Nixon backs Scranton as best VP for Goldwater ticket
Former Vice President Richard Nixon endorsed Governor William Scranton of Pennsylvania as the strongest potential running mate for Republican Barry Goldwater if he wins the nomination. Nixon argued Scranton’s liberalism would balance Goldwater’s conservatism and keep the ticket geographically balanced, while noting Scranton would only run if delegates draft him at the convention.
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Richard M. Nixon
Garden City
N.Y
Nixon
Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Niven
Steven B. Derounian
H-N.y
Long Island
Johnson
New Hampshire
Oregon
California
Goldwater
R-N. Y
Scranton
Harrisburg
Senators Sign Petition to End Senate Civil Rights Debate
More than double the required signatures for a vote on limiting the Senate’s civil rights debate have been gathered, with 37 senators signing the petition. Filing Saturday will trigger a vote one hour after Tuesday’s meeting, though a two thirds majority remains necessary for cloture.
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Joe Hall Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Clair Engle
D-Calif
Dirksen
I Kuchel
Case
Fong
Keating
Beall
Allott
Saltonstall
Cooper
Scott
Which Car Driving Lesson Still Is Best Today
The author argues that driving skill grows with experience, not just instruction. Road design, car type, and weather change risk, so stopping distances and safe speeds vary by car and surface. He uses personal tales to warn new drivers to question rules and adapt to conditions, citing a 1964 book by Henry Gregor Felsen.
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Siz
You
Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc
Henry Gregor Felsen
Weatherman seeks answers on city heat and rain
Greensboro weatherman Floyd C. Pate plans a summer and next two summers study to test if heat over cities triggers more rain in nearby towns. Thirty observation points across Guilford and Forsyth counties will record 24 hour rainfall after each storm this June through August.
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Marvin Sykes
Greensboro Record
Associated Press
Greensboro
N.C
Bessemer
McLeansville
Winston-Salem
Oak Ridge
Summerfield
Floyd C. Pate
Pate
U.S
Guilford
Forsyth
Greens
Nixon Scranton Won’t Back Stop-Goldwater Effort
Two GOP contenders Nixon and Scranton said they will not join a stop-Goldwater movement. Goldwater leads with momentum as delegates show a 446 first-ballot total, 209 short of nomination. Rockefeller urged a clear platform, while Fanin predicted Goldwater's first-ballot success. Nixon hinted at a possible convention outcome. Scranton preferred a delegate draft for any vice presidential bid.
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Harrisburg
Scranton
Goldwater
California
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Johnson
Cleveland
Paul Fanin
Arizona
Associated Press
San Francisco
Rockefeller
Suffolk County
Huntington Station
Long Island
Communist Supply Area Wiped Out in Viet Nam War
Horst Faas reports a three day helicopter supported operation by U S and Vietnamese forces along the Cambodia border near Tay Ninh destroying a Viet Cong supply zone. About 25 killed from 1500 suspected guerrillas. 1000 tons of rice, poultry, livestock, and crops seized or destroyed. The 20 mile stretch along the Vaseo Oriental River was devastated as helicopters carried troops and supplies.
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Horst Faas
Tay Ninh
South Viet Nam
Tay
Ninh
Vaseo Oriental
Cambodia
Red
U.S
Two Day D Day Observances Honor Normandy Invasion
Allied nations mark the 20th anniversary of the Normandy invasion at Omaha Beach with ceremonies in France. Veterans from American British Canadian and French forces attend as official delegations led by Gen Omar Bradley Silas Vance and Gen Maxwell Taylor. Observances span two days with local towns hosting visitors and a reception for veterans. President de Gaulle to participate.
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Omaha Beach
France
U.S
Omar N. Bradey
Silas Vance
Maxwell Taylor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Bradley
Taylor
101St Airborne Division
Charles de Gaulle
Allied
Youth Admits Killing Five Persons in Kalamazoo Case
Kalamazoo police said a 19 year old youth admitted to five killings including the slaying of schoolteacher Gary Smock of Plymouth. He also confessed to killing Charles Snyder at an Elkhart gasoline station and to three additional slayings with details tied to robberies and a trunked body.
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Boro
Eniwetok Atoll
Pacific
Pate
Lutz
Las Vegas
Kentucky
Frank Thompson
Arthur Boothernoon
Banes
Pate Theor
Lzes
Ranes
Boothe
Kalamazoo
Mich
Gary Albert Smock
Plymouth
Larry Ranes
Karl Lutz
Smock
Charles Edward Snyder
Elkhart
Ind
Lulz
Vernor Laibenne
Battle
Three-Year-Old Hops Freight to Steam Boat Rock
Three-year-old David Larson visiting from California climbed a stopped freight train near his grandmother’s Iowa home and rode six miles to Steam Boat Rock before getting off and being left when the train departed. He cried until Sheriff Lowell McCormick helped reunite him with his worried mother Mrs. Russell Largon of Lancaster California.
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Eldora, Iowa
David Larson
California
Grandma
Steamboat Rock
Iowa
David
Russell Largon
Lancaster
Calif
Hardin County
Lowell McCormick
Lion Causes Jitters In Roseville Home
Mrs. Pat Herz poses with Caesar the lion, a family pet in Roseville Michigan, as city officials consider an ordinance to ban wild animals as pets. The 23 year old newlyweds threaten to sell their Detroit suburb bungalow and move if Caesar is banned. Caesar has been defanged and declawed and is described as timid and dependent.
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Pat Herz
Caesar
Herz
Roseville
Mich
Detroit
Cep
Kim Chong-pil Resigns as Ruling Party Chief in South Korea
South Korea's Kim Chong-pil, a key ally of President Park Chung-hee and a former secret police head, resigns as chairman of the Democratic Republican Party to quell student protests. Park accepts the resignation and orders nationwide college closures until July 4 as unrest broadens across five cities including Pusan where tear gas was used at Donga University.
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Robert Liu
Seoul
Korea
Kim Chong-pil
South Korea
Chung Hee Park
Republican Party
Park
Kim
Secret ‘Police
Japan
Pusan
Doniga University
London court awards damages over impaired kissing
In London, a court awarded Gordon Durban three thousand dollars for injuries from a June auto crash with a pickup driven by jazz musician Christopher Banham. Durban said he cannot purse his lips to kiss his wife, and 100 stitches left facial scars. His wife Sheila received one thousand four hundred twenty five dollars. they have been married twenty years.
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London
Gordon Durban
Durban
Sheila
Christopher Banham
Banham
Duroans
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