McNamara calls B70 program among the worst managed projects
Dr Harold Brown testified that prior to McNamara's takeover the B70, later RS70, suffered heavy waste with about a billion spent. McNamara resisted speed-ups, promising a new feasibility study while planning limited testing of three aircraft without weapons as safeguards. Brown backed the decision, citing unproven radar and missile systems risk delaying an operational aircraft.
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McNamara
Secretary of Defense
Carl Vinson
Dga
House Armed Services Committee
House
Senate Armed Services Committee
Provisional Algerian Admin Takes Over as Referendum Nears
The French Algerian Provisional Executive assumed internal control of Algeria while the Secret Army Organization carried out attacks on telephone lines. In Algiers a tense inaugural session was held near Rocher Noir with heavy security as tanks and anti aircraft guns protected the center. The body will steer domestic affairs toward a self determination referendum planned for June or July and an independent regime afterward.
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Algiers
Provisional Executive
Algeria
Secret Army Organization
OAS
Af Seneet Aeons
France
Charles de Gaulle
Rocher Noir
Christian Fouchet
Odd Army vy Jobs Reservists Mixed Up By FRED S HOFFMAN
Government officials say many mobilized reservists were assigned to jobs far from their training, wasting skills. GAO probes found examples including a heavy weapons infantryman made a medical specialist and a draftsman assigned as a diver. Of 5,011 mobilized reservists checked, only 47 percent held matching military specialty. The report, to be presented to the House Armed Services Committee, urges broader reviews across Army corps, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and National Guard. The GAO notes unit strength pressure as a key cause, with reinforcement pool personnel more often matched to vacancies. The study covers West Coast units and a three month period in late 1960s mobilizations.
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Adjutant General
GAO
Navy Air Force
National Guard
Army Reserve
Walker Charges Won't Be Checked
Senator John Stennis heads a Senate panel and says no inquiry into Edwin Walker's accusations about a hidden control in Washington. Walker testifies that a den of iniquity exists, praised by Thurmond while others dispute the charge's merit and impact on the conservative cause.
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Raymond J. Crowley
Washington
John Stennis
D-Miss
Edwin A. Walker
Stennis
Senate Armed Services
Walker
Army
Secre Ary
Dean Rusk
Walt Whitman Rostow
State Department
Adam Yarmolinsky
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Subcommittee
Washingon
Leverett Saltonstall
R. Mass
Sen
Strom Thurmond
D-S.c
Thurmond
Kennedy invokes Taft Hartley to end Hawaii maritime walkout
President Kennedy used the Taft Hartley Act to curb a three week Pacific maritime strike that disrupted food supplies in Hawaii. A board of inquiry was created to study the dispute with a potential 80 day cooling off period and possible injunctions by the attorney general. The move follows mediation failures and warnings from Hawaii's governor of a food emergency as unions seek higher wage increases amid shipowners’ cost concerns.
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Washington
Kennedy
Hawaii
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
William F. Quinn
White House
Pacific Maritime Association
Sailors Union of the Pacific
Marine Firemen
Marine Cooks and Stewards
Shippers Association
Board of Inquiry
James J. Healy
Harvard Graduate School of Business
Frank J. Dugan
Georgetown University Law
Laurence E. Seibel
Chevy Chase
Labor Department
British Rush Early Warning Plan for Nuclear Attacks
The Home Office said a speeded-up alert system will be in operation within a year to notify Britons of nuclear attacks within 20 seconds of detection. The system uses a special carrier wave overriding busy lines, with 1,500 Royal Observer Corps posts and other centers equipped, relying on US Ballistic Missile Early Warning and Midas satellite data.
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London
Home Office
Royal Observer Corps
Civil Defense
United States
U.S. Midas
Chuckle Success: Art of Mistakes Hidden from View
The piece highlights the humor and life lesson in making mistakes when no one is watching. It frames missteps as a playful craft rather than a failure, inviting readers to reflect on honesty, self awareness, and personal growth in everyday moments.
TV Fights Too Dirty Says Institute Report
Edinburgh Scotland Educational Institute of Scotland warns television teaches boys to fight. The study states boys imitate brutality seen on screen and abandon old rules, adopting all-out methods including kicking a fallen opponent.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
The
Educational Institute of Scotland
Irty
U S aids urged as Latin nations seek more arms
In Washington McNamara and U S military leaders met in Panama with Latin American officials to review the aid program aimed at boosting internal security and ensuring fast delivery of equipment. Ecuador reported a pro Communist guerrilla outbreak tied to smuggled arms from the Iron Curtain.
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Washington
U.S
Defese
Robert S. McNamara
Panama Canal Zone
Andrew P. O'Meara
Unified Caribbean Command
McNamara
Panama
Ecuador
Quito
Cuba
Ladder fall kills man in Cincinnati
Frank Kramer aged 55 died at St. Francis Hospital from head injuries after a ladder fall Thursday afternoon while repairing his house in Cincinnati. The Hamilton County coroner's office reported the incident occurred on a residential property.
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Cincinnati
Frank Kramer
St. Francis Hospital
Hamilton County
Kramer
Glance Inside More Than A Ship Went Down
A look into the Titanic disaster explores what a man could build and what sank that night in the North Atlantic fifty years ago. The piece contrasts a faith in invention with the nobility that surfaced amid tragedy. It appears in the Journal on page 25.
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North Atlantic
Dysentery Epidemic Hits East Berlin Ban on Travel
East Berlin faces an epidemic with over 28 000 cases and three deaths as authorities ban travel by citizens and require medical certificates for migrants. Officials blame contaminated butter drawn from the market and note isolated cases in adjacent areas. Western observers suspect hidden scope amid food shortages, while West Berlin remains unaffected for now.
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Berlin
East Berlin
West Berlin
Man Guilty In Staying At Newport
Newport Ky AP A Campbell Circuit Court jury convicted Grover Gross 49 of two counts of voluntary manslaughter for the wanton shooting deaths of Milton Horner 37 and Irvin Corken 37 after lunch at a cafe. Jury sentenced Gross to consecutive 21 year terms on each count after a 2 hour verdict deliberation. Psychiatrists testified Gross was dangerous and should be confined but split on sanity.
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Newport
Grover Gross
Kentucky
Gross
Grows
Robess Mill Hand
Milton Horner
Fort Thomas
Irvin Corken
Covington Steel Firm
Viet Cong Routed After Four Hour Attack Near An Hoa
Government forces crushed a 1 200 strong Viet Cong assault in Tra Bong District near An Hoa 330 miles northeast of Saigon overnight Friday into Saturday. Guerrillas left 45 dead and 16 wounded, with two American made rifles and other arms recovered as helicopters airlifted troops and supplies for the counterattack.
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AN Hoa
South Viet Nam
Tra Bong
Saigon
Seven American skindivers freed by Cuban govt in Havana
Seven American treasure hunters shipwrecked off Cuba are released from custody and to return to the United States early next week. Swiss Ambassador Stadelhofer said they stay at a Havana residence with no guards. Cubans treated them well, provided clothes, and offered local tours. The men were aboard Pisces when wrecked off Baracoa while pursuing sunken treasure near Hispaniola.
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Havana
Cuba
United States
Emil Stadelhofer
U.S
U.S. Coast Guard
John E. Johnson
Joe Campbell
Washington D.C
Bernie Nistad
Brooklyn
N.Y
Pompano Beach
Fla
Jamaica
Stadelhofer
Fidel Castro
Baracoa
Freeman
Washington
Dickson
Castro
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England
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John Glenn
the Times
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