Largest Disaster With Single Plane
An American Airlines Boeing 707 Astrojet carrying 95 aboard crashed into a marsh off southern Long Island after takeoff from Idlewild for Los Angeles. Police reported no survivors as crews recovered bodies in Broad Channel Jamaica Bay. Flight 4 appeared to climb to 700 feet before turning and bursting into flames in clear weather.
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New York
Idlewild
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Trans World Airlines
Chicago
Midway Airport
W. Alton Jones
Cities Service Co
Eisenhower
John H. Glenn Jr
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LaGuardia
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Far Rockaway
Queens
Mohawk Airlines
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William Martin
Mercury
International Falls
Minn
Minneapolis
March Brings Record Low Temperatures Across Midwest
The Associated Press reports a harsh March lion plunge with subzero readings across Montana to Illinois. Readings hit 40 below in Bemidji and -32 in Minneapolis as arctic air froze large swaths, while Kentucky flooding receded and Gov. Combs asked for federal disaster aid for 16 eastern counties.
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Minnesota
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Ment
Frankfort
Kentucky
Bert Combs
Kennedy
West Virginia
Tennessee
Ohio
John Glenn welcomed home amid citywide cheers and confetti
John Glenn rode through Manhattan in a victory parade after landing at LaGuardia and touring with fellow astronauts Virgil Grissom and Alan Shepard. Crowds along Bowling Green, Broad Street, and the East River Drive cheered as Glenn waved from a convertible with his wife Annie. The public events highlighted a record city salute, with 50 motorcycle police and a welcoming by officials led by Richard C. Patterson Jr.
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New York
John Glenn
America
Outer Space
Manhattan
Lower Broadway
Lindbergh
Byrd
Ederle
Bowling Green
John
Annie
Glenn
Virgil I. Grissom
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Marine Corps
Don B. Johnson
Carolyn
David
Robert Gilruth
Richard C. Patterson Jr
Department of Public Events
Patterson
New Yor
Johnson
Harry Howard
Perth
East River Drive
Tese
City Hall
Kennedy urges $1 billion land conservation plan
President Kennedy proposed a large scale land purchase program for outdoor recreation, seeking a national land conservation fund to acquire recreational areas. He suggested $300 million to $1 billion in purchases over eight years with Treasury advances up to $500 million, financed by fees, rebates, and surplus land sales.
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Kennedy
Congress
Administration
Highway Trust Fund
Treasury
Conservation Fund
Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission
Girl Swallows Fork Surgeon Free After Retrieval
In Fort Worth Texas a pretty blonde girl swallowed a dinner fork while talking about tonsils with a friend. Surgeons removed the fork from her stomach on Wednesday. A hospital attendant called it the largest item he had heard of swallowing.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Ant
Miss Peterson
Soviet Urges 18 Nation Summit On Disarmament
Soviet Premier Khrushchev renewed a call for an 18 nation summit on disarmament in a letter to President De Gaulle. He said the four nuclear powers should hold talks within the larger framework and stressed their decisive role in ending nuclear arms and test bans.
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Paris
Khrushchev
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Kennedy to announce nuclear test decision Friday
President Kennedy will tell the nation on Friday night whether the United States will resume atmospheric nuclear tests. An informed source says the announcement will be a television broadcast. The timing aims to clarify plans before the March Geneva disarmament conference. Khrushchev vows to mount propaganda if tests resume.
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Harry Kelly Washington
Kennedy
United States
Britain
Khrushchev
U.S
W. Ton
Kennedy Accepts Tax Bill Short of Recommendations
President Kennedy told Democratic leaders he supports a tax revision bill that falls short of his recommendations and may create a deficit. Senator Byrd warned the Senate Finance Committee will review the measure to cut a projected 1.6 billion revenue loss if the House bill passes as is. The administration hopes the bill gains Ways and Means approval and may link elderly medical care to Social Security, while the Treasury secretary pushes for quicker action by March 15.
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Kennedy
Harry S. Byrd
D-Va
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Senate Finance Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas
Byrd
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Marinery
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