Kennedy Urges Caution and Economies in Federal Spending
President Kennedy urged restraint in government spending to balance the next year’s budget. He said postponing or limiting certain programs and reducing the federal payroll to essentials would be necessary, with the deficit expected to be smaller than 1959’s $12.4 billion though projections for 1961–62 hovered around $6.75 billion.
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Washington
Kennedy
Grams
White House
Pierre Salinger
Eisenhower
Secretary of the Treasury
Dillon
Andric Wins 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature
Yugoslav novelist Ivo Andric, 69, wins the 1961 Nobel Prize for literature worth 48300 dollars. His historical trilogy Miss The Travnik Chronicle and The Bridge on the Drina centers on Bosnia. He served in Yugoslav diplomacy and was minister to Berlin before World War II.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Ivo Andric
Yugoslavia
Andric
Travnik
Drina
Berlin
Belgrade
Saint-John Perse
Alexis Leger
Leopold Ruzicka
Vukovar
Georg von Bekesy
Harvard
Nobel Committee
Storting
Dag Hammarskjold
Albert Luthuli
Republic of South Africa
Royal Swedish Academy of Science
Sanford Declines Intervention in Boykin Execution
Gov. Sanford said he will not intervene to halt the execution of Theodore Boykin in the gas chamber Friday morning for rape and murder in Duplin County. The case follows an appeal request by defense counsel Rivers Johnson Jr. and notes Boykin’s June conviction and death sentence.
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Raleigh
Sanford
Theodore Boykin
Duplin County
Rivers D. Johnson Jr
Warsaw
Boykin
Johnson
Central Prison
Matthew Bass
Bill Quinn
Snyder Dempsey
Soviet Doctor Denies Fallout Risk To Children
A Soviet doctor in Britain says H-bomb fallout poses no danger to children and denies any infant milk program is being prepared. Dr Tretyakov and two officials said there is no proven risk. they noted British fears but claimed no basis for concern.
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Newcastle ON Tyne
England
A. F. Tretyakov
Britain
Berlin
Tretyakov
Francis Weber
Health Service outlines fallout surveillance program
The Public Health Service held an extraordinary two day session with health officers from every state to outline nuclear fallout surveillance and protective policies. A background statement said current fallout levels do not warrant public action but require continuous monitoring and possible protective measures if needed.
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Health Service
Washington
Public Health Service
United States
Molotov Attacks Khrushchev On Party Program
Publication of the 22nd Soviet Communist party congress proceedings reveals V. M. Molotov’s violent attack on Khrushchev’s 20 year program. Pavel Satyukov, Pravda editor, said Molotov sent letters to Central Committee members before the congress. Molotov, ousted in 1957, is now in Vienna with the Soviet delegation to the atoms for peace agency.
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Moscow
V. M. Molotov
Khrushchev
Pavel Satyukov
Pravda
Molotov
Central Committee
Vienna
Atoms-For-Peace Agency
Stalin
Rumors Albania Could Be Expelled From Warsaw Pact
Western officials study rumors that the Soviet Union may expel Albania from the Warsaw Pact. The issue, tied to Khrushchev Peiping tension, could affect Moscow's stance in the Berlin crisis. Authorities doubt a decisive effect but consider a possible slower approach to confrontation with the West. See RUSSIANS on Page 12-A.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Soviet Union
Albania
U.S
Moscow
Communist Party
Red China
Peiping
Khrushchev
Berlin
Fallout Shelters Along Highways Proposed by Morton
President Kennedy may back a plan to build public fallout shelters alongside new federal and state highways. Morton urged roadside shelters at interchanges and dense areas to rapidly provide mass protection at low cost. The proposal, sent to Defense Secretary McNamara, hinges on feasibility and may appear in early 1960s recommendations.
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Washington
Kennedy
White House
Thruston B. Morton
R-Ky
Congress
Morton
Lawrence F. O'Brien
Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Crossing Point Tension Flare Up At Checkpoint Charlie
U S troops cross into East Berlin for a second day as East German police briefly close Friedrichstrasse. Tanks and armored vehicles mass at the border while a civilian driver refuses to identify himself triggering a tense standoff. The border reopens as calm returns and Western traffic proceeds.
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Point Berlin
U.S
East Berlin
Friedrichstrasse
East
West Berlin
U.S. Army
Berlin
Irwin Firestone
Andrei I. Solovyev
Albert Watson II
Washington
Firestone
Missing Air Force trainer found in Chattanooga
The Civil Air Patrol located the missing AT-6 trainer at Lovell Field Chattanooga at 7 04 am EST. The two aboard were from North Carolina CAP. pilot named Stratman of Chatsworth California. destination Knoxville was not reached.
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Chattanooga
Knoxville
North Carolina Cap
Stratman
Chatsworth
San Fernando
Calif
Charlotte
CAP
U.N. Presses for Quick Appeal On 50 Megaton Bomb
United Nations delegates approve a 75 to 10 committee vote urging the Soviet Union to refrain from exploding a 50 megaton hydrogen device. Denmark leads sponsors Canada Iceland Iran Japan Norway Pakistan Sweden in pressing General Assembly action while the Soviet bloc and Cuba oppose.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.N
General Assembly
Soviet Union
Denmark
Canada
Iceland
Iran
Japan
Norway
Pakistan
Sweden
Muddy Landslide Buries Train in Japan
A muddy landslide buried a one coach electric passenger train between Oita City and Beppu in southern Japan. Police report 31 killed and 35 injured among 66 aboard as heavy rains persisted for over a day. rescuers labored to recover the injured.
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Tokyo
Japan
Oita
Beppu
Your Aging Parents Too Late in Middle Age
A feature urges middle aged adults to reassess relations with aging parents. It argues that the middle generation bears a balancing role and should engage openly with parents as people, not just as authorities, citing examples of a foreman George C. and wife Margaret M. and their friction with parents.
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George
Margaret
Jack
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