Discoverer 25 Carries Secret Payload Into Polar Orbit
Discoverer No 25 rose from Vandenberg Air Force Base in heavy fog and entered a polar orbit 91 minutes later. The 2100 pound satellite carries a secret payload and may remain aloft up to four days to maximize data. Recovery plans call for ejecting a 300 pound capsule over Alaska and locating it near Hawaii by air or sea.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
Hawaii
Alaska
Samos
Laos Princes Seek National Union Government
In Zurich Gen. Phoumi Nosavan says Laos three rival rulers agreed to form a government of national union. Premier Boun Oum and Souphanouvong met after talks with Souvanna Phouma to decide a single delegation for Geneva peace talks and to press cease fire and neutrality.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Phoumi Nosavan
National Union
Phoumi
Boun Oum
Souphanouvong
Pathet Lao
Souvanna Phouma
Laos
Drug price fixing verdict may echo nationwide
A federal jury convicted the Northern California Pharmaceutical Association and San Francisco pharmacist Donald Hedgpeth in the first criminal drug price fixing case under the Sherman Act. Sentencing set for June 22. potential fines up to 50 000 and Hedgpeth faces up to a year in jail.
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Northern California Pharmaceutical Association
U.S
Louis E. Goodman
Donald K. Hedgpeth
San Francisco
Association
Hedgpeth
Hedgepeth
Goodman
Lyle L. Jones
Justice Department
Illinois
New York
Nobody wants to get old but seeks long life
People aspire to longevity yet resist aging. The quip notes the paradox of desiring extended years while avoiding the tolls of advancing age.
Port City Strike Expands Across Nation
Federal mediators press for resumption of talks as a nationwide maritime strike spreads to 30 port cities and nearly 1,000 vessels. Tensions rise with pickets in New York New Jersey Louisiana Texas and Massachusetts erupted violence injuring three and four arrests. Unions demand the right to organize foreign-flag crews while Government officials consider a Taft Hartley invoked injunction to restore shipping.
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New York
White House
New Jersey
Louisiana
Texas
Massachusets
Texaco
Camden
N.J
National Maritime
NMU
Seafarers International Union
Marine Engineers
Plot To Overthrow Kasavubu Defeated
In Leopoldville AP reports a conspiracy by Lumumba followers and communist elements, aided by an unnamed embassy, aimed to topple President Kasavubu. Mobutu says next Wednesday was planned for a strike. 40 soldiers were rounded up amid unrest over irregular pay and civil servant strikes.
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Leopoldville
Iain Patrice Lumumba
Joseph Kasavubu
Congo
Foreign Ministry
Joseph Mobutu
Lumumba
Britain Grants Independence to 12 Caribbean Islands
London announced Britain will hand over independence to its 12 Caribbean island territories next May 31 after talks to draft a constitution for the West Indian Federation. The plan, detailing governance for about 3,000,000 people, will be submitted to Parliament next week, with the date subject to approval by island legislatures.
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London
Britain
Colonial Office
West Indies
Moonshiners Move Stills to Mobile Trucks in Georgia
Moonshiners in Grady County shift to mobile stills mounted on flat-bed trucks wired to farmhomes gas and water lines. Officers report quick hookups and rapid escapes. In recent days two mobile distilleries were seized, one with 200 to 300 gallons and its own mash on a two-ton truck.
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Cairo
South Georgia
Grady
James T. Hicks
Sheriff's Office
Love Triangle Ends in Stabbing Death in Columbus Suburb
In a midnight stabbing a 22 year old woman Kathryn Chapman died on arrival at St Anthony Hospital. Suspect Everline Bryant 22 admitted knifing and is in custody for investigation. Robert S White 28 also held for questioning in the Columbus suburb case.
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Columbus, Ohio
Kathryn Chapman
St. Anthony Hospital
Everline Bryant
Robert S. White
Stevenson greeted by riots on Peru arrival in Lima
Adlai Stevenson faced leftist demonstrations in Lima as police used tear gas to disperse protesters near the downtown area while Stevenson arrived to discuss Kennedy plans for Latin America. He later quipped he liked Peruvians, including students, as the tour continues through Ecuador and Colombia.
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Lima
Peru
Adlai Stevenson
Kennedy
Thal
Stevenson
U.S
Latin America
la Paz
Victor Paz
Tractor Kills Man in Ohio Garden Plowing Accident
A Morrow County man, Donald Eugene Lyons of Fredericktown, was killed when his tractor toppled off an embankment and crushed him during garden plowing on Friday. He was a father of five.
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Mount Gilead
Ohio
Morrow County
Donald Eugene Lyons
Rt. 3
Fredericktown
Czech U.N. diplomat faces spy allegations at UN
Miroslav Nacvalac, 39, No. 3 man of the Czechoslovak U.N. mission, is at the center of a U.S. bid to expel him amid claims he collected information for nearly a year. The Czech mission argues U.S. agents dangled wealth promises to recruit him, while Nacvalac recounts a meeting with three men offering money and a life of luxury to cooperate with the Americans.
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United Nations, N. Y
U.S
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Miroslav Nacvalac
Cech U.N
Hammarskjold
Nacvalac
United States
State Department
Lincoln White
Washington
Gripsholm
Tisler
Mr. Mack
Mr. Jack
Mirek
Mack
Macvalac
Newark Wife Killer Sought After Slaying
Authorities hunted Ronald Douglas Curry 27 after he shot his estranged wife 25 and fled with their 3 year old son. The case began in Mrs Evelyn Nabb's home in Zanesville as Curry threatened the others and escaped toward Cambridge in a 1959 green Chevrolet.
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Zanesville, Ohio
Newark
Ronald Douglas Curry
Richard Bridwell
Curry
Evelyn Nabb
Pamela
Sandra
Nabbs
Kennedy Resting At Glen Ora In Middleburg Va
President Kennedy and family at Glen Ora estate in Middleburg Virginia for rest and treatment. Dr Janet Travell to perform an ultrasound. officials say his condition improves and he may walk short distances without crutches soon. He spoke at a conference on international development while recovering.
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Middleburg
API
Kennedy
Glen Ora
Caroline
John Jr
Washington
Janet Tray Lell
White House
Hatcher
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Maine
Katie Libby
Charleston
Libby
Lilly
Veterans Administration
Thomas P. Lowell
John Brooks
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King’s Ferry
Lowell
Discoverer
Utah
Idaho
Arizona
California
Lloyd H. Burke
NCPA
Hudson
American Merchant Marine Institute
Arthur J. Goldberg
Goldberg
Paul Hall
American Ierchant Marine Institute
National Maritime Union
New Orleans
Kasavubu
Laszlo Marothy
British Isles
Columbus
Adlai
U.S. Information Agency
Santiago
Chile
Manuel Prado
Pedro Beltran
Ecuador
Colombia
Bolivia
Stever
Czechoslovakia
White
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Frantisek Tisler
U.n.’S South
Congress
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