U N Troops Await Orders in Katanga Guard Shift
U N forces in Elisabethville prepared to assume guard duties from Belgian troops in Katanga Province amid the secession crisis. Dag Hammarskjold met with Katanga Premier Moise Tshombe to discuss intervention terms while Swedish troops bivouacked near a local school and air units guarded the arrival.
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Elisabethville, the Congo
U.N
Katanga
Dag Hammarskjold
Moise Tshombe
Elisabethville
U. N
U.N. Security Council
Congo
Tshombe
Patrice Lumumba
Leopoldville
Hammarskjold
Lumumba
Laotian premier resigns amid rebel threat in Vientiane
Rebels in Laos demand Tiao Samsonith quit after seizing Vientiane control. Gen Ouane Rathikone arrives with cabinet resignation offer as commander Kong Le warns of a bloody war if not met. Rebels call for mass demonstrations to push government from power.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
Vientiane Radio
Tiao Samsonith
Tiao
Vientiane
Ouane Rathikone
Kong le
Ouane
Burial Battle Over Indian War Veteran Sparks Michigan Protest
George Vincent Nash, a World War I veteran, was to be buried at Perry Mount Cemetery in Pontiac after White Chapel Memorial Cemetery denied burial because he was Winnebago. His son rejected Arlington options, citing state ties, while officials debate racial burial restrictions and protest grows from the American Legion and United Auto Workers.
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Detroit
George Vincent Nash
Michigan
Nash
Perry Mount
Pontiac
Mich
White Chapel Memorial
Troy
Arlington National Cemetery
Vincent
Dad
Cassie
White Chapel
Reed Hunt
Hunt
Supreme Court
G. Mennen Williams
American Legion
United Auto Workers Union
White -Chapel
Johnson
Senate Space Committee
Bell Laboratories
Gas Smell Sparks La Porte Panic Amid Phosgene Probe
In La Porte Texas 500 families fled as a rotten potatoes odor filled the city for 90 minutes. More than 40 people fell ill and one hospitalized with vomiting nausea and headaches. Investigators hunt gas source while City health officials urge residents to evacuate and protect children.
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LA Porte
Tex
Walter Quebedeaux
Harris’ County
Quebedeaux
Miss International Beauty Crown Goes To Stella Marquez
In Long Beach California Stella Marquez 21 is named Miss International Beauty Queen after a nine-judge panel selected her from 52 contestants. She models a white gown and trains, majors in language and psychology at Marymount College and speaks four languages.
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Stella Marquez
Colombia
Long Beach
Calif
Iona Pinto
Iceland
Sigridur Geirsdotter
England
Joyce Kay
United States
Charlee Lundberg
Joliet
Ill
Marquez
Marymount College
Tarrytown
N.Y
Stile
Integration Speed Up Is Ordered In Houston Schools
Federal Judge Ben C Connally ordered Houston public schools to begin integration in the first grade next month and complete it through 12th grade by 1971. The plan, which replaces a prior order, will affect about 13 000 students and may face an appeal by the school board.
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Houston, Tex
Houston
Ben C. Connally
Henry Petersen
Connally
Supt. of Schools
John McFarland
Kennedy faces GOP foes as wage bill stalled in Senate
In Washington Sen John F Kennedy pressed for a vote on his minimum wage bill but faced stiff opposition from Sen Spessard Holland who would not allow a vote before Tuesday and from Sen Barry Goldwater who urged allowing opponents to rate the plan. The measure would raise the minimum wage from 1 to 1.25 over three years starting at 1.15 next year and extend coverage to five million more workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
Senate
Spessard L. Holland
Fla
Barry Goldwater
Rariz
Kennedy
Holland
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
Chuckle on worry surpassing work as killer of calm
Quote humorizes common fear by noting worry kills more than work because more people worry than work, suggesting anxiety as the heavier burden in daily life.
Echo Balloon Satellite Enables First Two Way Space Phone Call
A Bell Laboratories Echo balloon satellite conducted the first live two way space phone call between Holmdel New Jersey and Golden State California shortly after a prerecorded test. The test lasted five minutes with clear voices both ways and promises further advances in satellite communications.
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Holmdel
Goldstone
Calif
X15 Flight Set World Altitude Record
Maj. Robert M. White piloted the X15 rocket plane to within about 25 miles of space, reaching 131000 feet as the craft separated from its B52 mother ship. The test at Edwards Air Force Base ended with a high speed landing while White praised the view and described the experience.
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Doris
Maj. White
Doris White
California
Edwards
Hidden Under Tree Buried Coins Touch Off Minor Gold Rush
A bulldozer clearing a site in MOBILE Alabama unearthed coins buried near a tree, sparking a rush as workers and locals sift dirt by day and night. Most coins are $20 pieces from 1851 to 1867, valued at $33 to $50, with some $5 and $10 pieces found. A collector suggested they were buried during Reconstruction after the Civil War.
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Mobile
Ala
Explosion cripples Navy minesweeper Exultant near Savannah
Five crewmen were killed when a fire and explosion hit the USS Exultant in the Atlantic about 70 miles southeast of Savannah while en route from Charleston to Miami. The Nimble assisted, three more ships joined, and the vessel was towed to Savannah with investigators noting sketchy details and awaiting next of kin.
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Savannah
USS. Exultant
Charleston
S.C
Miami
Fla
Atlantic Ocean
Here
Exultant
Navy
Tropicana
Savannah Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Powers to ask Khrushchev aid for son in espionage trial
Oliver Powers, father of Francis Gary Powers, arrives in Moscow to attend the espionage trial and plans to request a meeting with Premier Khrushchev to seek help. He tearfully appeals as a father, noting Khrushchev’s promise to aid and stressing their ordinary American family background. The trial opens midweek in Moscow.
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Moscow
Oliver W. Powers
Nikita Khrushchev
Francis Gary Powers
Powers
Ers
Soviet Union
Mr. Khrushchev
Nazi Germany
United States
Infant found in pond had prior assault and fatal blow
Akron police and coroner’s investigators said 1 year old Joanne Starcher was sexually assaulted and fatally struck on the head. An 18 year old former babysitter of the family was held for questioning but has an alibi. The infant's body was found in Weaver’s Pond south of Akron after being missing since Wednesday.
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Hammarskjold
Union Miniere
Katanga
U.N
Akron, Ohio
Joanne Starcher
Here
Charles Madden
Arnold Starcher
East Akron
Carroll Cutraght
Akron
Weaver's Pond
Chrysler Corp
Twinsburg Stamping
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