Atom-Proof Command Post Built Deep Inside Mountain
A four year effort produced an atom proof combat operations center five miles from Colorado, designed to endure a nuclear attack and maintain 24 hour warning. NORAD would coordinate jet interceptors and anti missle and anti satellite weapons with the outside world, signaling a serious deficiency in above ground command posts.
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Atompos A Command
NORAD
Cheyenne ‘Mountain
Colorado Springs
Cheyenne
Mountain
Colorado
VAL Force Univers
Britain Adopts Metric System Policy Move to Metric
Britain announces a transition to the metric system within ten years to aid exporters trading with Europe and globally. Schoolchildren nationwide will be taught metric units as industrialists push for wider European sales.
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Jay
Britain
Europe
Bolivian Mines Crisis Flare After Mine Fall
Government announces a mine at Milluni fell to armed forces just before noon as a battle rages at Telaminyo. The junta rejects a 4:46 truce proposed by striking miners, demanding release of all hostages first. Gen Alfredo Ovando, commander in chief, says no truce until 70 hostages are freed.
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Jorge
Anelas
Ands
Jurita
Milluni
Telaminyo
Alfredo Ovando
Jumping Frog Contest Centennial Draws 50,000 Fans
Angel's Camp Calif AP reports the Calaveras County Jumping Frog Contest ends amid international intrigue and a crowd of more than 50,000 frog watchers. Only one foreign entry advanced as Swedish entries proved to be toads and complications surrounding the competition linger.
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Angel's Camp
Calif
Calaveras County
Lafayette
Court Strikes Down Law Against Communist Mail
The U S Supreme Court ruled 8 0 that a 1950s law authorizing the Post Office to hold Communist mail is unconstitutional as applied, tying delivery to a written request and limiting First Amendment rights. Justice White did not participate. The decision concerns mail to individuals amid concerns over privacy and government overreach. The court also held FCC must determine secrecy in testimony and overturned a university student’s 1964 Civil Rights Act related conviction.
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Washington
APY
Supreme Court
Treasury
Douglas
High Court
Federal Communications
Commission
Brother Says Ruby Is Insane
Dallas AP report details Karl Ruby testifying his brother Jack Ruby is insane during a sanity hearing to decide lawyers for the man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald. The family seeks to remove current counsel Kunstler Dann Gertz and Gertz from the case. Ruby remains on death row with an appeal in progress.
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Dallas
Karl ‘Ruby
Detroit
Jack Ruby
Kennedy
Lee Harvey
Oswald
Jack
Ruby
Earl
Joe Tonahill
Tonahill
Fifa
Kunstler! Kunstler and Ki
New York
Sol’ Dann
Elmer’ Gertz
Chicago
Kunstler-Dann- Gertz
Texas Court of Criminal’ Appeals
Vienna elects Socialist Franz Jonas president of Austria
In Vienna the Socialist mayor Franz Jonas, 65, won the Austrian presidency Sunday by a narrow margin over former Chancellor Alfons Gorbach, 66. Jonas secured 2,324,474 votes to Gorbach's 2,260,992, with about 94,000 blank ballots noted as votes for an independent candidate.
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Jonas
Jonas
Alfons Gorbach
Brazilian General to lead Inter-American Peace Force in Dominican Republic
Brazilian Gen Hugo Panasco Alvim was named to command the Inter-American Peace Force in Santo Domingo as the truce continued. U S Lt Gen Bruce Palmer was named deputy commander while American Marines and paratroopers outnumber Latin Americans 10 to 1. First units of a 1250 man Brazilian force due today to join small contingents from Honduras Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The United States said it would withdraw about 1700 troops as Brazilians arrived and further American withdrawals would follow in proportion to Latin American troop levels.
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Santo
Domingo
Dominican Republic
Hugo Panasco Alvim
Santo Domingo
Bruce Palmer
U.S
Palmer
Honduras
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
United States
Americans Ready For Automation
Louis Harris reports a nationwide survey showing broad public acceptance of automation and belief it will do more good than harm. Most think automation could raise unemployment and affect less educated workers, but many still see overall advantages outweighing costs.
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Louis. Harris
America
Inter-American Peace Force formed for Dominican Republic
The Inter-American Peace Force, first of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, was created Sunday night by the Organization of American States to restore normal conditions in the Dominican Republic and help establish peace for functioning democratic institutions. OAS Secretary-General Jose A Mora signed the act with delegates from Brazil Costa Rica Honduras Nicaragua and the United States. The OAS said it also arranged a 24 hour cease fire to evacuate dead and wounded, though fighting continued in parts.
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Western Hemisphere
Organization of America
OAS
Dominican ‘Republic
Jose A., Mora
Carlos.de Meira Mattos
Brazil
Alvaro Arias
Costa’ Rica
Policarpo ‘Paz.Garcia
Honduras
Julio Gutierrez Rivera
Nicaragua
Gen
Palmer
United States
Mora
Francisco Caamano
Deno
Con Antonio Imbert Bar
Santa Do- Sunda
Saigon
U.S
Donald Reid Cabral
Ben Cat
Song Be
Viet. Nam
Proes Die
Fabrice
Ute
1.C
Bernard
Py Unity, Rar
White House Natural Beauty Conference Opens
Frances Lewine reports the White House Conference on Natural Beauty opens with Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson signaling a national council to centralize beautification efforts. The aim is to ensure federal funds are used effectively for land, cities, forests, and public projects as the nation seeks to rebuild and enhance its landscape. More than 1,800 people attended.
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Frances Lewine
Washington
Johnson
National Council
Lyndon B. Johnson
Chile
America
White House
Rockefeller
Guard in Klan Rally Guards Town in Farmville
Ray Crawford a 44 year old North Carolina farmer serves as Ku Klux Klan security guard and parades with robed members at a Farmville rally on Saturday night as a 1926 style wedding unfolds nearby in the tobacco heartland.
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Rob Wood
Associated Press
Farmville
N.G
Raymond’ Crawford
Ray Crawford
North Carolina
Ku ‘Klux Klan
KKK
Crawford
Tobacco Country
Cranford
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Repheto
United ‘States
Harris
IK San Guard
Raymond Cranford
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