Sanford Endorses North Carolina Community College Plan
Gov. Terry Sanford backs a 15-campus community college system extending education beyond high school. He supports expanding UNC campuses, admitting men to Women’s College Greensboro, granting liberal arts degrees at NC State College Raleigh, and adding “university” to names. He urged time for private colleges and urged legislative standards for new community colleges.
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Fayetteville, N.C
North Carolina
Terry Sanord
General Assembly
Commission On
Sanford
Consolidated
University of North Carolina
Charlotte
Woman's College At
Greensboro
North Carolina State College At
Raleigh
University of North Carolina At
Chapel Hill
UNC
Methodist College
Commission On Education
State Board of Higher Education
Wilmington
Asheville
Board of Education
Charlotte, Wilmington
Asheville College
British probe probes minister defect rumor in espionage scare
Prime Minister Macmillan ordered a formal inquiry led by Lord Radcliffe to probe rumors a government minister planned to flee to the Soviet Union with a homosexual spy. The tribunal will also review alleged 18 month advance knowledge of a spy in the admiralty and broader security practices.
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Dennis Neeld
London
Britain
Soviet Union
Macmillan
House of Commons
Lord Radcliffe
Gove
Charles Ian Orr-Ewing
The
Admiralty
Thomas Galbraith
William John Vassall
Vassall
George Blake
Foreign Office
Cyprus
Sir Milner Holland
Patrick Barry
High Court
Marshall
Ign Office
Galbraith
Playmate Burns Little Girl at the Stake in North Carolina
In Wilmington a game ended tragically when 7 year old Gloria Jean Perry was burned after being tied to a tree by 11 year old Pamela Louis Clough. Rags pine straw and clothing caught fire causing extensive second and third degree burns. Pamela and her mother suffered minor burns. Juvenile Judge Foster Edwards scheduled a hearing.
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Wilmington
N.C
Gloria Jean Perry
Cape Fear Memorial Hospital
Marion W. Millis
Millis
Gloria Jean
Pamela
Explosive Laden Ship Abandoned To Fire
A Greek freighter named Captain George loaded with 400 tons of commercial explosives and other cargo was abandoned in 30 to 60 foot seas 300 miles northeast of Bermuda as a gale raged. The 25 crewmen escaped to lifeboats while Coast Guard and other vessels watched the blaze threaten the ship.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Coast Guard
Atlantic
George
New Orleans
Port Said
Egypt
Virginia
Curlew
St. Marys
Piraeus
Greece
US Coast Guard
Blue Star Steamship Company
Kingston
USS Air Force
East German border guard flees to West Berlin in gun battle
A 19 year old East German border guard exchanged about 30 shots with comrades, escaped to West Berlin unharmed. A second escape by a member of the East German People's Army followed, amid ongoing border tensions and past death tolls reaching at least 41.
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East German People’s Army
East Germany
West Berlin
Wall
West
Heinrich Albertz
Berlin
East Berlin
Kennedy Tax Cut Debate Shapes Economic Policy
President Kennedy’s tax reduction plan faces industry labor and civic leaders in a wide informal forum. Walter Heller argues a dual tax drag harms markets and incentives while Congress weighs gradual rate cuts starting January. The labor management advisory panel, expanded with 150 executives, discusses policy but debates largely behind closed doors. The administration aims a national dialogue on economic issues.
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Washington
Walter W. Heller
Kennedy
Council of Economic Act
Heller
Congress
Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Adenauer Ends Talks With Kennedy On Cuba Berlin Link
Chancellor Adenauer wraps two days of White House talks in Washington with Kennedy. Both sides say a Cuba settlement must precede new Western steps on Berlin as Adenauer returns to Bonn.
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Lewis Gulick
Washington
Konrad Adenauer
White House
Kennedy
Cuba
Berlin
Dean Rusk
Adenauer
Bonn
U.S
Soviet Union
TOO MANY IFS Cuban Solution Is Not In Sight
Khrushchev offers to pull Soviet jet bombers from Cuba but attaches many conditions, stalling a quick Cuban settlement. The proposal, received days earlier, is under discussion in New York talks with no disclosure of terms. Kennedy demands removal of 750 mile range bombers as part of an overall dismantling of weapons and bases.
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Joan M. Hightower
Washington
Khrushchev
Kennedy
Cuba
New York
U.S
United Nations
U.N
Castro I
United States
Soviet Union
Adlai Estevenson
Vasily V. Kuznetsov
Stevenson
Fidel Castro
Guantainamo
Baptists End Up In Harmony At State Convention
The Raleigh North Carolina Baptist State Convention ended its three day meeting in harmony after a debate over the firing of Midwestern Seminary faculty member Dr. Ralph Elliott. A resolutions panel backed general academic freedom rather than naming Elliott directly, while a stronger proposal was discussed but not adopted.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Baptists
R. D. Davis
Lumber Bridge
Baptist State Convention
Ralph Elliott
Midwestern Seminary
Kansas City
Genesis
Dr. Elliott
Davis
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Community College
Mrs. Clough
Foster Edwards
Atlantic Ocean
Miles
Burns Cross
Red Border Guard
JFK
By Sterling F. Green
America
Germany
National Press Club
U.S. Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay
Gerald Thornton
Fresno
Calif
Martin Striebel
Kalamazoo
Mich
Thomas Wesley
Holland, Mo
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