Old Aircraft Carrier Sunk In Saigon Harbor
The USS Card, a World War II aircraft carrier, was sunk by a pre-dawn explosion in the Saigon River. Divers could not determine if the blast was external or internal as pumps fight flooding in the engine room.
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Saigon Harbor
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Card
U.S
US Military Sea Transportation Service
Navy
Atlantic
Borie
Gotf
Barry
Enterprise
Borge Langeland
New Orleans
United States
Langeland
First Vote On Rights Wednesday Set In Senate Debates
Washington AP Weary senators prepared for another Saturday session of civil rights debate as leaders announced first test votes on amendments for next Wednesday. Sen Morton tied the move to a jury trial amendment limiting it to issues arising under the anti-discrimination bill.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Thruston B. Morton
R-Ky
Morton
Herman FE Talmadge
NAACP May Stage National Work Stoppage Over Civil Rights
NEW YORK AP The NAACP may call a national one day work stoppage and prayer vigil if Congress fails to pass a civil rights bill in reasonable time. Alfred Baker Lewis NAACP treasurer said timing depends on Roy Wilkins with demonstrations to be organized on a community basis.
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New York
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Congress
Alfred Baker Lewis
NAACP
Roy Wilkins
Lewis
Souvanna Proclaims New Unity For Laos
VIENTIANE Laos AP Prince Souvanna Phouma premier of Laos coalition government announced a merger of neutralist and right wing factions hoping the Pathet Lao may join. He spoke of center neutralist and right wing unity and signaled possible talks with rivals while Britain and the Soviet Union condemned the coup and urged restoration of the Geneva backed government. US aid to Laos runs about 40 million dollars yearly.
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Laos
Souvanna Phouma
Souvanna
Savannakhet
Pathet Lao
London
Andrei A. Gromyko
Richard A. Butler
Male
Prince Boun’ Oum
Phoumi Nosavan
Soviet Union
Souphanouvong
Luang Prabang
United States
U.S
Leonard Unger
Methodist Stand Evokes Protest In Pittsburgh
About 1,300 Methodists from across the country demonstrated in downtown Pittsburgh over church integration policy. Participants from Chicago Detroit Birmingham Atlanta and Jackson joined a vigil and silent hymn outside the Civic Arena where the General Conference met. They said the vote to remove racial barriers was not bold enough and vowed to push for stronger action before the conference ends.
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Chicago
Detroit
Birmingham
Ala
Atlanta
Jackson
Miss
Methodists
Civic Arena
General Conference of the Methodist Church
Ralph Roy
New York City
Methodist Church
Accused Kidnapper Confesses To Slaying 7 Year Old
Joseph Francis Bryan Jr. confessed to killing Lewis Wilson, a 7 year old boy found dead in a Venice palmetto thicket. Bryan faces kidnapping charges in Tennessee and South Carolina and the FBI notified St. Petersburg police. The case links to Dennis Burke, 8, Humboldt, Tenn., and John David Robison, 10, near Mount Pleasant, D.C.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Joseph Francis Bryan Jr
Tennessee
South Carolina
Walter Tipton
FBI
Bryan
New Orleans
Tipton
Lewis Wilson
Venice
Wilson
John David Robison
Mount Pleasant
D.C
Miami
Robinson
Dennis Burke
Humboldt, Tenn
Golf Jests on Skill and Badges of the Green
A brisk quip hints that breaking 45 in golf marks poor form while breaking 85 suggests the player is not yet seasoned, poking fun at standards of skill. The remark frames golf as a sport where performance separates the novice from the expert.
Trains Proceed With Flags Down After Border Tug of War
East German authorities removed May Day banners from locomotives delaying two U.S. troop trains bound for West Germany at the Potsdam border. Commanders held the crossing, signaling friction over access routes to West Berlin amid ongoing Cold War tensions between the Western Allies and East Germany.
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Berlin
U.S
West Germany
West Berlin
Frankfurt
Bremerhaven
Potsdam
Lady Astor Dies at Grimsthorpe in Old Age
Nancy Astor first woman in Britain's Parliament dies at Grimsthorpe Castle Lincolnshire home of her daughter aged nearly 86. Illness kept private. memorials planned in London and Plymouth with private burial at Cliveden Buckinghamsire. She served 1919 to 1945 as Sutton division of Plymouth MP and was famed for wit and feminism.
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Nancy
Viscount Astor
Monte Ave
Lady Astor
Cliveden
Buckinghamshire
Plymouth
House of Commons
Sutton
Josef Stalin
Russia
Greenwood
Boston
Robert Gould Shaw
Waldorf Astor
John Jacob Astor
New York
House of Lords
J. J. Astor
Astors
Antipoverty Bill May Be Reshaped
Washington AP reports Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee push to reshape the antipoverty bill. They aim to strengthen education, especially funds for urban and rural impoverished areas, while provisions for farmers, small business people, and relief fathers face revision or removal as jurisdiction and consensus issues arise.
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Washington
House Education and Labor Committee
Blind History Teacher Falls to Death in Cleveland
John Pine, 37, a blind history teacher at the University of Arkansas, died after jumping or falling from the 11th floor of the Statler Hilton in downtown Cleveland. Pine, from Fayetteville, Arkansas, checked into the hotel to attend a Mississippi Valley Historical Society convention. He was accompanied by his seeing-eye dog Shawn. A Nebraskan delegate said Pine mentioned death by his own action in a general way during a Friday night conversation.
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Cleveland
John Pine
University of Arkansas
Statler Hilton
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