Pentagon pushes ahead on base closings in election year
Washington reports the Pentagon advances base closing studies led by Thomas Morris with 33 closures. McNamara cites annual savings around 424 million dollars, projecting 8,500 civilian and 7,800 military job cuts over 34 years, with broader Navy yard reductions possible.
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Washington
Pentagon
Thomas D. Morris
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Morris
McNamara
Defense Secretary
Navy
Johmson
Associated Press
Defense Department
Johnson
Nine fossils stolen from Syracuse University geology department
Nine fossils of sea lilies dating up to 450 million years old were reported stolen from the geology department at Syracuse University. The items were listed as valuable paleontological specimens and parts of the collection. Local authorities urged anyone with information to contact the university or police.
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Syracuse
Syracuse University
New York Congressmen Unite Against Base Closures
New York senators and representatives introduced measures to slow or halt the Defense Department plan to close seven bases in the state. Keating Javits O'Brien King Pirnie call for reviews when 100 or more civilian jobs are at stake, amid protests of unemployment impact.
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Washington
New York
Congress
Defense Department
Kenneth B. Keating
Jacob K. Javits
Carleton J. King
Alexander Pirnie
Leo W. O'Brien
White House
O’brien
Keating
Rome Air Material Area
Schenectady Army Depot
Rome
Schenectady
Senate
Javits
Eight Americans Die In Two Viet Nam Crashes
In Saigon a helicopter and an Otter plane collided with Americans aboard. The H37 helicopter crashed in the Mekong Delta killing five aboard, one survivor found in serious condition. The Otter plane with four U S advisers and three Vietnamese crashed in the central highlands with no survivors reported.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
U. S
Mekong
Kien Phong
Central Highlands
Nha Trang
Ban Me Thuot
Lehman Estate Exceeds 1 Million After Senator Governor Death
New York The estate of Herbert H. Lehman former U S senator and four time New York governor is valued at over 1 million dollars. His will filed in Surrogate's Court lists 11 charities receiving 815000 with the Edith and Herbert Lehman Foundation set to receive 300000. Lehman died December 5 at age 85. The 48 page will dated September 27 creates trust funds for his widow and two adopted children.
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New York
Herbert H. Lehman
U. S
Edith and
Herbert Lehman
Lehman
Johnson to Seek Improved Latin American Relations
Johnson plans a broad reorganization of the Alliance for Progress to sharpen U S relations with Latin America. A congressional source predicts a complete shakeup in leadership and methods. White House aides say Johnson is reviewing government operations, with talk of widening authority over Latin American policy. Potentially named is Thomas C Mann to a new high level post overseeing U S Latin policy. Mann, a former assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs and now ambassador to Mexico, met with Johnson on Wednesday. The Alliance for Progress, created by JFK, aims to push social and economic reforms in the region.
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Washington
Johnson
Alliance For Progress
U.S
Latin America
White House
Pierre Salinger
Salinger
Moscoso
Thomas C. Mann
U. S
Mexico
Mann
John F. Kennedy
Rusk Attends Paris Parley on International Situation
Secretary of State Dean Rusk flies to Paris for a NATO ministerial meeting to review changes in the Communist bloc and East West relations. He will meet French President de Gaulle and carry a Johnson message as the alliance weighs strategic and political questions.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
Paris
Atlantic Alliance
Conference of
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Com
Munist
Rusk
Defense
NATO
Robert S. McNamara
Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Charles de Gaulle
Johnson
Europe
Alliance
United States
France
Moscow-Peking
Snow and Cold Grip Much of the United States
Snow and freezing air stretched across the Northern Plains to the Midwest with unseasonably low temperatures across the eastern two thirds of the nation. In Montana and neighboring states depths reached up to 15 inches while Lewistown dropped to 17 below zero. At least 16 deaths were blamed on snow covered highways as forecasters warned of no quick relief. Central Texas saw 40s while rain spread from Texas to the Atlantic Coast.
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Associated Press
Plains
Midwest
Montana
Dakotas
Minnesota
Nebraska
Wyoming
Kansas
Iowa
Lewistown
Mont
Butte
Great Lakes
Weather Bureau
Texas
Atlantic
Marina Oswald aims to build future for her children in U S
Marina Oswald, 22, widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, is described as devoted to her two daughters June 2 and Rachel seven weeks. Under Secret Service protection in Dallas area, she travels minimally, sews, and seeks self improvement while adjusting to U S life. She has received over 1000 letters and donations exceeding $12,000.
