Oscar Night Highlights My Fair Lady Wins Eight Awards
The 37th Academy Awards honored My Fair Lady with eight Oscars including best picture. European actors swept the top acting prizes with Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins and Julie Andrews as lead actress, while the film was shot entirely in Hollywood.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Hollywood
Academy
Rex Harrison
Henry Higgins
Eliza Doolittle
Julie Andrews
Oscar Winners Shine at Santa Monica Ceremony
Audrey Hepburn presented the best actor Oscar to Trevor Harrison for a career dating to 1929, while Joanne Andrews accepted for Mary Poppins. Peter Ustinov and Lila Kedrova won supporting actor honors, with Kedrova in English on Zorba the Greek and Ustinov noted for Topkapi and Spartacus.
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Manny
Britain
Peter Ustinov
France
Lila Kedrova
Harrison
Miss Andrews
Europe
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Sidney Poitier
Mary
Miss Kedrova
Bloody Mekong Delta battle leaves 120 Viet Cong dead
In the Ca Mau Peninsula clash, more than 120 Viet Cong were killed and six Americans dead or missing. U S forces reported 60+ South Vietnamese casualties, four U S helicopter crewmen missing, one American officer and one Navy officer killed, and air strikes pounding the area.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Mekong Delta
U.S
U.S. Navy
Ca Mau Peninsula
Air Force
Ca Mau
Chuckle Said the Preacher Slips on Hamana Peel
A humorous line features a preacher describing how old forgotten words seem to spring to mind as he slips on a hamana peel. The fragment hints at playful wordplay and rural humor.
Skin diving saves four trapped in Rowland Cave
In Mountain View Arkansas AP a skin diver surfaced and directed a rescue that brought four spelunkers, including two Arkansas Tech and Arkansas College students, out after more than 34 hours in flooded Rowland Cave. One diver, Navy Chief Damage Controlman Lyle E. Thomas, died from a heart attack at the cave mouth.
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Mountain View
Ark
Rowland Cave
Hugh Shell
Shell
Batesville
Hogan Bledsoe
Lake Village
Steve Wilson
Arkansas Tech
Mike Hill
Arkansas College
Lyle E. Thomas
Navy
Washington
I. J. Burton
Stone County Coronier
Thomas
Subway Guards To Patrol New York Subways At Night
Mayor Wagner announced an emergency plan placing an armed patrolman on every train and additional officers at 480 stations from 8 pm to 4 am. The program targets high crime hours with 1 200 police assigned and overtime for Transit Authority staff, costing over 9 million dollars annually.
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New York
Robert F. Wagner
Transit Authority
Weather Summary: Showers Persist Overnight Into Tomorrow
Spring rains continue tonight with a low around 55 to 60 degrees and ending tomorrow. Daytime highs may reach the season’s peak near the mid 60s, while yesterday topped 66 and this morning dipped to 52. An inch and a quarter of rain fell from 2:30 PM yesterday to 2:00 AM today.
Two ex Army buddies charged in long spy case
Two former U S Army friends face espionage charges for a 11 year plot to sell defense secrets to the Soviet Union for 250 to 350 dollars a month. Sgt Robert Lee Johnson of Oakland California and James Mintkenbaugh near Castro Valley California were arrested and await hearings in Virginia and California. The FBI says Johnson recruited Mintkenbaugh in Berlin and photographed classified documents as they conspired with Vitaly Outjoummov formerly at the Soviet Embassy in Paris. The maximum penalty is death.
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San Francisco
Soviet Union
Robert Lee Johnnson
Oakland
Calif
Pentagon
James
U. S
Cecil Poole
Richmond
Mintkenbaugh
Alameda County
Johnson
Alexandria
Karlhorst
East Berlin
Berlin
FBI
Johnson and
Vitaly Outjoummov
Paris
Outjoumov
Cincinnati Man Arrested in U S Defense Secrets Case
Former Cincinnati resident James A Mantkenbaugh, a World War II veteran born 1918, is jailed in California on charges of selling U S defense secrets to the Soviet Union. FBI says espionage ring began years ago. Army Lt Robert Lee Johnson is another alleged spy.
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Cincinnati
James A. Mantkenbaugh
San Martin
Calif
Mintkenbaugh
St. Bernard
FBI
Army
Robert Lee Johnson
Irish leader's push on Northern Ireland unity alleged
Dublin sources report Sinn Fein claims Taoiseach Lemass is negotiating with Harold Wilson to form a Council of State uniting 26 counties with Northern Ireland. The plan would create a loose federation as debate continues in Ireland’s election. Douglas-Home warns Britain against Northern Ireland meddling.
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Dublin
Sean Lemiass
Northern Ireland
Sinn Fein
Lemass
Harold Wilson
Council of State
All Ireland
Irish Republic
United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home
Wilson
Teacher blasts students for empty lives in suburb
Edmund de Moch details Wayzata Minnesota high school English teacher Douglas Sarff paying for a full page ad to air his critique of seniors and the community. He says students are self-centered and bored by 17. The ad criticizes administration and parents and Sarff plans to leave after June to write a novel.
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Wayzata, Minn
Douglas Sarff
Minneapolis
Sarff
Wayzata Senior High School
Donald Freeburg
Ronald Johnson
Wayzata High School
Wayzata
Minnetonka
Khrushchev Calls for Global Peace and Coexistence
In Moscow Khrushchev breaks six months of silence and urges peaceful coexistence for all people. He says there is no alternative to peace and warns that weaponized conflict leads to world destruction, quoting a insistence on shared wealth and harmony.
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Ennui
Copenhagen
Nikita Khrushchev
Bringert
Khrushchev
Viet Nam
Protests Over Berlin Autobahn Closure Shocks Allies
The East German communists closed the 110 mile autobahn linking Berlin to West Germany for 343 hours causing protests from the United States Britain and France. A Soviet twin engine jet buzzed Tempelhof Airport at 500 feet prompting officials to lodge formal protests. Five Allied vehicles were delayed and several military and civilian cars were stopped as barricades blocked the route from 9 am to 1 35 pm with no immediate retaliation planned.
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West Berlin
Tempelhof
United States
Britain
France
Air Force
U.S. Army
Babelsberg
Helmstedt
West Germany
Helmsstedt
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