Telstar Thrills America Space Telstar in Europe
New satellite Telstar sent television pictures across the Atlantic to France and England and into U S homes. It relayed Maine to Vice President Lyndon B Johnson and, with two way calls, offered a 1000 word a minute news stream from space. France planned a return program with Yves Montand and views of Paris.
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United States
Paris
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Jacques Marette
Withholding Tax Plan Knocked Out
President Kennedy urges party leaders to move in a Congress mired in bickering and delays. Senate and House stalemate blocks major money bills as Republicans fault the administration.
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Illinois
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Indiana
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French TV On Tap Tonight
New York networks announce a test to receive a French TV transmission via the Telstar satellite at 6 p.m. EST. If successful the program will be broadcast live to U S viewers. Earlier Monday France and the British Isles successfully picked up a U S transmission. The networks do not know what program will be sent.
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Telstar Transmits From Andover Maine To Britain
British viewers stayed up for Telstar’s first transatlantic telecast as the signal from Andover Maine appeared via a horn antenna. The 12 to 15 minute line of sight windows link Europe and New England for early TV exchange and signal the dawn of a global satellite communications era funded by private industry and government.
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Laun
Business To Get Billion Tax Cut
The Treasury will unveil liberalized depreciation guidelines for plant and equipment, reducing the usable life estimates for tax deductions. The move, pushed since the Eisenhower era and accelerated last year, aims to simplify bookkeeping and ease IRS administration while delivering a billion-dollar tax cut to the business community.
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Internal Revenue Service
Protestants Invited to Catholic Ecumenical Council
Vatican City reports the Roman Catholic Church inviting Protestant observers to its Ecumenical Council starting October 11. A Vatican spokesman declined to reveal the number of observers or which churches were invited.
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Ecumenical Council
Vatican
Many East Germans Toil To Reinforce Communist Wall
East German workers labor around West Berlin to strengthen the border barrier with concrete slabs barbed wire and fire lanes under floodlights. Western Allied sources say the push aims to deter refugees bolster guard morale and widen the wall’s reach amid clashes that left deaths and injuries as guards faced escape attempts.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Franco designates Munoz Grandes successor in Spain
General Francisco Franco names Captain General Augustin Munoz Grandes as vice president and top military aide, signaling potential moves toward monarchy restoration. The decree keeps Munoz Grandes as commander of the high staff and assigns defense coordination, with seven new ministers added in the latest cabinet shakeup.
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Francisco Franco
Spain
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Munoz Grandes
Falange Party
Franco
France
India protests border invasion from China over Galwan Valley clash
New Delhi accuses China of a new aggressive thrust into Ladakh with about 400 soldiers encircling an Indian post in Galwan Valley. Nehru, at Pahlgam Kashmir, dictated the protest note to the Chinese embassy warning of full responsibility if a shooting war follows. China replies alleging Indian posts in Galwan and Shyok areas, which India denies.
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Industrialist Owen Young Dies at 87 in Florida
Owen D. Young 87 a leading industrialist and IMF expert died at his St. Augustine Florida home after weeks of illness Born Oct 27 1874 in Van Hornesville New York He chaired General Electric 1922 1939 founded RCA coauthored the Dawes and Young Plans and helped craft Germany s postwar fiscal rehabilitation Funeral services were scheduled Saturday in Van Hornesville at the Universalist Church
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Canton
Boston University
Boston
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Stone & Webster
General Electric
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Churchill watches films from bed while recoverng in hospital
London reports that 87 year old Sir Winston Churchill watched movies from his hospital sickbed Tuesday night and urged London papers to check racing news. Middlesex Hospital said he had a comfortable night as doctors gave injections, likely anticoagulants, to reduce leg swelling after a thigh bone fracture and a blood clot.
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Climber Dies After Fall On Middle Teton
One mountain climber was killed and another injured Tuesday when they fell on 12,798 foot Middle Teton in Grand Teton National Park. Park Service officials withheld names pending notification of relatives. It was not known how the accident occurred.
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Fire exchange reported near Tel Kazir settlement Israel
Official sources say gunfire erupted toward Tel Kazir in Israeli territory south of the Sea of Galilee Tuesday night. No Israeli casualties were reported.
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Tel Kazir
Sea of Galilee
Thousands Protest Medical Care Plan For Saskatchewan
Thousands of Saskatchewan residents gathered in Regina to protest the provinces compulsory medicare plan. Organizers expect 20 000 to 30 000 people before the legislative building as doctors continue their strike joined by British and other foreign physicians. Premier Lloyd stated the government will not bow to the demonstration and urged calm as streets were blocked to prevent congestion.
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Telstar satellite cost 4 million dollars to orbit
New York reports that AT&T spent 4 million dollars to place Telstar in working orbit. A Bell operator humorously asks for the deposit before a call via satellite. Officials say satellite calls may soon cost less than current three minute tolls of 12.50 to European cities via cables.
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American Telephone and Tellgraph Co
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Cooly
Retail sales dip in June amid broad economic slowdown
Washington reports a 2 percent drop in retail sales for June, down 431 million to 19.1 billion. The Commerce Department released preliminary figures marking the sharpest decline since the end of the 1961 recession, signaling softer consumer demand.
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Nevada A Blast Is Successful
Nevada A-Blast Is Successful reports a low power underground nuclear test at CAMP MERCURY 65 miles north of Las Vegas. A white cloud rose from Yucca Flat as millions of tons of earth were blasted skyward forming a crater while observers could not confirm a sun bright flash or fireball.
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Five Children Drown at Long Point Beach Ontario
Authorities say strong winds created undertow at Lake Erie amid a sunny afternoon. Five youths died after being pulled 20 yards from shore as they played near the Williams family cottage 300 yards away. Victims are Jayne Williams 11 Catherine Williams 8 Harold Williams 9 Kenneth Walchuck 10 and Robert Ellis 9. No witnesses to the drownings.
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Catherine
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$700000 Art Stolen From London Gallery
A private O'Hana Art Gallery in Mayfair reports the theft of 35 modern artworks valued at $700,000. Thieves forced a rear door to enter, marking the largest English art theft since last August’s Goya heist at the National Gallery. The collection includes Renoir Monet Toulouse Lautrec Picasso Bonnard works. 12 paintings were stolen last May with 11 later recovered.
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Dog Reunites With Owner After Phone Call
Donna Hurley traced a missing dog by calling several pounds in Los Angeles. When she spoke to a kennel attendant, the dog immediately reacted and recognized her voice, jumping and yelping with excitement, confirming the reunion.
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