Coed Elephant Race Victory Sparks wardrobe mishap
Margie of USC won the second annual intercollegiate elephant race in Long Beach as spectators laughed at a split stretch pant incident. Bonnie-Lynne Volk of Sarah Lawrence rode to win while a Chapman College jockey lent shorts to finish the heat for women. Mills College sent Suzanne Smith in traditional attire but failed to catch Volk’s swift elephant.
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Long Beach
Calif
Margie
University of Southern California
Bonnie-Lynne Volk
Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, N.Y
Chapman College
Orange
Miss Volk
Kennedy urges North South dialogue after Birmingham unrest
Atty Gen Kennedy says the United States must increase exchanges between Northern and Southern leaders to ease racial strife in Birmingham. Burke Marshall credits the talks for a temporary settlement, with support from Louis Oberdorfer and Joseph Dolan.
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Washington
Robert F. Kennedy
Birmingham
Ala
North
Kennedy
Burke Marshall
Marshall
Alabama
South
Justice Department
Louis Oberdorfer
Department
Joseph F Dolan
New Chief Appointed For Syria Amid Government Crisis
In Damascus the National Revolutionary Council says it accepted Prime Minister Salah Bitar's resignation and named Dr. Sami Jundi to form a new government. The move ends a week of turmoil over Syria's federation talks with Iraq and Egypt's UAR.
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Damascus
Syria
National Revolutionary Council
Salah Bitar
Sami Jundi
Iraq
Gamal Abdel Nasser
United Arab Republic
Damascus Radio
Revolutionary Council
Jundi
Abut 40
Idence
Bitar
Ba ‘Ath Socialist Party
Ba'ath
Cairo
Socialist Unionist Movement
Nasser
17Yearold Private Survives Live-Ammo Drill in Washington
Pvt Daniel A Arthur 17 describes 10 hours under live-fire in Exercise Coulee Crest near Yakima Washington where red artillery shells and tanks fired around his pup tent. He stayed calm, tried to attract jets with a sagebrush fire, and remained at his post guarding a fake mine field until aid arrived.
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Pvt
Daniel 4
Arthur
Washington
Los Angeles
Paul D. Adams
U.S. Strike Command
Red Artillery
Cholera Outbreak Kills Two in Malacca
The Health Ministry reported a week old cholera outbreak in Malacca on the west coast of Malaya. Two people died and 44 cases are being treated.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaya
Malacca
Health Ministry
Cuban Exiles Plan Unity Junta Against Castro
Reports from Miami and New York indicate Cuban exile factions are maturing a plan to form a junta in exile to back a counterrevolution against Fidel Castro. Enrico Ruiz Williams says a unified structure should form within a week or two, with recruitment and underground action to follow.
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Miami
Fla
Fidel Castro
Enrique Ruiz Williams
Cuba
Central Intelligence Agency
U.S
Ruiz Williams
New York City
Puerto Rico
Castro
Young urges abandonment of Guantanamo base after Castro falls
Sen. Stephen M. Young argues Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba is obsolete and should be abandoned once Castro’s regime topples. He says the base has little strategic value beyond vacations and retirement, noting better air bases in Puerto Rico and the Canal Zone. He proposes converting the site into a University of the Caribbean campus under OAS cooperation for regional education.
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Washington
Stephen M. Young
Ohio
United States
Guantanamo Naval Base
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Young
U.S
Caribbean
Haiti
Central America
Prto Rico
Canal Zone
Guantanamo
University of the Caribbean
Organization of American States
Canada
Western Hemisphere
Free World
Medic Killed In Viet Nam After Helicopter Hit
In Saigon area, a U S Army medical technician died of bullet wounds after Communist fire struck a medical evacuation helicopter about 40 miles north of the city. Eight loyalist soldiers died and 23 were wounded in the skirmish, while two American crewmen on a downed Viet Namese helicopter were wounded. The medic is the 75th U S serviceman killed in South Viet Nam since December 1961.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Farmer Kills Self and Two Children in Ontario Fire
PORT ARTHUR Ont AP a farmer killed himself after forcing his wife from their home and setting a bedroom fire in which his two infant children died of asphyxiation William Churchman 38 his son George 15 months and daughter Susan 2 were the victims police reported
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Port Arthur
Ont
William Churchman
George
Susan
Cooper Begins 72 Hour Prep For Faith 7 Spaceflight
Astronaut L Gordon Cooper Jr enters a 72 hour readiness period at Cape Canaveral Hangar S ahead of his 34 hour flight around the world. He will rest study flight plan and undergo medical tests, as doctors gather baseline data on space weightlessness effects.
