Red China explodes second atomic device
AP reports Red China detonated its second atomic device seven months after joining the nuclear club. U S officials said the blast yielded about 20 000 tons of TNT and questioned deliverability while Japan protested and fallout were monitored.
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Tokyo
China
Peking
Peking Radio
United States
Hiroshima
Japan
Atomic Energy Commission
Washington
U. S
Nevada
Weather Bureau
London
Dean Rusk
Red China
Vietnamese Forces Seize Communist Arms Hoard
Government troops captured a large stock of Communist supplies in Saigon after a two stage battle in the deep south. The haul included Russian made rifles and machine guns and came amid rice paddies littered with Viet Cong dead.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
Hanoi
Con Co
Ha Tinh
Nighe An
New China News Agency
Bac Lieu
Ap Giai Long
Orthodox Leader Leonty Dies at 88 in Syosset
Most Rev Leonty Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Greek Church of America dies at 88 at his Syosset home. He led the church for 15 years, guiding 750000 members across North and South America and Japan. Burial planned in St Tikhon's Cemetery after a week of services. Arch bishop John of Chicago named temporary head.
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Syosset
Leonty
America
Metropolitan Leonty
North
South America
Japan
Previusly
Chicago
Leonid Turkevich
Kremenets
Russia
St. Tikhon’s Cemetery
South Canaan
Family Of 3 Dies In Fire In Greenwich Conn
A New York insurance executive William Bainbridge 52 his wife Barbara and daughter Constance 22 died from smoke suffocation in a fire at their two story frame home on Cove Road Old Greenwich Connecticut Fire Chief Daw son placed damage at 70000 officials said the victims were awakened by smoke but overcome quickly
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Old Greenwich
Conn
New York
William Bainbridge
Barbara
Constance
Bainbridge
Equitable Life Assurance Co
William H. Dawson
Cove Road
Long Island Sound
Rebel Radio Blasted Off Air in Dominican Republic
Rebel radio Santo Domingo was knocked off air for a second time in two days after a truckload of Dominican troops fired on the station. A teen was killed by a shell in a patio as tensions rose near the U.S. embassy and a shaky cease-fire teetered.
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North Viet Nam
Radio
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
U.S
International Safety Zone
Juan Bosch
San Juan
P. R. Bosch
Arturo Illia
Argentina
House of Deputies
U. S
Prorebel
Washington
Ellsworth Bunker
Organization of American States
OAS
State Dept
U.N. Security Council
New York
U Thant
Thant
Jottin Cury
Associated Press
Fiveman
Antonio Imbert Barreras
Frances Perkins Widely Known as First Woman Cabinet Member
Frances Perkins 83 former labor secretary to Franklin D Roosevelt died last night at Midtown Hospital following a stroke. She led the labor department from 1933 to 1945 during the New Deal era and helped found the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Funeral services are planned for Monday at the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection in New York.
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New York
Frances Perkins
Franklin D. Roosevelt
America
al Smith
Perkins
Albany
State Industrial Commission
Roosevelt
Episcopal Church of the Resurrection
74Th St
Three Die in Route 42 Head-on Crash Near Monticello
Three people died in a head-on collision on Route 42 north of Monticello. Bernice Jenkins, 27, of Monticello was in one car. two men in the other car were unnamed at report time. General N. Jordon, 29, driver of the second car, was listed in critical condition at Monticello Hospital.
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Monticello
Route
Here
Bernice Jenkins
General N. Jordon
Monticello Hospital
Tito Return Home From Norway Visit
President and Mrs. Tito arrived back in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, by plane yesterday after a four day official visit to Norway.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Tito
Norway
Ministers Await Informal Talks in Vienna Anniversary Meet
In Vienna US Secretary of State Dean Rusk and UK France and Soviet foreign ministers gather to mark the 1955 Austrian independence treaty. Informal talks on Viet Nam and UN financing are expected alongside a formal Belvedere Palace celebration and a dinner with Austrian officials.
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Vienna
United States
Britain
France
Soviet Union
Dean Rusk
Michael Stewart
Maurice Couve de Murville
Andrei A. Gromyko
Belvedere Palace
John Foster Dulles
Harold Macmillan
Antoine Pinay
W. M. Molotov
Bruno Kriesky
Alex Quaison-Sackey
Ghana
U.N. General Assembly
Quaison-Sackey
U.N
Congo
Middle East
General Assembly
Quaison-Lackey
Viet Nam
Rusk
Gromyko
U. S
North Viet Nam
Austrians Bid Figl Farewell in State Funeral
Leopold Figl former Austrian chancellor and foreign minister was buried after a state funeral in Vienna. More than 100000 people lined the streets for the procession as officials recalled his role in signing Austria’s 1955 independence treaty. He died Sunday at age 62 from cancer and pneumonia.
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Vienna
Leopold Figl
Figl
Austria
Josef Klaus
Heroes’ Square
Fig
Periscope Local Hudson Eyes Assembly Seat
Local candidate Hudson eyes a state Assembly seat as page 11 previews the race with details on the campaign and district map. The item stresses party alignment and voter outreach in a low-key political update.
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Hudson Eyes Assembly
Lucky Debonair Heavy Preakness Choice
Cuba Asks Prison For Yanks
prosecutors asked a Cuban tribunal to sentence two American Baptist missionaries to long terms as spies. Dr. Herbert Caudill 61 Omega Georgia and Rev. James David Fite 31 Waynesboro Georgia faced possible decades in prison with Caudill first to testify denying spying but admitting foreign currency exchanges for Cuban pesos to fund airline fares. The prosecutor later altered Caudill’s petition to ten years due to age while alleging an eight to one peso dollar exchange rate.
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Havana
United States
Herbert Caudill
Omega
James David Fite
Waynesboro
Caudill
U. S
Western Cuba Baptist Convention
la Cabana Fortress
South Loses Round On Vote Bill
Southern senators lost a bid to preserve literacy requirements under a voting rights bill. Senator Sam Ervin acknowledged the amendment would fail, and the measure was rejected 53 to 14. The plan would have allowed literacy tests for voters in states covered by the bill without racial discrimination.
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Washington
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N. C
Ervin
Mike Mansfield
Montana
McNamara Supports Anti-Missile System For China Defense
Secretary McNamara says developing an anti missile system to deter Red China is worth considering for a decade or two. He estimates 8 to 10 billion dollars cost, about half of an anti ballistic system needed for protection against a Soviet attack, in remarks at a closed House hearing after Peking's second atomic test.
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Lester Machta
Weather Bureau
Alaska
Canada
North America
Peking
China
United States
Washington (Ap
Robert S. McNamara
McNamara
House
Appropriations Committee
Per Capita Aid Expanded Across Counties and Cities
Gov. Rockefeller signed a law doubling total per capita aid from 98.8 million to 197.6 million and extending it to county governments. The plan shifts funding by community resources, raises city rates, and adds motor vehicle receipts for towns, villages, and cities.
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Rockefeller
Troy
Commission On State-Local
State Comptroller's Office
Rensselaer County
Robert A. Stierer
Rensselaer
Albany
Schenectady
Glens Falls
Cohoes
Watervliet
Mechanicville
Saratoga Springs
Saratoga
Warren
Washington
Schenectady County
Albany County
Saratoga County
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Lop Noi
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Sinkiang Province
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Aime
Afghanistan
Lop Nor
Republic
Shanghe
Pakistan
Delhi
India
Sinkiang
Cevion
Rea
Kunming
da Nang
Ap Giai
Woman's Page
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Cary
Madame Perkins
Titos
United Nations
Snoopy
Cuba
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