Variety Of Targets Hit by Vietnamese Forces
USS and Vietnamese planes destroyed a North Vietnamese radio station and struck a radar site a supply depot and military installations including barracks and boats. Pilots reported ten weapons positions around the radar on Hon Nieu Island and 19 buildings at Chap Le army barracks. F105 jets hit the radio station and communications center and both were reportedly destroyed. Location not disclosed.
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Edwin Q. White
Saigon
South Viet Nam
USS
North Viet Nam
Hon Nieu Island
Chap le
U S Ambassador Taylor Returns as Viet Nam Debate Grows
Maxwell D. Taylor returned to the United States for talks with President Johnson and left open the chance of a larger combat role in Viet Nam. In the air war pilots reported sinking a vessel near Route 1 and damaging two others after heavy anti aircraft fire and bombs hit a major Vinh depot. Ground forces claimed 80 Viet Cong killed and 60 wounded by Marines with artillery as eight Marines died in a helicopter collision over the South China Sea.
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Washington
U. S
Maxwell D. Taylor
Johnson
Viet Nam
Route 1
Vinh
South China Sea
Chuckle Women Loyal to a Chosen Age
The remark notes that Chuckle Women are very loyal and tend to stick to an age they favor once they reach it, reflecting a humorous stereotype about consistency in preference.
Golden Anniversary Honors Ike At West Point Banquet
West Point 1915 class celebrated its golden reunion with a banquet and cadet review. Guests included former President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Gen. Omar N. Bradley. The gathering recalled D-Day and the class’s long service, with talks by Col. Dusky Gillette and others.
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West West Point
Ike
Mamie
West Point
Union
Corps of Cadets
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas H
Dusky) Gillette
Eisenhower
Gen
Omar N. Bradley
Manhattan
Couple Held In Death Of Star Circus Clown
A young Harlem pair Allen Jones and Marian De Berry face homicide charges in the death of circus clown Paul Jung. They claim police statements were coerced and seek suppression. judge ordered them held without bail while promising protection of rights.
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New York
Paul Jung
Allen Jones
Marian de Berry
Jung
Harlem
Saul Bershadker
Jones
Enid K. Gerling
Miss de Berry
Bershadker
Criminal Court
Manuel H. Gomez
Miss Gerling
Gomez
Senate debates form and scope of foreign aid bill
The Foreign Relations Committee's 3.35 billion aid bill includes a two year cutoff and a 12 member commission to study how aid should be structured. Fulbright pushes splitting military and economic aid and routing more through international lenders with a major OAS role in Latin America. Dirksen proposes adding 100 million to prepare Chiang Kai-shek's forces on Formosa.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
J. W. Fulbright
Fulbright
Organization of American States
U.S
Latin America
OAS
Everett M. Dirksen
Chiang Kai-shek
Formosa
Coast Guard Aids Belgians After Fire On Minerva
Coast Guard crews picked up a radio message from the American freighter Minerva reporting a fire aboard a Belgian fishing vessel in the North Sea. The Minerva, sailing from Zeebrugge, requested assistance as distress signals were received.
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London
Coast Guard
North Sea
Minerva
Zeebrugge
Televising Trials Ruled Out By Supreme Court Vote
The Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, ruled televising criminal trials denies defendants due process. The decision came on Billie Sol Estes appeal claiming lack of a fair trial due to TV cameras in proceedings.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Billie Sol Estes
Texas
Supreme Court Strikes Down Connecticut Antibirth Control Law
The Supreme Court invalidated Connecticut's antibirth control legislation stating the measure violates constitutional rights. The ruling narrows state authority over reproductive health policy and sets a legal precedent for similar statutes in other states.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Connecticut
Justice Clark Reverses Estes Conviction Over TV Evidence
Justice Tom C. Clark delivered the court main opinion overturning Estes conviction in a Texas Tyler state court. He asserted the judiciary’s chief function is to ascertain truth and that television use cannot materially aid this objective.
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Tom C. Clark
Estes
Tyler
Tex
Clark
Judge Clark Warns TV Use in Court Brings Unfairness
In an 18 page opinion, Clark argues television in criminal trials injects an irrelevant factor and can cause actual unfairness. He cites effects on defendants and potential courtroom impact in numerous scenarios.
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Clark
Last Group of Marines Head Home
Santo Domingo report says the final Marines depart for Camp Lejeune while 12 500 airborne troops and 700 Air Force men stay in the Dominican Republic as part of an Inter-American peace force. The force totals 23 000 at the crisis peak with 9 killed in action and 30 wounded among Marines. Bouker departs after receiving the Legion of Merit.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
U.S
Camp Lejeune
N.C
United States
Brazil
Costa Rica
Honduras
Nicaragua
Caribbean
Marine Expeditionary Force
Legion of Merit
Bruce Palmer
Dominican
Republic
Bouker
Actress Judy Holliday Dies at 42 in New York
Judy Holliday an Oscar winner and star of Born Yesterday died in New York at 42 after a cancer battle. She began acting on Broadway, won the 1951 Best Actress Oscar, and left a legacy in film and stage with Billie Dawn. She was married to David Oppenheim, had one child Jonathan, and divorced in 1957.
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New York
Judy Holliday
Junk Dealer
Babe
Miss Holliday
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Billie Dawn
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
David Oppenheim
Jonathan
Farm Boy Sought in Bank Slayings in Nebraska Robbery
FBI issues warrant for 22-year-old Duane Pope, a Kansas farm boy from near Roxbury, on charges of robbing Farmers State Bank of Big Springs Neb and wounding assistant cashier Franklin Kjeldgaard. Three bank officials were killed. Kjeldgaard is in serious Denver hospital.
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Kansas
Nebraska
Duane Pope
Here
Roxbury
Kan
FBI
Farmers State Bank of
Big Springs
Neb
Franklin Kjeldgaard
Kjeld
R. E. Richards
Duel County
Pope
Weather outlook hints at easing rain with cooler temps
Cooler air arriving late tonight or early Tuesday ends the rain in the region. Tomorrow stays cooler under cloudy skies. Lows dip to 60 after a 66 degree low today. yesterday’s high reached 87. By 8 am a half inch of rain had fallen locally, last rain of this magnitude occurred on May 17.
Gemini 4 lands safely after four day space mission
Astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White return to Earth from a 97 hour 57 minute flight drifting 62 orbits and 1.61 million miles. They were recovered on the USS Wasp near Bermuda after a computer glitch limited automatic re entry planning. Both are reported healthy and in good spirits.
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Jules Loh
Houston
Tex
James Mee Divitt
Edward White
Earth
Wasp
Atlantic
McDivitt
Christopher Kraft
MacDivitt
White
U.S
Moon
Roger Chaffee
Dwayne Catterson
Bermuda
Hawaii
Gemini 4
Yuma
Aziz
George Reith
Mission Control
Slippage Faults Lux Homes Edge Toward Ocean in California
In Pacific Palisades near the Pacific, three $100,000 homes toppled from their sites while two more residences and two apartments, including Ben F. Prusek’s unit, were damaged. Total damage exceeds $1 million as a mysterious earth movement continues to threaten a nearby $1 million eight unit apartment building owned by Walter Gotwals. Gotwals blames the underground slip as a lake-like void forms nearby.
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Los Angeles
Ben F. Prusek
Pacific Ocean
Prusek
California
Pacific Pali
Sades
Walter Gotwals
Wata
Gotwals
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Salina
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Glenn Hendrickson
Lois Ann Hothan
Gene Cranz
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