Airliner Skids Into Harbor Water Near Boston Runway
An American Airlines four engine Astrojet 707 carrying 71 passengers and crew skidded off a runway in fog and dropped into Boston Harbor. No one aboard was killed though one man died of a heart attack while aiding others. Several passengers and crew were treated for minor injuries. The plane, valued at about five million dollars, remained in shallow water near Orient Heights as rescuers evacuated passengers via wing doors.
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American Airlines
Eastern Air Lines
American
San Francisco
Chicago
Astrojets
Ted
Charles Ivsac
Kenosha
Wis
Lillian Rocheleau
Westboro
Mass
Sheila Homan
Lowell
Burlingame
Calif
William F. Richardson Jr
Northampton
Orient Heights Yacht Club
Jack Luti
Beachmont
Susan Shefflin
Highland Park
Ill
Luti
Lou Frenni
Four Brothers
Rocco Frenni
Lou
Rock Ay
Speedier School Integration Sought by Civil Rights Commission
The Civil Rights Commission urged the President and Congress to require local school boards with segregated schools to file desegregation plans within six months and begin steps toward full compliance with the 1954 Supreme Court ruling. Some members favored cutting federal funds to segregating private institutions. Rankin dissented on withholding funds from states.
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Barry Schweid
Washington
Civil Rights Commission
Congress
Commission
Supreme Court
Joseph S. Clark
D - Pa
Emanuel Celler
D-N.y
Robert S. Rankin
Duke University
Canada to supply two C119 planes for U.N. Congo mission
The United Nations announced that Canada agreed to provide two C119 transport planes for the U.N. operation in the Congo. The aircraft are due in the Congo on Tuesday.
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United Nations
N.Y
Canada
U.N
Congo
Former State Department Official Sumner Welles Dies
Sumner Welles 68 longtime State Department undersecretary during F D Roosevelt era died after a three week illness at the home of his wife's relatives in Bernardsville New Jersey He had suffered a prior heart attack A Latin American affairs specialist he coined good neighbor policy and helped urge Roosevelt toward it He also served briefly as ambassador to Cuba and led the State Department Latin American affairs division He helped a team drafting and forming the United Nations and was assistant secretary of state in 1933 later promoted to undersecretary His 1943 resignation followed reported clashes with Secretary Cordell Hull over direct White House access to his advisers.
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Bernardsville
N.J
Sumner
Welles
Franklin D Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Cuba
State Department
United Nations
Cordell Hull
Hull
White House
Lightning strikes climbers on Kashimagari summit
A bolt hit seven climbers near the summit of Mt Kashimagari in the Japanese Alps. One climber was killed and another injured, survivors told police.
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Tokyo
Kashimagari
Japanese Alps
Nixon publicity fight over ABC network coverage
California Democratic leader Roger Kent accuses ABC and Hagerty of arranging $100000 in free publicity for Richard Nixon as he contemplates a California gubernatorial bid. Hagerty denies bias and says Nixon's Wednesday news conference will receive regional live coverage only.
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Roger Kent
California
Democratic State Central Committee
James C. Hagerty
American Broadcasting Company
Richard M. Nixon
Hagerty
Kent
Dwight D. Eisenhower
ABC
You Hagerty
ABC News
Nixon
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