Macmillan Expected To Survive Test
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan faced a late parliamentary vote on a Labor motion of no confidence as he pursued emergency plans after Charles de Gaulle vetoed Britain's entry to the Common Market. He outlined a push for Commonwealth trade cooperation, freer trade, and closer ties with the United States. Adenauer voiced support for Britain’s rapid European adhesion and backed the Nassau agreement for a multinational North Atlantic nuclear force.
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Anthony White
London
Harold Macmillan
Britain
House of Commons
Macmillan
Charles de Gaulle
United States
Europe
de Gaulle
Western Alliance
Daily Herald
Margaret
Earl of Snowdon
Paris
Daily Express
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
St Mary’s Hospital to Expand With Federal Grant
Senator Proxmire announced a Hill-Burton grant of 512800 for St Mary’s Hospital in Sparta to enlarge and improve facilities. A Monday kickoff drew 500 volunteers as a community campaign aims to raise 360000 in subscriptions, joining 409200 from the Franciscan Sisters toward a 1282000 project total. Construction must begin by July 1 to qualify for the grant.
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Washington, D.C
William Proxmire
St. Mary’s Hospital
Sparta
Hill-Burton
Rocket Probes Van Allen Belt From Point Arguello
A NASA Argo D8 Journeyman rocket reached 990 miles in a 27 minute suborbital flight from Point Arguello California to 1 250 miles south over the Pacific off Mexico. The four stage solid propellant vehicle carried a 104 pound payload of instruments built by the University of Minnesota to study radiation belt mysteries.
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Point Arguello
Calif
van Allen
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Point Arguello Naval Missile Facility
Here
Pacific
Mexico
University of Minnesota
Hikers Mann and Lewis complete 50 mile fundraising trek
Don Lewis and Bill Mann of WKBH radio and WKBT staged a 50 mile hike from 6 a.m. to 9 40 p.m. with breaks in Galesville Holmen and Onalaska raising community support and collecting gifts. They faced subfreezing temps and a lively crowd as they finished in La Crosse.
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I la Crosse Tribune
Don Lewis
Bill Mann
Lewis
Mann
Wkbh Radio
WKBT
Kennedys
Galesville
Holmen
Onalaska
Dick Schueler
WKBH
Schueler
Rod and Gun Club
Gateway Council Boy Scouts
Emerson School
Bill
American Legion
Ed Hutchings
Tribune
Warren says science must be ruled by law at Georgia Tech
Chief Justice Earl Warren told Georgia Tech listeners that law lags science and must guide future discoveries. He warned a world without law dangers abuses of science and urged peaceful uses. Warren spoke at the Georgia Tech 75th anniversary ceremony amid security concerns after desegregation ruling.
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Atlanta, Ga
Earl Warren
Warren
Georgia Tech
Deep South
U.S. Supreme Court
Kennedy Aims Backlash at GOP Cuba Criticism
The Kennedy administration fights back against GOP charges over Cuba policy as Sen Mansfield and Humphrey condemn unsubstantiated attacks. They defend disclosures on Soviet troop strength in Cuba and urge Congress to relay information to appropriate departments.
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Washington
Kennedy
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Humphrey
Defense Department
Central Intelligence Agency
Cuba
Mansfield
Rockefeller
Scott
Khrushchev
Europe
Keating
Congress
Defense
John Sherman Cooper
Rey
Soviet Union
Senate House
England
France
Canada
Marines Run 50 Mile Hike Picks Shimek as Star
At Camp Lejeune North Carolina a field of 34 Marines led by Brig Gen Tompkins completed the 50 mile hike. Lt Marty Shimek of Hazen Arkansas dazzled with a 112 mile pace over the first 12.1 miles before a heel blister slowed him. No one collapsed and the start drew generals Wieseman Tompkins and crews as spectators.
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Camp Lejeune
N.C
Marty Shimek
R. McC. Tompkins
Shimek
Hazen, Ark
State University
Gen. Tompkins
George Fox
Blastoff
Frederick Wieseman
2Nd Marine Division
Tompkins
Retired City Grocer Peter Muehr to Turn 100 on Wednesday
La Crosse veteran grocer Peter P. Muehr will celebrate his 100th birthday this Wednesday born February 13 1863 in Hamburg Vernon County. He moved to La Crosse in 1873 and later ran a Farnam Street grocery store with his son Bernard now operated by Bernard and his children Mary Grace and Peter A. Muehr recalls price changes from 1879 to today and notes a life largely free of illness aside from rheumatism in childhood.
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Peter P. Muehr
Muehr
Hamburg
Vernon County
Bernard
Farnam St
The
la Crosse Tribune
la Crosse
St. Joseph's School
Grams Grocery
3Rd
Division Sts
South Dakota
Susan Hartz
Freeburg
Minn
Bernard H. Muehr
Mary
Grace
Peter A
Mth
Farnam Streets
Soviet Proposal Would Bar U S Bases for Nuclear Forces
In Geneva the Soviet Union proposed a treaty to permanently ban the use of foreign territories for stationing strategic nuclear delivery systems. Kuznetsov urged inspections in the Soviet Union while Western negotiators expect more access. Kennedy pressed for a safeguarded test ban to build trust among nations.
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Geneva
Kennedy
Soviet Union
Vasily V. Kuznetsov
United States
Kuznetsov
U.S
Moscow
William C. Foster
la Crosse
Curion
Ciple
Foster
Coast Guard Scours Yucatan Channel for Missing Tanker
The Marine Sulphur Queen, a 524 foot tanker carrying 39 men, vanished after leaving Beaumont Texas ten days earlier. A vast search of 30 000 square miles covered the Gulf of Mexico South Atlantic and Florida Straits with no trace. The State Department Swiss authorities and Cuban navy offered aid in the hunt amid speculations of hijack or off course drift.
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New York
Norfolk
Yucat Va
Tan Channel
Cuba
The
Coast Guard
Florida Straits
Gulf of Mexico
Beaumont
Tex
Yucatan Channel
Yucatan Peninsula
Mexico
Straits of Florida
Florida
Atlantic
U.S. State Department
State Department
Havana
Rights hailed press barred at Lincoln birthday White House event
Abraham Lincoln honored by Kennedy administration with civil rights themed party at the White House. A 250 page progress report on civil rights will be presented to President Kennedy as leaders from across the nation attend a private buffet, with press coverage banned except for a brief photo session.
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Abe
White House
Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Kennedy
Pierre Salinger
Lincoln
GOP
Commission On Civil Rights
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