Attendance Dampened Temporarily Spirited Market Opens
Rain and fog failed to dampen a brisk start to the winter furniture market. Buyers crowded registration desks as near‑record attendance appeared at the Furniture Plaza and the exposition building, with optimism voiced for a banner 1962 in furniture across production and marketing.
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Robert Marks Enterprise
Wiiter
S. Main Street
Leo Heer
Heer
John Tobin
Southern Buying Syndicate
Southeastern States
Underground Shopping Center Plans Near Biltmore
Asheville based Lynn Corp. of Boston and Asheville announces formation of a new company to build a four acre underground shopping center beside the old Biltmore Hospital site. The two level center would be shielded from fallout with a reinforced concrete roof hosting parking and a sidewalk cafe.
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Asheville
N.C
Biltmore
Thomas Wheeler
Lynn Corp
Boston
Biltmore Hospital
Wheeler
Gizenga Capitulates as Congo Parliament Censures him
Congo Parliament censured Antoine Gizenga by 67 to 1 for defying the central government. Gizenga, encircled at his Stanleyville residence by UN and Congolese forces, agreed to end exile and return to Leopoldville by Saturday after his bodyguard surrendered. Up to 14 Congolese troops were reported killed in the fighting.
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Leopoldvile
The
Congo
Antoine Gizenga
U.N
Stanleyville
Gizenga
Leopoldville
Ies
Moises Tshombe
Katanga
Victor Lundula
Lundula
Congo River
U Thant
Adoula
Spectacular Big Balloon Breaks Up In Space
Cape Canaveral AP reports a 500 pound Big Shot balloon broke apart hundreds of miles above the Atlantic while inflating to a 13 story size. The debris showered the ocean 600 miles southeast of the Cape as NASA studied the failed Echo satellite launch and recovered a parachuted 16 mm movie camera.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Atlantic
Cape
Thor
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Space Agency
City Of Death Radio Alerts On Terrorism In Algiers
Albatross radio summaries alert to terrorism in Algiers with daily tolls of dead and wounded among Muslims and Europeans. Reports describe 6 p.m. readings in a government building guarded by armored cars and gendarmes, while scenes of nightly revelry and political extremism unfold.
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Andrew Borowiec
Algiers
Albatross
Chicago
Two American Students Freed by Communists in East Berlin
Victor Searles Pankey and Gilbert Page Ferrey, both 20 from Tustin California, were released after a Sept court sentence of two years. Their fathers crossed to visit in East Berlin as reporters observed the men returning through the Friedrichstrasses checkpoint with the students. The pair had been among six foreigners convicted of flight from the Republic and the passport law for attempting to smuggle a Humboldt University girl to the West in their car.
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Pankey
East Berlin
Ferrey
Republic
Humboldt University
A.D.N
Pact With Common Market Nations Slashes Tariffs
United States and six nation Common Market plan sweeping tariff cuts on hundreds of industrial items up to twenty percent. Agricultural talks to follow with wheat corn and poultry, pending unanimous approval by the EEC council and Geneva based GATT review.
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Brussels
Belgium
United States
European Economic Community
Howard Peterson
Kennedy
Jean Rey
EEC
EEC Council of Ministers
U.S
Geneva
Peterson
Rey
Indonesian Torpedo Boat Sunk By Dutch Warships
In West New Guinea Dutch warships sunk an Indonesian motor torpedo boat off Etna Bay in Dutch waters. The navy could not confirm how many boats were involved or the fate of other torpedo craft. Indonesian infiltration into West New Guinea has been reported amid tensions.
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Hollandia
West New Guinea
New Guinea
Navy
Hague
Indonesia
Biak
Etna Bay
Midwest Snowstorm Drops Hefty Wet Blanket Across Region
A heavy wet snow blanketed the Midwest from northern Missouri to southeastern Wisconsin and western lower Michigan. Depths ranged 8 to 10 inches, Muskegon hitting 15, with Chicago digging out after 11 inches. Traffic deaths totaled three. air travel curtailed in several cities. south of the belt heavy rains and storms hit Alabama and Louisiana. A warming trend followed in the Southeast with readings above freezing and up to 80 in southern Florida.
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Kansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
Muskegon
Mich
Chicago
Iowa
Iinois
Kansas City
Indiana
Mississippi Valley
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
Birmingham
Southeast
Carolinas
Tennessee
Gulf Region
Florida
Inside Story of the War on Narcotics Supreme Chief
U S narcotics chief outlines a thirty year battle against international drug traffickers in this condensed extract from his best selling The Murderers. He describes dealers ranging from diplomats to street couriers and explains covert infiltration by Bureau agents amid a global crime syndicate and the rise of the neo Mafia.
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U. S. Bureau of Narcotics
United States Commissioner of Narcotics
Federal Narcotics Bureau
Washington
Harlem
Big Boys
Bureau
Mob
Underworld
America
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U. S
Art Richardson
Chamber of Deputies
Cyrille Adoula
Mercenar
Howard Benedict
France
Associated Press
Midwest
Harry J. Anslinger
Westchester
Africa
Asia
Europe
New York
Paris
Istanbul
Shanghai
Rome
Roanoke
Mafia
Grand Council of
U .S
Commissioner of Narcotics
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