Woman Hidden in Car Trunk Traveled From Alaska to Seattle
Purser Raysmond Wingsness found Francisca Mairo, 33, cramped in a car trunk aboard the Tonsina after docking in Seattle from Cordova Alaska. She rode with candy bars and water hoping to reunite with her common law husband Amos Aganiza 53. She was treated for cramped muscles and released.
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Seattle
Raymond J. Wingsness
Tonsina
Francisca Mairo
Cordova
Alaska
Amos Aganiza 53
Czech Leader Says Red Bloc Will Back Cuba Against Aggression
Foreign Minister Vaclav David of Czechoslovakia told Cuban TV that bloc support would thwart North American imperialism in any attack on Fidel Castro's regime. He arrived from the United Nations for an official visit.
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Havana
Vaclav David
Czechoslovakia
Fidel Castro
United Nations
Fire destroys WGBH TV studios in Cambridge
A general alarm blaze swept the WGBH TV studios and operating center in Cambridge damaging seven nearby businesses in a three story brick building opposite MIT. Loss estimated at about a million dollars by the general manager. Cause not immediately determined.
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Cambridge, Mass
Wgbh-Tv
Channel 2
Boston
Massachusetts Ave
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Surplus U S Commodities For Pakistan In 1962 63
In Karachi, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman and Pakistan Finance Minister Mohammad Shoaib signed a surplus commodities agreement. The United States will provide 621.5 million dollars worth of surplus agricultural goods over the next three years including wheat tobacco corn cotton edible oil dry milk cotton seeds frozen poultry and maize.
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Karachi
Pakistan
Orville Freeman
Mohammad Shoaib
United States
Senator Young Talk Stirs BBC Viewers in London
Ohio Senator Stephen Young drew a nine million BBC audience with blunt remarks on Berlin and U S policy. He defended Kennedy’s UN speech calling appeasement fantastical and warned there will be no war with the Soviet Union. He praised Kennedy as strong willed and predicted U S power to retaliate against Soviet missiles. The BBC said the flood of calls showed strong reader engagement with his statements.
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Washington
England
Ohio
Stephen M. Young
London
British Broadcasting Co
Young
BBC
Berlin
United States
West Berlin
Free World
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
GOP
William E. Miller
Kennedy
Miller
Eisenhower
Ike as GOP Spokesman Shapes Kennedy Critique
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower increasingly acts as the Republican voice on Kennedy foreign policy. With Nixon sidelined, Miller labels Kennedy policy as appeasement, while Democrats hope Ike stays restrained and avoids public retaliation.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kennedy
New York
New Jersey
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
California
Sailors Hunt Valuables Left On Smoking Island
On Tristan de Cunha ash and volcanic smoke hamper salvage efforts by Leopard crew. Four volcano cones remain active as shore parties consider saving movable islander belongings while cats and dogs face danger. The Dutch liner Tjisadane rescued 292 islanders.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Leopard
Tristan de Cunha
Atlantic
Cmdr
P. Hicks-Beach
Tristan
Turkey gobbler hatches pumpkin on Florida farm
In Chipley Florida a turkey on the Nelsons farm has spent ten days trying to incubate a pumpkin. Mrs Nelson notes the tom seldom leaves the pumpkin to drink. The male turkey adopted a small pumpkin after a larger one was picked from the vine.
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Chipley
Fla
B. Nelson
Nelson
General Walker Assigned to Hawaii for Pacific Staff Post
Maj Gen Edwin A Walker, once commander of the 24th Infantry Division, will move to Hawaii next month as assistant chief of staff for operations plans and training in the Pacific command. He was admonished by the Army in June for indoctrination efforts and for attempting to influence troops' votes in the 1960 elections.
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Washington
Edwin A. Walker
24Th Infantry Division
Pacific
Army
Walker
Hawaii
Pacific Command
24Th
Germany
United States
Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Senate Armed Services Committee
Harry S. Truman
American Convicted In Greece
Roger Ranney of Chanute Kansas was found guilty of the willful murder of two Greek sailors, George Mandaleros and Dmitrios Efstathiou, during a November Aegean cruise. He received two death sentences, to be carried out by firing squad, with appeals allowed within 20 days. Ranney claimed innocence, saying he believed he was transporting watches and left the sailors alive on a Greek island after discovering a narcotics smuggling setup. The rented launch was later found scuttled.
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Piraeus
Greece
Roger Ranney
Chanute
Kan
Ranney
Atorneys
John Psilopoulos
George Mandaleros
Dmitrios Efstathiou
Aegean Islands
Explorer VII Keeps Radioing At Two Year Mark In Space
Washington AP reports Explorer Iuit, the 91 pound NASA satellite, continues transmitting despite an automatic cutoff failure. With two of five weekly passes kept, officials hope the transmitter wears out or the craft is damaged to free the 19.9904 megacycle frequency. The satellite orbits 340 to 670 miles from Earth at over 17,000 mph with an expected life of about two more years.
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Washington
U.S
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Space
NASA
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