Kennedy urges bipartisan support for space program in Texas
President Kennedy, in a Brooks Air Force Base speech, frames the New Frontier as a bipartisan path for all mankind and notes Texas' 25 electoral votes. He tours with Vice President Johnson while facing Civil Rights debates, Senate cuts, and Texas political dynamics including Gov. Connally's opposition to civil rights legislation.
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San Antonio
Tex
Kennedy
New Frontier Scientific
Aerospace Medical Health Center
Brooks Air Force Base
Texas
London B. Johnson
Lone Star
Houston
Albert Thomas
D-Tex
Medical Center
Congress
Senate
House
John Connally
Johnson
Ralph Yarborough
Yarborough
Erhard and De Gaulle Confer in Paris
West German Chancellor Erhard met French President de Gaulle in Paris for their first talks since his accession. The leaders reportedly agreed well despite disagreements and discussed closer France West Germany ties, Britain's entry into the Common Market, and stronger Atlantic Alliance integration.
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Paris
Ludwig Erhard
Charles de Gaulle
West Germany
Erhard
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
France
Britain
Three Soviet Jets Shoot Down Iranian Plane Near Darga
Three Soviet jet fighters shot down an unarmed Iranian air taxi over Iranian territory after the plane accidentally strayed into the Soviet Union. Two aerial survey officials aboard were killed and the pilot seriously injured. The incident occurred as Brezhnev visited Iran, with official reports placing the event near Darga.
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Iran
Soviet Union
Darga
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Iranian Air Taxi Co
Hoffa Lawyer Disbarred For Jury Tampering
Nashville attorney Z T Osborn Jr barred from all federal courts amid accusations of offering 10000 dollars through a middleman to a prospective juror to influence Hoffa's verdict. Hoffa and six others face trial January 6 on Taft Hartley case juror influence charges. Osborn helped defend Hoffa in 1962.
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Nashville, Tenn
James B. Hoffa
William E. Miller
Frank Gray Jr
Z. T. Osborn Jr
Nashville
Osborn
Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Miller
Robert D. Vick
Ralph A. Elliott
Elliott
District Court
Prestive
Vick
Elliot
Famous Birdman Of Alcatraz Dies
SPRINGFIELD Mr. Robert Stroud 74 known as the Bird man of Alcatraz died today at the U S Medical Center. He spent 54 years in prison including 43 years in solitary confinement. He was sentenced to hang for a 1909 Alaska barroom killing. commuted to life, later another life term for killing a guard at Leavenworth. Dr Jesse Harris said Stroud died in his sleep at 5:45 a m CST after four months without duties. He gained fame for bird experiments and writings that inspired The Birdman of Alcatraz.
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Springfield
Robert Stroud
Alcatraz
U. S. Medical Center
U. S
Leavenworth
Kan
Jesse Harris
Stroud
Alcatraz Prison
Nightwatchman assaulted as burglar steals $1534
A hammer wielding man attacked a night watchman at the Erie County Motor Vehicle Bureau before forcing open a safe and escaping with 1534 dollars. Richard J. Marcinelli, 52, was struck multiple times, needing thirty stitches. The burglar is believed to have hidden in the office since Wednesday’s closing. The money was state motor-vehicle license fees.
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Buffalo
Erie County Motor Vehicle Bureau
Richard J. Marcinelli
Doctor Carlton Hayes Hospitalized After Heart Attack
Dr Carlton J H Hayes former Columbia University history professor and ambassador to Spain is in Sidney Hospital after a heart attack his condition described as not too serious He is 81 years old and lives in Afton with his wife Evelyn Carroll a native of Oswego Hayes served as ambassador to Spain from May 1942 to March 1945 and authored many history books
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Carlton J. H. Hayes
Columbia University
Spain
Sidney Hospital
Hayes
Susquehanna River
Afton
Here
Oswego
Evelyn Carroll
Congo Premier Forces Expulsion of Soviet Diplomats
Congo premier Cyrille Adoula orders expulsion of Soviet and Czechoslovak diplomats while not severing ties with Moscow. Documents seized from two Soviet diplomats allegedly reveal subversion plans and support from extremist Congolese factions.
