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Sen.
Strom Thurmond (D, SC) declares in a Senate speech that Cuba has become
a "formidable Soviet Strategic military base," maintained by as many as
40,000 Russian troops |
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Pres.
Kennedy orders preparations for a resumptions of US nuclear tests in the
wake of the failure of the private Soviet-American test-ban talks |
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| "Bullfight
in Spain" airs 3:30-5pm on NBC "It shows a bull dying, and American
network television has never shown this before. It is a brave show, and
yet those who made it know fear-the fear of the grupos de protesta, the
ones who cry loudly against brutality to bulls." |
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| The
Great Challenge (CBS 4-5pm) A discussion of education in the US with
henry Heald, president of the Ford Foundation, Francis Keppel, US Commissioner
of Education, et al. |
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Rep.
Donald Bruce (R IN) tells the House that there are 40-50 offensive missiles
in Cuba, "and the highest officials of the US government know it."; Rep.
William Cramer (R, FL) introduces in the House a resolution urging the US
"to take whatever steps are necessary to rid the hemisphere of the Castro-Communist
threat |
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Jack
Nicklaus defeats Gary Player in a playoff to win the Palm Springs Golf tournament |
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| The
Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (Dial) "Baldwin offers something
very much like a final plea and warning to 'the relatively conscious whites
and the relatively conscious blacks…to end the racial nightmare, and
achieve our country, and change the history of the world.'" |
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A
comprehensive program to combat mental illness retardation is proposed to
Congress by Pres. Kennedy in the first special presidential message on mental
health |
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Sen.
John Williams (R, DE) in a Senate speech attacks Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
(D, NY) for grossly misusing taxpayers funds for personal recreation and
private gain |
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| CIA
Dir. Hohn McCone appears before Armed Services Subcommittee hearings on
Cuba to deny recent congressional charges of a dangerous Soviet military
buildup on the island |
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National
Saftey Council estimates that 13,700 American workers lost their lives
in on-the-job accidents
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Scouts of American report that a record of 5,322,067 persons participated
in BSA activities in 1962 |
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An
attempt to reduce the number of votes required to apply a cloture against
a filibuster (from a two-thirds majority to a three-fifths) is defeated
by a Southern filibuster |
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Pres.
Kennedy responding to mounting congressional criticism, tells reporters
that Soviet military personnel and equipment currently known to be in Cuba
do not constitute a significant threat to US security. Kennedy's statement
was preceded by detailed presentations of the known facts concerning Soviet
military involvement in Cuba. |
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The
US AEC announces that an unspecified number of intermediate-yield nuclear
detonations were set off earlier in the day at the Nevada proving grounds.
The underground tests were the first by the US since Dec 1962 |
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Married:
Tony Curtis, 37, divorced in 1962 by first wife Janet Leigh, and lissome,
Australian-born actress Christine Kaufman, 18, who met Curtis when they
filmed "Taras Bulba"; in Las Vegas. Best man and matron of honor:
the Kirk Douglases. |
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| NY
Gov. Nelson Rockerfeller tells a GOP dinner in Chicago that the Kennedy
administration has failed to maintain the unity and strength of the Western
alliance |
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| State
Udersecretary George Ball rebukes congressional critics of the administration
for their refusal to accept Pres. Kennedy's word about Soviet military presence
in Cuba |
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GOP
congressional leaders issue a formal statement charging that anti-American
sentiment has recently swept Britain, France and Canada because of the Kennedy
administration's "inept conduct of our foreign policy affairs." |
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Pres.
