South Africa raids target whites and non whites in mass operation
Police, including plain clothes units, raided homes across major South African cities amid rising non white protests and planned strikes. Authorities said the action aimed to trace sources of boycott calls as Helen Joseph and Liberal party leaders faced searches for materials tied to the treason trial.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Africa
Liberal Party
Helen Joseph
Marathon
Stiffest British Spy Sentence Falls on Blake
George Blake a British official received a 42 year prison term for spying for the Soviet Union over nearly a decade. The judge called the crime gravely damaging, noting the information was highly important to Moscow and undermined Britain’s security.
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London
George Blake
Soviet Union
Britain
Klaus Fuchs
Blake
Lord Parker
Reginald Manningham-Buller
Moscow
Manningham-Buller
Six Trapped In Sinking Off Florida
A 92-foot brigantine named the Albatross sank in the Gulf of Mexico 125 miles west of Key West during a squall. Six crew remained trapped below while thirteen others, including reportedly teen aged Americans, escaped to lifeboats. a freighter rescued survivors and Coast Guard units searched for more. The vessel was on a training cruise from Progreso to Nassau when the sinking occurred.
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Tampa
Fla
Gulf of Mexico
Progreso
Mexico
Yucatan Peninsula
Nassau
Bahamas
Key West
Coast Guard
Connecticut
Egyptians Built Pyramids By Skipping Coffee Breaks
Joke explains ancient construction by noting workers avoided coffee breaks to finish pyramids without heavy machinery. Humorous take contrasts modern labor routines with ancient engineering.
Driving Smooches Draw Fine in Miami Case
Sanford Wagner 19 admitted kissing Loretta Ann Potito 20 while driving, claiming the kiss posed no risk. A Circuit Court jury rejected the defense and awarded Potito 7200 for facial injuries and her father 2600 in punitive damages after an accident.
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Miami
Fila
Sanford Wagner
Loretta Ann Potito
Circuit
Wagner
Housewife Wins Prune Juice Tax Fight Against City Hall
Poughkeepsie A P woman Mrs Robert C Healing a suburban mother of two and an elderly aunt won a tax case over the city sales tax on her prune juice brand. After letters to Washington Albany and reviews by USDA and Duffy Mott Co the juice was exempted from city tax. The state tax commission and city finance chief both ruled the product was food and not taxable.
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Robert C. Healing
Poughkeepsie
Poughkeepere
John E. Deyo
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Duffy-Mott Co
New York City
Deyo
State Tax Commission
Commission
Edward H. Best
Aubrey B. Coons
Cease-Fire Ordered Yet Laos Factions Clash
In Vientiane and southern Laos a rebel command ordered a cease-fire while a battalion reportedly attacked government forces. Mortar fire hit a command center near talks sites as negotiations for armistice began. Rebels blame communications gaps and Laotian confusion for the mixed signals.
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Vientiane, Laos
Laos
Vientiane
Pathet Lao
No-Man’s Land
Boun Oum
Mongay
Luang Prabang-Vientiane
Richmondville Banker Gives Village 402 500 IBM Stock
Chauncey Winters, 68, a Richmondville banker and bachelor, donates 300 IBM shares valued at 357 000 and previously gave 100 shares worth 45 200 to fund village needs. The gift funds a sewer and water project and a fire house, with Winters retaining some IBM stock. His uncle John Holmes has funded a swimming pool and a fire truck for the town.
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Richmondville
N. Y
Chauncey Winters
Schoharie County
Winters
Bank of Richmondville
Albany
IBM
John Holmes
Holmes
Waters
Bank
Union College and University At
Schenectady
Kennedy to Resume Geneva Talks on Nuclear Test Ban
President Kennedy plans to send his Geneva negotiator back to Geneva in a few days with instructions to push for a treaty banning nuclear weapons testing. Officials say no new concessions and no fixed testing resumption deadline, as talks continue despite Soviet backsliding.
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Washington
Kennedy
Geneva
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
U.S.S.R
Five Day Cool Spell Predicted With Light Rain
The forecast calls for no major change in cool spring weather for the next five days. Temperatures will run 3 to 7 degrees below the normal highs of 69 and lows around the upper 40s. Rain is expected in light amounts up to 1 percent with showers likely Thursday night through Monday night. Tonight and Thursday will be cloudy and warmer with a low in the upper 40s and a high near 66 tomorrow. Yesterday reached a high of 58 at 3 pm and a low of 40 at 6 am today.
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John H Glenn Jr
Shepard
Earth
Invasion Leader Captured Near Key West
Radio Havana announced Capt. Manuel Artime, leader of the failed Cuba invasion, was captured after hiding in the Bay of Pigs swamps. Artime allegedly fled Cuba for the exile army with funds from an agricultural cooperative and had earlier been linked with Fidel Castro's rebel forces.
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Key West
Fla
Manuel Artime
Cuba
Radio Havana
Artime
Bay of Cochinos
United States
Exiled Cuban Rebel Claims Escape from Execution Order
Artime fled Cuba after hearing an execution order was issued. He alleged Castro aimed for a Tito style independent communism. Reports last week stated Artime was not killed in the invasion and was at large in the Escambray Bay of Cochinos area.
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Cuba
Artime
Castro
Tito
Russia
Escambray Bay of
Cochinos
Navy Plans Van Balloon Record Try
The Navy aims to launch a manned balloon from the carrier Antietam off Pensacola Florida to reach 116000 feet if weather holds. Additional attempts are planned for Friday and Saturday following last weekend’s weather delays. The record stands at 102800 feet set by Air Force Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger Jr in August 1960.
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Pensacola
Fla
Navy
Antietam
Gulf of Mexico
Air Force
Joseph W. Kittinger Jr
Countdown to Space Flight Fails Twice as Weather Delays
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. prepares for America’s first manned space shot as weather fronts delay takeoff at Cape Canaveral. The Redstone booster faces oxygen-feed tube trouble, pushing launch to at least Friday with John H. Glenn Jr. as alternate.
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Cape Canaveral, Fla
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Weather Bureau
Florida
U. S
Invasion Inquiry Blames Officials for Cuban Flop
Senator Fulbright asserts the failed Cuban exile invasion was a blunder with responsibility shared by the White House and several agencies. He cited testimony from CIA chief Allen Dulles and deputy Richard Bissell and noted further briefings by Secretary of State Rusk amid questions on military planning and policy in Latin America.
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Washington
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
White House
Tiwikis Abalienwan
The
Gum
Fulbright
Allen W. Dulles
CIA
Richard M. Bissell Jr
Dulles
Plans
Dean Rusk
Laos
Cuba
D-Idaho
Ichurch
America
Latin America
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