Rusk Seeks Help For U S Policy
U S Secretary of State Dean Rusk travels to NATO to urge European shield forces be boosted by 75 000 to 80 000 troops plus weapons and transport. He plans talks with NATO ministers on Berlin and Germany and will meet French President de Gaulle, Adenauer, and Italian Foreign Minister Segni as Western allies pursue a constructive diplomacy.
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Paris
U.S
Dean Rusk
Atlantic Alliance
Soviet Union
Germany
West Berlin
Rusk
Permanent Council of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Lord Home
Maurice Couve de Murville
Heinrich von Brentano
Khrushchev
Berlin
Charles de Gaulle
Italy
Konrad Adenauer
Antonio Segni
Moscow
Still Many Volunteers For Draft
Washington AP reports a sustained surge of volunteers following Kennedy's call for a buildup and higher draft calls. Army expansion aims to add about 133000 recruits to exceed one million. emphasis on training divisions at Fort Riley Fort Benning and Fort Hood to form combat units. Volunteer enlistments rise though current trained strength remains below authorized levels.
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Washington
Kennedy
Defense Department
Army
Strategic Army Force
STAAF
1St Infantry
Ft. Riley
Kan
2Nd Infantry
Ft. Benning
2Nd Armored
Ft. Hood
Tex
Chuckle on the Upward Path Highlights Elevator Skill
A light humorous note notes that among the skills for rising in status a man should master operating an automatic elevator. The quip plays on social ascent and practical nimble competence.
Wine cleaners steal church wine in Rockingham incident
Police in Rockingham North Carolina said Edgar and Elizabeth Morgan hired to clean windows at the Episcopal Church of the Messiah took six bottles of Communion wine from the church and drank four. They were arrested on drunkenness and larceny charges. The couple, from Valhalla South Carolina, faced court after officers found a car full of wine and noted Mrs Morgan suffered a headache the following day.
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Rockingham
N.C
Louis Allen
MIT Man Says U S Ahead In Space Field
STANFORD Calif AP The United States leads the Soviet Union in space overall says C Stark Draper head of aeronautical engineering MIT Draper spoke after Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov landed from his flight He called reports that Titov controlled his Vostok II malarkey noting Titov had no thrust to alter his orbital path and contrasted American broad organizational approach with Soviet narrow focus He warned the race favors the Americans in long term development.
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Stanford
Calif
United States
Soviet Union
C. Stark Draper
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Draper
Gherman Titov
American Rocket Society
Titov
Earth
Shepard
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Springfield woman seeks weed-cutting order on jet property
A Springfield woman asked police to force the owner to cut weeds on a neighborhood jet property. She named an attorney as manager. The attorney said he no longer managed it due to sale. the new owner is the woman herself, who said she was negotiating for the lot and was unaware of the sale. Five days to cut the weeds.
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Springfield
Postmen, Egg, and a Joke Reach Across the Country
An aging unbroken boiled egg mailed to W. T. Brian in Berkeley, then re-routed to Nashville, returns amid a cryptic note about judgment by the gods. Berkeley post office staff tried to deliver it, but Brian had moved to Nashville and the forwarding address was dead. Richard Finch admits he sent the egg as a joke and says Brian was a friend.
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Associated Press
Nashville
Tenn
Berkeley
Calif
W. T. Brian
Buena Vista Way
U.S
Brian
Richard Finch
Finch
Congress Skeptical Of Khrushchev Honest Talks on Berlin
Congress and diplomats greeted Khrushchev's Berlin plan with skepticism as he urged honest negotiations. Fulbright urged discussing differences while Mansfield hoped for a peace‑balanced outcome. Khrushchev warned of stronger Western pressure and possible mobilization, insisting no western rights be infringed and no blockade of West Berlin.
Space Feat Dominates European Press on Berlin Talks
Western Europe reacted to Khrushchev's offer with caution and skepticism while embracing the space milestone of cosmonaut Titov. British and continental papers weighed negotiation prospects, urging a summit and clear safeguards for Berlin, yet West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt warned the crisis remains unresolved.
