Arctic Cold Halts Europe Drive Christmas Travel
A massive Arctic air mass froze Europe from Madrid to Moscow with record lows. Snow and ice disrupted roads rails and air travel stranding thousands of travelers. In Luxembourg Machtum a landslide halted roads while Moscow stayed mild at 21 above.
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Madrid
Moscow
England
Luxembourg
Machtum
Karasjok
Norway
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Woolworth Heir and Bride Plan Palm Beach Honeymoon
Woolworth heir Donahue and his third wife Mary Hartline Carlson will honeymoon in Palm Beach, Florida for the winter. The couple married last Saturday at Woolworth’s Long Island hunting lodge. Carlson, 36, is a former television band leader and this is her third marriage. Donahue, 51, has been married twice before.
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New York
UPI
Woolworth
Woolie) Donahue
Mary Hartline Carlson
Palm Beach
Fla
Frank W. Woolworth
Hillsboro
Long Island
Carlson
George A. Carlson
Chicago
George H. Barnard
Donahue
Gretchen Wilson Hearst
James Hearst
Judy Church
Claim Some Whites Still Alive Amid Congo Hostage Crisis
Surviving Greek merchants in Medje said about half of the roughly 160 whites in the area remain alive. The group reported a WHO doctor was slain in Medje about a month ago, while rebels were suspected of killing 10 hostages in a Christmas-related act.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
UPI
Medje
Paulis
Wamba
World Health Organization
Who
Stanleyville
United Nations
Telegraph Hill Buildings Doom Amid Earthslide Collapse
A three story Telegraph Hill block buckled as earth slid into the street. The front half of 373 Lombard Street dropped away while 363 Lombard split its foundation. Police evacuated 14 residents as two other buildings were emptied over two months due to adjacent excavation.
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San Francisco
UPI
Telegraph Hill
Lombard Street
Child Street
Lombard
Fred Meis
Tower
Oberlin students rebuild Negro church roof in Mississippi
A group of white Oberlin College students and three professors completed the roof of Antioch Baptist Church near Ripley Mississippi. They worked over Christmas vacations to finish before Thursday classes, aiding a church burned after a civil rights rally. Officials found no arson but noted many fires statewide tied to white segregationists.
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Ohio
Oberlin College
Antioch Baptist Church
Here
Mississippi
Oberlin
Unemployed plumber falls afoul of London ticket machine
London magistrate court convicts James Mc Call for attempting to steal after a Waterloo station coin machine spit out 39 tickets and £3.50 in small change. A policeman could not identify the foreign coin but noted it bounced in the mechanism and triggered payouts.
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London
UPS
James McCall
Waterloo
McCall
London Transport
Johnson fills two top posts in Treasury Department
President Johnson announced Frederick L. Deming as next under secretary for monetary affairs and Sheldon S. Cohen as tax commissioner. Deming, 52, will replace Robert V. Roosa who retires Jan 1, and Cohen, 37, will succeed Mortimer S. Caplan. Johnson spoke from LBJ Ranch amid a busy transition.
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Johnson City
Tex
UPI
Johnson
Treasury Department
Lbj Ranch
Frederick L. Deming
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Treasury
Sheldon S. Cohen
Internal Revenue Service
Mortimer S. Caplan
Four Dead In Air Force Plane Crash At Lake Air Base
A twin engine C123 cargo plane with four crew members crashed near Lake Air Force Base Arizona and burned. Fire crews contained small fires in Rainbow Valley about 30 miles south of the base and 40 miles southwest of Phoenix. Weather did not appear to contribute. Names pending next of kin notification.
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Air Force
Minuteman jailed after concealed weapon conviction
Troy H. Haughton a 31 year old self proclaimed California Minute man leader was jailed for 60 days and fined 100 for carrying a concealed weapon in his car. He was arrested April 16 when he went to police headquarters to claim a car impounded for over parking and admitted owning a pistol found in an attache case on the back seat. A Municipal Court jury convicted him June 4 and the sentence had been stayed until yesterday when a third delay request was denied.
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San Diego
Calif
UPI
Troy H. Haughton
California
Minuteman
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Alexei Adzhubei
Adzhubei
Izvestia
Khruhchev
Grubow
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Pravda
Gruliow
Florida
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Strauss
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Sleeping Beauty
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Elaine Stritch
Glenn Miller
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John Mikulin
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