Harriman Opens Testimony on Nuclear Test Ban Pact
W Averell Harriman opens Senate and House committees session on the Moscow pact with Britain and the Soviet Union to ban atmospheric testing. He faces questions on collateral pacts while Secretary Rusk and Harriman defend the treaty as a step toward peace amid calls from Sen. Harrison Williams for a broader view from the Joint Chiefs.
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Argentine man recounts escape by driving same car
Norbert Konrad, 22, recalls an East Berlin escape involving a car with identical plates used months earlier by a young Austrian. He learned of the Austrian’s tale after seeing press photos and realized it matched a previous escape. Konrad, born in Germany, works in West Berlin and recently met Helga Werner, daughter of a Communist, on a visit to East Berlin.
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Drive to Freedom Thriller at Berlin Wall Scene
Norbert Konrad a 22 year old from Buenos Aires and his sweetheart Helga Werner 26 of East Berlin drove a British sports car beneath the Berlin wall barriers before dawn last Friday in a dramatic escape attempt. The same Austrian rented car had been used previously to rescue his fiancée three months earlier. Both drivers are identified in reports following the incident.
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Thousands Flee Skopje After Major Quake
Survivors flee quake shattered Skopje as typhus fear grows and authorities announce the search for survivors will end. Premier Grlickov says up to 900 bodies recovered with about 700 still buried, as demolition crews begin razing ruined buildings and plans for a new city on a safer site are outlined after seismological studies.
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Kennedy plan viewed as forced arbitration by unions
In a sharp critique, Davidson warned that endorsing President Kennedy’s manpower plan would cost him his job as head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. He blasted the proposal as compulsory arbitration plus a biased management tilt, with the Interstate Commerce Commission to set work rules for two years unless unions and management reached a negotiated agreement.
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De Gaulle Rejects Nuclear Test Ban
Paris reports President Charles de Gaulle rejects the Moscow test ban proposal. He says France will never sign a nonaggression pact restricting its nuclear testing and asserts France will act in its own defense within NATO while maintaining independence. He notes tensions with the United States and Britain and stresses France’s independent stance.
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Fury of hail and high winds devastates eastern N C crops
A violent thunderstorm struck eastern North Carolina on Sunday bringing hail and heavy rain that damaged tobacco and cotton crops in Harnett and surrounding counties. A 55-year-old woman, Blanche Higgins Wilson of Hope Mills, was found drowned in a submerged car in Reckfish Creek near Fayetteville. Authorities reported widespread property damage, power and telephone outages, and an estimated crop loss of up to 250000 dollars in the Coats area as crews assessed the storm’s impact.
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Alph Clark
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Gumberland County
Reporter Sees Differences In Moscow After 16 Years
New York dispatch notes arrests at construction sites as pickets demand more jobs for Negroes and Puerto Ricans. Two ministers among 29 arrested at hospital and apartment sites in Queens and Brooklyn. A minister leading a protest caused brief violence before arrests. Criminal Court suspended sentences given to seven ministers, a seminarian, and a social worker for obstructing a cement truck at Rogers housing project.
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Visitor access to Moscow gates signals change after 1947
Reporter recalls Moscow in 1947 and the Kremlin gates opening to visitors amid shortages and rising tensions. The piece notes pickets, crowded streets, scarce goods, and a city in slow transformation under Stalin’s shadow, with public demonstrations near Rochdale Village and citywide demonstrations into the Kremlin complex. Police arrests occur as authorities negotiate access.
Bryant Opposes Kennedy Public Accommodations Bill
Florida Governor Bryant testifies against the Kennedy public accommodations bill arguing it threatens freedom. He says the issue is balancing freedom versus forced desegregation, rejects claims the invasion of property is new, and supports adequate facilities for all while opposing forced equal ownership or discrimination bans.
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Spessard Holland
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