Furniture Buyers Shop Showrooms In High Point Exposition
The Southern Furniture Exposition Building hosts 14 showrooms as buyers flood the High Point market. More than 2,000 buyers from across the 11-state Southeast registered, with an estimated 4,500 visiting by week’s end. Early American styles lead, with mahogany and new carpet lines shaping the forthcoming year.
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National
Robert Marks
Furniture Plaza
High Point
Furniture Row
S. Main Street
Inauguration Draws Record Attendance and Cost
Washington prepared for Kennedy's January 20 ceremony as 58 000 seats sold and inaugural concerts sold out. Veterans including Hoover Truman Eisenhower watch as 1961 parade plans expand with VIP definitions and a 233 page supplement detailing marching units.
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Bert Hoover
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
Kennedy
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington
Seven Point Civil Rights Program Offered in Senate
Senators Javits and Keating unveiled a seven point civil rights legislative package tied to 1960 party pledges. Humphrey Douglas Hart and Mansfield commented on Kennedy administration priorities and executive action prospects. The plan seeks federal action on civil rights cases, desegregation aid, equal job opportunity under federal contracts, an indefinite Civil Rights Commission, literacy proof for voting, federal lynching crime, and removal of poll taxes or property tests for voters.
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Paul H. Douglas
D-Ill
Philip A. Hart
D-Minn
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Kennedy
Congress
Mansfield
Javits
Keating
U.S
Commission On Equal Job Opportunity
Eisenhower
Civil Rights Commission
Lt Jnon
Train Hits Gas Truck at Magnolia Killing Eight
A City of New Orleans passenger train at about 80 mph collided with a gasoline truck at a Magnolia crossing. Eight people died including the truck driver Morris Piggott and two railroad workers. six were injured. The ninecar train left New Orleans at 7 10 a m and was due in Chicago at 11 40 p m.
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Magnolia, Miss
Chicago
Magnolia
New Orleans
J. A. Livingston
McComb
Miss
John L. Collins
Jackson, Miss
Morris Piggott
Illinois Central
Wilma Gray
Claude Pettey
Percy
Nelson
Petty
Relatives Say Men Feared For Their Lives
New York AP report details families fearing 28 airmen were lost after the Texas Tower radar island capsized and vanished in the Atlantic. Relatives recount men worried about its safety and their own chances of survival as the disaster unfolded.
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New York
Texas Tower
Atlantic
Doris Haeberle
Levittown
I.e
Louis M. Laino
Laino
Edward W. Kruse
Kruse
Leland H. Jones
Sanders H. Jones
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Esther Green
S. Sgt
Kenneth H. Green
Elmira
N. Y
Frogmen Seek Six Missing After Navy Yard Fire
Navy frogmen probed wreckage under Charleston's Navy pier for six missing men after a spectacular fire at the degaussing Station pier. An all night search found no trace as two explosions and a strong sea breeze fanned the blaze. Four men were injured, with 19 year old Gary E McGinnis among those rescued.
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Charleston
S.C
Navy
Navy Yard
Gary E. McGinnis
McGinnis
Diver Listed Among Missing After Texas Tower Collapse
A diver reaching the wrecked Texas Tower site said no one answered taps on the side of the submerged structure. Earlier underwater sounds raised hope 28 crew members aboard the tower might survive as rescue shifted to salvage and diving. The tower collapsed during a Sunday storm about 70 miles southeast of New York City.
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New York
Navy
Texas Tower
Atlantic
Associated Press
Tony Camerano
Concen
New York City
Gordon T. Phelan
Los Angeles
Wasp
Tower Diagram Sketch Of Texas Radar Tower Structure
Divers today battled to reach a sinking tower off the New Jersey coast. The model shows two interior decks for personnel and facilities, a power plant deck, a deckhouse with offices, and a radome deck with three spherical radomes, supported by three steel caissons.
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Texas Tower
Ing
New Jersey
New England
Laotian Forces Capture Rebel Base at Vang Vieng
Pro Western government troops stormed Vang Vieng on Monday, taking the rebel base after a brief 30 minute battle. Government advances linked toward Luang Prabang while Soviet protests over U S rocket attacks and jet training plans surfaced in Washington and Moscow.
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Vientiane
Laos
Vang Vieng
Luang Prabang
Associated Press
Fred Waters
Luang ‘Prabang
Plaine Des Jarres
Ta Vieng
Tha Thom
Waters
Kong le
Soviet Union
United States
U.S
Vasily V. Kuznetsov
Llewellyn E. Thompson
Prince Boum Oum
Washington
State Department
Lincoln White
Hair-Style Counts Kennedy Victory in Hair Theory
London barber William Troyack argues Kennedy won by a head style, saying a unique haircut helps a politician gain recognition and brand. He cites historic figures with notable hair and laments modern politicians’ lack of distinctive styling.
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Barber
Kennedy
Eddy Gilmore
London
John F. Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
William Troyack
Incorporated Guild of Hairdressers
Lloyd George
Disraeli
Charles Parnell
Harold Macmillan
Troyack
Kennedy inauguration weather forecast outlook
The Weather Bureau forecasts generally fair and warmer conditions for the Kennedy inauguration on Friday. The five day outlook predicts temperatures near the normal high of 44 and low of 28 to 30.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
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Miss North Carolina
Harry Campbell
Arnold Culler
Aero
David Cox
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Democratic Party
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Kenneth B. Keating
Hubert H. Humphrey
M.P.H
Bobby Gwin
Frogmen
Orm
Rodomes
Rodome
By Roy Elsoyan
Kourprasith Abhay
Xieng Khouang
Abhay
Sir Winston ‘Churchill
Sir Winston
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