Space gremlins linked to satellite blackouts and rebounds
Scientists at a satellite conference entertain space gremlins as a plausible explanation for four US satellites going dark then reviving within a year. ANNA and Telstar 2 had lights reappear after months, with experts noting no solid cause yet and a meteorite collision as a possible factor.
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Richard B. Kershner
Applied Physics Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University
Anna
Kershner
Ker ®Iner
Doren Mitchell
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Bell
Mitchell
Mobile schools spark racial protests in Chicago
In Chicago protests flare at 73rd Street and Lowe Avenue over mobile classroom units called ghetto carts. The district plans 215 such trailer classrooms to reduce double shifts while serving Negro and white pupils, with open enrollment demands from CORE.
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Chicago
73Rd Street
Lowe Avenue
Chicago Board of Education
73Rd
Lowe
Congress of Racial Equality
Benjamin C. Willis
128Th Street
Escanaba Avenue
Kennedy Seeks Quiet Weekend At Cape Cod Retreat
President Kennedy spends the seventh weekend with his family at Hyannis Port Cape Cod after flying from Washington. Mrs Kennedy recovers from a cesarean birth to a son who lived less than two days and reportedly desires another child.
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Hyannis Port
Mass
Kennedy
Cape Cod
Washington
Otis Air Force Base
Rail Arbitration Proposal gains guarded union approval
In Washington the unions tentatively back a Labor Department plan to arbitrate firemen jobs and train crew makeup. Wirtz warned settlement remains uncertain while lawyers review legal issues and unions demand clear procedures for other Manning questions. An Aug. 29 strike threat looms if no deal is reached.
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Washington
Labor Department
Secretary of Labor
W. Willard Wirtz
No Means
J. E. Wolfe
Wolfe
Wirtz
Arbitration Board of Management
Train Robbery Loot Sought as Picnickers Urged to Help
London police urged hikers to join a weekend hunt for the remaining seven million dollars from Britain's great train robbery. Four bags containing 282520 were found in a Surrey woods, raising total recovered to 678179. Five suspects held. police target the gang's leaders as loot is dumped in open country.
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Britain
Surrey
Glasgow
London
Scotland Yard
Redlands Wood
Torrential Rains Hit Kyushu Japan Five Dead Three Missing
Torrential rains lashed Kyushu Island causing five deaths and three missing. Police report 339 people homeless and 838 houses flooded as rail and bus services were disrupted by landslides and floods.
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Tokyo
Japan
Kyushu
Boy’s narrow escape as tractor tine wounds Aberdeen youth
Eugene Hart, 11, of Aberdeen South Dakota, was hospitalized after a steel tine from a tractor loader penetrated his back and chest. He managed to drive the tractor forward to free himself and now recovers, telling a photographer that laughter hurts.
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Eugene Hart
Aberdeen, S.D
Polish Boys Die in Playground Ammunition Blast
Eight teenage boys were killed when a box of ammunition they found in a children's playground exploded in Wron. Four others were critically injured, according to PAP.
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Warsaw
Wronclaw
PAP
Fulbright Sees Fast Senate Move on Nuclear Test Ban
Senator Fulbright reports the foreign relations committee could send the limited nuclear test ban treaty to the Senate floor within two weeks. He predicts broad ratification with opposition possibly under 20 votes, aided by CIA Chief McCone's support. McNamara and Joint Chiefs endorse safeguards to offset military risks.
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Washington
J. W. Fulbright
Senate
Arkansas Democrat
Fulbright
John A. McCone
Central Intelligence Agency
McCone
Senate Armed Services Committee
Joint
Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
Armed Services Group
Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Joint Chiefs of Staff
McNamara
What to do until the doctor arrives joke
A humorous line suggests the improvised remedy of borrowing money while waiting for a doctor. It frames a quick, light moment about urgency and resourcefulness. The quip plays on hustle and the tension of medical wait times.
Ferry sinks off Okinawa with 194 passengers
A 300 ton ferry the Midori Maru with 194 passengers and about 115 crew sank in heavy seas four miles north of Maejima Island near Okinawa. U S military vessels rescued 154 people including four Americans and two bodies were recovered.
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TOKYO
Okinawa
Japan Broadcasting Corp
U.S
Tomari
Naha
Okinawa Islands
Ryuku
Japan
Japanese
Maritime Safety Agency
Maejima Island
Kerama Archipelago
Maejima
Miss Iceland Crowned Miss International Beauty 1964
Gudrun Bjarnadottir, 20, of Iceland wins Miss International Beauty 1964 after a field of 86 contestants. Judges note her red-blond hair and striking presence though her name is hard for the host to pronounce.
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Long Beach
Calif
Iceland
Lorne Green
Train Car Switched Into Crash in Bethel
In Bethel Connecticut a shuttle car swung into a caboose on a 14 car freight train on a siding. One woman died and 21 people were admitted to hospital with four in critical condition. Nineteen others were treated and released. The switch remained open as the self propelled car reached it. It was the first fatal New Haven passenger accident since 1931.
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Bethel
New Haven
Village beauty with Paris model past reveals name Gou-droon
A 800 resident valley hometown girl with a 38 23 38 figure and grey-green eyes discusses her Paris model career. She explains her name pronunciation as Gou-droon Byar-nah-dob-tir, written to reflect how it sounds.
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Valley
Paris
Racial Strife Echoes Across Cities as Courts Act
Racial tensions flare with bank demonstrations in East St. Louis and Elizabeth New Jersey, arrests rise in New Jersey, while Mobile Alabama faces a desegregation order. Courts refuse action on desegregation and Prince Edward County trustees push for extended school years. Navy children barred from public schools amid Defense Department anti discrimination stance.
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Supreme Court
Hugo ‘Black
Mobile
Ala
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
New Orleans
Atlanta
Prince Edwards County
Colgate W. Darden
University of Virginia
Naval Air Station
Plaquemine Parish
Navy
Defense Department
Soviet fishermen rescue U.S. pilot off Cape Cod
Capt. Hugh Lavallee of the Massachusetts National Guard parachuted 20 000 feet from a disabled fighter and was saved by a Soviet fishing vessel. The crew aided him, doctors treated his injuries, and a Coast Guard helicopter transported him to Otis Air Force Base for further care.
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U.S
Cape Cod
Hugh Lavallee
Massachusetts National Guard
Lavallee
Coast Guard
Otis Afb
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Jose E. Flemlming
First National Bank
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