Sartre Refuses Nobel Prize in Literature
Paris born Jean-Paul Sartre declines the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature valued at 53 123 dollars and a gold medal stating personal and objective reasons. The Swedish Academy praised his imaginative writing influencing the era. Sartre plans to explain his refusal later to the press.
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Stockholm
Jean - Paul Sartre
Swedish Academy of Letters
Sartre
Academy
Paris
Boris Pasternak
Lth
St. John Perse
Albert Camus
Francois Mauriac
Andre Gide
Lycee Henri IV
Ecole Normale Superieure
Lycee du Havre
Egypt
Greece
Italy
Federal Attorney Sentenced In Contempt Case
U S District Judge Harold Cox ordered jail for U S Attorney Robert Hauberg and directed acting U S Attorney General to show cause why he should not be held in contempt. The order followed the AG office blocking indictments from the federal grand jury tied to the Philadelphia Mississippi slaying cases. Hauberg delayed jail five days and spoke with Washington on the developing matter.
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Attorney General’s Office
Grand Jury
Philadelphia Miss
Biloxi
Hauberg
Attorney General's Office
Washington
Nuclear dialogue opened between United States and China
The United States and Communist China appear to open a cautious dialogue on nuclear tests and control. New evidence suggests China’s test used uranium, and Chou En lai proposed a global summit to abolish nuclear weapons sent officially through diplomatic channels despite lack of formal relations.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
United States
China
Peking
U. S
Atomic Energy Commission
Johnson
Red China
Russia
Britain
State Department
Chou Enlai
Chou
Warsaw
Poland
Wang Kuo-chuan
John M. Cabot
U.S
Geneva
Hoover services halt political activity for Hoover rites
National political activity paused as former President Herbert Hoover's funeral service is held at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York. Presidents Johnson Nixon and Truman, along with other leaders, attend or are listed as planning to attend, with Eisenhower delayed by laryngitis. Hoover to lie in state in Washington and be buried in Cedar Rapids after services.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church
Park Avenue
Waldorf-Astoria Towers
Johnson
Hubert H. Humphrey
Barry Goldwater
William E. Miller
Richard M. Nixon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gettysburg
Eisenhower
Hoover
Washington
Finlay
Ivania
Capitol
Lincoln
Kennedy
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
West Branch
Jenkins Hearts Respond To Sympathy After Arrest
Walter Jenkins and his family receive emotional support and offers of help after his arrest on a morals charge. Lyndon Johnson and others express concern, with a heartening wave of calls and flowers. Mrs Jenkins says the reaction restored her faith in human nature.
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Washington
Walter Jenkins
Card Aganiza
Jonson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jenkins
Johnsons
English prelate attacks Vatican schema over birth control pills
Archbishop John C. Heenan of England assailed the Vatican Ecumenical Council schema on modern world problems, calling it a set of platitudes and urging a three to four year recess with lay involvement. Heenan warned it would be a laughing stock if rushed, prompting immediate opposition from some bishops.
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Vatican City
England
Vatican Ecumenical Council
John C. Heenan
Heenan
Council
St. Peter’s
Andre Charne
Nam
Viet Cong Captures American Special Forces Officer
A U S Army special forces officer was captured by Viet Cong during a sampan battle 85 miles west of Saigon. Witnesses say the armed unit surrendered after exhausting ammunition, with one U.S. service member missing and reports of five allied personnel killed or wounded.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U S
Reeds
Here
U.S
Delta
Frol R Kozlov Omitted From Soviet Presidium List
Ailing Frol R Kozlov is missing from a Soviet presidium list fueling Western talk of a further Kremlin shakeup. He did not sign obituaries for military leaders killed in a Yugoslav plane crash due to a stroke since 1963.
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Moscow
Frol R.kozlov
Soviet Communist Party
Presidium
Kremlin
Yugoslavia
Kozlov
Reds Denounce Personality Cult in Soviet Editorial
Moscow reports that Soviet Communist leaders denounced the cult of the personality as part of Khrushchev's ouster. Party Life editorial notes life shows comrades still resist Leninist criticism and collective leadership principles. The piece avoids naming Khrushchev and signals party emphasis on collective norms.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Life
Party Life
Party Central Com
Communist Parties of
Communist Party
West
Johnson Gains In Nationwide Survey Amid Jenkins Fallout
A nationwide Harris poll after Khrushchev and Jenkins headlines shows Johnson ahead of Goldwater 60 to 34 percent with 6 percent undecided. Morality in government and nuclear responsibility shape voters while Jenkins fallout shifts about five percent of the electorate, with some Goldwater supporters disliking Johnson more.
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Khrushchev
Lyndon B. Johnson
Barry Goldwater
Toda Johnson
Sen. Goldwater
Seta
Johnson
Walter Jenkins
Two Fayetteville Boys Missing In Disappearance Case
Police say they have exhausted leads in the disappearance of Terry Westerfield and Alan Westerfield, ages 11 and 9, last seen Sept. 12 after a downtown movie outing with their stepfather Sgt. Carl Bock. Investigators haunt possible links to their father Melvel Westerfield, now at Ft. Jackson, S.C., who rejoined the Army.
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Fayetteville
N. C
Terry ‘Lee Westerfield
Alan John
Earl Melvin
Carl A. Bock
Ft. Bragg
Bock
Bordeaux
Westerfield
Ft. Jackson
S.C
The
Underground Blast Set Off In Salt Dome
In Baxterville Mississippi an underground nuclear test named Salmon was detonated at 10 am in the Tatum salt dome. The five kiloton blast was felt at Hattiesburg about 28 miles away and caused light ground movement while evacuations and damage payments affected residents within five miles.
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Baxterville
Miss
Atomic Energy Commission
Mississippi
Tatum Salt Dome
Hattiesburg
AEC
Tatum Dome
Rockies
Iron Curtain
Ground Zero
Shor
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Frol Kozlov
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