Adrift 3% Days 8 Terry Jo Duperrault Survives
Terry Jo Duperrault, 11, survived 314% days on a raft after the Blue Belle sank near Nassau. She arrived at Mercy Hospital Miami with exposure and dehydration but was described as between serious and critical. Captain Julian Harvey and the Blue Belle crew faced a loss of Renee and ongoing searches continue.
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Miami
Fla
Terry Jo Duperrault
Terry Jo
Green Bay
Wis
Mercy Hospital
Coast Guard
Nassau
Bahamas
Robert Pope
Franklyn Verdon
Julian Harvey
Renee
Harvey
Tito Ship Escorted By Pickets
Coast Guard cutters escorted the Yugoslav freighter Gundulic to its berth in San Diego harbor past a 20-ship picket line of yachts protesting the United States sale of four Navy jet trainer planes to Yugoslavia. Immigration officials watched for crewmen jumping ship amid lighted signs and firecrackers while Patriots Unlimited asserted the sale equates to aiding the enemy.
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San Diego
Calif
Coast Guard
Gundulic
Ead
Patriots Unlimited
Yugoslavia
United States
Edward S. Barr
Thant Considers Rushing Congo Troops After Slayings
Acting Secretary General U Thant weighed sending more U.N. soldiers to the Congo as anger rose over the massacre of 13 Italian airmen by Congolese troops. U Thant, Maj Gen. McKeown, and Conor Cruise O Brien discussed options while Congo force strength fell from 22,000 to about 15,490 as foreign contingents withdrew. U.N. vowed punishment for perpetrators and eyed new measures to quell the crisis amid calls for U.N. authority to act.
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United Nations, N.Y
U Thant
U.N
Congo
Sean McKeown
U. N. Congo
Ghana
Guinea
Mali
Morocco
Tunisia
United Arab Republic
U.N. Congo
U. S
Adlai E. Stevenson
Antoine Gizenga
Oriental
Katanga
Stevenson
United States
Valerian A. Zorin
Adenauer seeks NATO OK for weapon use
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer urged NATO authority to order retaliation with nuclear weapons, arguing one hour may decide fate and that the alliance should not need White House clearance. He cited Gen Heusinger and Norstad plans, tied to changes in U.S. law, as prerequisites for shared custody of warheads. He also pressed Berlin wall removal as non negotiable and backed Ambassador Kroll amid Khrushchev talks.
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West
Soviet Union
NATO
White House
Adolph) Heusinger
Adenauer
Heusinger
U.S
Lauris Norstad
Kennedy
Norstad
Ricky Ragazine’s Basement Rescue in Underpants
In Louisville a four year old boy named Ricky Ragazine refused to leave his home to fetch help after his mother Jennie Ragazine fell into a furnace pipe while retrieving a broom. He finally ventured next door in his underpants to summon aid as neighbors and police arrived.
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Louisville, Ky
Ricky Ragazine
Jennie Ragazine
Ricky
Mommie
Mrs. Magazine
Dayton Bus Strike Extends as Fare Hike Looms
Dayton residents face a third day without city bus service as talks falter. The City Commission approved a fare increase tied to drivers accepting a 21 cent hourly raise, while drivers seek 22 cents. Federal mediator warns negotiations remain unlikely. Adult fare would rise 15 to 20 cents, transfers from 3 to 5 cents. children and students keep 10 cent fares.
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Dayton, Ohio
CTC
Local 1385
Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes Union
James MecGinnity
Irvin Gerard
Your Money Goes Farther In Space
A playful note claims money now winds up in outer space more than before. It highlights rising expenses and humorous perspective on budgets linking consumer spending to cosmic estimates.
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Outer Space
Forces Move In To Capture Butchers Of Italian Airmen
The United Nations rushed Malayan troops to Kindu in the Congo to surround and disarm Congolese forces implicated in the massacre of 13 Italian U.N. airmen. The mob attacked diners at the Malayan mess, distributing body parts to onlookers as chaos erupted near the town prison. UN officials demanded arrest of the Kindu commander and an international probe, with plans to disarm locals and seal off the area as a punitive response.
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U.N
Stuve Linner
Congo
Linner
Kivu
Kindu
Leopoldville
the Congo
United Nations
Lualaba
Sture Linner
Sweden
Kennedy urges negotiating from strength in Cold War stance
President Kennedy argues the United States must negotiate from a position of strength and warns against appeasement or surrender. He says no American solution for every problem and stresses that talks depend on clear vital interests. He addresses 11,000 at the University of Washington and is greeted by thousands in Seattle. Magnuson, a long-serving Democrat, is honored at a $100-a-plate dinner.
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Seattle
Wash
Kennedy
United States
University of Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Warren G. Magnuson
D-Wash
Magnuson
Congress
Train crash injures 71 in Hartford Iowa
Seventy one people were injured when the Rock Island Twin Star Rocket train struck a road grader near Hartford Iowa late Thursday. About 120 passengers were aboard as nine of the train’s 11 cars derailed along the right of way. four victims were seriously hurt, including Lylle Wellons, operator of the grader.
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Hartford
Iowa
API
Rock Island
Lylle Wellons
Weather outlook with gradual warming this week
The mercury rises over five days with temperatures two to four degrees above normal. Highs near 52 and lows around 3. Tonight will be cold with a low of 30. Saturday’s high near 48. Yesterday’s official high was 65 at 12:45 p.m. Overnight low 40 at 1 a.m. Middletown area received .07 inch of rain in the last 24 hours ending 8 a.m. today.
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Mercury
Middletown
Bonn JFK At Odds On Red Wall
President Kennedy and West German Chancellor Adenauer differ on pressing the Soviet Union to remove the Berlin wall. Adenauer says the wall must go and Berlin’s freedom must be preserved. Rusk outlines U S policy on South Vietnam aid as Bonn media press the Berlin issue.
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Bonn
Khrushchev
Herr Kroll
Adenauer
Kroll
Berlin
Foreign Office
JFK
Red Wall
John M. Hightower
Washington
Kennedy
Konrad Adenauer
Soviet Union
Berlin Wall
East Berlin
West Berlin
Rusk
U.S
South
Viet Nam
Saigon
West Germany
Berlin split over wall fate and free movement
The chancellor and the President share no difference on preserving Berlin's freedom and access routes across East Germany. The United States reportedly agrees that the wall must be destroyed and movement between East and West Berlin restored. Yet officials here doubt the Soviets will accept such a proposal.
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Berlin
East Germany
West Germany
Space capsule snagged by C130 crew off Hawaii
A group of pilots in the space recovery program quietly handled the retrieval of Discoverer 35. Captain James F. McCullough, 33, from Wyncote Pennsylvania, spotted the glowing capsule as it descended 500 miles northwest of Honolulu while a radar Concorde tracked the fall. The crew used a trapeze-like gear to snag the parachute and bring in the capsule after a near collision course with the drifting recovery area.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
API
James F. McCullough
Wyncote
McCullough
Air Force
Kodiak
Alaska
Orbiting lab to study space radiation effects on materials
The Air Force states an orbiting laboratory is the sole facility capable of providing information on how space radiation affects organic and inorganic materials, highlighting its unique research role and importance for space science.
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Air Force
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Theo
Canthodontis
Texas
Arthur Duperrault
Mary Dene Harvey
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Tito
Thant
By Tom Hoge
McKeown
NATO OK
John O. Koehler
Germany
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Moscow
Hans Kroll
Dayton
By Peter Grose
Kindy
World Health Organization
George Ivan Smith
Cyrille Adoula
Adoula
Smith
Nowsmen
Sweer
Crane
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