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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1962
Page
1
Phillips-Van Heusen announces the end of its 60 year line of separate shirt collars noting demand has fallen and cost of continuing the service is prohibitive. The move marks the decline of a popular Twenties fashion once common on American men.
Cuban premier Fidel Castro denounced Anibal Escalante, a top Communist aide and former editor of Hoy, accusing him of seeking personal power and attempting to shape Cuba's monolithic party to his own ends. Castro announced a public separation without naming formal dismissal. Escalante had been named to the ORI national directorate and tasked with unifying Cuba's socialist groups.
Western observers found air vent evidence suggesting a series of Moscow shelters from the 1950s. Some officials doubt the program and others believe a vast network could exist, though Soviet leaders deny plans for air raid shelters.
Protests shut Algiers as European settlers mourn 41 killed in a clash with French troops during a Secret Army Organization march. Public services halted. banks closed. markets empty. authorities warned the SOS group faces punishment for breaching the cease-fire with Algerian rebels.
A large high pressure system over Ohio keeps sunny, warm conditions in the area for the next 24 hours. Tonight will be cool with a low near 38. Tomorrow looks mostly fair and warmer with a high around 68.
Jacqueline Kennedy, exhausted after a two week India and Pakistan tour, slept early at a Georgian house near Buckingham Palace. Guards watched the scene while American security men stayed inside. Her only announced London engagement is a luncheon with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
A lighthearted note recalls a man who met his future wife at a travel bureau. She sought a vacation while he proved to be her last resort, sparking a chance romance.
U.S. Poet Robert Frost, hailed as all American, declares at a Washington dinner that his new book In the Clearing won’t be his last. Attendees include Attorney General Kennedy and Chief Justice Warren. Kennedy praises Frost as Congress honors him with a presidential medal. Frost recalls pneumonia in Miami and jokes about creating an office of fine arts with Kennedy.
Cincinnati investment firm Ewing Industries announced plans for a $5 million shopping center on the site of the old Mount Healthy Airport, in Mount Healthy northwest of Cincinnati.
Eight East German sailors aged 21 to 25 jumped ship in the North Sea port of Bremen and asked West German authorities for political asylum, police reported today.
President Arturo Frondizi stands firm against resignation as Gen. Franklin Rawson mobilizes troops in a brewing coup. Ex-president Pedro Aramburu and Frondizi clash over a potential exit, while the navy backs ousting and security tightens around Government House.
Geneva talks between Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko yield some progress toward clarifying points of agreement and difference on Berlin. Rusk travels to report to President Kennedy as ministers plan to resume discussions via ambassadors in Moscow and Washington.
Washington AP reports Rober Briscoe lord mayor of Du'vn received a personal invitation from President Kennedy to undertake a visit to Ireland. The gesture signals strong ties between the city and the Irish state during Kennedy's presidency.
Assistant Secretary Finn Larsen testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Army is making progress on a incapacitating nerve gas for several hours without permanent injury. He warned Russia is stockpiling a similar agent and could exploit it to cripple Western Europe’s industrial base without total destruction.
New Orleans AP report notes Scott Wing, a Newman School second grader, writes in a composition that he would like to be 2,206 years old to see future travel. He imagines being the world’s oldest man and spending life in a chair with a pipe, reading and eating.
Alexei Golub the Soviet biochemist who defected last fall and caused an airport clash between Dutch and Soviet officials seeks to return to the Soviet Union. The Foreign Ministry said he is at the Soviet Embassy and has requested his passport. An investigation was ordered to confirm his will.
In Japan's major ports 60000 dock workers walked out for 24 hours demanding legislation guaranteeing stable employment. The action disrupted loading and unloading operations across key harbor facilities.
In Tampa Florida an eight foot alligator entered a runway area at MacDill Air Force Base on Monday and was shot dead by armed guards who deemed it a hazard to bomber operations.
Attorney General Gideon Hausner challenged Adolf Eichmann's appeal in Jerusalem noting a large trove of captured Nazi documents tying the Gestapo official to the extermination campaign. Eichmann faces death sentence and his Supreme Court review continues through the week.
The Chinese Communist rubber-stamp parliament opened its first session in two years in Peiping. Delegates gathered amid official rhetoric, signaling focus on ongoing policy and political work under the leadership.
New York NASA recruiters urge more women in engineering to tackle a looming shortage for aerospace and missile work. William Howe says high school and college girls should be drawn into engineering as NASA aims to hire thousands more professionals in coming years.
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