Mercury launch on Thursday still possible for Carpenter
Weather and smoke from Everglades fires eased concerns about a Thursday orbital flight for Mercury astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter. Officials say a 60 40 chance remains, with no major technical problems reported and heater repairs completed. The Air Force will photograph the capsule on each pass over Cape Canaveral with a powerful new telescope.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Project Mercury
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Atlas
Everglades
Cape
Midwest
Florida
Atlantic
Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Virgil I. Grissom
John H. Glenn Jr
Carpenter
Mercury
Air Force
Plane Explodes Over Germany Kills 27 in Navy Transport Crash
A U S Army spokesman said a WW2 Constellation based in Rota Spain apparently exploded in flight and lost its tail before crashing near Markt Schwaben ten miles east of Munich. Witnesses described a roaring fire and widespread wreckage with no survivors. 185 troops were sent from Munich to aid investigations and crowd control.
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U.S. Army
Munich
Markt Schwaben
U.S. Air Force European
Wiesbaden
Rota
Spain
Frankfurt
Germany
Air Force
Mathias Wolf
Amzing
Bonn Proposes International Authority for Berlin Access Routes
Bonn briefs Washington with ideas for a four power framework to oversee land routes to West Berlin while keeping air corridors under Western control. The plan would place a new international authority to implement decisions, with a Soviet air safety presence in Berlin. West Germany favors multilateral control though relations with the United States have cooled over recent proposals.
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Bonn
Germany
United States
West Berlin
West Germany
U.S
Washington
Britain
France
Soviet Union
Berlin Air Safety Center
Nationalists Plan Refugee Resettlement on Formosa
Vice President Chen Cheng chaired the refugee committee as the Nationalist government opened plans to resettle refugees from Red China on Formosa. Officials emphasize security screening after arrival to weed out Communist agents while Hong Kong locals weigh the potential influx and U.S. lawmakers urge aid and admission.
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Red China
Hong Kong
Spencer Moosa
Taipei
Formosa
Chen Cheng
Chiang Kai-shek
London
AMA Attacks Kennedy Plan as Cruel Hoax on TV
The American Medical Association countered Kennedy's medical care for the aged proposal as a cruel hoax that would ignore millions in need. AMA leaders spoke from Madison Square Garden while Kennedy urged support at the same venue, sparking charges of bias and a TV blackout by WBZ-TV in Boston.
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New York
American Medical Association
Kennedy
Dutch Ask U.N. To Intervene In West New Guinea Crisis
Dutch Premier Jan de Quay urged acting U Thant to halt Indonesian aggression in West New Guinea. In a May 16 letter circulated at the U.N. he sought observers to monitor the region and help prevent further moves by Indonesia. The note labels the invasion as a clearly planned act of aggression by Jakarta.
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United Nations, N.Y
Jan de Quay
U Thant
West New Guinea
U.N. Security Council
de Quay
Thant
Suspected Triggerman Captured In Chicago
A suspected triggerman in the slaying of two Brooklyn detectives has been captured in a suburban Chicago motel. Anthony Portelli, 26, of Brooklyn, waived extradition and faces transfer as part of a nationwide manhunt for two other ex-convicts, Jerome Rosenberg and Edward Arnold. Police provided details on the suspects and their alleged getaway driver, while noting Portelli’s parole histories and family ties.
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New York
Brooklyn
Chicago
Anthony
Baldy) Portelli
Portelli
Jerome
Jerry) Rosenberg
Samuel J. Rosenberg
Edward Arnold
Texas City
Tex
Great Meadow Correctional Institute
Comstock
N.Y
Anthony Dellernia
Connecticut
Norwich
Conn
Jean
Grain Moved From Estes Warehouses
The Agriculture Department will relocate about 42 million bushels of grain from Estes connected facilities over eight months. The move, costing about $2 million, is described as public policy with no extra government cost.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Billie Sol Estes
Texas
George A. Barnes
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Barnes
Estes
Senate
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
McClellan
N. Battle Hales
Department
Walter C. Berger
Berger
Commercial Solvents Corp
New York
Pilot Isca’s Body Found After Navy Jet Crash
The body of James Arthur Isca, 33, a civilian test pilot from California Maryland, was found in thick woods south of Durham after a Navy FAF jet crash. He ejected, possibly due to a fuel shortage, with his parachute failing to open. the plane was located four miles from the intersection of State Highways 751 and 54.
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Durham
N.C
James Arthur Isca
Durham County
Isca
California
Patuxent River Naval Air Station
Maryland
Raleigh-Durham
Civil Air Patrol
Minneapolis
Minn
Baysden Receives 15 Year Term In Counterfeiting Case
William Earl Baysden, Jacksonville businessman, is sentenced to 15 years in federal prison and fined 15,000 for counterfeiting. Six men faced results in Eastern District Court after a trial that began Monday. Baysden faced a 1958 case with five year concurrent terms. Treasury and Secret Service notes describe counterfeit sums totaling more than 1 million dollars linked to Baysden and associates.
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New Bern
William Earl Baysden
Jacksonville
John D. Larkins
Baysden
Clennie Humphrey
Richlands
Baysden and Sparrow
William Dewey Jacobs
Whaley
Sparrow
Fountain
Thorpe
Treasury
Secret Service
Elliott C. Thacker
Thacker
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Francis E. Walter
D-Pa
China
Walter
Ama
Boston
Wbz-Tv
Edward R. Annis
Miami, Fla
U.N
Anthony Portelli
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Eisenhower
John McClellan
Norwood Whaley
Edward D. Sparrow
Kinston
Edward Thorpe
Richmond
Howard Ervin Fountain
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