Dock Strike Ends With Longshoremen Returning to Docks
In New York and across East and Gulf Coast ports, longshoremen resumed work after a costly nationwide strike. About 16 000 workers reported to the New York waterfront as the dispute over pay and crew size was settled by a 37 cent an hour package over two years, brokered by a special Kennedy initiated board led by Senator Wayne Morse.
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New York
Gulf Coast
Atlantic
Mobile
Ala
International Longshoremens Association
Kennedy
Wayne Morse
D-Ove
Italia
Nassau
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Portland
Maine
Florida
New Orleans
Texas
Baton Rouge
Hampton Roads
Norfolk
ILA
Congress
Soviet Sub Leninsky Komsomol Surfaces Under North Pole Ice
Izvestia reports the Leninsky Komsomol atomic submarine completed a submerged Arctic cruise under the North Pole to detect and destroy enemy nuclear subs. The paper claims Soviet leadership in Arctic under ice voyages and contrasts with earlier American attempts including the Nautilus and Sargo.
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Izvestia
Leninsky Komsomol
North Pole
Areitie
U.S
Sargo
Investia
Lev Zhiltsov
A. Shturmanov
Astronauts Get New Duties and Apollo Goals
Houston based NASA assigns Grissom to two man Gemini flights and Glenn to Apollo work. Gilruth outlines roles for seven 1959 astronauts and nine 1963 trainees. Slayton remains overall supervisor. Cooper rockets Mercury flight planned for April with Shepard as backup. Unmanned Gemini tests set for year end. three man moon shots hoped for 1967.
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Houston
Tex
Virgil I. Grissom
John H. Glenn Jr
U.S
Grissom
Glenn
Robert R. Gilruth
Manned Spacecraft Center
Gilruth
Donald K. Slayton
Slayton
Maj
Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr
Cmdr
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Cooper
Shepard
Cold Snap Brings Snow and Sleet Across North Carolina
The Associated Press reports a new cold spell after a brief warm period. Snow fell in Charlotte and Raleigh with sleet elsewhere, freezing rain raising hazardous driving conditions. Twelve deaths blamed on weather. Earl Cagle, 52, killed in a crash near Southern Pines as ice worsens conditions.
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Taylortown
Earl Cagle
Southern Pines
More Bad Weather In Store
Relentless winter pushes cold south into the Great Plains while a moderating trend reaches the East with snow and freezing rain. Hazardous driving warnings stretch from north-central Texas to the Tennessee and Ohio valleys as heavy snow expected in eastern Illinois and northern Indiana. At least 141 deaths blamed on the siege of severe weather as temperatures plunge across Montana to Maine. A low-pressure system over the central Ohio Valley expected to draw the cold deeper into the midlands.
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North Carolina
South Carolina-Georgia
Mississippi Valley
Charlotte
Raleigh
Weather Bureau
Mississippi
South Carolina - Georgia
Associated Press
Great Plains
Texas
Tennessee Valley
Ohio Valley
Illinois
Indiana
Lower
Michigan
Montana
North Dakota
Minnesota
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Iowa
Maine
Chicago Weather Bureau
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Moscow
Soviet Union
U.S. Navy
Arctic
Northwest Passage
Parry Channel
Sh. Aowtion Mia
Tire Company
Goodyear
CRI
W. Green
High Point
Guilford County
N. C
S. Hamilton St
Greensboro
Annary
Vearually & Fur
H. A. Wood
W. C. Newman
THE
North State
Central Exchange
Thomasville
Randleman
Ette Nrw
Huffman
N. Main ST
Idrug Stores
Main St.college Village Shopping Center
Gillette
Tampax
Hershey
Cepacol
Kenton Foam Mattress
Mendy
KODAK
Burgess
America
Shulton
DeVilbiss
Westinghouse
Stanback
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