Student Fatally Shot By Officer
A Vanderbilt graduate student Windley R. Hall 26 was shot and killed by a patrolman after a disorderly conduct incident at his apartment in Nashville. Hall had earlier clashed with officers and was involved in a scuffle in which patrolman Joseph W. Jackson fired three to five times. the death was ruled justifiable homicide after an internal investigation. Hall's father is Durham Superior Court Judge Clarence W. Hall.
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Nashville, Tenn
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Windley R. Hall
Superior Court
Clarence W. Hall
Durham
N. C
Joseph W. Jackson
Jackson
Charles Hunter
Dist. Atty. Gen
Thomas Shriver
McKenzie
Explosive Collapse Kills 19 at Strongman Coal Mine
Wellington New Zealand AP says an explosion at the government Strongman coal mine near Greymouth killed 19 men. Rescue squads faced heavy gas and more explosions as eight bodies were recovered about 12 hours after the blast at 10 am. Workers were trapped 400 feet underground three quarters of a mile from the mine mouth. Deputy Mines Minister S A O Neill said no one alive could provide clues to the cause.
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Wellington
New Zealand
Greymouth
S. A. O'Neill
O'Neill
Snow Sweeps North Carolina Driving Hazard
Snow and sleet moved across North Carolina with hazardous driving warnings from the Weather Bureau. Some schools closed as up to four inches of snow piled up in the mountains and spread to the northern Piedmont and upper coast. Snow, sleet, and freezing rain were expected to continue, with moderate mountain and northern Piedmont accumulations by evening. In Raleigh, sleet slowed major routes into the city.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Weather Bureau
Piedmont
Northern
Coastal Plain
Mountains
Highway Patrol
Cherokee
Gatlinburg
Tenn
Newfound Gap
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Buncombe
Swain
Haywood County
Asheville
Haywood
Durham County
Asheville City
Record Peak American casualties in Vietnam week
Gen Westmoreland reported nearly 1,200 American casualties in the week ending midnight Saturday, the highest weekly total of the war. 144 killed, 1,044 wounded, six missing, largely from Cedar Falls in the iron triangle north of Saigon with ongoing B52 strikes and ground skirmishes.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
William C. Westmoreland
Vietnam
U.S
Cedar Falls
Iron Triangle
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Senate anti filibuster drive halted in Senate vote
Washington AP reports a 61-37 setback ends a bipartisan push for a stronger anti filibuster rule. Leaders plan a cloture petition with a two thirds vote expected next Tuesday. Dirksen says he will sign but vote against. Mansfield declines forecast.
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Washington
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Mike Mansfield
Heiress Missing In Caribbean Plane Search For Mellon Heiress
The missing 33 year old Audrey Bruce Currier and her 36 year old husband Steven Currier disappeared after a one hour flight from Miami to San Juan while aboard a Piper Apache. More than 20 planes and ships scoured the eastern Caribbean but found no trace. Audrey is the daughter of diplomat David K E Bruce and Alisa Mellon Bruce, granddaughter of Andrew W Mellon. The search began after the plane failed to land on schedule. The couple were en route on a 10 day West Indies cruise with a 150 foot yacht and a 50 foot chartered boat. Their children Lavinia 10, Michael 6 and another child were left in New York. The family is noted for shunning the Jet Set and pledging social obligation.
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Caribbean
Currier
David K.E. Bruce
U.S
Britain
Ailsa Mellon Bruce
Pittsburgh
FAA
Albert McGregor
Watson
Coast Guard
Curriers
New York
Plains
Miami
West Indies
Ceedette
Lavinia
Michael
Case Society
Support Liu Moves To Peasants
Reported shift of opposition efforts from cities to the countryside aimed at winning over China’s 500 million peasants. Clashes in Shenyang Harbin Dairen and Chengchow left several injured or dead as Maoist and Liu Shao-chi factions battled. A Canton arrival described 100 protesters burning Mao in effigy in Hong Kong as Mao’s opponents offered larger year end produce shares to peasants.
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Tokyo
Mao Tse-tung
Red China
Mao
Liu Shao-chi
Peking
Liu
Shenyang
Harbin
Dairen
Manchuria
Chengchow
Central China
Hong Kong
Canton
New China News Agency
Peking Radio
Pentagon to close 39 bases cutting 1400 civilian jobs
The Pentagon plans to save over 37 million yearly by closing 33 U S bases and 6 overseas facilities, eliminating more than 1,400 civilian jobs and transferring 3,000 civilians plus 1,700 military workers. McNamara announces the consolidation, the sixth since 1961, with phased Navy antisubmarine P5 seaplane retirements driving the largest savings.
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Seymour M. Hersh
Washington
Pentagon
United States
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Defense Department
Alabama
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Texas
California
Massachusetts
New York
Ohio
Navy
W. E. Strikers Are Suspended
Charlotte AP report says about 230 Western Electric workers who walked out for a day returned to the repair and distribution center but were suspended until Monday for an unauthorized strike. Management said the plant remained open during the stoppage.
Kennedy Haircuts Trigger NY Manheimer Donation
A New York investor sent Sen Robert Kennedy $2 for a haircut claiming the senator’s bushy hair harms the Empire State image. Kennedy joked to watch him at his next appearance, while fellow senators teased Dirksen about looking like Bobby Kennedy.
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Washington
Empire State
Robert F. Kennedy
Emanuel F. Manheimer
Ossining
N. Y
Kennedy
Johnson
Manheimer
EBM Associates
Vel Manheimer
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Bobby
Dirksen
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