Brazilian DC7 crashes into hillside. 48 die
An airliner operated by Panair do Brasil crashed on approach to Recife killing 48 of 85 on board. Of the 76 passengers and nine crew, 35 passengers and two crew survived. The flight from Lisbon to Recife had two crew survivors, the purser and a stewardess, with no U.S. citizens aboard. Witnesses reported two explosions before the impact near the Recife airport.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Recife
U.S
Panair Do Brasil
Lisbon
Portugal
Halloween Fete Tragedy In Burgaw Kills Three Youths
Three young people died and five were injured when a station wagon returning from a Halloween party was struck by an Atlantic Coast Line freight train at the Freemont Street crossing in Burgaw North Carolina. Names include Bobby Smith 8 Frances Best 10 Eleanor Best 17 and Agnes Smith 15 among the dead. others injured were Neilie Vdovich 17 Johnette Johnson 17 and Roy Barnhill Jr. 15 with chief J Porter Ward noting driver unknown and the crossing lacking signals. The train was several hours behind schedule and the car traveled west toward obstruction blocking view of the oncoming southbound train.
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Burgaw
Atlantic Coast Line
Thadasa Wara
Sug V“Eoouwic
Johnson
Freemont St
Ward
Russians Aid U S In Plotting Fallout Charts
U S meteorologists use a global network with Soviet weather officers at Novaya Zemlya and Chinese observers to map wind patterns high in the atmosphere. Balloons and radios relay data to a Weather Bureau computer, producing daily estimates of fallout paths as part of a World Meteorological Organization exchange under the UN.
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Washington
U. S
Soviet Union
Novaya Zemlya
Arctic
Red China
Globe
U. S. Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
World Meteorological Organization
United Nations
United States
Thief Takes Big Shiny Apple
Mrs. Bertha Smith, an elementary school teacher in Moscow Michigan, reported a break in at the school Monday night. A single item was stolen, a big shiny apple left on her desk.
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Moscow
Mich
Bertha Smith
Halloween Robbery at Oakland Liquor Store Ends in Theft
A woman and her young daughter in matching masks entered Richard O'Kelly's liquor store in Oakland. After the girl received candy, the woman told her to wait in the car, then drew a pistol and demanded money, fleeing after taking $30.
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Oakland
Calif
Richard O’kelly
O'Kelly
Rocket Explodes In Flight At Cape Canaveral
The 75 foot Blue Scout rocket failed after liftoff at 10 32 am and exploded during a test to aid the Mercury tracking network. NASA said the vehicle deviated from its path and was destroyed by range safety. A chimpanzee launch remains planned later this month in a three orbit flight, weathering the setback.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla.p
U.S
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mercury
Chris Kraft
Project Mercury
Women Plan Strike for Peace Today
Women in Washington and 20 other cities plan to strike for peace with demonstrations motorcades and telegrams to First Ladies in protest of arms race. They will meet at the Washington Monument march to the White House send a letter to Mrs Kennedy and then visit the Soviet Embassy to present a similar appeal to Mrs Khrushchev before returning to the White House.
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Washington
United States
Russia
United Nations
Washington Monument
White House
Jacqueline Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Senator Dodd Urges U S Nuke Tests And Neutron Bomb
Senator Thomas J Dodd urges rapid atmospheric testing to advance the neutron bomb from theory to reality. He says the weapon could be a superior battlefield and anti missile tool, while Anderson and Tower push for tests to maintain security and technological edge. Reports in New York papers claim the neutron death ray is the prime goal of resumed tests.
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Washington
Thomas J. Dodd
D-Conn
United States
Dodd
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S
Sens
Clinton P. Anderson
D-N.m
John G. Tower
R-Tex
Anderson
Soviet Union
Free World
Tower
Jay W. Gildner
White House
Kennedy
Thomas E Murray
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate
House Atomic Committee
New York
New York Daily News
New York Journal-American
Pentagon
Dcunn
Sen
Evacuation Plan Abandoned By Government
Washington reports the federal government has largely dropped evacuation as a nuclear shelter strategy. The Pentagon will not bar local defense groups from planning but prioritizes fallout shelters over evacuation. Rep. Karstenmeier demands removal of Civil Defense Route signs, calling them misleading.
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Washington
Pentagon
Office of Civil Defense
Congress
Robert W. Karstenmeier
D-Wis
Karstenmeier
OCD
Steuart L. Pittman
Pittman
Prostrate Honduras City Gets Storm Aid
A relief flight from Miami brought food and medicine to Belize after hurricane Hattie devastated British Honduras capital. Belizeans fled inland as 9 to 10 feet of water flooded the city. U S destroyers and a British frigate were en route to assist. State Department reported no final word from diplomats. consular families remained in place amid the crisis.
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Miami
Fla
Belize
British Honduras
Dean Ricker
Pan Airlines
Hattie
Honduras
Trowbridge
United States
Tan Airlines
Guatemala
State Department
U.S
Richard Geppert
Richard Connelly
Rockwood Foster
West Indies
U. S
Department
Hal Holler
The
Soviet Congress Ends as Khrushchev Rolls Out 20-Year Plan
The 22nd Soviet Communist party congress closed with approval of Premier Khrushchev's 20-year plan to make the USSR the world's leading industrial power with high living standards. Delegates endorsed goals including a 250 million ton steel capacity, expulsion of Albania from the bloc, branding Stalin as a mass murderer, relocating his ashes, and Molotov Malenkov and Kaganovich's disgrace. Khrushchev urged hard work to reach the targets and promised communist prosperity.
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Moscow
Soviet Communist Party
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
China
Albania
Stalin
Lenin
Red Square
V. M. Molotov
Georgi Malenkov
Lazar Kaganovich
U.S
Communism
Pravda
Kremlin
Red Fallout Traced Over Siberia
The Weather Bureau estimated the radioactive cloud from Russia's blast will pass over Kamchatka tonight and cross the Aleutians Thursday, likely missing the United States if winds hold. Public Health Service logged 25 micromicrocuries per cubic meter over Montgomery Alabama on Tuesday.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Russia
Siberia
Kamchatka Peninsula
Robert List
Aleutian Island
Alaska
List
Canada
United States
Public Health Service
Montgomery
Ala
Interstate bus desegregation order takes effect in the South
An ICC order ending segregated interstate bus travel goes into effect as African Americans test the ruling across Dixie. In Atlanta a Trailways terminal restaurant refused service until a cop-ordered departure. CORE and SNCC leaders anticipate further actions as Georgia and other states challenge the order.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Dixie
Trailways
Atlanta
ICC
Mississippi
Deep South
Geor
Gia
U.S. District Court
Georgia Public Service Commission
Shreveport
Continental Trailways
Louisiana
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CORE
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