New Year 1964 Peace Talks Mark World Leaders Hope
World leaders express hope for a peaceful year as 1964 begins with prayers and celebrations. Ikeda and Khrushchev exchange greetings. Erhard urges unity. Gerhardsen notes Johnson's aims for less tension. Global events include lavish observances in New York and charity dances in Grand Central Terminal.
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Italy
New York
Times Square
Allied Chemical
Times Tower
Grand Central Terminal
Japan
Hayato Ikeda
Khrushchev
Ikeda
Far East
Ludwig Erhard
Johnson
Erhard
Grand Concourse
National Association For Mental Health
Johnson sets defense budget near fifty one billion
President Johnson approves a defense budget around 51 billion with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and McNamara. The plan trims the current year to about 61 billion overall but promises equal or better peacetime defense. In Tokyo, the U S Air Force confirms a major realignment transferring 3 500 personnel and 78 aircraft from Japan to the United States, with further withdrawals anticipated.
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Douglas Cornell
Johnson City, Tex
Johnson
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Roswell Gilpatric
McNamara
White House
Congress
Congressional
Joint Chiefs
Defense Department
Searces
Tokyo
USS. Air Force
Japan
United States
Maurice Preston
U S
Washington
Pentagon
U.S
Sth Air Force
U.S. Air Force
5Th Air Force
Fuchu Air Base
Pilot Guides Failing Plane to Ice Landing on Detroit River
Second Lt. George H. Lydane, 23, of White Plains New York, piloted a small 134 Mentor trainer with smoke filled cockpit after engine failure. He glided between supports of the Ambassador Bridge, landed on river ice near Windsor Canada with Joseph Kern, 23, of Warren Michigan, both rescued and taken to Grace Hospital for examination.
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Windsor
Ont
Lockbourne Air Force Base
Ohio
Detroit
Detroit River
George H. Lyddane
White Plains
N.Y
Lockbourne
Aero Club
Ble
Detroit City
Lyddane
Joseph Kern
Warren
Mich
International Ambassador Bridge
Grace A
Examin
Coast Guard
Ramage
Chuckle on Firsthand Knowledge from a Secondhand Car
A lighthearted thought notes that you gain much firsthand knowledge from a car that has changed hands. It playfully suggests lessons learned by observing a vehicle’s history and previous owner experiences.
Four Youngstown Children Perish In East Side Fire
Four Hall children aged 12 to 2 were killed when a fire swept their East Side home in bitter cold. Father on relief for two years tried to reach them as others escaped. fire officials say a roof collapse trapped the youngsters after smoke and flames overwhelmed the house. Fire may have started from a coal furnace. teens and others treated for minor injuries.
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East Side
Hall
Joshua Jr
Josephine
Brenda
Deverer
Mary
Gladys
Fred
Derick
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Hal
East Half Of Nation Faces Freezing Cold Spell
The Associated Press reports an early winter cold spell gripping most of the eastern half of the nation. Subzero readings hit northern Midwest areas while warmer weather was expected across central states as southerly winds bring cloudy dry conditions. Yesterday's high was 18 and the low today was 2 above.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Tomor
Weather Extends Cold Across Northeast And Plains
Freezing conditions lingered into the northern Gulf region with towns such as Watertown New York reporting 33 below zero on Monday and 20 below this morning. Lebanon New Hampshire and Lone Rock Wisconsin also showed 20 below as readings rose slightly. An unofficial 22 below appeared in the page continuation.
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Watertown
N. Y
Lebanon
N.H
Lone Rock
Wis
Motorman Stabbed to Death on New York Subway
A subway motorman Frank Milano 38 of the Bronx was stabbed to death at the 23rd Street station after a passenger kicked his cab door and shouted obscenities. Milano halted the train at Ward Street, confronted the attacker, who then stabbed him in the abdomen and fled via a train window.
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New York
23Rd Street
Manhattan
Frank Milano
Bronx
Lawrence McKearney
Milano
Ward Street
Red China Softening Attacks
Premier Chou En-lai said Beijing favors peaceful coexistence with capitalism and foresees no inevitable world war. In a French TV interview he blamed the United States for blocking harmony, citing the Formosa issue and the need for American forces to withdraw from Formosa and the Formosa Strait.
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Spain
Francisco Frenco
Tle
United States
ARIS
Peking
Chou En-lai
Chou
Red
Civil Rights and Tax Reductions Face Ahead in Congress
Congress closed its 1963 session with warnings of difficult choices ahead on civil rights and tax cuts. Leaders noted the session's key items including education bills, a $231 million medical education measure, and the nuclear test ban treaty. The adjournment followed partisan fights and a narrowly passed foreign aid bill.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Soviet Bloc
House
Everett M. Dirksen
Mansfield
Buffer zone kept as Cypriots resume normalcy after violence
British troops guard a neutral buffer zone in Nicosia as the Greek Cypriot sector reopens for business after nine days of clashes. Talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders focus on restoring telephone service and retrieving casualties, with Makarios and Fazil Kutchuk agreeing to the buffer zone.
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Nicosia, Cyprus
Nicosia
Cyprus
Areck
Makarios
Fazil Kutchuk
Destitute But Unselfish Donates Christmas Gifts
Nine member Leo Sanders family in Whitwell Tennessee shared their flood of Christmas gifts with neighbors amid poverty from the coalfield strike. They received clothing toys and checks from across the nation and hope to move from a two room garage to a proper home with the help of donors.
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Essee
Sanders
Burlington
Iowa
Marcele Morrison
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Youngstown
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