Ship Survivor Okay Kills Himself After Tragic Blue Belle
An 11 year old girl recovering from the Bluebelle wreck near the Bahamas may provide the crucial witness account as FBI and Coast Guard probe the ship’s collapse. Skipper Julian Harvey, who survived, killed himself in a Miami motel, while several family members are presumed dead or missing. The tragedy follows prior shipwrecks and Harvey’s history of accidents and multiple marriages.
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Fla
FBI
Coast Guard
Mercy Hospital
Terry Jo Duperrault
Green Bay
Wis
Harvey
Nassau
Bluebelle
Terry Jo
Renee
Arthur Duperrault
Jean
Brian
Mary Harvey
Mary
Travelers Insurance Co
Hartford
Conn
Joan
Myrtle
Harper
Indianapolis Star
the Star
Harold Pegg
Hollywood
Lance
Miami Herald
Chesapeake Bay
Tarbatross
The Traffic Killed Him in Redhill Refugee Camp
Big John Green, a 67 year old fisherman from Tristan da Cunha, died in Redhill England after fleeing wintering in exile. His death marks the first among more than 200 islanders who arrived two weeks ago as refugees. Sons say the abrupt move and traffic angered him as vehicles roared past the refugee camp.
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Redhill
England
Big John Green
Tristan da Cunha
South Atlantic
Santa Claus to headline High Point parade
The Sunday Enterprise previews the upcoming Christmas parade set for next week in High Point with Santa arriving Saturday morning after a long procession of bands beauty queens and floats. The issue also previews dances and political coverage including Nelson Rockefeller's possible 1964 presidential bid and a special Rockefeller profile.
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Santa Claus
High Point
Santa
Enterprise
The
Sunday Enterprise
Rockefeller Divorce Announcement Splits Affluent Family
New York AP report says Gov Nelson A Rockefeller and his wife have separated in an amicable legal split after 31 years of marriage. The couple plan to seek a divorce outside New York with Mrs Rockefeller to keep a Fifth Avenue apartment while the governor stays at his brother’s New York residence.
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New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Philadelphia
Rockefeller
GOP
Rockefeller Plaza
Nelson A. ‘Rockefeller
Fifth Avenue
Laurence S. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller ,Jr
Winthrop Rockefeller
Barbara
Bobo) Sears
Funeral honors for Sam Rayburn marked by nation in grief
Grand officials and leaders gathered in Bonham Texas for the funeral of Speaker Sam Rayburn. President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson attended along with 23 senators and more than 100 House members. Rayburn, 79, died of cancer after 48 years in Congress and 10 as speaker. His casket lay in the Rayburn Library as mourners filed by.
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Clayton Hickerson Bonham
Tex
Sam Rayburn
Rayburn
Texas
Sam
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Kennedy
Perrin Air Force Base
Harry S. Truman
Independence
John McCormack
D-Mass
House
Congress
Mranrens
Kennedy Adenauer Talks Raise Berlin Peace Prospects
President Kennedy and Chancellor Adenauer set a summit to discuss a Western Berlin settlement with Rusk signaling readiness to align on Berlin policy. Rusk urged ongoing talks with Moscow and outlined U.S. plans on NATO submarines and Vietnam aid while cautioning the persistent wall remains a barrier to reunification.
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Washington
Konrad Adenauer
Kennedy
Russia
Berlin
Dean Rusk
Adenauer
Rusk
East Berlin
West Berlin
East Germany
Egypt lifts secrecy on air force and MIG19s
Cairo reports in armed forces magazine that Egypt's air force now includes Soviet MIG19 fighters with air to air missiles and modern cannons. Pilots see Israel as main enemy and crave a chance to target Zionist forces in Palestine. Article notes veteran pilots but gives no unit sizes or base locations.
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George McArthur
Cairo
Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Israel
Palestine
Soviet Union
Space Platform Fails To Eject Ranger 2 Payload
Atlas rocket launches from Cape Canaveral with Agena stage reaching parking orbit 18000 mph but fails to reignite, keeping Ranger 2 in low orbit and delaying next year lunar mission plans. Officials study data as NASA braces for another test. Ranger 1 failed last August due to engine switch fault but separated, later destroyed.
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Howard Benedict
Cape Canaveral
Fila
Agena
Ranger 1
Rangers 1
Moon
Mars
Venus
James D. Burke
National Aeronautic and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Burke
Giant Warheads Claimed By Reds
Moscow reports Soviet military newspaper quotes Col. Gen. V F Tolubko claiming warheads up to 100 million tons of TNT and rockets able to deliver any warhead anywhere on the globe. The piece marks Soviet Artillery Day and counters Western doubts about Soviet capabilities.
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Moscow
Red Star
Soviet Union
V. F. Tolubko
Tolubko
Picketing Grinnell Students Visit White House for Peace
A group of 15 students from Grinnell College Iowa picketed and fasted for peace and met with White House officials led by McGeorge Bundy. Kennedy invited them inside for a 75 minute conference and they proposed a national student conference on peace and war. They left a resolution opposing atmospheric nuclear testing and planned to see the Soviet Embassy earlier in the day.
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Washington
White House
Kennedy
McGeorge Bundy
Executive Mansion
Iowa
Grinnell College
Grinnell
Columbia University
New York
Seattle
Wash
Phoenix
Ariz
Pierre Salinger
Bundy
United States
Battered Rowdy Yacht Plans Return To Sails
Buffalo AP report says the 60-foot Rowdy yacht survived 12 hours of Lake Erie waves and gale winds. Owner Aurelian Wigle expects to be underway in a couple of days after carpenters repair damage estimated at about 150 dollars. The craft, based in Detroit and headed to Florida with four aboard, is docked in the Buffalo River.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Lake Erie
Aurelian F. Wigle
Buffalo River
Detroit
Florida
Wigle
Norma Wigle
Accelerated Minuteman Test Launch Clears Silo Escape
Cape Canaveral reports a 58 foot Minuteman rocket fired from a 90 foot deep underground silo. Brig. Gen. Sam Phillips calls the launch totally successful and says it verifies confidence in the Minuteman design after a prior abortive test last August.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Minuteman
Sam Phillips
Air Force
Navy Weighs Ocean Floor Bugging System For Sub Awareness
A Navy proposal to plant thousands of hydrophones on the Atlantic floor to detect submarines faces high cost. A cheaper towflex method would tow hydrophones from a blimp or ship to reduce vessel noise. The three day ONR conference in White Oak Md held hush hush talks with security clearances.
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Vern Haugland
Office of Naval Research
White
Oak
Atlantic
Pacific
Navy
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Bernard Braskamp
House of Representatives
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