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Leopoldville
The
Congo
Cyrille Adoula
Moscow
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Adoula
Foreign Ministry
Benik Beknazar-Juzbachevy
Novosti
Boris Voronin
Yuri Miakotnykh
Brazzaville
Congo Republic
Christophe Gbenye
Patrice Lumumba
China
Antoine Gizenga
Stanleyville
Gbenye
Gizengist
Miakotnykh
Syracuse Window Washer Arrested
A 27 year old Syracuse window washer, Raymond J. Griffin, was charged with third degree burglary in a break in and fire at Calvary Episcopal Church. He was booked at a hospital where he worked after police linked a panel truck near the church to the crime. Investigators sought two other men. detectives theorized burglars started the fire and stole a small safe containing church records, later found pried open and burned in a nearby gravel pit.
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Syracuse
Calvary Episcopal Church
Raymond J. Griffin
Oak Ridge Boys Club midgets win fifth straight title
The Little Atoms, a Knoxville Recreation Bureau midget football team from Oak Ridge, dominate this season with 232 points scored and only seven conceded as they claim a fifth consecutive recreation championship in Tennessee.
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Little Atoms
Tennessee
Oakridge
Tenn
Oklahoma
Oak Ridge Boys Club
Knoxville Recreation Bureau
WU2 Spy Plane Missing Over Cuba Found Debris Recovered
Debris from a WU2 spy plane vanished Wednesday during a Cuba mission was located in 100 foot gulf waters off Key West. The pilot Capt. Joe G. Hyde Jr. remains missing. Navy and Coast Guard search continues. Authorities noted no hostile action and cited mechanical failure as a possible cause.
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Key West
Fla
Gulf of Mexico
Navy
Coast Guard
Joe G. Hyde Jr
LaGrange
Ernest H. Dunlap
Petre
Shrike
Nemesis
Hyde
Pentagon
Washington
Strategic Air Command
Defense Department
SAC
Omaha
Gulf
Joe G. Hyde Sr
Marianne Gerdes
Leland, Miss
4080Th
Davis-Monthan Afb
Tucson
Housewife Buys State Yacht for 12590 in Joke
A New Jersey housewife, Polly Ann Halstead, bid 12590 and won Inspector II, New York state’s 38 year old Roosevelt era luxury yacht. She outbid 78 rivals including a Monte Carlo hotel, with sale on an as is where is basis and a deadline of Nov 29 for removal.
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Albany
New Jersey
Franklin D. Roosevelt
State Office of General Services
Polly Ann Halsted
Cresskill
N.J
Monte Carlo
Monaco
Englewood
Office of General Services
Halsteds
Halsted
Inspector II
Roosevelt
Jail escape found in jail in Pensacola
Raymond James, 23, an escapee held on burglary and related charges, was found after a two month fugitive period. He disappeared during a trial recess and was located by officers checking fingerprint records after seven weeks in the county jail.
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Pensacola
Fla
Raymond James
Hummingbird Jet Demonstrates Vertical Takeoff at Fort Benning
A Lockheed-Georgia built jet under a $2.5 million Army contract flew vertically then leveled into normal flight at Fort Benning Georgia in its first complete takeoff-to-landing demonstration. The aircraft named Hummingbird can hover like a helicopter and move sideways with no propellers.
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Ft. Benning
Lockheed - Georgia
Vatican Council approves modern language for Catholic sacraments
The Vatican Ecumenical Council voted to permit modern language throughout Catholic sacraments such as baptism and marriage, dropping Latin for key phrases. It also suspended contentious declarations on Jews and religious liberty for now.
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Vatican City
Vatican Ecumenical Council
Christine Recovering From Amputation At 14 In Cleveland
Christine Simko, 14, lies in Greveland Metropolitan General Hospital after a leg amputation to halt cancer. She endures pain and tears while learning to adjust, with mother Lily Simko at her bedside. Doctors say the pain is normal and Christine has borne up better than expected under stress.
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Cleveland
Christine Simko
Christine
Lily Simko
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