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Dallas
Kennedy
America
Marina Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald
Marina
Russia
United States
Secret Service
Irving
Rachel
Parkland Hospital
Fort Worth
Aot
Three Die While Shoveling Snow In New York Area
Alfred Strecker 58 of Schenectady collapsed and died Thursday night removing snow in front of his home. George Fridy 75 of Schenectady collapsed and died Thursday night while shoveling snow outside his home. John Meehan 68 of Valley Falls died Thursday night of a heart attack while operating a snowplow outside his Troy suburb home.
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Schenectady
Alfred Strecker
George Fridy
Valley Falls
John Meehan
Troy
Water fluoridation in New York by fall
New York plans to fluoridate tap water for its 8 million residents by September barring legal snags. After a 12 year battle, the Board of Estimate unanimously approved the program in a 15 minute session. The system, first used on a large scale in Grand Rapids, Mich., aims to reduce tooth decay.
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New York
City Board of Estimate
Grand Rapids, Mich
FBI Reveals Serial Numbers Of Money In Sinatra Ransom
The FBI distributed serial numbers of the $240,000 ransom bills to banks nationwide as agents raided a Canoga Park home and FBI officials reported a Los Angeles camera being used to observe ransom pickup. Neighbors recalled a man renting the Canoga Park house as Frank Long, and Sinatra Sr. is not commentating on the Oakland report.
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FBI
Frank Sinatra Jr
Washington
FBL
San Fernando Valley
Canoga Park
Oakland
Frank Sinatra Sr
Oakland Tribune
Sinatra Sr
Tribune
Associated Press
Bel-Air
Los Angeles
Sinatra
The
San Francisco
Sinatra Jr
Lake Tahoe
California-Nevada
Paul Belford
Frank Long
FBI Arrests Cosa Nostra Boss Angelo Bruno in Boston
FBI agents detained Angelo Bruno, the reputed Philadelphia crime syndicate head, as his Pan American plane landed at Logan International Airport at 12 35 p m EST. Bruno had left Italy Thursday night and faced a grand jury indictment dated October 31 for conspiring to violate laws against interstate travel to commit extortion.
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Washington
Philadelphia
Cosa Nostra
FBI
Angelo Bruno
Pan American World Airways
Boston
Logan International
Bruno
Italy
U. S
Explosion hits Alleghany Ballistics Laboratory near Cumberland
State troopers rushed to the scene of a reported blast at Alleghany Ballistics Laboratory seven miles south of Cumberland near Rocket Center West Virginia. No injuries were confirmed and the lab operated by Hercules Powder Co for the Navy was in emergency status and not taking outside calls.
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Cumberland
Cumberland Barracks
Alleghany Balistics Laboratory
Here
Walter Gross
Hercules Powder Co
Navy
Cumberland Evening Times
Rocket Center
W. Va
University of Rochester Seeks More Negro Students
The University of Rochester, with about 2,500 undergraduates and only two Black students, launched a drive to enroll more Negro students. Local high school juniors were invited to tour classes, while current undergraduates were encouraged to visit home high schools to discuss applying. A student exchange program lets white students spend a term at a Black school and vice versa.
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Rochester UP
University of Rochester
Rochester
Space program hits boosts and setbacks in Titan Saturn tests
Cape Kennedy reports a Titan 2 rocket flight boosts the man in space program while Saturn 1 two stage launch faces a postponement due to cracked fittings. NASA plans an unmanned Tiros 8 weather satellite orbit test next Tuesday to provide instant cloud cover images to over 50 stations worldwide. The first unmanned Gemini flight is set for March with two man orbital mission next year.
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Cape Kennedy
Fila
United States
U. S
Space Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
East Syracuse Railroad Worker Killed by Freight Train
George C. Bickel aged 36 of East Syracuse was killed Wednesday night at the DeWitt Freight Yards of New York Central Railroad. He was a railroad employee and was coupling train cars when struck by a moving freight locomotive.
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East Syracuse
George C. Bickel
New York Central Railroad
DeWitt
Bickel
Police Dog Too Docile For Joe
Anka the German shepherd hired by the Boston police department to help hunt criminals is described as too friendly to be effective. At three years old she enjoys human company and affection, leading Deputy Supt. William A. Bradley to order her dismissal. City officials must decide whether to sell or destroy the dog.
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Boston
Ike
Anka
William A. Bradley
Pencils Forgiven by Conscience Burden Over Footnote
An anonymous letter from Whittier reaches the Cincinnati Board of Education claiming $1 for a used art pencil taken from Sherman Elementary school 48 years past. The note frames the act as a heavy moral weight, though it does not request action.
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Cincinnati
Board of Education
Whittier, Ae
Sherman
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