Birds blamed in deadliest New England crash
Federal aviation chief Gen Elwood Quesada said flocks of starlings at the runway end likely caused the Eastern Airlines four engine jet crash near Boston. Fifty one bodies were found with 11 survivors, as divers recovered more wreckage and a missing secret document surfaced amid the investigation.
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Boston
Elwood R. Quesada
Federal Aviation Administrator
Eastern Airlines
Winthrop
Gen. Quesada
New England
C. W. Fitts
Martin J. Calloway
Logan Airport
Air Force
Air Force Office of Special Investigation
Washington
Burroughs Corp
Mental Test Ordered For Goldfine
Bernard Goldfine a 70 year old industrialist charged with federal tax evasion was ordered committed to a mental institution for a competence exam. Judge George C. Sweeney said the institution and psychiatrist would be named and the report sent to the district court by next Tuesday. The defense request for outpatient evaluation was denied.
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Boston
Bernard Goldfine
U. S
George C. Sweeney
U. S. District Court
Sweeney
Goldfine
Courier 1B Satellite Demonstrates Global Communicator
America's Courier 1B satellite, a 500 pound chatterbox in space, orbits every 115 minutes at altitudes 575 to 750 miles. It relayed Eisenhower's peace message to the United Nations via ground stations and a high speed relay, marking a milestone in military communications.
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Howard Benedict
Cape Canaveral
Fla
America
U.S
Eisenhower
United Nations
Washington
Ft. Monmouth
N.J
Courier 1B
New York
U.N
Wilbur M. Brucker
Brucker
Nixon Chambers New York Campaign Kickoff
Nixon campaigned in New York City urging broad GOP and independent support plus 20 percent of Democrats to win the presidency. He and Mrs. Nixon drew a large crowd at a breakfast for party workers, led by Gov. Rockefeller who endorsed them. Kennedy countered in Indiana with charges of Republican unemployment and criticized Nixon's economic stance.
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New York
Richard M. Nixon
New York City
New Jersey
Nixon
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Henry Cabot Lodge
Dick Nixon
Cabot Lodge
America
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Indiana
National Guard
West Orange
N.J
Evansville
Ind
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
South Africa votes on plan to become a republic
South Africans vote on the government plan to convert the country from a Commonwealth member to a republic. White voters mobilize as Afrikaners outnumber British-descended voters. non whites are excluded. First results expected tonight. Verwoerd signals a mandate if the majority is by even one vote.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Hendrik F. Verwoerd
Southwest Africa
Verwoerd
Johnson to Make Brief Stop in High Point Next Monday
Arrangements set for Senator Lyndon Johnson to appear briefly in High Point with his special train due about 3 30 p m. Local Democratic leaders trimmed Greensboro time to allow a short stop here with tentative stops in Thomasville and Lexington.
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Lyndon Johnson
High Point
W. F. Mauldin
Beverly Moore
Greensboro
Thomasville
Lexington
Mother Offers Four Boys For Adoption In Gastonia
A 23 year old Gastonia housewife with a crippled husband seeks adoption for her four sons Donald 12 David 10 Dennis 8 and Tony 7 to keep them together. Claud Turner 29 faces surgery and long recovery while Clara Turner reports nervous condition and past infant losses. She says orphanages are full and hopes to find a caring couple or family.
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Gastonia
N.C
Claud Turner
Donald
David
Dennis
Tony
Turner
Clara Turner
North Carolina governor pitches state as industrial site
Governor Luther Hodges urged Chicago business leaders to consider North Carolina for new plants. He cited 1,937 new and expanded plants in five years creating about 109,000 jobs and $341 million annual payroll, plus state industrial education centers, training programs, research facilities, and deep water ports at Wilmington and Morehead City.
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Chicago
Luther Hodges
North Carolina
Hodges
Natural Gas Utilities Companies
Wilmington
Morehead City
Australian Premier Attacks Khrushchev at U N
Australian Prime Minister Gordon Menzies denounces Khrushchev as a hypocrite in a U N General Assembly speech. He appeals to newly independent nations to resist being drawn into Cold War rivalries while Nehru presses Asia Africa for support of a two man summit.
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United Nations
N.Y
Australia
Khrushchev
U. N. General Assembly
Gordon Menzies
Eisenhower
Nehru
India
U. S
Britain
Macmillan
Geneva
Menzies
Soviet Union
Quadros Leads Vote In Brazil Ahead Of Kubitschek Rivalry
In Rio de Janeiro Janio Quadros, a conservative promising to curb corruption and reform the economy, built a growing lead in the presidential vote over Juscelino Kubitschek’s candidate Henriane Teixeira Lott and leftist Adhemar de Barros. Lott had Communist and ultranationalist backing, while Goularte, running mate to Lott, is a leftist Labor party figure.
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Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Janio Quadros
Quadros
Juscelino Kubitschek
Henriane Teixeira Lott
Adhemar de Barros
Lott
U. S
Jono
Jango) Goulart
Brazilian Labor Party
Kubitschek
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Moton Harbor
Albert E. Boyle
Missile and Electronics Division
Radio Corp. of America
Chatterbox
Earth
Anderson
Muncie
Terre
Haute
Louisville
S. Africa
Bulletin
Ann Herring
Winston-Salem
Stalg
David Cox
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