Chinese Experts Predict Progress Toward Missile System
A Hoover Institution team at Stanford prepared a high feasibility scenario for the U S Arms Control and Disarmament Agency predicting Red China will advance a missile system within four years and may deploy nuclear submarines by 1972. The report foresees Mao losing power by 1972, a milder government emerging, and possible hot line talks to avert accidental nuclear war.
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UPID
China
United States
Red China
Hoover Institution
Stanford University
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
UPI
Yuan-li Wu
Mao Tse-tung
Hawaii
U.S
Mao
Banks' Hidden Power Over Major Firms Revealed by Subcommittee
A House subcommittee report exposes how banks through trust departments control large corporate stakeholdings. It notes 60 percent of institutional trust assets are in U S banks and highlights interlocking directorships with 147 companies. Recommendations urge disclosure, capholds, voting restrictions, antitrust scrutiny, and updated regulation.
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Bank Trust
U.S
New York
New York State
New York City
Pennsylvania
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co
Chase Manhattan Bank
Trans World Airlines
Chase Manhattan
Bank of New York
Northwest Airlines
Morgan
United Airlines
American Airlines
Pan American
Eastern
United States
Blaiberg No Longer Scheduled for Second Heart Transplant
Doctors at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town report definite improvement in Dr. Philip Blaiberg and plan no further emergency treatment. The 59 year old dentist refused a second transplant. instead anti lymphocyte serum will be used to support his condition. Barnard notes the procedure was first done January 2, making Blaiberg the world’s oldest surviving heart transplant patient.
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Associated Press
Cape Town
South Africa
Groote Schuur Hospital
Philip Blaiberg
Blaiberg
Christiaan Barnard
Europe
France
Barnard
Floods From Rio Grande Trigger Evacuations Across Texas Border
Flood waters from the Rio Grande overwhelmed El Paso and Ciudad Juarez causing bridge closures and widespread flooding. In Presidio and nearby areas crops were ruined while hundreds evacuated and later returned home as skies cleared. Three people drowned in Juarez flood areas.
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Rio Grande
el Paso
Presidio
Tex
Ojinaga
Mexico
Juarez
Paris
Texas
Panhandle
Vietnamese Saigon Sheltered as Viet Cong Supply Lines Threaten
Reporters describe Viet Cong canal routes from the east into the Dong Nai and frequent night firefights with boats. Allied forces tighten a defensive ring around Saigon as U S bombers hit targets daily and officials warn of a possible attack before July 20 marking the Geneva split anniversary.
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Dong Nai
Saigon
North
South Vietnam
Girls Town marks 19th year hosting graduates with families
The Girlstown program in West Texas welcomes graduates ages 10 months to 18 years from 13 states including Maryland. Open house attendance featured former residents returning with their own families. Founded in 1949, the home receives no public funds and relies on private donations.
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Cooper
Baltimore
West Texas
New Mexico
Girlstown
Whiteface
Levelland
Morton
Sundown
Burnett Roberts
Littlefeld
Wat
Amelia Anthony
Tom Duggan
Lubbock
Woman named head of Berlin boys' prison
West Berlin authorities appoint 41 year old Elisa beth Harre as head of a boys prison. Officials express confidence she will use motherly understanding and firmness in her new role.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Elisabeth Harre
Insurance firms curb coverage in riot scarred cities
Property owners in cities hit by racial violence face mass cancellations as insurers fear losses. New Jersey passes a high risk pool law to back danger areas while state officials push for required 30 day notice and potential licensure actions against firms refusing coverage.
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New York
New Jersey
District of Columbia
Paterson
N.J
St. Louis
Richard J. Hughes
Hughes
Johnson
New Jersey Banking and Insurance Department
Trenton
Newark
Royal Globe Insurance Co
Continental Insurance Co
Insurance
Johnson Greets Crowds Amid Urban Rural Contrast
President Johnson is seen greeting diverse crowds from a bubbletop limousine during a visit, using a loudspeaker and Spanish phrases. After church, a trailing motorcade browses a marketplace as children call out farewell and Mrs. Johnson responds to a youngster’s English question. Junipers noted as widely distributed trees in the north hemisphere.
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Johnson
Fatal Liquor Store Robbery Shocks Los Angeles
A 63 year old East Los Angeles liquor store clerk James Joseph Swift was shot and killed during a robbery Saturday night after his daughter heard him on the phone explain the assailant had demanded an ID and then heard threats and a scuffle before the shot. The daughter identified as Mrs Betty Bradica reported the incident to sheriff deputies who found Swift dead.
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Los Angeles
Sheriff's Office
James Joseph Swift
Betty Bradica
Swift
Hostage-Bride Speaks Amid Sydney Siege
Beryl Mellish, 19, wife of gunman Wally Mellish, tells The Sydney Daily Mirror she did not know his true nature when they married. She describes being tied up and unable to feed her 11 week old baby during five day hostage crisis. Police report she nursed the baby during a gunpoint wedding.
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Sydney
UPS
Wally Mellish
Beryl Mellish
Mell Ish
Beryl
Sydney Daily Mirror
Mellish
Three Injured In Auto Accidents On Lubbock Streets
Three persons were injured in two separate auto accidents on Lubbock streets early Sunday. Pete Castilleja, 27, of 105 S Ave O, is in fair condition at Methodist Hospital after a car pickup truck crash at 1 30 a.m. on Parkway Drive. Febronio Luna Lopez, 21, of 2909 Erskine Rd, was treated at West Texas Hospital and released. Roy Lynn Mixon, 20, of 4307 32nd St, was treated at Methodist and released after a car utility pole crash on Brownfield Drive east of Quaker Ave at 2 17 a.m. Sunday.
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Lubbock
Methodist Hospital
Pete Castilleja
S. Ave
Ihe
Parkway
Febronio Luna Lopez
Erskine Rd
West Texas Hospital
Roy Lynn Mixon
32Nd St
Brownfield Dr
Quaker Ave
Johnson Faces Short Session As Aug. 3 Adjournment Looms
The article notes a conservative mood in Congress aiding Johnson’s push for civil rights and consumer legislation, a 10 percent tax increase, and a strengthened crime bill, while Congress also demands spending cuts and broadens wiretapping rules. Debates over Fortas’s Supreme Court confirmation and Warren’s resignation add to the tense political theatre as adjournment nears.
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Sion
House
Congress
Johnson
Supreme Court
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Fortas
Borden County Records Show Gardens Law And Tall Fees
The notes describe rough governance in Borden County with court grounds turned to a garden and watermelon patch. It lists May 11 1892 occupation taxes on liquor sales billiard tables theaters fortune tellers and clairvoyants along with other duties. Additional items recount a 1901 school drill U.S. flag training and a 1905 Gail telephone franchise granting pole placement and a 50 year term with build deadlines.
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Commissioners Court of
Borden County
Flying Jennies &Co
McKay
U.S
Gail
Letter Found in Chicago Postoffice Texas Tale
Chicago located in present Dawson County. Bunk found a letter addressed to pass on at a rapid rate to Chicago Postoffice Texas State. The note says to wait in the post office until Mr. Bunk Groves calls for it.
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Chicago
Dawson County
Bunk
Chicago Postoffice
Texas
Bunk Groves
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