McNamara unveils 63 actions to cut bases and save millions
Secretary McNamara announced 63 new base closures and consolidations, aiming to save about 68 million dollars annually and reduce civil and military staff by over 10 thousand. The plan includes real estate releases, plant sales, and regional office consolidations across 29 states, with overseas actions pending NATO talks.
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Robert 5S
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Wash
Florida
Virginia
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Boston
Army Materials Research Agency
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Deceatur
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Okla
Rioting Convicts Quelled at Dallas County Jail
Police with dogs and fire hoses ended a three and a half hour riot by about 150 prisoners on the seventh floor of the Dallas County Jail. Jailer Ray Masters was superficially wounded by two inmates wielding a broken razor. Prisoners torched mattresses and protested food and crowded conditions as Sheriff Bill Decker described the disturbance.
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Bill Decker
Decker
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John F. Kennedy
Jack Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
Kennedy
Ruby
Rights Protesters Plan to Block Chester Schools Reopening
Chester officials planned to reopen 18 public schools next week after closures sparked by civil rights protests over segregation. Demonstrators vowed to block reopening, with arrests totalling 216 in sit-ins at public buildings and the Chester home of a county Republican leader.
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Francis P. Donahoe
Frank Brooks
Committee For Freedom For Negroes
John J. Vaul
Delaware County
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Timothy Tyler
Edward Tucker
Ronald Ellis
Brooks
Louis Brown
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Birmingham
Ala
Jackson
Miss
Louis Smith
Congress of Racial Ae
National Core
James Farmer
Seek to Resolve Jury Trial Issue In Rights Talks
Washington senators push a Mansfield-Dirksen amendment to the civil rights bill as a substitute for Talmadge’s plan. The move aims to break the Senate stalemate on jury trial rights amid ongoing negotiations led by Humphrey and Kuchel.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Everett M. Dirksen
Herman Talmadge
D-Ga
Hubert H. Humphrey
Dminn
Thomas H. Kuchel
Calif
Mansfield-Dirksen
House hearing on school prayers amendment continues
House Judiciary witnesses press for a constitutional amendment to reverse the Supreme Court ban on official school prayers. Rep. Robert L. F. Sikes argues religion should be present in schools and public spaces, while few backers support replacing the court ruling.
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Supreme Court
House
America
Robert L. F. Sikes
Dfla
House Judiciary Committee
Sikes
John W. Davis
D-Ga
Craig Hosmer
Rcalif
Hosmer
Congress
Emanuel Celler
D-Ny
What's Inside Radio Personals Funerals Fulton Fulitorials
Radio personals funerals Fulton fulitorials six classified ten sports nine obituaries and
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Rube Goldberg Ends Cartooning Career In New Venture
Rube Goldberg, 81, draws his last daily cartoon and shifts to sculpture. He began at the Chronicle in San Francisco and by 1916 earned about 100000 a year in New York for Boob McNutt and Mike and Ike They Look Alike.
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New York
Rube Goldberg
Goldberg
the Chronicle
San Francisco
Boob McNutt
Mike and
Ike
Laos Premier and Cabinet Accept Rebels Terms
Laos Premier Souvanna Phouma announced the cabinet agreed to conditions set by right wing rebels to settle the Laotian crisis. Coup leaders warned they will keep military control of Vientiane until a government aligned with their wishes is formed.
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Prince Souvanna
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Siho Lamphouthakoul
Pathet Lao
Khang Khay
Souphanouvong
Phoumi Nosavan
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Soviet Union
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U.S
Fidel Castro
U. S
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United States
White House Rose Garden
Pentagon
Air Force
John F. Kennedy
Castro
Book Compiled From Letters To Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson reviews Dear Mr Ambassador a collection of his public letters. He notes letters praise his stature and mock criticisms of his U N posture. He recalls personal notes inclining to marriage proposals and standard replies.
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New York
Adlai E. Stevenson
U. S
United Nations
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Security Council
P. S
Cigarrette Sales to Minors Measure Backed by Governor
A New York bill to curb tobacco sales to youths under 18 won Gov. Rockefeller’s signature. The act requires stores selling cigarettes cigars and other tobacco products to post signs warning that such sales are prohibited to minors.
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Albany
Gov. Rockefeller
World's Fair earns praise from customers in New York
The New York World's Fair recovered from opening day weather and protests as about two dozen visitors polled praised the exhibitions. Attendance rose to 163,252 on Thursday from 92,600 the day before with many citing educational value in government and industry pavilions and better dining and rest facilities.
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Flushing Meadow Park
Dante Germanotta
Walpole
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New York State
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Hussein of
Jordan
Barry Rejects Foreign Policy Briefing Offer
President Johnson proposed intelligence briefings to GOP nominees to discuss foreign affairs. Sen. Barry Goldwater sharply rejected the idea, while two other Republicans said they would accept. The rest on Johnson’s guest list remained silent.
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Washington
Johnson
Barry Goldwater
Dean Rusk
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
John A. McCone
Central Intelligence Agency
Goldwater
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Richard M. Nixon
Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
Harold FE. Stassen
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Mrs Mina McComber Celebrates 101st Birthday at Gabriels Sanitorium
Mrs Mina McComber marked her 101st birthday today with a party at Gabriels Sanitorium where she has lived for eight years. A native of Lawrenceville she formerly lived in Dickinson Center Franklin County.
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Mina. McComber
Gabriels Sanitorium
McComber
Lawrenceville
Dickinson Canter
Franklin County
Rome Woman Dies In Route 49 Crash
Mrs. Josephine Palmon, 70, of Rome was killed Thursday when the car she rode in slammed into a utility pole and a tree beside Route 49, southwest of Rome.
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Rome
Josephine Palmon
Route 49
Tish Preuss Captures North and South Women’s Amateur
Phyllis Tish Preuss shot two under par to win the 18 hole final in Pinehurst North Carolina defeating Mrs George Trainor 7 and 6. The North and South Championship crowned Preuss as champion in the two under par victory.
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Pinehurst
N. C
Phyllis
Tish) Preuss
George Trainor
French Give $100000 for Kennedy Library
Ambassador Herve Alphand of France presented Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy with a $100000 check from the French people for the Kennedy Memorial Library. Kennedy accepted the gift in his office and called it another sign of enduring Franco American friendship.
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Washington
Herve Alphand
France
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy Memorial
Kennedy
United States
Governor Vetoes Parachute Jumping as State Sport
Governor Rockefeller declined to sign a bill allowing parachute exhibition jumping by licensed performers in New York. He vetoed the measure for the second straight year, blocking parachute jumping as a state sport.
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Rockefeller
New York State
State Commerce Department
Second-Grader Meets LBJ Visits White House
Cathy May Baker, seven, gained national attention after President Johnson mentioned her letter urging trains to run. He invited her to the White House and greeted her at O’Hare during a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago.
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