Glass-bottom boat explodes injuring 17 tourists in Bahamas
A glass-bottom boat carrying American tourists from Paradise Island to Nassau exploded injuring 17 people. They were hospitalized with leg burns at Princess Margaret Hospital. The U.S. consul followed to the hospital as victims were evacuated by another vessel. Names and partial addresses of the injured were released by the hospital.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Paradise Island
Princess Margaret Hospital
U.S
Turner B. Shelton
Mary Whelan
Chicago
Pearl Katz
Brooklyn
Mary Scott
Plantation
Fla. David
Schnepfe
Baltimore
Caroline Adams
Georgia
Joseph Meyer
Helen Austin
Disgruntled Father Sells 1964 Car After High Speed Run
In Reno, a classified ad quotes a father offering his 1964 auto for sale after a highway patrol, sheriff, and city police inquiry into a near one hundred miles per hour incident. The notice highlights police checks and the car's hot history as a cautionary tale.
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Reno, Nev
Reno
Sheriff's Office
Women threaten indefinite boycott over Colorado food prices
Denver area housewives and the HLFP mobilize against five major chains led by Miller's and National Tea, threatening an indefinite strike if prices are not lowered. Stores promise price cuts and may suspend promotions while shoppers switch to independents and direct purchases.
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Denver
UPI
Colorado
Housewives
Miller’s
McLeod Hutson
Ege
Miller
Hutson
Selassie arrives in Cairo as clashes erupt outside Ethiopian Embassy
Riot police detained about 37 of an estimated 100 demonstrators who smashed embassy windows and burned a limousine as Emperor Haile Selassie arrived for a four day visit to Cairo. Nasser welcomed Selassie at the airport and hosted a dinner ahead of talks on Africa Middle East issues and Vietnam.
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Ciaro
U.A.R
UPI
Hale Selassie
Cairo
Ethiopia
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Selassie
Middle East
Amman
Jordan
Nasser
Viet Nam
Israel
Beirut
Whitehall residents form WRATH against highway plan
Pittsburgh AP reports suburban Whitehall residents banded together to oppose an expressway through their community. The group called themselves WRATH, short for Whitehall Residents Against The Highway, signaling organized local resistance.
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Pittsburgh
Whitehall
Sex and Morality book by clerics may stir controversy
A British Council of Churches committee issued a report titled Sex and Morality that declines to declare premarital intercourse universally wrong and supports birth control guidance for the unmarried. It also critiques overemphasis on masturbation and calls for sex education and updated attitudes toward contraception and abortion. A Star poll in Hong Kong found 85 percent disapproval of concubinage among 184 men and 116 women.
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London
Alo
Kenneth G. Greet
British Council of Churches
Council of Churches
Greet
D. H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley
Parliament
Britain
Hong Kong
Star
Central African Republic to start a navy despite landlocked status
Bangui announces a fledgling navy as part of a broad armed forces buildup. The river tug donation from Congo Kinshasa marks the embryo force, with Bangui likely to base headquarters on the Ubangi River and the South Atlantic ocean 500 miles away via neighboring states.
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Bangui
Central African Republic
UPI
Jean Bedel Bokassa
C.A.R
South Atlantic
Republic of Came- Troon
Ubangi River
Congo
Kinshasa
Switzerland
Lake Geneva
Uganda
Lake Victoria
Youki Desnos of Hemingway's Paris dies at 65
Youki Desnos known as the Queen of Montparnasse died after a long illness at 65 in a Paris hospital. once a muse to surrealists and linked with Hemingway Fitzgerald and Stein she rose from Belgium roots to Paris fame then faded into illness.
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Paris
UPI
Youki Desnos
Montparnasse
Ernest Hemingway
Scott Fitzgerald
Jezra Pound
Gertrude Stein
Youki
Belgium
Fujita
Jude
Parc Monceau
Japan
Wall Street
Robert Desnos
Denos
Desnos
Espinanze
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O’hare
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New Yorker
Illinois
Paul Douglas
Chai
National Tea Co
Paul West
HLFP
Safeway
Red Owl
Furr’s
King Soopers
Mobmars Selassie
Hemingway
Eyi
EZ Meena
Addis Co
Gunece As
Riorda
Clemmamee
Marvel
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