Soviet Cosmonaut Sets Distance Orbit Records in Space
Lt. Col. Valery Bykovsky breaks world distance and orbit records in Vostok 5 while his partner Valentina Tereshkova remains in orbit. Bykovsky reaches five days and surpasses four day previous record. Tereshkova hits her 30th orbit as both crews report health and normal systems progress.
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Valery Bykovsky
Valentina Tereshkova
Bykovsky
Maj
Andrian Nikolayev
Miss Tereshkova
Valentina
Earth
Space
Tass
Kennedy to Stop At Berlin Wall During Europe Trip
President Kennedy will tour Western Europe with a news conference a major address and two Berlin Wall stops. He plans to visit Italy despite a government crisis and will discuss with Italian leaders after leaving Britain on June 30. He departs Andrews Air Force Base at 9 30 p m for West Germany.
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Washington
Kennedy
Europe
Berlin Wall
White House
Italy
Britain
Andrews ‘Air Force Base
West Germany
Doctor Dies in Walworth Barbiturate Overdose
Dr Peter Broth erston Lesslie, 39, opened a Walworth office eight days earlier to serve the village after a prolonged search. He was found dead in his quarters from a barbiturate overdose. Coroner Evan Tansley withheld the note’s contents. Lesslie left four children and came from Glens Falls.
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Wal Worth
Wayne County
Peter Brotherston Lesslie
Lesslie
Evan Tansley
Tansley
Walworth
Glens Falls
Senators Split on Private Firm Integration Plan
Senators diverged on a GOP led plan to treat private business integration as voluntary. Goldwater supported Dirksen's compromise while Case urged Congress to ban discrimination in public dealing firms and act on civil rights.
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Washington
Senate
Kennedy
Barry Goldwater
Senate Gop
Everett M. Dirksen
Mllinois
Clifford P. Case
R-N.j
Congress
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Democratic
Civil Rights Commission
400 More Troops In Maryland City
Maryland adjutant general ordered 400 additional National Guard troops into the racially tense Cambridge area today. Lt. Gen. Milton Reckord said the 2nd Battalion of the 175th Infantry would assemble at Dundalk near Baltimore and move to Cambridge to deter further demonstrations as negotiations with black leaders were urged to resume by 8 p.m. The force includes troops from a battalion placed on standby last weekend.
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Cambridge
Maryland
National Guard
Milton A. Reckord
Baltimore
175Th Infantry
Dundalk
Reckord
Kennedy News Conference Canceled This Week
President Kennedy will not hold a news conference this week. Officials cited scheduling and ongoing legislative matters as the reason for the change in plans.
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Washington
Kennedy
Keating regrets court Bible ban and calls for civil rights coalition
Senator Kenneth B. Keating of New York urges Republicans and non southern Democrats in Congress to unite for civil rights legislation. He criticizes the Supreme Court ruling on Bible reading in schools as disappointing while defending the Bible as literature.
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Averill Park
Kenneth B. Keating
R-N.y
Congress
Keating
Kennedy
Supreme Court
Court Decision on Bible Readings in Schools Draws Mixed Reactions
Reaction to the Supreme Court ruling banning Bible readings and the Lord’s Prayer in public schools was largely mild in Washington and Congress. The decision affects thousands of classrooms but state officials and clergy stressed the need for religious instruction while upholding government neutrality.
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Washington
Congress
New York
Supreme Court
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Tom C. Clark
Baltimore
Abingdon
Prospect woman kills husband and five children then dies
Mrs Elizabeth Gregor, 44, shot three children in the living room and two twin boys before calling her husband to return home to their 50 acre Prospect farm. Joseph Gregor, 52, was shot in the kitchen, then she killed herself with a .12 gauge shotgun. Six bodies were found, including four children aged 10 to 14. Police reported ill health and notes indicating she was unwell. Gregor worked as a parts manager at a farm implement store.
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Prospect
Elizabeth Gregor
Pittsburgh
Joseph J. Gregor
Steel talks fail to yield basic industry contract
Months of informal talks with the United Steelworkers Union failed to produce a contract agreement with the basic steel industry. The union did not reopen contracts, avoiding strike pressure while seeking further discussions.
