Foul-Up in Viet Nam Nuclear Test and Viet Nam War Critique
A secret Nevada test fires a 20 kiloton device as U S officials confirm atmospheric shots return to American soil. Separately interviews with returning U S officers portray severe disarray in South Viet Nam operations and growing Pentagon concerns about command structure and advisory forces.
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FT. Leavenworth
Kan
U. S. Army
South Viet Nam
Pentagon
State Department
William B. Rosson
U. S
Ngo Dinh Diem
South
Viet Nam
Malaya
Mekong
High Altitude Test Delayed Fourth Time
The United States postponed again its high altitude nuclear test above Johnston Island for the fourth time, citing bad weather though the Weather Bureau reported improving conditions. The blast was moved to Sunday night into Monday, with potential further delays if weather or technical issues persist.
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Atomic Energy Commission
Department of Defense
Nevada
Pacific
Johnston Island
Honolulu
Camp Mercury
United States
Great Britain
Soviet Union
U.S. Weather Bureau
Indica
mid-Pacific Test Zone
Johnston
Weather Bureau
U.S. Tiros
Joint Task Force 8
Mediation Asked as Saskatchewan Doctors Strike Rages
Saskatchewan Premier Woodrow Lloyd said doctors show no interest in mediation amid an eight day medicare strike that shuttered two emergency hospitals. He warned the action is anarchy and a challenge to government authority while noting possible mediation if deadlock persists.
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Regina
Dalgleish
Saskatchewan
High Pointer Is Burned To Death
A High Point man Alexander Patterson died when a panel truck they rode in hit a bridge on U S 29 70, flipped and burned Saturday near Greensboro. His companion David Brown suffered third degree burns and was taken to L Richardson hospital. Police said the vehicle overturned and caught fire before fire crews arrived.
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Greensboro
High Point
U.S
Alexander Patterson
David Brown
L. Richardson Hospital
Normal furniture market opens in High Point despite rain
Buyers from 13 Southeastern states attend week long show at the Southern Furniture Exposition Building and surrounding showrooms in downtown High Point. Despite stock market dips and tobacco crop losses, orders and shipments rise in early 1962 with two months of backlog and a typical pattern of higher sales in the latter half of the year.
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Robert Marks
Enterprise
Southern Furniture Market
Southeastern States
Southern Furniture Exposition
Furniture Plaza
High Point
Thomasville
North Carolina
Southern Furniture Manufacturers Assn
James T. Ryan
SFMA
Ryan
Chicago
Leo J. Heer
Algerian Army Moves as Dissension Grows Across Nation
Algeria’s 45,000 strong national army moves from Tunisia and Morocco into the country as central government clings to a reconciliation with dissident deputies Ahmed Ben Bella and Mohammed Khider. Ben Bella, in Cairo, plans to join Khider in Rabat before returning to Algeria, while clashes are avoided for now and officials warn of a political compromise.
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Algiers
Algeria
Ahmed Ben Bella
Mohammed Khider
Tunisia
Morocco
Ben Bella
Youssef Ben Khedda
Wilayas
Tlemcen
Oran
Marina
Cairo
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Khider
Rabat
Algiera
Wilaya 2
Ben Khedda
Souk Ah
Fatal head on crash on U S 1 near Colonial Heights
Emergency crews report eight dead and seven injured after two cars packed with 15 people collided head on on a U S 1 hill top near Colonial Heights Virginia just after dawn. Names listed include James Isaac and Youman Samuels among the deceased with several relatives injured. Authorities say there were no skid marks indicating braking before impact.
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Colonial Heights
U.S. 1
Here
Brooklyn
H. W. Lewis
Richmond
Virginia
Appomattox County
James Isaac
Baltimore
Ka‘tie
Elizabeth
Michael
Annie Keeles
Sumter, S.C
Isaac
Keeles
Linda Keeles
Sumter
Youman Samuels
N.Y
Wanda Samuels
Lewis
Samuels
Faulkner Laid to Rest in Oxford Privacy at Funeral
William Faulkner was buried near Yoknapatawpha County in northeast Oxford after a private service attended by relatives and a few friends. About 100 onlookers watched a 16 car procession pass the courthouse square to the cemetery as the novelist’s widow and family kept to privacy.
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Oxford
Miss
William Faulkner
Yoknapatawpha
Faulkner
Lisher Bennett Cerf
Duncan Gray Jr
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Mississippi
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Nev
Desert
South Vietnam
Bem Price
Robert S. McNamara
Washington
McNamara
Ft. Benning
Rosson
Special Forces
New York
Maryland
Regina General Hospital
Emer
Ras
Constantine
Faulkner Funeral
St. Peter’s Cemetery
Billy
Mr. Gray
Estelle
University of Mississippi
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