Kennedy Cleared to Receive Secret Data for Campaign
President Eisenhower signaled willingness to share top secret national security information with Senator John F. Kennedy and Senator Lyndon B. Johnson during the campaign on condition they accept personally not through intermediaries. Kennedy had planned for Attlee Stevenson and Bowles to receive it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
R.I
Eisenhower
John F. Kenedy
Fisenhower
Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Massachusetts
Pierre Salinger
Hyannisport
Mass
Johnson
Salinger
Adlai E. Stevenson
Chester Bowles
D-Conn
White House
James C. Hagerty
Secretary of the Treasury
Robert B. Anderson
Congress
Anderson
Senate
House
Kennedys Take Yacht Cruise on Nantucket Sound
Sen John F Kennedy Democrat presidential nominee sails with wife Jacqueline and daughter Caroline on the family yacht Linlin Marlin on Nantucket Sound near Hyannisport Mass No campaign events planned for today or Tuesday said Pierre Salinger Kennedy plans next week to begin meetings with ABovel leaders congressmen and reporters after weekend trip
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Kennedys
Nantucket Sound
Hyannisport
Mass
John F. Kennedy
Jacqueline
Caroline
Pierre Salinger
Anthony Trollope
Salinger
Kennedy
Virginia Game Laws Booklets Free From State Commission
Local fishermen may obtain the State Game Commission's Summary of Va. Game Laws 1960-61 Season free by writing P.O. Box 1642 in Richmond. A license is required to take any wild bird or wild animal, and the pocket guide explains the rules. The column also notes a flaming crash at Airport Speedway and a movie star's parade role, plus a farmer’s haying exchange and a Shenandoah Downs payout record for a $2 wager.
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State Game Commission
Richmond
Powers Trial Set for August 17 in Moscow
Tass reports Francis Gary Powers, 30, the U2 pilot shot down over Soviet territory, will be tried publicly August 17 in the military section of the Supreme Court of the USSR on the charge of espionage with the death penalty as the maximum.
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Moscow
Francis Gary Powers
Tass
Powers
Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R
Bible Reading In Classrooms Is Challenged
In Miami Florida a claimed agnostic and Jewish leaders seek to halt Bible reading and religious observances in public schools. Two civil actions ask for injunctions against classroom prayers hymn singing baccalaureate programs and religious symbols while another suit by Harlow Chamberlin backed by the ACLU seeks a non religious atmosphere for his children.
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Miami, Fla
Miami
Florida
Harlow Chamberlin
Dade County
Florida Civil Liberties Union
Mason Named New Policeman
Charles E. Mason, 30, starts today at 4 p.m. as a Patrolman on the Winchester Police Force. Chief J. Thomas Boyd announced the appointment. Mason, a Air Force veteran, lives on Millwood Pike with his wife Helen Todd and their two children. He trained in police work from Capt. J. C. Ritter and will work with Sgt. Ernest Stotler.
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Charles E. Mason
Winchester
J. Thomas Boyd
Millwood Pike
Helen Margaret Todd
Mason
Air Force
J. C. Ritter
Ernest Stotler
Virginians Split Over Demo Ticket After Convention
Governor J Lindsay Almond Jr led Virginia delegates toward enthusiastic support for Kennedy Johnson but about 20 Richmonders demonstrated at Byrd Airport opposing the ticket and labeling Kennedy a socialist. Observation by state leaders showed mixed feelings over the platform especially civil rights, with talk of conservative meetings and no clear Byrd position.
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Richmond
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Kennedy
Robert B. Crawford
Farmville
Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties
Crawford
Virginia
Mills E. Godwin
Suffolk
Godwin
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Europe
Byrd
Harry F. Byrd Jr
Almond
Congress
Oo D. Roosevelt
Rockefeller Heads For Convention City
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller travels to Chicago amid GOP tension over Nixon's potential nomination. While most sign Nixon will be nominated, Rockefeller keeps open to a draft and questions civil rights defense and foreign policy while preparing to address the platform committee. He chairs New York's 96 vote delegation and may clarify his stance at a late news conference.
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Chicago
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Sev
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Rockefeller
New York
East
Charles H. Percy
Sen
Thruston
B. Morton
Kentucky
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
National Republican
Ikeda Elected Prime Minister in Turbulent Japan
Hayato Ikeda, 60, won the prime ministership in a landslide over two Socialist rivals in both houses, succeeding Nobusuke Kishi who remains hospitalized from a leg wound. Ikeda faces a leftist crisis at the Miike Coal Mine as 13,000 police mass against 30,000 to 100,000 striking workers amid ongoing protests and student unrest.
