Viet Cong Ambushes Raise Casualties in Central Vietnam
Viet Cong attacks in central Vietnam kill an estimated 60 government troops 215 miles northeast of Saigon. A US adviser wounded, evacuated. two Marine fliers killed near Da Nang. Convoy ambushed 150 miles northeast of Saigon. 40 guerrillas reported killed near Bac Lieu. Heavy US air raids on North Vietnam followed.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
da Nang
U.S
Bac Lieu
Mekong
Ben Quang
Johnson tax cut sails through House and eyed Senate approval
President Johnson’s excise tax cut cleared the House by 401 to 6 and the Senate plans to push the measure. The bill would reduce prices on autos air conditioners cameras watches and many other items as it moves toward enactment.
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Washington
Johnson
House
Senate
GOP Struggles To Unite On Lyndon Johnson Criticism
Republican leaders clash over how to oppose President Johnson with divisions on foreign and domestic policy. Dirksen notes potential risks of a four member House delegation to Paris while Ford explains the party-wide debate over Taft Hartley union shop bans and Johnson’s excise tax reforms.
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Washington
Johnson
GOP
Congress
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
House
Paris
United States
de Gaulle
France
Dirksen
State Department
GOP Policy Coordinating Committee
Democratic Administration
Viet Nam
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
National Committee
Unemployment Drops to 4.6 Percent in May
President Johnson announced May unemployment fell to 4.6 percent, the lowest in 91 months, with 3.39 million jobless Americans and 12.4 million employed. He credited a 220 thousand drop from April and noted a strong May hiring surge.
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Washington
Johnson
Labor Department
Surgery Shrinks Girl by 8 Inches
In Hyde England 19 year old Anne Rowston is down from 6 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 11 after eight months and four operations removing bone from her legs. She will need crutches for a month or two and has drawn pen friends including 23 year old Bill Dicker from London who is 6 feet 5 inches and hopes for a first date.
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Hyde
England
Anne Rowston
Anne
23 Year Old Mother of Seven Charged in Cincinnati
Bobbie Jean Andrews, 23, mother of seven, was charged with child neglect and child torturing in Cincinnati. Police said her 1-year-old son Maurice sustained a broken back and broken limbs after being thrown to the floor and onto a bed to stop him from crying two weeks earlier.
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Cincinnati
Bobbie Jean Andrews
Maurice
Storms Hit Wide Areas Killing Dozens and Hedy Lamarr Divorces
Severe weather from Texas to New England kills at least two and injures about 100 as tornadoes strike Hale Center Cotton Center and Spade in West Texas. A farm woman dies near Cotton Center. Guardsmen assist Hale Center. Lamarr, 50, obtains divorce from Lewis Boies Jr., 44, who did not contest.
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Associated Press
Texas
Minnesota
Ohio Valley
Middle Atlantic States
New England
Hale Center
Cotton Center
Spade
Plainview
Bowling Green
Topeka
Kan
St. Louis
Omaha
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
West Virginia
Hedy
Los Angeles
Hedy Lamarr
Lewis W. Boies Jr
Families of 2 Spacemen Thrilled by Flight
Houston families of Gemini 4 astronauts share pride and awe as the launch from Cape Kennedy succeeds. Wives Patricia Haas McDivitt and Patricia Finegan White watch with children, attend Mass, and plan visits to Mission Control during the four day flight.
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Houston
Tex
Edward H. White
James A. McDivitt
Cape Kennedy
Mike McDivitt
White
Bonnie Lynn
Edward III
Mission Control Center
Manned Spacecraft Center
Virgil I. Grissom
John W. Young
Space-Flight
McDivitt
Patricia A. Haas
Cleveland
William J. Haas
United States
Mexico
Georgia
Correction Made On Return Address
CAPE TOWN South Africa AP A Chinese sailor in a nursing home wrote to Hong Kong and copied a hospital sign as his return address Visitors are not allowed to park in the hospital grounds Ambulances and doctors cars only Hospital authorities substituted the correct address. NEW YORK Burke Marshall 42 former head of the Justice Department civil rights division was named vice president and general counsel of IBM
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Cape Town
South Africa
Hong Kong
Pang Wai Chee
New York
Burke Marshall
U.S. Justice Department
International Business Machines Corp
Rebels File New Demands In Dominican Crisis
Dominican rebels demand restoration of the 1963 constitution and a new government before elections. Col Francisco Caamano Deno rejects the junta plan led by Gen Antonio Imbert Barrera as a fable. Brazilian troops extend the security zone around the National Palace. An OAS peace team departs Washington to seek a breakthrough with Bosch and the rival parties.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Congress
Francisco Caamano Deno
Antonio Imbert Barrera
Caamano
Organization of American States
Inter- American Force
OAS
Washington
Juan Bosch
Puerto Rico
Local Storekeeper Donates 50000 in Securities for Scholarships
Bemidji Minnesota AP Fred G Troppman 92 a store keeper with only third grade education gave 50000 in securities to Bemidji State College for student scholarships He recalled I was never spelled down once He remains active in a general merchandise store
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Bemidji, Minn
Fred G. Troppman
Bemidji State College
Troppman
Space Flight Gemini 4 Liftoff Begins Long Orbital Mission
Astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White II start a four day endurance flight from Cape Kennedy aboard Gemini 4. They aim for a close approach to the burned out Titan 2 booster stage while seeking to test long term space systems and human endurance.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
James McDivitt
Edward White II
White
United States
McDivitt
Mission Control Center
Space
America
Globe
Christopher C. Kraft Jr
Gordon Cooper
Valeri Bykovsky
McDivett
U.S
Gemini
Walter Schirra
Tom Stafford
Space Agency
Marshal Wins Degree at Savier University Honor
Chief U.S. Marshal James J.P. Mc Shane, who left school after the eighth grade, received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Savier University on Wednesday night in Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati
U.S. Marshall
James J.P. McShane
Savier University
Spaceman's Family Has Great Faith in Flight
In St. Petersburg Florida Edward H. White II's parents express calm, humorous faith as their son nears space. Maj. Gen. Edward H. White says the family trusts the mission will turn out right. Three televisions will let the Whites follow the flight at Snell Isle home. Afterward the family plans trout fishing and horseback riding in the Rockies.
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ST. Petersburg
Fila
Edward H. White II
Air Force
Edward H. White
White
Mary
Snell Isle
Colorado Rockies
Empty Reaches of Space Describe a New Astronaut World
In this vivid excerpt astronaut Edward Higgins White II, age 34, contemplates the stark, airless void beyond Earth. He describes 17 500 mph motion, blinding sun, radiant heat, and the earth below as a painted brown gold purple panorama while a space gun propels him in a perpetual drift.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Edward Higgins White II
Earth
Florida
Atlantic
Weather Summary for Ohio and Nearby Areas
Weather notes show cloudy conditions in southern Ohio with sun in the north this afternoon. Temperatures range from highs in the 70s to 60s in the north with lows in the 40s to 50s tonight. Friday looks warmer with sun and cloudy areas, highs in the low to mid 70s.
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Ohio
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