A Smile on the Face of a City This Time
Dallas revisits a night of calm amid memories of November 22 1963. The piece contrasts a tense JFK assassination eve with a quiet February Dallas night. It notes Love Field bustling, Parkland Hospital lights, and a cab driver’s remark about the city’s unusual quiet on Friday.
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Dallas
Tex
Manhattan
Queens
van Wyck Expressway
Idlewild
Lyndon B. Johnson
van Wyck
Love Field
Parkland Hospital
John F. Kennedy
Johnson Celebrates St. Louis 200th Birthday
President Johnson visits St. Louis for a 200th birthday celebration with 100000 cheering residents and 8 civil rights demonstrators intercepted. A man with a pistol was detained at Lambert airport. Johnson plants a tree, greets crowds, and praises local colleges as he tours the city and a slum clearance project near St. Louis University. Stan Musial officiates as fitness director. Over 1500 police secure events amid a large motorcade and crowds along the riverfront and Mark Twain Expressway.
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Lambert-St. Louis Municipal
St. Louis
Stan Musial
Mark Twain Expressway
Johnson
Gateway Arch
Mississippi Riverfront
St. Louis University
Bolivian bus crash kills fifteen near Cochabamba
In Cochabamba Bolivia a bus plunged from a winding mountain road into a ravine killing 15 passengers and injuring 35, 22 seriously. Police and rescuers evacuated the injured as authorities investigated the cause of the wreck.
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Cochabamba
Bolivia
Protest Today Against Taft S COLUMBUS Ohio AP
A formal protest against Congressman Taft Jr. for U S Senate nomination qualification was expected to be filed today per Secretary of State Ted W. Brown. Brown, a GOP Senate candidate, heard of the plan from a Columbus attorney who did not disclose details. Brown’s office weighs possible court action. Taft filed about 5,000 signatures, with 1,600 accepted so far. Brown’s check on petitions aims to verify validity before certification.
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Columbus
Ohio
Robert Taft Jr
U.S
Senate
Ted W. Brown
Brown
Taft
Secretary of States
Lancaster
Tyro
John H. Glenn Jr
Supreme Court
Joseph D. Bryan
Louis J. Schwartz
Felicity
Snowstorm Slams Into Midwest
The Associated Press reports a major snowstorm sweeping from the Rocky Mountains into the Central Plains and Midwest, hitting Nebraska with five inches in North Platte and four inches in Grand Island and Burwell. Kansas reports four inches in Hill City, with strong northerly winds creating deep drifts and near zero visibility. The system then spread to Iowa and Missouri with light snow, while New Mexico faced winds up to 55 mph and closed routes on U.S. 87 due to blowing snow. Des Moines, New Mexico, suffered zero visibility as the storm affected travel across the region.
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Central Plains
Midwest
Nebraska
Kansas
North Platte
Neb
Grand Island
Burwell
Hill City
Kan
New Mexico
U.S. 87
Raton
Clayton
Des Moines
N.M
Chuckle: pun on failing driver's test becomes parking lot job
A light joke notes that men who fail their driving tests end up as parking lot attendants, delivering a wry, urban humor line.
Slain Near Athens Suspect Kills Himself
In Ohio a fugitive, Rudy Zamora, 20, believed to have killed four members of a farm family and wounded two, shot himself as deputies closed in six miles southwest of Athens. Zamora's body was found on a ridge. a golf course fire was found smoldering. He had worked on the Wildman farm since last November and was said to seek money owed. Patricia Wildman and Danny Pierce were wounded and hospitalized.
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Athens, Ohio
Rudy Zamora
Ohio City
Zamora
Here
Patricia Wildmar
Glenn McDaniel
Danny
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Shields
Wildman
San Antonio
Tex
Fallen Aerialist Mary Lou Laurence Eyes Return to Trapeze
Mary Lou Laurence, once top attraction in Madison, plans a netless comeback after a 35 foot fall. She awaits a doctor's clearance following skull fracture and broken bones from the 196? accident at Shrine circus. Readiness to perform again is fueled by her mother and crowd support.
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Madison, Wis
Mary Lou Laurence
Mary Lou
Crown Point
Ind
Louis Lawrence
Madison
Ruby Trial Jury Selection Begins in Dallas
Prosecution and defense in the Jack Ruby murder trial move to pick 12 fair jurors from about 900 Dallas County citizens starting Monday. Melvin Belli argues Dallas is biased against Ruby for shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, with as many as 200 jurors possibly rejected in a day. Judge Joe B Brown says fair trial depends on juror questioning and has not ruled on moving the trial.
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Jack Ruby
Dallas County
Melvin Belli
Dallas
Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
John F. Kennedy
Belli
Joe B. Brown
Texas
Tough Fishermen Rescue From Akun Island Reef
Five crab boat crewmen from the Cape Spencer were plucked from a rocky Akun Island beach after their vessel broke up. They survived four days under snow and wind up to 60 knots, using wreckage for shelter and a smoky fire. Coast Guard cutter Storis brought them to safety in good condition with minor injuries.
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Seattle
Wash
Aleutian Island
Dutch Harbor
Kodiak
Coast Guard
Storis
George Hamilton
Akun Island
Keppel links civil rights to school progress and hope
U S Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel told about 25 000 school administrators that the civil rights movement creates the opportunity to fulfill education as a tool against poverty. He urged honest appraisal of shortcomings and new solutions to reach hundreds of thousands of children in poverty and prove equal opportunity in schools.
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Atlantic City
N.J
U. S
Francis Keppel
Keppel
Invasion fears rise as Cyprus tensions flare abroad
U S Undersecretary George W Ball held talks with Greek officials as Turkish troop movements near Cyprus sparked fear of invasion. Turkish ships departed Iskenderun. Gen Cevdet Sunay called them maneuvers. Ball travels to London amid calls for a peace force. Cyprus violence leaves three Turkish Cypriots and one Greek dead in Polis and Paphos towns.
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Athens
Greece
George W. Ball
Turkey
Cyprus
Iskenderun
Cevdet Sunay
Bali
London
Ismet Inonu
Ball
Ankara
Mediterranean
Makarios
NATO
Alec Douglas-Home
Washington
Polis
Paphos-Ktima
Soviets End Convention On Farming
MOSCOW AP Soviet Premier Khrushchev wraps up a Kremlin farming convention after six days of urging Communist Party Central Committee members and rural officials to push intensive fertilization and irrigation. He says expanding the fertilizer chemical industry is affordable despite Western doubt as the USSR seeks bigger crops and heavy industry.
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Kremlin
Khrushchev
Communist Party Central Committee
Soviet Union
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