McNamara Details Fracture in Communist Unity
Defense Secretary McNamara testified before Congress that evidence shows the Russian and Chinese Communist blocs have fractured perhaps irreparably. He outlined U.S. capability to destroy Soviet targets even after a surprise attack and cited a $53.7 billion defense budget to strengthen readiness.
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Reading Enyclopedia Surprises and Notable Facts Disclosed
An adult student’s hobby of browsing Collier’s Encyclopedia reveals engaging, current topics. Notable entries include Gabriela Mistral’s Nobel prize year 1945 and Mary Mitford’s 1787 birth, plus a note on numerous U.S. mite species and Mithridates VI.
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New York
Barnard College
United States
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Notable Figures Across History and Literature
The text recalls the ancient enemy of Rome who resisted poison, Bartolomé Mitre as Argentina’s first president turned writer and founder of La Nación, the Jewish mitzvah concept with its 365 negative and 248 positive precepts, and Molière whose death followed a convulsive episode after performing in The Imaginary Invalid.
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Argentina
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Danish Princess Anna Marie to Wed Greek Crown Prince in 1964
The royal spokesman announced formal engagement and a March celebration for Princess Anna Marie of Denmark and Crown Prince Constantine of Greece. The couple, aged 16 and 22, traveled from Copenhagen to Athens with the royal announcement.
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Protection Sought In Oil And Coal
Senator Ernest Gruening of Alaska proposed extending the same long term government utility contracts to oil and coal producers as those available to natural gas. He was backed by 11 colleagues in arguing for equal treatment of all three fuels.
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Alaska
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Neon gas discovery and advertising sign fame
Neon, one of the rare atmospheric gases, was discovered in 1898 by Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers. Over the years it gained fame for use in bright advertising signs.
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M.W. Travers
Martin Ludwig Zocher Rites Held At Messinger Chapel
Funeral services for Martin Ludwig Zocher 57 will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Messinger Mortuary Chapel. Zocher of 5748 East Mockingbird Lane Paradise Valley died Sunday at St Josephs Hospital. A building contractor since 1947 he was a Goshen Lodge 119 member and past master a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason of Phoenix a member of Eagles Lodge and a charter member of the Arabian Horse Association of Scottsdale Survivors include his wife Hazel I and sister Mrs Harold Hoffman of Phoenix. Dr Kermit Long and the Masonic Funeral Committee will officiate with cremation to follow.
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Harold Hoffman
Phoenix
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Senate proposes interstate vehicle safety pact in Arizona
A Senate bill introduced in Phoenix aims to require vehicle safety inspections in cooperation with other states. The measure, sponsored by the Highways and Bridges Committee, seeks uniform standards and would create a Vehicle Equipment Safety Commission with one appointee from each participating state.
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UPI
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Arizona
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Seek Showdown In Filibuster Row
The Senate sought to force a vote on the anti filibuster rule with parliamentary moves. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield prepared a second attempt to obtain unanimous consent for Thursday’s showdown.
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UPI
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Mike Mansfield
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Viscount Crash Kills 8 In Airport Disaster
A Continental Airlines Viscount crashed and exploded during approach at the downtown municipal airport. All five passengers and three crew members aboard perished along with the crew, marking the first fatal commercial airliner accident at the airport and for Continental. An earlier Continental crash, blamed on a bomb, killed 45 people.
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Goldwater blasts AF policy over RS70 bomber cut
Senator Barry Goldwater charged the administration with inviting a Pearl Harbor by scrapping the RS70 bomber and warned of an airplane gap three to two and a half years. Secretary McNamara defended relying on missiles and cautioned against fixed concepts, while Senator Proxmire urged developing the best weapons at low cost.
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UPI
Barry Goldwater
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Robert McNamara
Old California lawyer found dead after 30 years in secluded shack
Elisha Corbin, a Stanford classmate of Herbert Hoover, withdrew from public life after Hoover's 1932 defeat. His body was found in a Los Gatos two room shack, his mattress shredded by rats. Neighbors recalled his brilliant mind and isolation.
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UPI
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Scottsdale dealer asks 6500 for porcelain Last Supper sculpture
Maurice Esses of Maurice Galleries in Scottsdale displays a porcelain Last Supper sculpture. The 42 by 14 by 11 inch piece weighs about 120 pounds and has drawn daily crowds. the owner hopes not to sell but would consider offers at 6500. The work dates to about 20 years ago and was created by Italian professor Luigi Fabris, originally owned by Mrs Eugene Whittman of Cannon Mills.
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Meredith Plans Return to Ole Miss for Spring Semester
James H. Meredith, 29, announced at a Jackson news conference that he will return to the University of Mississippi for the spring term. He said recent months show hopeful signs he can attend under adequate conditions after the rioting last fall that left two dead and hundreds injured.
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UPI
James H. Meredith
University of Mississippi
Meredith
Robert Frost to Have Private New England Funeral
Poet Robert Frost 88 will be buried in a family plot in Old Bennington Vermont after a private Harvard Memorial Chapel funeral for his family. He died in Boston after a blood clot in the lung and tributes poured in from Kennedy Khrushchev and admirers worldwide.
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UPI
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Titan I missile lands on target near Waxe Island
A Titan I missile with a dummy thermonuclear warhead landed in its target area near Waxe Island, California, about 5,000 miles from its launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base, in a test announced by the Air Force.
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UPI
Waxe Island
Air Force
Soviet Testing Atomizes Snow In Japan
Tokyo reports Soviet nuclear tests caused the highest air and precipitation radioactivity in years in western Japan. Yonago on Honshu registered the month’s peak readings, with officials flagging anything above 2,500 millicuries for health checks.
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Honshu
Fire seals surround Freeman coal mine No 5 in Logan
Workers sealed off a raging fire at Freeman coal mine No 5 in Logan Illinois, leaving three miners missing and presumed dead. Wooden plugs covered entrances to isolate the blaze in a half mile by one mile area as officials hope oxygen depletion will curb the flames. The modern mine follows Orient No 2 at West Frankfort where a 1951 explosion killed 120.
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