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Pittsburgh
Basic Steel Industry
United Steelworkers Union
Fatally injured Buffalo boy struck crossing street
Leonard Guerin nine years old of Buffalo was fatally injured Monday when struck by an automobile while crossing a west side street.
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Buffalo
Leonard Guerin
Arrangements Completed For Papal Conclave
Vatican officials wrapped final planning for the 1958 conclave to elect the 262nd pope. Costs may reach up to 500 008 dollars with 80 cardinals expected. clergy and lay helpers vowed secrecy and to avoid equipment inside the Sistine Chapel and adjoining palaces.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Pauline Chapel
Sistine Chapel
Apostolic Palaces
Boy Bitten to Death by Hungry Husky in Boulder
In Boulder Colorado Brett Alan Whitney age 2 was found dead in his backyard from a dog attack. Police say two Siberian huskies owned by Clair J. Bankston were chained in the yard and had not been fed for days while Bankston was away on a fishing trip.
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Boulder
Colo
Brett Alan Whitney
Donna Whitney
Douglas W. Whitney
Ft. Si’l
Oklo
Clair J. Bankston
Bankston
3000 Negroes Boycott Boston Schools Protest De Facto Segregation
Negro leaders say the Boston junior and senior high school boycott was a success with about 3000 pupils absent to protest de facto segregation. Buses moved students to freedom centers while police guarded Tech entrances. Leaders press for public admission of segregation. school board declined.
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St. Mark's Social Center
Boston Technical High School
Tech
Boston School Committee
Wnegro
Louise Day Hicks
Fredrick J. Gillis
NAACP
Citizens For Human Rights
James Breeden
Breeden
Anson Phelps Stokes
Episcopal
Massachusetts
Thomas Pettigrew
Harvard University
Bill Russell
National Basketball Association
Boston Celtics
New York to Break Up Predominantly Negro School Enrollments
Albany reports state education commissioner orders local districts to end racially imbalanced enrollments. Malverne’s Woodfield Road School to be 75 percent Negro, with 50 percent threshold defining imbalance. City schools, including Harlem, not specified. Local officials must report by Sept. 1. Kennedy civil rights talks continue with plans for vocational retraining.
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Kennedy
Congress
White House
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Everett M. Dirksen
Dirksen
Albany
New York
James E. al- Ten Jr
New York State
Allen
Malverne
Long Island
Woodfield Road
New York City
Harlem
Commis
Hoover Shows Some Improvement Despite Severe Illness
Former President Herbert Hoover, 58, was reported to have made some improvement Monday as doctors said his fever declined and heart action grew more regular. There had been no further bleeding from the gastric intestinal tract. Hoover, operated on for cancer last August, is under care of four doctors in his Waldorf Towers suite.
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London
Britain
Harold Macmillan
Macmillan
House of Commons
Profumo
John Profumo
New York
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Waldorf Towers
Will March If Negotiations Do Not Resume
In Cambridge Maryland Negroes threaten to march again unless white leaders resume negotiations by 8 pm. NAACP executive secretary Philip Savage told about 450 cheering neighbors that National Guard, governor, and federal government will not stop them and that 100 marchers will go if needed.
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Cambridge
Maryland
Philip Savage
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
National Guard
Dundee youth dies in rural road crash
Terry Lee Shaw, 19, of Dundee, was killed Monday night when his automobile left a rural road near the Schuyler County village and struck a tree.
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Dundee
Terry Lee Shaw
Schuyler County
Drowns When Car Rolls Into Creek
Henry Williams seven of Rochester drowned Monday night when a car he rode in rolled into a creek. A three year old girl was rescued. Police say William Cox fifteen pulled the girl through an open window. Cox was fishing alone in Black Creek. The boy's body was recovered 15 feet from shore.
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Churchville
Henry Williams
Rochester
William Cox
Rene Hatchett
Cox
Black Creek
Williams
Caledona Man Killed in Bulldozer Crash
Vernon R. Brooks, 24, of Caledona, died Monday when a bulldozer he operated left a road and struck a sick. The accident occurred in Wheatland vicinity during ongoing work. Brooks was identified by authorities and the incident is under investigation.
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Vernon R. Brooks
Caledona
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