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Gordon Cooper
Cape Canaveral
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
U.S
Cooper
Globe
Castro Says Talks With Cuba Possible After Prisoner Exchange
Fidel Castro signaled the prisoner swap could lead to better U.S. Cuban relations and urged including the Soviet Union in any talks about Soviet technicians in Cuba. He hinted at discussing compensation for expropriated U.S. property and left room for three power talks. Sens. Humphrey and Keating insisted no talks while Russian troops remain in Cuba.
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New York
Fidel Castro
United States
Cuba
Soviet Union
U. S
Castro
Riviera
Havana
ABC News
Lisa Howard
Hubert H. Humphrey
Kenneth B Keating
Humphrey
Minnesota
Keating
Caribbean
Integration drive follows Birmingham segregation clash
In Birmingham Alabama leaders map a voter registration drive after a six week integration crisis. King led nonviolent protesters as city officials deny a binding agreement while police harassed demonstrators and arrests exceeded two thousand. The plan focuses on desegregating lunch counters rest rooms and fittings rooms while hiring more Black workers and releasing arrestees.
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Birmingham
Ala
KI Slavee WV
Martin Luther King Jr
Atlanta
Wilmington Man Killed In Crash
DAYTON Ohio AP Robert Beason 24 of Wilmington was killed when his car left Ohio 4 in Greene County near the Greene Montgomery line. Two Springfield teens Donald Rife 17 and Darrell Pruitt 16 were not believed seriously injured.
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Dayton, Ohio
Robert FE. Beason
Wilmington
Ohio 4
Greene County
Greene Montgomery County
Ohio Highway Patrol
Beason
Donald Rife
Darrell Pruitt
Springfield
Three Hurt In Nashville Demonstration Clashes
In Nashville Tennessee a Negro minister and two teenage girls were among at least three injured during the third straight day of anti segregation demonstrations downtown. Mayor Beverly Briley said he will seek talks between business and Negro leaders to avert further trouble, with a likely meeting planned for later today.
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Nashville, Tenn
Nashville
Beverly Briley
Briley
Few People At Rally By CORE In Los Angeles
Three hundred CORE members marched at midnight before city hall to urge Birmingham integration while a dozen Black Muslim protesters handed out literature. James Baldwin spoke at a downtown church meeting opposing the Muslims. Some CORE members circulated petitions urging Kennedy to intervene in Birmingham. The Los Angeles Civic Center appeared a ghost town at night.
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Los Angeles
Congress of Racial Equality
City Hall
Birmingham
Ala
James Baldwin
Kennedy
Los Angeles Civic Center
Soviet Spy Penkovsky Sentenced to Death in Moscow
Soviet military tribunal convicts Oleg Penkovsky of espionage and sentences him to death. Co-defendant Arsenville Wynne receives eight years in prison plus corrective labor, after a five day trial. Wynne pleads for clemency citing his son’s birthday and family.
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Moscow
Wynne
Andrew
England
Chuckle: Gossipers End Up In Their Own Mouth Traps
A light quip notes that people who gossip tend to end up harming themselves as their rumors backfire on them. The remark plays on the idea of vanity and accountability in social chatter.
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Bonnie-Lynn Volk
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Douglas Dillon
Yakima, Wash
Wanda
Tacoma
Wash
Adams
Madigan Army Hospital
Ft. Lewis
Daniel Arthur
Commission
Jurta
Fulgencio Batista
Panama) Canal Zone
Viet Nam
Self
Cape Canaveral, Fla
Eugene Connor
Connor
King
Sidney Smyer
Smyer
Albert Boutwell
Hurt
Corel
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