Miracle Landing Safe for Pan Am 707 Flight
Pan American Flight 843 carrying 143 passengers and a crew of 10 returned safely to Travis Air Force Base after a No 4 engine failed and two thirds of a wing detached. Captain Charles H Kimes guided the crippled jet while fighter escorts checked for damage and the gear was manually lowered before a safe landing.
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San Francisco
San Francisco International
Charles H
Chuck) Kimes
Danville
Calif
San Bruno
Kimes
Travis Air Force Base
Travis
Coast Guard
Liberal Party Backs Lindsay For New York City Mayor
The Liberal party of New York endorsed Rep. John V. Lindsay for mayor signaling a fusion bid to become the first Republican mayor since 1945. The endorsement came at a convention after a party policy vote despite some delegates opposing the recommendation.
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New York
John V. Lindsay
New York City
Fiorello H. la Guardia
City Hall
la Guardia
Liberal Party
New York State
John F. Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
Lindsay
Seoul treaty protests erupt as students clash
Scores of rioting students in Seoul protested a treaty establishing diplomatic relations between South Korea and Japan. The demonstrations left numerous injuries and 341 arrests reported as authorities struggled to control the unrest.
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Studen
Seoul
Korea
South Korea
Japan
Steel-Nerved Plane Captain Describes Perilous Landing
A Pan American Boeing 707 flight from San Francisco to Hawaii and Manila lost an engine over the bay. Captain Charles Kimes said he kept the plane away from populated areas and informed passengers there was no danger as the engine detached and the wing was damaged.
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San Francisco
Pan American Flight 843
Hawaii
Manila
Charles Kimes
Danville
Calif
San Francisco Bay
Boy 4 Undergoes Heart Hole Closure at University of Michigan
A 4-year-old boy from Fanwood New Jersey underwent a 3 hour 40 minute operation to close a hole in his heart at University of Michigan Hospital. A 12 member surgical team performed the procedure, marking a family pattern as the same operation had been done on his father and sister. Doctors expect up to 72 hours to judge the operation’s success.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
David Brooks
Fanwood
N.J
University of Michigan Hospital
David
Victor Brooks
Susan
NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
Exchange
Severe Nebraska storms bring heavy rains and tornadoes
Rough weather drubbed Nebraska with heavy rains up to seven inches in Humboldt and flooding along the Nemaha River. Tornadoes touched down in open country with windows shattered by hail in DeWitt area. Indiana reports tornado damage in Indianapolis suburbs as storms spread across the region.
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Omaha
Neb
Nebraska
Humboldt
Nemaha River
DeWitt
Burchard
Indiana
Indianapolis
Chief of Old Forge Fire Dept Dies in Line of Duty
Leroy Schmuck aged 46 chief of the Old Forge volunteer fire department died of a heart attack while fighting a restaurant fire in Thendara near Old Forge in the Adirondacks.
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OLD Forge Fire Dept
Old Forge
N.Y
Leroy Schmuck
Adirondack Mountain
Thendara
Red Nichols Dies of Heart Attack at 60 in Las Vegas
Renowned trumpeter Er nest Loring Nichols known as Red to swing fans and leader of the Five Pennies died at 60 in Las Vegas after a heart attack in his motel room. He helped shape big band era, hiring Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw, and others. He was born in Ogden Utah.
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Las Vegas
Ernest Loring Nichols
Red
Nichols
Mint Casino
Switchboard
New York Board Proposes Pay Boost to Teachers on Strike Threat
The New York City Board of Education offers a $31 million two year package to the United Federation of Teachers. Avg raises range from 244 to 444 dollars annually, with 30-hour study credits earning an extra 100. Health coverage and class size cuts are included, plus a pension boost of 5.8 million.
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New York
Board of Education Today
Bernard E. Donovan
WNYC
United Federation of Teachers
Donovan
Forest Fire on Storm King Mountain Won By Troop Aid
A storm King Mountain forest fire was halted Monday night with 130 cadets from the U S Military Academy assisting 300 firefighters. The 125 acre blaze, in its second day, caused no home damage as planes dropped water and units from Cornwall Cornwall on Hudson West Point and Palisades Park aided. Police suspect hikers started the fire.
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West Point
Storm King Mountain
U. S. Military Academy
Cornwall
Cornwall - On - Hudson
Palisades Interstate Park
Anti Castroist Leaders to Hold Tampa Strategy Meeting
The anti-C Castro revolutionary junta led by Manuel Ray plans a July 3-5 meeting in Tampa to map strategy. Officials from Venezuela Puerto Rico and other Latin American nations plus U S cities are expected to attend.
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Miami
Fla
Manuel Ray
Cuba
Tampa
Venezuela
Puerto Rico
U.S
Fire Claims Man Sleeping in Garage in Oneida NY
James D. Moyer Jr., 39, slept in his father's garage to escape heat when a fire swept the structure and killed him. Firefighters including his brother Norman helped respond. The cause of the blaze was not determined.
