Changes In The Death Of A President Book
A source close to the Kennedy family says revised passages totaling about six pages of 654 will soften personal material in William Manchester’s The Death of a President. Mrs Kennedy withdrew her suit after Harper Row and Manchester agreed to delete or modify personal passages, with deletions not political in nature and aimed at preserving the historical record.
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Kennedy
William Manchesters
Harper & Row
John F. Kennedy
Harper & Row and
Manchester
Johnson
Arkansas Prison Farm Scandal Prompts Action Call
Gov. Rockefeller released a 67 page state police report detailing inmate accounts of torture beatings extortion at Tucker State Prison Farm. Prisoners spoke of liquor narcotics trafficking and filthy conditions including a crank telephone device and electric shocks. The findings spurred calls for a legislative commission to study and reform prison conditions.
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Little Rock, Ark
Winthrop Rockefeller
Tucker State Prison Farm
Rockefeller
Criminal Investigation Division
Oral E. Faubus
Dan D. Ste
Arkansas
Slee Po
GOP to Oppose Johnson Surtax Back Vietnam Stand
The GOP rebuttal to President Johnson’s State of the Union will demand budget cuts to avert a 6 percent surtax on most incomes. It will oppose the surtax yet back the U S position in Vietnam, while criticizing administration foreign policy blunders.
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Washington
Johnson
GOP
U.S
Vietnam
Wheeler U S Bound To Win In Vietnam
Washington reports ten thousand more U S troops will be sent to South Vietnam this month raising the American force to 495000. Pentagon sources say the end of the year total will be 475008 in Southeast Asia, a figure they contrast with administration estimates. Wheeler says Gen Westmoreland agrees with Washington on the needed force and declines to date a moment of victory.
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Washington
South Vietnam
U.S
Pentagon
United States
Wheeler
Wstmoreland
Chuckle About Good Advice Interfering With Plans
A playful remark notes how good advice often disrupts ongoing plans and antics. The line hints at humorous tension between guidance and personal schemes.
Families and Cash Fuel Macao Crisis Talks
Deserting Macao chiefs and about 40 Macao Chinese were detained as tensions rose. Some said the situation was about to blow up while a Portuguese negotiator prepared to send his family back to Lisbon, signaling deep impasse.
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Macao
Lisbon
Rail yards pounded as Hanoi push continues
U S fighters bombed a railway yard north of Hanoi while clashes along the border persist. In Saigon a Viet Cong guns downed a U S aircraft with all eight aboard killed, coinciding with a Mekong Delta helicopter loss. North Vietnam claims air losses, while U S forces report 76 Viet Cong killed in the Iron Triangle sweep and four captured in ten days of fighting.
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Saigon
U.S
Mekong
Red River
Blizzard Strikes North Amid Bitter Cold Wave
A paralyzing blizzard hammered the northern Midwest with blinding snow and 70 mph winds. Cold wave warnings covered a 15 state swath from the Canadian border to northern Oklahoma and eastern New Mexico as travel halted and schools closed. At least three deaths were linked to the storm, including two in Minnesota from shoveling snow and a trailer accident in South Dakota.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Weather Bureau
Canadian
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Rockies
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Plains
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Iowa
South Dakota
M.p.h
Marquette
Lake Superior
International Falls
Minn
Key West
Fla
Generals Move Up At Top Of Air Force
President Johnson reshuffles top Air Force leadership with Gen. John D. Ryan reassigned to Harris Jr. and retiring January 31. Gen. Joseph J. Nazzaro to head plans and operations, succeeding Nazzaro. Gen. Glen W. Martin becomes inspector general, replacing Compton.
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Air Force
Washington
Johnson
John D. Ryan
Ryan Harris Jr
Joseph J. Nazzaro
Nazzaro
Glen W. Martin
Compton
Cold Wave Forecast With Severe Warnings
The Weather Bureau issued severe cold wave warnings for much of the country including the Middletown area tonight. Overnight lows may reach zero under clear skies with a high in the teens tomorrow. Yesterday’s high was 35 and the low 22 as temperatures slide to 20 by 11 a.m.
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The
Weather Bureau
Middletown
Bulldozer Rescue Plucks Stranded Kids In Minn Blizzard
In Chokio Minnesota a blizzard stranded 30 students from a local school after a bus ran off a snow-filled ditch. Six men guided a bulldozer and support crew through heavy snow for five hours to reach the bus. students stayed overnight at the school for warmth and safety.
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Chokio
Minn
Burton Nypen
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Dell Books
Canfield
Pendent News
S. Vietnam
Iron Triangle
Hanoi
Clayton Kolling
Ann Landers
Aseadcede
Crane
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