Hurricane Gracie Near North Carolina Coast
Hurricane Gracie edged toward the North Carolina coast as forecasters hoped it would turn northeast and stay at sea. A Nike Cajun rocket carried a camera to about 85 miles up to photograph the storm, with recovery planned offshore and results expected in a week.
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Miami
Fla
Gracie
Carolna
Miami Weather Bureau
Cape Canaveral
Walter Davis
Rocky Mountain
Atlantic
Carolina
Weather Bureau
Washington
Ceylon Premier Wounded in Monk Robed Assailant Shooting
Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike was shot and critically wounded in Colombo as two men in Buddhist monk robes gained access to his home. He received blood transfusions and his condition remained serious though stable. The would-be assassin, wounded by a sentinel, is hospitalized as authorities declare a state of emergency.
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Colombo
Ceylon
Solomon W.R.D. Bandaranaike
Ceylon Radio
Bandaranaike
Oliver Goonetillike
Indian Ocean
Air Force
French Airliner Crash Kills 53 Near Bordeaux
An airline DC7 bound for Bamako and Abidjan crashed near Bordeaux Merignac, killing 53 of 65 aboard. Three children survived. Sekou Sissoko health minister of the French Cameroons was among the passengers. The craft, operated by Transport Aerien Intercontinental, hit trees and exploded minutes after takeoff.
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Bordeaux
France
Africa
Paris
Bamako
French Sudan
Abidjan
Ivory Coast
TAI
Transport Aerien Intercontinental
Sekou Sissoko
French Cameroons
Bordeaux-Merignac
Steel Official Suffers Stroke in Mass
Walter F. Munford 59 president of U S Steel Corp suffered a cerebral stroke late Thursday. Dr Robert L OConnor the medical director said he has been under Boston specialists and his condition is not critical though he has right arm weakness and speech difficulties following a deep abdominal knife wound.
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Hyannis
Mass
Walter F. Munford
U.S. Steel Corp
Robert L. O'Connor
US. Steel
Munford
Boston
Siamese Twins Die In Surgery in Chicago
Two infant sisters, Mary Helen and Marie Ellen Schultz, died after a failed separation operation at Children's Memorial Hospital. Surgeons disclosed the twins shared a single heart and liver, making survival for both impossible. Father Elvin Schultz spoke of acceptance as the mother recovers in Valparaiso following a Caesarean birth.
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Chicago
Mary Helen Schultz
Marie Ellen Schultz
Willis J. Potts
Children’s Memorial Hospital
Potts
Elvin Schultz
Gary
Ind
Chesterton
Marilyn
Valparaiso
Large Meteor Sighted Over North Carolina
The Associated Press reports a large meteor seen from Gastonia Winston Salem and Raleigh traveling east to west over Virginia with green blue and red flames. Air Force officials confirmed it was a meteor and not Vanguard III. A small forest fire near Crowder Mountain west of Gastonia was mistaken for a plane crash but quickly controlled.
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Associated Press
Gastonia
Winston - Salem
Raleigh
Virginia
Air Force
Arthur Forbes
Garner
Vanguard III
U.S
International Business Machine
Washington
Carolinas
Greensboro
High Point Air
Crowder ‘Mountain
Khrushchev Predicts Tensions Will Lessen During Tour
Khrushchev predicts tensions will ease after a 13 day tour with Soviet reporters. He notes communication barriers and a shift toward peaceful coexistence marked by silent stares. In Washington he quips about scotch and soda as spoiled water in Holly.
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Khrushchev
Washington
Holly
Khrushchev Confers With Eisenhower Before Talks
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev said tensions may ease after discussions with President Eisenhower. He spoke at the Soviet Embassy entrance before a Maryland summit on Cold War issues. The leaders held separate morning sessions and prepared for the flight to the talks, aided by interpreters and security.
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Eisenhower
Maryland
Khrushchev
Mikhail Menshikov
Blair House
Moscow
Gordon Gray
Highway program backed by governor at North Carolina convention
Governor speaks at the North Carolina State Highway and Prison Employees Association convention in Durham endorsing road projects including U S 220 bypass around Asheboro and improvements to U S 70 and 74 and a Durham Greensboro interstate. He argues the needs justify funding despite political controversy and praises right of way appraisal as a negotiation base.
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Durham
N.C
North Carolina
Asheboro
Khrushchev Tour Ends in Washington with Mixed Receptions
Khrushchev returns to Washington from a national tour leaving behind a bruised mayor and rattled movie moguls while praising potential U S trade. He gifts a factory worker a watch for an eight cent cigar and amid anti Khrushchev signs, reporters chase updates from the traveling Soviet delegation.
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Saul Pett
Washington
Nikita Khrushchev
Cere
Nikita
Titan silo dug at Vandenberg launches space capability
Underground Titan missile silo at Vandenberg Air Force Base is 40 feet wide and 160 feet deep with four smaller holes for fuel liquid oxygen and control gear. The eight million dollar project aims to provide a hardened launch site capable of withstanding attack and enabling guidance to space.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Space
Titan
West Coast
Cape Canaveral
Vandenberg
Resolution Condemns Red China at UN
Ireland urged U.N. members to back a General Assembly resolution branding Red China a human rights violator in Tibet. Gyalo Thondup said over 50,000 Tibetan irregulars still rebel with knives and old guns, while reports cite 65,000 Tibetan deaths and widespread torture and camps.
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Ireland
U.N
General Assembly
Red
China
Tibet
Gyalo Thondup
Dalai Lama
New Delhi
Thondup
World Leader Passes Pittsburgh Amid Longest Steel Strike
The visitor from abroad, termed world leader of the proletariat, passed through Pittsburgh without offering consolation to the workers on the extended steel strike, now entering its 40th year.
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Pittsburgh
Soviet Press Reports Khrushchev’s US Camp David Impact
Pravda and Izvestia front page a joint Soviet press report detailing Premier Khrushchev’s impact on the American people ahead of Camp David talks. The dispatch is carried by the Soviet press delegation traveling with the leaders.
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Moscow
Pravda
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Camp David
Izvestia
Asheville Couple Rescued After 20 Hours In Water
Afton Asheville couple Berman and McKenzie were rescued at dawn off Cape Lookout after 20 hours at sea. They tethered life jackets and drifted aboard the boat until found by Dolphin then to Ft. Macon station and hospital in good condition. The Murphys, brothers-in-law of Greensboro, survived eight hours after their boat capsized nearby.
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Morehead City
N.C
Asheville
Cape ‘Lookout
Morehead City Hospital
Berman McKenzie
Dolphin
McKenzies
Ft. Macon
Julian
George Murphy
Greensboro
Julian Murphy
Murphys
McKenzies de Pocketknife
Coast Guard
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Steel
C. Douglas Dillon
Russia
United States
Ike
Soviet Union
White House
James J. Rowley
National Road Company
United Nations
N.Y
India
International Commission of Jurists
Murphy
McKenzie
Asheville Fish Co
Berman Jr
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