Supreme Court bans school prayer in public education
The high court ruled 6-1 that official state adoption of a nonsectarian prayer in New York schools violates the First Amendment. Justices held government sponsorship of religion is forbidden, even with voluntary student participation, drawing mixed reactions from religious leaders nationwide.
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UPI
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American Jewish Committee
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Boston
New York
Francis Cardinal Spellman
America
C. Emanuel Carlson
Baptist Joint Committee On Public Affairs
Harold R. Albert
Pittsburgh Area
High Court
Jusce Hugo L. Black
U.S
Black
Supreme Court ends term with major anti trust and obscenity rulings
The Supreme Court closed its 1961-62 term with government victories in antitrust and price discrimination cases affecting major firms like Brown Shoe and Bowman Dairy. It upheld Sherman Act charges and reaffirmed limits on price discounts while ruling three magazines were not obscene. The court deferred on a Rhode Island obscenity challenge and kept a broad religious freedom decision in mind.
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Earl Warren
Warren
Justice Department
Chicago
Bowman Dairy Co
Borden Co
Gost
Postmaster General
Congress
Book Publishers
Rhode Island Commission
Northeast Ohio Weather Summary With Clouds And Warmth
Northeast Ohio reports clouds and mild warmth with highs around 74 to 79 degrees. Forecast calls for fair and cool conditions tonight with lows near 50s, then sunny on Wednesday with slight temperature rise. Monday’s high 82, with humidity around 93 percent at 2 p.m. EDT. sunrise 5:35 a.m., sunset 9:05 p.m. Moonrise Monday at 12:31 a.m., moonset 1:30 p.m. EDT.
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Ohio
Police hunt bank bandit in Cleveland robbery
Police continued the hunt for a gunman who robbed a Cleveland Trust Co. branch, fleeing on foot with about 2100 dollars after the alarm sounded. Investigators checked clues to identify the suspect as officers reviewed the scene.
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Cleveland
UPI
Cleveland Trust Co
West Germany funds aid to underdeveloped nations
Bonn sources report West Germany provided 41.9 million dollars to underdeveloped nations in the past year. A 1957 study finds that private investors account for more than half of West German aid to these areas since the 1957 start.
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Bonn
Germany
UPI
West Germany
Pan American strike resumption eyed in shows of force
Ottawa reports Prime Minister John Diefenbaker facing Liberal and Socialist critics for delaying Parliament to ratify austerity, while in New York the Pan American flight engineers strike looms with possible federal injunction as unions push to sustain walkout and federal mediation fumbles amid airline turmoil.
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UPI
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Diefenbaker
Pearson
Caouette
Social Credit
Canada
NEW York
Pan American World Airways
Flight Engineers International Association
FEIA
George Rosling
Brooklyn
Pan American
Jhas
Eastern Air Lines
Arthur Goldberg
Washington
Air Line Pilots Association
Rosling
NMB
National Mediation Board
Eastern
Worker dies after 29 foot fall at Lorain plant
John C. McDermott 41 of Lorain dies at St. Josephs Hospital 24 hours after tumbling 29 feet from a scaffold in blast furnace four while installing permanent gas line supports. Price Burdette 30 remains in very critical condition after brain surgery. Scaffolding was held up by a rope that slipped. both men were with American Bridge Co. McDermott had two years with the company. survivors include wife Stella and two children. Reidy Scanlan arranging arrangements.
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American Bridge Co
National Tube Co
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McDermott
Maine Ave
Price Burdette
East River Rd
Burdette
American Bridge
U.S. Steel
Stella
Reidy-Scanlan
Estes Meeting Sparks Conflicting Testimony Over Bill Estes Talk
Washington House investigators press the dispute between Texas lawyer Frank Cain and New York financier Maynard Wheeler regarding a March 18 breakfast meeting with Billie Sol Estes at Estes Pecos Texas home. Cain testified that Wheeler offered to place Estes in Europe while Estes suggested Brazil. they reportedly discussed a Swiss bank number system. Wheeler swore Cain’s Texas testimony was false and denied remarks about Estes in Switzerland or in Brazil.
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UPI
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New York
Billie Sol Estes
Pecos
Tex
House Inter - Governmental Relations
Dallas
Frank Cain
Estes. Cain
Maynard C. Wheeler
Commercial Solvents Corporation
Bill Wheeler
Estes
Cain
Pacific Finance Company
Wheeler
Sel Estes
Europe
Texas Tycoon
Brazil
House
Italy
Milan
Switzerland
Swansea education panel rejects Macbeth screening invite
An education committee in Swansea Wales refused a request to show a film version of Shakespeare's Macbeth to schoolchildren. One member objected that the play is full of blood and thunder while another quipped Shakespeare wrote it after a thick night.
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Swansea
Wales
UPI
Rusk Backs Common Market Talks Steering NATO nuclear policy
Secretary of State Dean Rusk said to agree with British leaders that major NATO and Allied nuclear policy decisions should wait for Britain's Common Market negotiations. He completed a five country European tour ending with an Oxford honorary degree. The U S stresses a multilateral deterrent while NATO plans a continued review next months.
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UPI
Dean Rusk
NATO
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Bonn
Berlinn
Rome
Rusk
Oxford
Hic
Lisbon
Athens
NATO Council
United States
Kennedy
Curb-the-snake move stalls Amherst council session
Safety Director Wenrich failed to secure action on a proposed ordinance regulating dangerous animals after a Lorain County incident. Gene Edwards keeps a half grown boa constrictor in his Park Avenue apartment, but health officials found no health-code violation. Officials noted no nuisance unless the snake becomes a public or private nuisance, while council members debated the need for broader pet regulations and zoo definitions.
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Amherst
Safety Service
Car Wenrich
Wenrich
Lorain County
Park Ave
Gty
Richard Martinck
Stock Rally Fails To Erase Early Losses Markets Hope
New York trading ends with a late rally that cannot undo steep early losses. Dow falls to 536.27, a four year low, as 800 stocks close down while 353 rise and 186 hold. Glamour issues IBM Xerox Polaroid rise amid mixed utilities and steel results. Volume hits 7.09 million on the NYSE.
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New York Stock Exchange
IBM
Xerox
Polaroid
Narrow escape on Empire State Building scaffold
New York workers narrowly escaped a fall from the 18th floor when a scaffold slipped. Walter Palmer aged 60 slid seven floors on a safety rope to the 11th floor and was pulled inside a window. Michael Merren, 36, clung to the dangling scaffold and was rescued by office workers on the 18th floor.
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New York
UPI
Empire State Building
Walter Palmer
Michael Merren
Parking ruling in Amherst sparks merchant protest
Where To TurnTM Karts are ruled out of angle parking spaces in Amherst prompting merchants to protest the decision. The page 17 item notes local dispute over the new parking layout and its impact on downtown business.
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Tiger
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Tenn
John Malley
Robert Penman
James Ezan
North Eaton
LaGrange Barn
Contract Bridge
Dear Abby Grafton
Loram
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