Theyll Share It With Rats In The Rayburn Building
The first tenants move into the new Rayburn House Office Building next week for temporary offices as construction lags. The $83 million site will house 169 members in lavish suites, but early workers will occupy cramped windowless cubicles amid a maze of corridors. Rats have been spotted in the facility, linked to a sewer running beneath.
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Rayburn House
Rayburn
Sam Rayburn
Washington
Black-Square
Greece Warns Turkey Keep Off Cyprus Amid UN Peace Force Plea
UN Security Council members prepared a call for an international peace force to resolve the Cyprus crisis. Greece warned Turkey that any invasion would trigger war, as Athens tightened readiness and pressed for a mediator and a council vote.
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Turkey
Cyprus
United Nations, N.Y
Security Council
11-Nation Council
U.N
Counel
Bolivia
Brazil
Morocco
Norway
Ivory Coast
George Papandreou
Ruby Jury Likely By Day's End
Dallas AP report says Jack Ruby's murder trial needs two jurors to reach a full panel. By today 126 prospective jurors had been screened with eight men and two women chosen. Slow progress stemmed from careful questioning, numerous death-penalty opponents, fixed opinions, and long peremptory challenges.
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Dallas
Tex
Jack Ruby
Brown
Ruby
Tight Security Johnson Target Of death by own action
The Miami Herald reported on heightened security during Lyndon B. Johnsons Florida visit amid fears of an aerial assassination. The Secret Service reportedly received a tip of a possible suicide pilot or missile aimed at the president, prompting security changes including nonidentifiable aircraft and helicopter rides without visible presidential markings.
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Florida
The
Herald
Gene Miller
Secret Service
Air Force
West Palm Beach
Miami Beach
Miami International Airport
Atlantic
Caribbean
Saigon PX Guarded After Bombing
In Saigon Viet Nam a heavy guard stood outside the U S armed forces commissary and post exchange after reports that Communist terrorists planned to blow up the U S military post. Military police searched Vietnamese police sentries guarding Americans to ensure posts were manned. Security tightened since the Viet Cong bombing of a U S movie theater on February 16 killing three Americans.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
U.S
Eastern U S Snowstorm Smacks Atlantic Coast
A wind swept snowstorm pounded the Atlantic Coast as the Weather Bureau warned four Northeastern states of heavy snow. Maryland Delaware New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania faced alerts with emergency plans in 19 counties and Baltimore. Snow totals included ten inches in Frederick County and four inches in Baltimore with Garrett County at 22 inches. The system moved from the Gulf of Mexico and dropped snow across Kentucky Tennessee Alabama Virginia and West Virginia, with Kentucky reporting a 12 inch fall in Breathitt and Owsley counties near Lexington. Driving hazards closed schools in 12 counties.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
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Maryland
Delaware
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Baltimore
Frederick County
U.S
Garrett County
Gulf of Mexico
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Virginia
West Virginia
Breathitt
Owsley
Lexington
Hotta Case Heads to Jurors in Tennessee Trial
Final arguments in the James R. Hotta jury tampering case set for Monday with a possible Tuesday night deliberation. Government and defense waived debate on final jury instructions, with prosecutors noting the court will determine its directions.
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Chattanooga
James Neal
Washington
Tippit's Widow To Give Free Circus Tickets
Mrs J D Tippit widow of a Dallas policeman slain in the Oswald case uses world contributions to buy 500 circus tickets. She will give them free to all widows and orphans of Dallas police and firemen. She and her three children aged 5 11 and 14 will attend the March 26 Dallas police fire fighters circus.
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J D. Tippit
Lee Harvey Oswald
Dallas
Tex
Cotton Wheat Bill Passage Delayed in Senate Debate
Washington AP reports protests against beet land meat imports and many amendments stalled quick passage of a farm bill. Seven hours of debate yielded no votes as Democrats push to finish the measure by Wednesday while farmers await details on federal programs before spring planting. Administration backers predict an upcoming emergency beef buying program.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Nine Sousie children perish in Troy house fire
A family of nine children died when a fast moving three story brick home burned in Troy. Napoleon Sousie and Lillian Sousie were hospitalized with injuries, and several other children were injured or unaccounted for as responders battled subfreezing conditions. Authorities noted a kerosene space heater on the second floor as a possible ignition.
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Troy
N.Y
Napoleon B. Sousie
Lillian
St. Mary's Hospital
Robert
Sousie
Boyd
Donald
Linda
Edward
Joseph
Stephen
Gloria
Napoleon Jr
Judy Stone
Sousies
James Barrett
Mexico to Get 30 Million Housing Loans
Mexico City AP reports signed papers pledging 30 million dollars in loans to fund a low cost housing program. The Alliance for Progress sources fronted 20 million from AID and 10 million from the Inter American Development Bank. The plan offers low interest loans with 16 to 15 year terms to keep monthly payments affordable.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Chaneled
Alliance For Progress
Agency For International Development
Inter- American Development Peak
Woman crawled 350 feet to survive wreck near dead man
Myrtle Scott, 50, a Santa Rosa real estate saleswoman and minister's wife, crawled from a night alongside a wrecked car after a reversal of gears sent it off a steep embankment. Injured with broken ribs and a dislocated elbow, she recalled praying through action and, after hours of climbing, being found by three truck drivers who came to her aid.
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Willits
Calif
Myrtle Scott
Santa Rosa
Chuckle Opinion Cites Age Norms and Gold Diggers Claim
A humorous column jokes that girls remain minors until about 18 and notes that some then become gold diggers, reflecting a playful but provocative view on dating and maturation.
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