Former U2 spy pilot Powers fears freeway flights
Francis Gary Powers, once shot down over Russia, now narrates radio traffic from 3,000 feet above Southern California freeways. He recalls stage fright versus a CIA mission and reflects on the 1960 U2 incident, his Soviet conviction, and subsequent life as a test pilot and author.
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Los Angeles
UPD
U.S
Vane
Russia
California
Francis Gary Powers
Central Intelligence Agency
KGIL
Powers
CLA
Soviet Union
Paris
Rudolf Abel
United States
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Irarhaig
Beverly Hills socialite booked in murder probe
Porterville Tulare County officials report Beverly Hills socialite Hope Niven Masters, 31, adopted daughter of W. Van Cott Niven, was arrested at her father’s home on suspicion of murder in the slaying of William Thomas Ashlock, 40, whose body was found near a Springville River Valley ranch after a Saturday night shooting with no sign of struggle and no clear motive.
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Porterville
Beverly Hills
Hope Niven Masters
Parlly
William Thomas Ashlock
Los Angeles
EB. L. Doheny
Ashleck
Decurous River Valley Ranch
Springville
Carleson eyes nationwide welfare reform push
Robert B. Carleson, longtime California welfare chief, named federal welfare liaison for all states. He vows to extend California style reforms including eligibility tightening, earnings checks, and absent-father tracking to a nationwide program while facing criticism from rivals and ongoing court battles.
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Robert B. Carleson
Long Beach
Carleson
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
California
Highway Department
State Supreme Court
John Burton
San Francisco
Weinberger
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Jyneprnpent Press
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