviation, Inc
Bank Robber Nabbed At Norwood
Walter Grover Shue 27 of Norwood was captured after robbing Security Bank & Trust Co. of 5572 Friday. He hid behind Mayor Lentz’s house, was arraigned on federal bank robbery charges, and held on 25000 bond. Witnesses describe a nine shot revolver and a two time bank entry before 1 p.m. closing. He planned to flee toward Route 27 and then to Florida.
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Norwood
N.C
Walter Grover Shue
Rt. 1
Herbert Lentz
Security Bank &Trust Co
U.S
J. M. Waggoner
Salisbury
Stanly
Albemarle
Shue
J. T. Britt
Britt
Nannie L. Gray
Lizzie Turner
Delma Sullivan
Medal of Honor Hero Rescued Into Welding Firm Job
Hubert L. Lee a 47 year old Congressional Medal of Honor winner was found work in the electrical department by William R. Plummer president of a welding firm. Plummer said it sickened him that the nation helps others yet leaves its veterans unemployed.
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Detroit
Hubert L. Lee
Willian R. Plummer
Lee
Kite Flying Contest Opens Spring Season
High Point youngsters sent kites into the sky in the annual kite flying contest, a harbinger of spring highlighted in the Sunday Enterprise. The issue also examines county home closure politics in Davidson County elections and the trend of churches running large business operations and whether their income should be taxed.
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High Point
Sunday Enterprise
Davidson County
Bonnie Moore
Enterprise Sunday
America
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