Top news story of 1962 blockades and space flight
Editors pick the 1962 top story the Cuban blockade and Friendship 7 flight with Kennedy's blockade announcement and tense global brinkmanship. Glenns space flight and Meredith Ole Miss clashes also dominate the year’s war of nerves while thalidomide shocks the public and the stock market plunges then recovers.
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United States
Cuba
Associated Press
Kennedy
Oetween Palmne
Meredith
Ole Miss
Ross Barnett
Mississippi National Guard
Barnett
Theniversity
Mas
Global Red Chinese advance and Nehru cabinet shakeup
The article recalls Red Chinese forces advancing on Oct 20 along the India Tibet border pressuring Indian troops. Nehru ousted Defense Minister Krishna Menon and sought arms from Britain and the U.S. as China called a cease-fire on Nov 21 near Assam. It also covers a steel contract in April raising tensions with Kennedy and price hikes, a midterm election outcome, Estes legal troubles, and spaceflight feats by Soviet cosmonauts Nikolayev and Popovich.
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India
Tibet
Nehru
Krishna Menon
Britain
America
Assam
Steelworkers’ Union and Steel Companies
Kennedy
U. S. Steel Co
Justice Department
Grand Jury
U.S. Steel
Tough Kennedy Is Newsmaker Of The Year Again
AP News selects President John F Kennedy as Newsmaker of the Year for the third straight year due to tough actions toward Russia and the steel industry. Fidel Castro also highlighted foreign affairs, with other winners including Dr Frances Kelsey, Billie Sol Estes, Arthur Goldberg, Pope John XXIII, Sonny Liston, Marilyn Monroe, John Steinbeck, and Jacqueline Kennedy.
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John F. Kennedy
Associated Press
Fidel Castro
Cuba
America
Russia
Frances Kelsey
Billie Sol Estes
Arthur Goldberg
Pope John XXIII
Sonny Liston
Marilyn Monroe
John Steinbeck
Jacqueline Kennedy
Goldberg
Kennedy
Chicago
Supreme Court
White House
John *. Kennedy
Italy
Amalfi
National Cultural Center
New York
New Philarmonic Hall
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Sweden
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Oklahoma
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New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
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Richard M. Nixon
Pecos
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Inj
California
Maj
Andrian Nikolayev
Pavel Popovich
Popovich
Texas Attorney General
Department of Agriculture
Estes
West
Texas
Tyler
NAVY
Earth
AP News
Robert Kennedy
Anastas Mikoyan
Castro
U. N
U Thant
Latin America
U. S
Guantanamo
Rate
Bay of Pigs
Food and Drug Administration
Kelsey
Vatican
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Floyd Patterson
Anders Osterling
Steinbeck
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