Churchill's Condition Stagnates as Death Expected
Britain's wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill shows no improvement after a night described as restless. Dr. Moran reports no further deterioration in the stroke patient as global leaders rework schedules and royal figures rush to London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Lord Moran
British Medicin Association
Moran
Winston
Medical Association
Harold Wilson
House of Commons
West Germany
Conservative
Simon de Montfort
Elizabeth II
Sandringham
Lord Avon
Anthony Eden
Barbados
Sir Winston
Lady Avon
Lady Churchill
Mary
Christopher Soames
Hyde Park Gate
Gala Inaugural Night With Stars And Protocol Oddities
The National Armory gala for 11 000 Democrats featured Alfred Hitchcock as emcee and a mix of acts by Bobby Darin Woody Allen and Carol Channing. The evening opened 40 minutes late amid sometimes unclear protocol and a surprise introduction for a relative unknown. The show included jokes about Hubert Humphrey and a light political jibe about the morning after the election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saul Pett
Washington
Richard Adler
Sally Ann Howes
Mrs. Oo
George O'Doyle
National Armory
O'Doyle
Ing
Alfred Hitchcock
Hubert H.eee
Hitchcock
Anata
Fries
Bobby Darin
Mack the Knife
Army Rew
Woody Allen
Carol Channing
Johnson
Hubert
Humphrey
Gemini two man capsule makes successful suborbital test flight
A Gemini capsule reached 105 miles on a Titan 2, landed 19 minutes after launch 2,150 miles southeast of Cape Kennedy. Navy swimmers secured the craft, crane lifted it aboard Lake Champlain, and early reports praised excellent condition for Grissom and Young guiding future orbital missions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Benedict
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Virgil I. Grissom
John W. Young
Atlantic
Lake Champlain
Grissom
Air Force
Young
Space Agency
Suspected Greensboro Bank Robber Dies After Self-Inflicted Shot
Noel Dennis Atkins, 27, of Mayodan, suspected in a High Point Road First Citizens Bank robbery, shot himself after police cornered him in a Van Wert Street house. The 12:55 p.m. heist yielded an undetermined amount. no one else was harmed. The gunman wore a green toboggan cap and beard. the FBI described him as about 28, in a Navy pea jacket with white sunglasses and a white T-shirt. This marked Guilford County's third bank robbery since October, with a Stokesdale bank and another First Citizens branch hit. No arrests reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
N. C
Noel Dennis Atkins
Rt. 1
Mayodan
High Point Road
First Citizens Bank & Trust Co
van Wert Street
Leon Townson
Townson
Linda Cobell
State Highway Patrol
FBI
Guilford County
First Citizens
Summerfield
Stokesdale Commercial Bank
Retailers Attend Breakfast At Southern Furniture Market
More than 100 furniture dealers from North Carolina South Carolina and Virginia attended a breakfast at the Southern Furniture Exposition Building during the winter southern furniture market in High Point. Cohen of Cohen's Fabulous Furniture Co Uniontown Pa spoke on adapting to modern business and outlined Operation Survival detailing price discipline and area study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sree
E. Milton Co
Southern Retail Furniture Assn
Southern Furniture Exposition
High Point
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
Cohen's Fabulous Furniture Co
Uniontown
Cohen
National Retail Furniture Assn
Pittsburgh
Robert Deale
Executp. Ae S
Roscoe
Southern Furniture
E. Milton Cohen
Leo J. Heer
SRFA
Art Richardson
Eastern Air Lines flight diverted to Greensboro area airport
Eastern Air Lines announced that its New York to Miami flight 631 was diverted to the High Point Greensboro Winston-Salem Airport due to a bomb scare report. R. W. Boyd said the report’s origin was unknown. The Boeing 707 was docked and passengers were evacuated for a search.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
N. C
Eastern Air Lines
New York
Miami
High Point-Greensboro-Winston - Salem
R. W. Boyd
Eastern
Severe Cold Swoops East Coast and Florida
A severe cold wave grips the Atlantic coast with unseasonably high 62 degrees in Scottsbluff Nebraska and lows reaching the 40s as far south as northern Florida. Florida damages sugar cane across central and southern regions while harvest lags at 45 percent of 229000 acres.
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Associated Press
Atlantic
Scottsbluff
Neb
Florida
Tallahassee
Dr. King shifts focus to registering Negro voters in Selma
Dr Martin Luther King Jr urges non violence after an assault as he shifts the civil rights drive to registering Negro voters. He says legal channels will be used and court action expected next week to broaden voter lists in Selma Alabama where only a small share of Dallas County blacks can vote.
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Selma
Alahic
Martin Luther J
King
Alabama
Dallas
Briton appeals Soviet aid to break UN voting deadlock
Lord Caradon urged the Soviet Union to fund the United Nations to ease the organization’s financial crisis. He said such a gesture would merit prestige and support moving toward solvency. He backed Charter provisions tying voting rights to late payments, while the U.S. and USSR blocked on penalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Hoge
United Nations
N.Y
Lord Caradon
Britain
Soviet Union
U.N
General Assembly
World Organization
Assembly
U.S
France
Ghana
United States
President Johnson keeps calendar clear before inaugural address
President Johnson and Lady Bird appeared at three midafternoon receptions and a Broadway gala while work continued on the inaugural address. He joked about poverty and urged unity among employers workers farmers and bankers to back the Great Society programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Cormier
Washington
Johnson
Constitution Hall
van Cliburn
Isaac Stern
Lady Bird
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Este
Coen Se
First Citizens Branch
Furnitureland
Roscoe R. Rau
James T. Ryan
Southern Furniture Manufacturers Assn
Rau
Hea
NRFA
Bulletin
East Coast
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