Nixon Delays Return as Florida Stay Extends
President Nixon lingered in sunny Florida delaying his return to Washington. A planned Urban Affairs Council meeting was canceled due to weather, while Nixon, Rogers, and Kissinger weighed foreign policy matters tied to the European trip and NATO.
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Fla
Nixon
Florida
White House
Urban Affairs Council
Washington
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Henry A. Kissinger
New York
Boston
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Daniel PF. Moynihan
Key Biscayne
Charles G
Bebe" Reboza
Rogers
Kissinger
Paris
Disaster relief team to tour tornado hit Mississippi areas
A federal disaster team led by an assistant to President Nixon planned a tour of Hazlehurst Laurel areas heavily damaged by a January tornado and a later deadly butane tank car explosions. Robert Brown and officials would visit with Gov Williams representatives to assess rehabilitation and rebuilding efforts.
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UPI
Nixon
Hazlehurst
Laurel
Robert 3. Brown
Brown
Washington
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Copith
Simpson
Smith
Southern Railway
Southern Railway Ane
Four Fliers Rescued After Snowy Canyon Crash
Four Nellis Air Force Base airmen were saved after a private Cessna 172 crashed in a snowbound canyon 38 miles northeast of Kingman Arizona. Sgt Michael Brower piloted the plane with William Garrett Robert Schroeder and Robert Tura aboard. Medics and sheriff’s deputies assisted at the scene with no injuries reported.
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Kingman, Ariz
UPS
Nellis Air Force Base
Here
Air Force
Coconino County
Michael Brower
William Garrett
Robert Schroeder
Robert Tura
Brain Signal Operates This Arm
Temple University researchers unveil an artificial arm controlled by brain signals. The six pound limb uses electrodes on chest back and shoulder muscles to mirror natural arm movements and grasp objects through thought. Development by Dr F Ray Finley and Moss Rehabilitation Hospital engineers spans four years with broad distribution possible in about a year pending a proper harness.
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Moss Rehabilitation Hospital
Temple University
Philadelphia
F. Ray Finley
Temple's Medical School
Finley
Dispute Idles Snow Plows In Framingham Mass
Public works employees in Framingham west of Boston refused to man snowplows during a severe storm. The protest over a construction dispute led to overtime bans, forcing the highway department to hire over 30 private plows to clear roads clogged by more than a foot of snow and numerous abandoned vehicles.
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Mass
UPI
Public Works
Boston
Highway Department
New York in Snow Becomes People’s City Again
A weekend blizzard transforms New York City from a machine dominated metropolis to a pedestrian paradise. Snow halts cars and buses, silences air traffic, and returns streets to residents who revel in calm, beauty, and communal humor before machines gradually reclaim the streets.
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Human Brotherhood Jatent
New York City
Manhattan
U.S. Weather Bureau
Wes
Man
Mar
Exchanges Shut Down by Storm
A severe eastern snow storm paralyzed New York causing the New York and American stock exchanges along with commodity venues and the National Association of Securities Dealers to close for a full day. Trading floors were 10 to 15 percent staffed with many brokers unable to reach their offices. Normal activity was expected to resume Tuesday.
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New York Stock Exchange
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American Stock Exchange
Astronaut Borman Cancels Dutch Visit and Events
American astronaut Col. Frank Borman canceled a Hague news conference and afternoon appearances after an intestinal illness. He arrived late from Brussels due to snow delaying his plane, met Queen Juliana and Premier De Jong, opened a color space pictures exhibit, then grew worse. He and his wife and two escorts were on a goodwill European tour.
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Borman
Hague
Brussels
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Netherlands
Piet de Jong
U.S
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National Aeronautic and Space Laboratory
Amsterdam
European Space Laboratory
Noordwik
Europe
Prince Michael of Kent to race bobsled in Romania
Prince Michael of Kent plans to become the first British royal to visit an Iron Curtain country by competing in an international bobsled event in Sinaia Romania during his tour of Eastern Europe.
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London
Prince Michael of Kent
Britain
Sinaia
Ro- Tima
Witness testifies to plot to kill Kennedy involving Shaw Ferrie and Oswald
In New Orleans at Clay Shaw’s trial, Perry Russo testified he overheard Shaw, David Ferrie, and Lee Harvey Oswald plotting to kill President Kennedy. He described a mid 1963 party at Ferrie’s apartment and identified Oswald in photos, noting a well dressed man as Shaw.
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Clay Shaw
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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John F. Kennedy
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Terrie
Sandra Moffett
Assl
James A. Alcock
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Des Moines
Iowa
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Ferrie
Clem Bertrans
Oswald
Leon Oswald
Leon
Kennerdy
Erris
Louisiana Parkway
Uptown
Alcock
David Ferrie
Galhering
First Hijack Victim Recalls Nightmare Flight
Miami plant supervisor Osits Martinez survived Cubana Airlines hijacking on November 1 1958. Five Castro supporters seized control, the pilot refused course change and was beaten. The plane crashed into the Atlantic near Oriente Province killing 17, including his wife and three children. Martinez endured injuries and two months recovery before leaving Cuba for good in 1960.
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Tenn
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Batista
Peas
Castro
Varadero
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