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London
Western
Europe
Khrushchev
Gherman Titov
Communist Party
Rome
Paris
London Daily Mirror
Daily Herald
Copenhagen
Titov
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
Brandt
Germany
Kennedy to hold news conference Thursday at 10
President Kennedy will host a news conference in Washington at 10 a.m. EDT on Thursday. It will be taped for later use and not carried live on television or radio.
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Washington
Kennedy
Khrushchev warns of crushing blow if war comes
Speaking in a moderate tone Khrushchev said Kennedy showed common sense in seeking to avoid war but warned that such expressions are not enough. He threatened to strike the United States territory overseas bases and allies if war breaks out and recalled Western notes on Berlin. Khrushchev accused the Western powers of evading a peace treaty and opposing German self determination and reunification.
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Kennedy
West Berlin
U.S
Khrushchev
United States
Britain
France
Berlin
Soviet Union
America
Moscow
Germany
Khrushchevh
Door Open On Possible Plane Deal
Washington State Department cautioned against optimism about exchanging a Cuban patrol boat for the hijacked American airliner. Press officer Lincoln White said any official Cuban proposal would be considered in line with efforts to recover the plane through diplomatic channels. The idea emerged from a New York Times report citing a note Cuba sent to the Swiss embassy, though no note has reached Washington yet.
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Washington
State Department
Lincoln White
Fidel Castro
New York Times
Havana
U.S
Cuba
Titan door accident kills five at Denver Titan site
At Buckley Field near Denver a 58 ton steel door on a Titan missile silo slammed shut during construction. Five workers were killed and eight injured, two seriously. Two bodies recovered and others trapped. hydraulic or cable failure blamed. The site is part of a $160 million Titan 1 complex being turned over to the Air Force.
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Denver
Buckley Field
Jerry E. Brando
George Graham
Aurora
Charles W. Postle
Howard Hoffman
Littleton
Colo
Serge Postle
Colorado Plains
Morrison Knudson & Associates
Boise
Idaho
Air Force
Martin Co
Farm Bill Signed By President
President Kennedy signed into law a new farm program described as a major step toward a sound agricultural economy. The bill raises price supports with a 10 percent cut in wheat acreage, extends emergency grain programs, and continues surplus disposal and school milk programs. It aims to expand markets, reduce wheat and feed grain stocks, and lessen the taxpayer burden. Industry leaders, Senate and House agriculture leaders, major farm groups, and Secretary Orville Freeman attended.
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Washington
Kennedy
White House
Congress
Senate
House Agriculture Committees
Orville L. Freeman
Titov reports safe 17 orbit flight and homing feel
Maj Gherman Titov said his spacecraft completed 17 orbits and remained in good working order, ready for another flight. He spoke from a Moscow landing area, praising Khrushchev’s insistence on minimizing risk to life and health, and described homesickness for Earth and for solid ground.
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Moscow
Gherman Titov
Soviet Union
Pravda
Communist Party
Titov
Steppes
Weather Outlook Warm Then Hot With Cloudy Skies
The weather pattern shifts from cool to warm with mostly fair skies tonight and even warmer conditions tomorrow. Tonight’s low is 65. Wednesday’s high is forecast at 88 after yesterday’s official high of 82 at 4 pm and overnight low of 57 at 1:30 am today.
Nations Reject U.S. Coordinated Latin Plan
At the Inter-American Conference in Punta del Este Latin leaders largely backed Kennedy's development aims but balked at a seven member planning committee to coordinate regional programs. Argentina Chile Brazil and Mexico urged individual planning and offered reservations about centralized direction.
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Punta del Este
Uruguay
Kennedy
U.S
Ernesto Guevara
Argentina
Chile
Brazil
Mexico
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
United States
Latin America
Dillon
Soviet Union
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Senate Democratic
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Man S. Titov
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Hervitatute
West Germany
Figaro
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London Times
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the Times
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