Biggest A-Blast Sets World For Nuclear Tests
The United States capped a week of Pacific tests with its largest blast to date, a low megaton detonation near Christmas Island dropped from a plane. Debates in Washington over a moratorium or a formal test ban accompanied reports of more shots and potential high altitude explosions. Scientist James Van Allen discussed belt damage and recovery timelines as future tests loom.
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Washington
United States
Pacific
Christmas Island
Defense Department
Atomic Energy Commission
Hiroshima
Kennedy
Dominic
U. S
State Department
White House
Geneva
van Allen
James van Allen
State University of Iowa
Johnston Island
Tokyo Train Wreck Kills 83 Persons
An AP report from Tokyo states two electric commuter trains collided with a derailed freight at Mikawashima station killing 83 and injuring 147. rescue crews labored as tolls rose. The freight derailed after being moved to a siding, causing the inbound train to plunge into a ravine and strike a storehouse.
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Tokyo
Mikawashima
Japan National Railway
Dismissal of Teacher Protested by Senator Tower
Senator John Tower urged a congressional probe into the Peace Corps after a Texas 65 year old teacher, Janie Fletcher, was sent home from Puerto Rico for failing to meet physical standards. Fletcher had volunteered to train for an assignment in Brazil but faced abuse and humiliation, according to Tower, who cited her ordeal to push for funding and program scrutiny.
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Washington
John G. Tower
R-Tex
Peace Corps
Tower
Janie Fletcher
Panhandle, Tex
Brazil
Fletcher
Puerto Rico
Senate Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees
Congress
Texas
Mrs. Fletcher
Macmillan Faces Questions Over Nuclear Test Talks
In London Prime Minister Harold Macmillan emphasized with Parliament that he and President Kennedy aim to end nuclear weapon tests. Questioned by opposition Labour members he defended talks with Kennedy and Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker after his North American tour.
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London
Harold Macmillan
Kennedy
North America
John G. Difenbaker
NATO May Share Nuclear Warheads With European Union
NATO opened its spring meeting amid reports the United States would share control of nuclear warheads in Western Europe with a European union including Britain. Western sources describe a new approach to a long running debate on a supranational nuclear force. Foreign ministers will review allied defense positions Friday as Washington uses arms talks to advance political negotiations.
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Joseph E. Dynan
Athens
Greece
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
United States
Europe
Britain
U.S
NATO
NATO Permanent Council
Atlantic Alliance
Washington
First TV picture bounced via satellite shows MIT Echo link
Air Force announces the first earth to earth television transmission using the Echo satellite. April 24 test linked MIT Lincoln Laboratory Camp Parks California to Millstone Hill Massachusetts for a 3000 to 4000 mile round trip. Signal quality was poor but the MIT initials on the viewer card were clear.
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Washington
Air Force
Camp Parks
Calif
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lincoln Laboratory
Millstone Hill Laboratory
Westford
Mass
Earth
Glenn And Titov Meet For Tour Of Capital
American astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. and Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov toured Washington after greetings at the National Academy of Sciences. They planned meetings with President Kennedy and Luncheon at the White House before visits to landmarks and the Smithsonian.
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Glenn and
Titov
Capital
Washington
John H. Glenn Jr
Gherman S. Titov
Kennedy
White House
Washington Monument
Glenn
Lincoln Memorial
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Senate
Tamara
Richard Porter
National Academy of Sciences
Porter
Library of the Academy
Caspar Organization
Earth
Yuri Gagarin
Glenns
Congress
Smithsonian Institute
State Department
Lyndon B. Johnson
John Glenn
Gherman Titov
Hind
Kennedy notes from White House reception with diplomats
President Kennedy mingled with 277 foreign diplomats at a White House reception. Caroline Kennedy watched from a balcony as diplomats in native dress circulated beside a lavish buffet and champagne in the East Ballroom.
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Frances Lewine
Washington
Ted
White House
Kennedy
Ambassa
Dors
Caroline
Alpagne
Mrs. Kennedy
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Highway Low Bids Approved For 29 Projects In North Carolina
The State Highway Commission approved low bids totaling nearly 9 million dollars for 29 projects. A ferry boat contract was awarded to aid Knotts Island students traveling to Currituck mainland. Two bids were rejected for incomplete or unfinanced proposals. Rea Construction Co. won the surfacing job on 13 miles of U. S. 52 in Surry and Stokes counties at 2,359,986 dollars.
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Raleigh
State Highway Commission
Knotts Island
Young‘sters
Currituck
Martin County
Cleveland County
Rea Construction Co
Charlotte
Surry
Stokes
Shelby librarian asked to testify on Soviet pamphlets
Maude Kelsey a Shelby librarian was summoned by the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities to Washington to testify about three Soviet backed booklets mailed to public libraries. The pamphlets titled Khruschev's Report and a Communist Party program were mailed from the Soviet Embassy and widely distributed.
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Shelby
N.C
Maude Kelsey
House Committee On UnAmerican
Washington
John C. Walsh
Kelsey
Library Board
Lydon Hobbs
Hobbs
Walsh
United States
Khruschev
CPSU
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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Charles de Gaulle
Joffre
Omar Abou Riche
P. Kennedy
Washington Diplomatic Corps
Highway Low
Basil Whitener
Cleveland Times
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