Administration Tax Cut Plan Aims At More Jobs
Kennedy aides prepare to push an across the board tax cut to lift unemployment and spur a jump in GNP. The plan, debated in Palm Beach with Dillon and budget advisers, targets a likely $8 billion to $10 billion cut over two to three years while aiming to keep the deficit under $12.4 billion and restore unemployment toward 4 percent by late 1965.
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Eileen Shanahan
New York Times
Washington
Dec
Kennedy
Palm Beach
Douglas Dillon
Treasury
Eisenhower
Khrushchev Accuses Adenauer of Widening Berlin Tension
Moscow dec 27 ap reports premier Khrushchev accuses Chancellor Adenauer of increasing tension in Berlin. He demands withdrawal of Allied troops, calls for unification under a peace treaty, and says UN forces should replace Western garrison in Berlin. He condemns West German lawmakers for provoking clashes and warns of fratricidal war risks.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Konrad Adenauer
Berlin
Adenauer
United Nations
U. S
West Berlin
Soviet Union
Gdr
East Germany
West Germany
Germany
Kremlin
Retailers Urge Emergency Sales Tax Action in Illinois
Springfield sources report the Illinois Retail Merchants Association urged Gov Otlo Kerner to grant emergency status next year to sales tax loophole bills. Association president Joseph T Meek said early passage by a three fifths majority could yield about 100 million in added revenue for a two year period. He argued Democrats and Republicans would support the bills by ordinary majorities, but emergency passage could bring January or February enactment. If passed ordinarily, effects start in July. with five fifths, measures take effect immediately.
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Springfield
Otlo Kerner
Ilinois Retail Merchants Association
Joseph T. Meek
Association
Meek
Trains Crash In Blizzard Across Britain and Europe
A severe winter blizzard slams Britain and Europe, killing at least 18 people in a London area rail collision after a Scot Express rear ended a local train near Copplewell Junction. Six children and an American serviceman are among the dead. 33 injured as travelers faced Boxing Day disruption. The storm extends from the Far North to the Mediterranean and beyond.
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London
Europe
Coppewall Junction
Manchester
Mediterranean
Siberia
Seven Die in Southern Illinois Crash Near Mt Vernon
Five members of the Floyd Shelton family were fatally injured and four others killed as a two-vehicle collision near Mt Vernon left seven others seriously hurt. Driver Larry Martin, 18, of Mt Vernon, and Shelton, 48, led a sobering list of multiple fatalities and critical injuries in the year’s deadliest local crash.
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Mt. Vernon
Illinois
District 1
Floyd Shelton F
Opedyke
Vernon
Shelton
Larry Martin
Mt Vernon
Kenneth Lewis
Ruth Ann Bradford
Linda Sue
Payton
ML Vernon
Martin
Lewis
Peking Pact Clouds Talks in Kashmir Conference
In Rawalpindi Indian and Pakistani ministers opened talks on Kashmir amid suspicion. New Delhi said Pakistan and China announced a joint in principle accord on their northern Kashmir border, while Indian delegates expressed surprise and regret at the lack of warning. Pakistani sources said the Beijing accord would not affect the Rawalpindi talks.
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Rawalpindi
Pakistan
Kashmir
New Delhi
China
Peking
Karachi
Missing Navy seaplane with 13 aboard near San Diego
A Navy P5M Marlin from Iron Patrol Squadron 42 with 13 men aboard went missing during a routine patrol south of San Diego. The aircraft last reported 169 miles west of Guadalupe Island, 350 miles southwest of San Diego. Other Navy planes searched as fuel remained for about 11 hours.
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San Diego
Calif
Here
North Island Naval Air Station
Guadalupe Island
Gulf of Alaska
Frost Improves After Heart Attack in Boston
Poet Robert Frost, 88, is reported to be improving after a heart attack during convalescence from an operation. Doctors at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital said his condition has improved today, noting complications from urinary tract obstruction after surgery. He entered the hospital on December 3.
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Boston
Robert Frost
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Sr Lloyd Mussells
Dee
Venus May Have Slow Rotation and No Global Magnetic Field
AP reports from Philadelphia indicate Mariner 1’s Venus flyby suggests the planet has little or no magnetic field and a possibly longer day and night cycle than Earth. Data from the Dec 14 pass, within 21,600 miles, show Venus rotates slowly, lacks radiation belts and northern or southern lights, while researchers note Earth and Jupiter exhibit stronger or different magnetic fields.
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Philadelphia
Mariner 1
Venus
Earth
Mariner
Jupiter
Free Cuban refugees endure sleepless night aboard African Pilot
Cuban refugees aboard the freighter African Pilot kept awake all night as it left Havana for the United States. Families, including relatives of Bay of Pigs prisoners, sang the Cuban anthem and received meals and blankets. The voyage under Coast Guard escort carried 12 passengers with minimal life gear, amid a tense exodus following Castro concessions.
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Miami
Dee
Havana
United States
U. & Coast Guard
Angla Ceballos de Marero
Castro
Cuba
Berlin
East Germany
West Berlin
Bay of Pigs
Morro Castle
Havana Harbor
Jaimes B. Donovan
New York
Ara
Isle of Pines
Port Everglades
Here
Red Cross
Gary Fire Disaster Threatens Downtown Block
In Gary Indiana on December 27 a blaze swept a business block damaging two buildings and threatening nearby structures. Five firefighters were injured as crews battled eight hours in subzero weather. Loss estimated over 400000 with cause still undetermined. Residents were evacuated from apartments above adjacent stores.
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Gary
Ind
John Massa
Kennedy reviews defense, tax plans in year end talks
President Kennedy met with top aides at the White House and on Palm Beach to review defense strategy and the Skybolt missile funding. He also held a long session with Secretary Dillon and financial advisers on the 1963 tax cut proposal, approving many details of the treasury plan.
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Palm Beach
Fla
Kennedy
Golde
Defense Meir
United Nations
Robert 8. McNamara
Roswell L. Gilpatric
Joint Chiefs of Staff
White House
C. Michael Paul
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
The
Treasury
Artificial Existence City Jitters Weather and Life
Philadelphia December report describes urbophrenia, a city jitters syndrome, caused by crowding and constant indoors living. Dr Kornblueh of Pennsylvania comments on the artificial indoor climate shaping physical and mental well being in modern urban life.
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Allan Blakeslee
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Kornblueh
Igho Hart Kornblueh
University of Pennsylvania
Green leisure and health risks in outdoor recreation
Fragmentary text notes health concerns tied to limited outdoor activity and long sheltered life. Improper vegetation cues and weather details hint at a biometeralogy symposium. Mention of Dr. Kornblueh and the American Association for the Advancement of Science appears, with garbled weather data and dates.
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Finois
Kornblueh
American Association For the
Advancement of Science
Relatives of Bay of Pigs Prisoners Reach Florida
A freighter brought 921 relatives of Bay of Pigs prisoners to Port Everglades and Miami. Officials anticipate further departures from Cuba, with more ships planned. A Cuban Families Committee member said Castro offered to let 1,000 more relatives leave.
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Miami
Fla
Florida
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Guillermo Ara Alonso
Havana
Dinner Key
Berta Barreto de Los Heros
Cuban Families Committee
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Kay
Chester
Way
Joyce
Jeanie
Lisa
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
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Space
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Dhere
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Bablesberg
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