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Oneida
N.Y
James D. Moyer Jr
Norman
Kadar resigns premiership but keeps top party post in Hungary
Communist party chief Janos Kadar steps down as premier and names Gyula Kallai to the post while retaining the party leadership. The reshuffle adds seven new top officials to the party, all selected to maintain Kadar's control and reassure policy continuity amid East European political shifts.
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Kadar
Vienna
Austria
Communist Party
Janos Kadar
Hungary
Gyula Kallai
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Alexei N. Kosygin
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Romania
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Europe
Moscow
NAACP Official Attacks LBJ War on Poverty
Denver AP report quotes Herbert Hill NAACP official calling the war on poverty a extension of white welfare paternalism and a minor attempt to fight poverty. Roy Wilkins urges using the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to address core problems and enforce Title 7 against job discrimination.
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Denver
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Herbert Hill
National Labor
NAACP
Roy Wilkins
Wilkins
Hill
Antipoverty official touts program reach and growth
Senatorial testimony from Sargent Shriver detailing Johnson era antipoverty efforts. He cites 3.1 million helped with a projection to 5.9 million, 102 Job Corps centers opening, 3,100 community action grants, 75,000 college students aided, 260,000 youths in Youth Corps, 10,000 rural loans, 88,000 adults in work experience, and 530,000 children in Head Start preschool programs this summer.
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Washington
Sargent Shriver
Johnson
Senate Labor Subcommittee
Twin brothers drown during river outing in Kentucky
Wilitesburg Kentucky AP story reports Leslie and Lester Collins both drowned after one fell from a boat during a river outing to celebrate their 16th birthday. The surviving family and local authorities confirmed the tragedy.
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Wilitesburg
Leslie
Lester Collins
Blackey
Widow 80 Dies at Wake for Husband in Olcott
An 80 year old widow, Mrs Elizabeth Sheehan of Olcott, collapsed and died of a heart attack Monday night at her husband Frank Sheehan s wake at a funeral home in Lockport.
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Lockport
Elizabeth Sheehan
Olcott
Frank
First Joint U S Viet Paratroopers Hunt Viet Cong in Jungle
U S and Vietnamese paratroopers led a combined operation 30 miles north of Saigon with about 800 Australian infantry joining later. One American paratrooper was killed by a Viet Cong grenade and another wounded as 1,200 troops were inserted by helicopter after prior air strikes. The campaign followed recent B 52 bombardments and earlier sweeps by the 173rd Airborne Brigade.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
U.S
173Rd Airborne Brigade
173Rd
A. U S
Hanoi
Thuan Chau
Air Force
Son la
Cai Lay
Mekong
U.S. Marine Corps
William C. Westmoreland
GOP Aims to Reclaim Big Cities Negro and Youth Votes
Republican leader Ray C. Bliss outlined a plan to broaden programs and win back urban, Negro and young voters. He stressed expanding efforts in big-city areas where GOP support fell from 41 percent in 1960 to 32 percent with Goldwater in 1964 and urged mobilizing college students and youths. Eisenhower criticized conventions as chaotic and urged reforms.
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Washington
Ray C. Bliss
Republican National Committee
Bliss
Barry Goldwater
U.S
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
House Passes Budget Bill Without Presidential Car Item
The House approved a $7.669 billion etc budget for Treasury Post Office and other agencies for the next fiscal year by voice vote. The measure excluded $522,000 for two special bulletproof cars for President Johnson, a point Johnson opposed and the Senate Finance Committee deleted.
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Washington
House
Treasury
Post Office
Johnson
Senate Finance Committee
Cyclist Killed by Truck Near Glens Falls
Peter Benzirk age 42 of Gansevoort Saratoga County died after a tractor trailer struck him while he bicycled along Route 197 about three miles south of South Glens Falls on Monday night.
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Glens Falls
Peter Benzirk
Gansevoort
Saratoga County
South Glens Falls
Eisenhower Begins Periodic Checkup at Walter Reed
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower entered Walter Reed Army Hospital for his periodic physical examination. Hospital officials said he could be discharged as early as this evening.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Communist influence charged in civil rights groups
An Alabama legislative committee labeled the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee as extensively Communist dominated. It also accused CORE of being an arm of a procommunist conspiracy and said SCLC led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. promotes the Communist line and is substantially under Communist control.
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Montgomery
Ala
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Commission To Preserve the
Alabama
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Violinist Dies in Buffalo Harbor Drowning
The body of Wallace J. Michalski, 64, a former violinist with Rochester and Buffalo Philharmonics, was recovered Monday from Buffalo Harbor. The medical examiner cited drowning under undetermined circumstances. Relatives note his education at Eastman School of Music and Ithaca Conservatory.
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Buffalo
Rochester
Ralph F. Smith
Wallace J. Michalski
Michalski
Eastman School of Music
Ithaca Conservatory
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Afl-Cio Seafarers Union
Chicago Convention Bureau
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Minnesota Twins
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Joe Zimmerman
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