Rain Checks Race Strife in Chicago Suburbs
Dr King led 500 civil rights demonstrators through East Side in heavy rain as jeers and projectiles erupted from white spectators. Police arrested nine, with 186 officers keeping order amid ongoing marches into Evergreen Park and Chicago Heights. In Marquette Park, Adolf Rockwell’s Nazi rally drew 1,500 before rain dispersed crowds.
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Martin Luther King Jr
King
Civil Rights Force
East Side
Evergreen Park
James Bevel
Chicago Heights
Cook County
Marquette Park
George Lincoln Rockwell
American Nazi Party
Ku Klux Klan
Evan Lewis
Akron
Ohio
KKK
Lewis
National Knights of the Minutes
Connie Lynch
Waynoka
Okla
National States Rights Party
King links low income whites to race hatred on Meet the Press
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr says lower income whites are the main source of a mass hatred toward Negroes among Northern whites. On NBC Meet the Press from Chicago, King and five civil rights leaders urged faster action to end housing discrimination as they warned of a widening gap between promise and fulfillment for African Americans. Carmichael attacked the Vietnam War, calling Negro soldiers black mercenaries.
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Martin Luther King Jr
NBC
Meet the Press
Chicago
King
James H. Meredith
University of Mississippi
Mississippi
Meredith
Stokely Carmichael
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Floyd B. McKissick
Congress of Racial Equality
Whitney M. Young Jr
National Urban League
Carmichael
Lennon Says He Is Hated Amid Big Beatles Show
In Busch Stadium crowds of 25 000 to 30 000 braved rain for the Beatles first St. Louis concert. John Lennon, at a pre concert press conference, quipped that many will hate him while George Harrison expressed sympathy for fans quitting Beatle songs over the Jesus controversy. The Liverpool quartet arrived by jet, traveled by limo, and left for New York after a 30 minute set. police reported no incidents.
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ST. Louis
John Lennon
Lennon
Busch Memorial Stadium
Jesus
George Harrison
Liverpool
Cincinnati
New York
Artificial Heart Pump Removed From Patient in Houston
Esperanza del Valle Vasquez of Mexico City received an artificial heart pump August 8 to aid a damaged heart and has progressed enough that doctors removed the left ventricular bypass last Thursday. Methodist Hospital said she continues to progress well in every way and can leave her room briefly.
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Houston
Tex
Esperanza del Valle Vasquez
México City
Nine Dead in Alaska Coastal Airlines Crash Near Juneau
Nine persons aboard an Alaska Coastal Airlines twin engine Grumman Goose died when the airliner crashed at the foot of a high peak on the Juneau ice cap about 30 miles north of Juneau. A helicopter pilot said recovery seemed unlikely at the burned wreckage after the craft disappeared on a Skagway departure.
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Juneau, Alaska
Alaska Coastal Airlines
Juneau
Here
Eagle River Glacier
Skagway
Alaska
Juneau Ice Cap
Tank Truck Turns Over In Tampa Killing Two Men
A tank truck carrying 48 000 pounds of phosphoric acid turned over at 40 to 50 mph crushing a passing car and killing Sam Samone Lauro 48 and Emil Edward Bender 51 both of Tampa. Car passenger Paul E Busse 35 of Jacksonville was hospitalized in serious condition. Truck driver Gerald Parker Smith 26 of Tampa was not injured and charged with reckless driving. Some acid spilled but was quickly cleaned up.
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Tampa
Fla
Sam Samone Lauro
Emil Edward Bender
Paul E. Busse
Jacksonville
Gerald Parker Smith
Elephants Seen Spanking Calf With Sapling
A female elephant was observed spanking her calf with a sapling she pulled up for the act. In a separate note, elephants have been seen using sticks as backscratchers.
New Cabinet Job To Be Discussed By House Group
Washington AP report notes a proposal for a 12th Cabinet post to head a new Department of Transportation will face House debate this week. The session will also tackle defense spending, highway and auto safety bills, and questions over including the Maritime Administration in the new department. Dirksen and Javits clash over open housing amid potential filibuster.
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Washington
Department of Transportation
House
Transportation Department
Maritime Administration
Senate
Johnson
Everett M. Dirksen
Dirksen
Atty
Nicholas Katzenbach
Jacob K. Javits
Rn.y
Typhoon Viola Strikes Central Japan Losing Force
Typhoon Viola rapidly weakened after hitting central Japan bringing heavy rains over a wide area. The Maritime Safety Agency reported three fishing boats capsized in heavy seas with one fisherman missing. A separate note clarifies the American bison is not a true buffalo but a close relative of the European wisent with origins in the Ice Age.
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Tokyo
Viola
Japan
Maritime Safety Agency
New World
U.S
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