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Tokyo
Hayato Ikeda
Japan
Kyushu
Nobusuke Kishi
Kishi
Ikeda
Socialist Party
Miike
U.S
Burglars blamed for pre-dawn Elkton garage fire
A fire at an Elkton repair shop destroyed the building, equipment, and 12 cars, with damages estimated at 150000. Fire chief George Bennington said two or more burglars likely tried to open a safe with a torch, possibly triggering an oxygen tank explosion. A hospitalized man is being questioned as investigators probe the burglary motive.
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Elkton
George Bennington
Bennington
Congo Welcomes U.N. Command as Soviet Aid Threat Looms
Swedish Maj. Gen. Carl von Horn assumed U.N. command in the Congo while Congolese officials threatened to seek Soviet intervention if Belgian troops are not withdrawn within three days. Belgian forces remain, with U.N. forces from Ghana Tunisia Morocco and Ethiopia aiding alongside.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
Carl von Horn
U.N
Congo
von Horn
Palestine
Ghana
Tunisia
Morocco
Ethiopia
Patrice Lumumba
Soviet Union
Belgium
U.N. Security Council
Council
Eisenhower
Newport
R.C
White House
James C. Hagerty
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lodge
U.S
Stanleyville
Oriental
Lumumba
Joseph Kasavubu
Surgeon General in Rhode Island for Polio Epidemic
Dr. Leroy E. Burney the U.S. surgeon general was called to Providence Rhode Island to confer with officials on the polio epidemic. Two new cases were reported bringing the state total to 59.
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Providence
R.I
Leroy E. Burney
U.S
Rhode Island
Anti Communist Demonstration Shocks Havana Cathedral
In Havana crowds shout Cuba si Russia no after a mass for victims of Communist persecution. Citations note Castro's left turn, U.N. debate on U.S. aggression, and Raul Castro's Moscow trip amid Khrushchev plans. Britain watches oil refinery tensions as Peiping economic aid to Cuba grows.
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Havana
Cuba
Russia
Fidel Castro
Castro
Cathedral Square
United States
Raul Roa
United
U.N. Security Council
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Argentina
Ecuador
Organization of American States
Hoy
OAS
U.N
Raul Castro
Fidel
Moscow
Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev
London
China
Britain
Peiping
Cuba's Swing Toward Russia Slowing Says Diplomats
Diplomats report Cuba's tilt toward the Soviet Union is easing under pressure from Latin American neighbors. They note Cuba’s denial of plans to become a Soviet satellite, a retreat from threats to the Guan tanamo Bay base, and a muted response to a proposed review of hemispheric unity threats as the OAS prepares to vote.
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Washington
Cuba
Soviet Union
U.S
Guantanamo Bay
Havana
OAS
Peru
United Nations
United States
U.N
Argentina
Ecuador
Security Council
S. C. Brooks Dies in Richmond Veteran Local Pharmacist
Samuel Carroll Brooks 70 retired pharmacist died after a long illness at MCV Hospital Richmond. Native of Loudoun County son of Samuel W. and Susan De Kalb Brooks he lived in Winchester 36 years. He owned Brooks Pharmacy since 1924 and retired in 1953. He served in WWI Navy and held multiple local professional and civic posts including Virginia Board of Pharmacy and Winchester Kiwanis and Chamber of Commerce. He was an elder at First Presbyterian Church. Survived by two sons Dr James W. Brooks.
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Samuel Carroll Brooks
Medical College of Virginia Hospital
Richmond
Loudoun County
Samuel W. Brooks
Susan de Kalb Brooks
Medical College of Virginia School of Pharmacy
People's Drug
Washington
Brooks’ Pharmacy
E. Piccadilly St
Virginia Board of Pharmacy
Virginia Pharmaceutical Association
Winchester Kiwanis Club
Winchester Chamber of Commerce
First Presbyterian Church
Men of the
Brooks
Linda Carruthers Brooks
James W. Brooks
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Tom Tryon
Dead Downs
W. Virginia
Shenandoah Downs
Ralph Bunche
Justin Bomboko
Frank Merritt
U.S. Air Force
Col. Merritt
Fort Lee, N.J
Convention City
Henry T. Alexander
African Republic
Alexander
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Kasavubu
Khrushchev
S. C. Brooks
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