Lightning Strike Crashes Bristol Britannia Near Nicosia
Rescuers recovered 126 burned bodies on a hillock after a chartered Swiss Bristol Britannia crashed amid a thunderstorm near Nicosia. Two of four survivors died in hospital, bringing fatalities to 128. Most victims were German and Swiss tourists returning from the Far East. four Briton crew members also perished.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Far East
U.N
Bombay
India
Cairo
Egypt
Globeair
Switzerland
Frankfurt
Germany
Zurich
Aviation
United Airlines
Trans World Airlines
Staten Island
New York
Diggs Robbed Outside Miami Bar En Route to Bahamas
U.S. Rep. Charles C. Diggs Jr. of Michigan reported his wallet watch and a diamond ring taken in a strong arm robbery at the Reno Bar in Miami's Central Negro District. Police said the assailant was a large Black man. no arrests were reported. Diggs declined to discuss the motive of his Bahamas trip with Rep. Powell or the censure debate.
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Miami
Fla
Charles C. Diggs Jr
D-Mich
Bimini
Diggs
Bahamas
Adam Clayton Powell
D-N.y
Detroit
Washington
Frank Reeves
Powell
Roy N. Eddy
Reno
Central Negro District
Eddy
Reeves
Michigan
Castro Claims U S Deploys Green Beret Troops to Latin America
Fidel Castro accused the United States of panicking over revolutionary activity in Bolivia Guatemala Colombia and Venezuela and of sending 1000 Green Beret troops. He said U S Special Forces are entering Bolivia from Panama posing as tourists and vowed to answer with Red Berets. He denounced the Punta del Este summit as a failure and called the Latin American Common Market a U S plot.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
U.S
Bolivia
Guatemala
Colombia
Venezuela
Panama
Vietnam
Latin America
Castro
Punta del Este
Wreck Victim Douglas Jennings Dies After One Car Crash
Douglas Foster Jennings 73 a Lawrence factory sales representative died in a Fayetteville hospital from injuries suffered in a single vehicle accident on U S 71 twenty miles south of Fayetteville. He was returning from a final trip before retirement. Funeral services are set for 2 p m Saturday at Trinity Episcopal Church with Masonic graveside rites pending. Survivors include his wife Leone and a son in Kansas City plus siblings in Canada. He was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church Elks Mason Shriner.
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Douglas Foster Jennings
Lawrence
Fayetteville, Ark
Fayetteville
U.S. 71
Rockledge Rd
Charles Miller
Jennings
Trinity Episcopal Church
Harvard Wilbur
Warren Mortuary
Leone Jennings
Douglas C. Jennings
Kansas City
Cornelia Ross
Toronto
Canada
John E. Jennings
Ontario
The
Elks Club
Surveyor 3 Photos Hint Crater Landing On Moon
Surveyor 3s first glare blurred images suggest the craft rested in a lunar crater after a gentle touchdown. Controllers report horizon height and glare effects influenced image clarity, with a scoop test planned to test soil strength for future manned landings.
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Pasadena
Calif
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Gov vetoes Juco aid bill in Kansas
Gov Robert Docking vetoed a bill that would have increased state aid to junior colleges by 1.7 million dollars. The action came in Topeka as lawmakers pushed for more funding for higher education.
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Topeka
Robert Docking
Baker Activities Begin Tonight In Wheeler's Speech
Inauguration events for Baker University's 22nd president James E. Doty start at 8 tonight with an opening symposium in Rice Memorial Auditorium led by Dr. John Wheeler of Princeton. The four day program features further lectures on Authentic Man Encounters God's World and a churchmen's dinner, with an inaugural ball to close the day.
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Baker University
James E. Doty
Rice Memorial Auditorium
John Wheeler
Dr. Wheeler
Princeton University
Wheeler
Student Union
Paul Dana Bartlett
Baker
Raymond D. Pruitt
College of Medicine
Baylor University
W. Ralph Ward
Syracuse
N. Y
Methodist Church
W. Mc ¥Errin Stowe
Bishop Stowe
Kansas
Rice Auditorium
Musical Arts
Harold C. Case
Boston University
Doty
Collins House
Jimmy Tucker
Kansas University Engineering Exposition Opens with Mercury Capsule
The 47th annual KU Engineering Exposition opens Friday noon in Learned Hall with an estimated 10 000 visitors. Exhibits span from subterranean to space topics including an Enos Mercury capsule on display, along with Phanton IV aircraft, atomic plant models, and radar mapping.
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Kansas University, Engineering
Learned Hall
Space
Enos
United States
John Glenn
Manned Space Flight Center
Houston
Tex
McDonald Aircraft
Westinghouse
Trans World Airlines
Collins Radio
Phillips Petroleum Company
KU Center of Research In Engineering Sciences
Kansas Industries
Tornado Watch Issued For Lawrence Douglas Area
The Weather Bureau issued a tornado watch from 2 to 8 p m covering much of Eastern Kansas including Lawrence and Douglas County. The forecast warns of scattered severe thunderstorms with large hail and damaging winds, with the greatest threat along a line from near Omaha to near Ponca City. Tonight lows are expected around 45 to 50, with Friday highs in the 60s.
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Lawrence
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Iowa
Oklahoma
Kansas City Weather Bureau
Omaha
Neb
Ponca City
Okla
Douglas County
Sunflower West School Pupils Boycott After Principal Ouster
About 140 of 428 Sunflower West Grade School pupils stayed home in a boycott protesting the dismissal of principal Mrs. Dorleska Mills. Superintendent Floyd Talley cited lack of communication between staff and principal amid the dispute. Parents accused false teacher reports to the DeSoto School Board sparked Mills removal. Sunflower advocate Art McDonald provided the coverage.
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Sunflower West
Lawrence
Dorleska Mills
Floyd Talley
DeSoto
Sunflower School
Journal - World
McDonald
Regents OK contracts for KU building on Oread
The Kansas Board of Regents approved contracts totaling 2.6 million dollars for the Experimental Biology and Human Development Building to be built east of Summerfield hall at Kansas University. Construction could start within 30 days with completion aimed for fall 1968.
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Marian Warden Topeka
Kansas Board of Regents
Kansas University
W. Clarke Wescoe
Coonrad, Walz and Vollmer Construction Co
Wichita
Norris Brothers
Lawrence
Huxtable and Associates
Dover Elevator Co
Kansas City
Summerfield Hall
Kansas State
Pittsburg State University
Kstate
James McCain
Eldon Sloan
Topeka
Sloan
Regents
James D. McComas
New Mexico State University
K-State College of Education
Weather storm watch for northeast Kansas with possible tornadoes
Showers and thunderstorms affect the area this evening with a 2 to 8 p.m. window for severe weather and potential tornadoes in eastern Kansas. Tonight's lows 45 to 50. Friday highs near 60s and continued risk of severe storms, large hail, and damaging winds.
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Ben Franklin
Jayhawk Bowling Supply
Surveyor
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Surveyor 3
Russell Stover
Key Rexall
LHS
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Marvin Umholtz
Andy Anderson
Lance Hill
Chip Crews
Vicki Starks
Journal-World Photo
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Oread
K-State
McCain
Pittsburg
Carney Hall
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Stern Brothers
Kansa City
Wichita University
Wescoe
Snow Hall
Green Hall
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