Kennedy asks Congress to establish a National Academy of Foreign Affairs
to provide supplemental and graduate training for government personnel dealing
with foreign policy. |
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issues a statement that US resumption of underground nuclear tests has given
"impetus to a new nuclear arms race" |
Though
she's only thirty years old, Sylvia Path commits suicide by putting her
head in a gas oven. Ariel, her most famous book of poems, will be
published two years later. |
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Ambassador to South Vietnam Frederick Nolting Jr. asks South Vietnamese
to be less sensitive to constructive criticism from their US allies |
WOOK-TV,
the first all-Negro operated TV station in the US, goes on air in Washington,
DC |
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In
a Lincoln Day speech in NYC, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller assails the Kennedy
administration for failing to support concrete legislation to advance civil
rights |
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US
Chief Justice Earl Warren says in Atlanta, GA that a "world order under
law" must be established to prevent the destructive use of new scientific
discoveries. |
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a report to the President, the Civil Rights Commission suggests that the
South's overt racial discrimination may be more quickly overcome than the
"subtler forms of denial" that exist in the North |
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| Joe
Tribble, running as "Goldwater Republican," defeats three Democrats to win
a Georgia Senate seat |
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The
Committee on the Foreign Student in American Colleges reports that foreign
students in the US currently number 60,000, about 75% more than in 1950 |
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The
US's first attempt to put a communications satellite (Syncom 1) into an
almost synchronous orbit (ie matching the earth's rotational speed) proves
unsuccessful. NASA announced that it is suspending the development of the
random-orbit communications satellites in favor of the synchronous ones |
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US
District Judge J Robert Elliot in Columbus, GA rejects a suit brought by
four Negroes seeking desegregation of public facilities in Albany |
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| Pres.
Kennedy urges creation of a Youth Conservation Corps and a voluntary domestic
peace corps in his first special message to Congress on the problems of
US youth |
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Presidential
adviser Chester Bowles, speaking at Lincoln University in Oxford, PA, calls
for a "policy of continued legal action backed by a persuasive militancy"
to help end racial bias in the US. |
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Studebaker
Corp. announces it will begin March 1 installing seat belts in all its cars. |
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| Tenley
Albright becomes the first U.S. figure skater to win the world championships. |
| In
a report to the Joint Economic Committee, Walter Reuther, chairman of the
AFL-CIO's economic policy committee, criticizes the administration's tax-cut
plan as "too small and too late" |
Jim
Beatty sets a new world indoor mile record of three minutes 58.6 seconds
at a NY Athletic Club in Madison Square Garden. |
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Senate
Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. W, Fulbright (D, AK) says that Republican
critics of the administration's Cuban policy are guilty of "irresponsible"
partisanship |
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Married:
Canadian crooner Paul Anka, 21, and Ann de Zogheb, 20, blond model with
a British mother, a French father, an Egyptian birth certificate, a Lebanese
passport, a world of doe-eyed charm that lands her on magazine covers in
the US, and a 3-inch height edge on her 5-foot 4-inch spouse; in Paris. |
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Bob
Hayes of Florida A∓mp;M sets a new US 70 yard dash record of 6.9 seconds
at the Mason-Dixon Games in Louisville, KY |
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VP
Lyndon Baines Johnson tells an Atlantic City, NJ audience that the US's
"staying power is the key to our ultimate success" over the forces of international
communism |
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Camera
Three (CBS 11-11:30 am) "The Problem That Has No Name," a
discussion of women's feelings of unfulfillment, with Betty Friedan, author
of the Feminine Mystique |
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Scientists' Institute for Public Information is founded in New York to provide
the public with scientific information of environmental problems |
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Look at Monaco (CBS 8-9pm) Princess Grace (nee Kelly) does for Monaco
what Jackie Kennedy did for the White House, with the aid of His Serene
Highness Rainer III |
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400 integrationists demonstrate against the segregation policies of a Baltimore,
MD movie theater |
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USSR
informs Pres. Kennedy that "several thousand" of its estimated 17,000 troops
in Cuba will be withdrawn by March 15 |
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By
a 5-4 vote the Supreme Court invalidates two federal statutes providing
for the revocation of citizenship of Americans who leave the country to
avoid military service |
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Court upholds a section of the Robinson-Patman Act barring businesses from
selling at "unreasonably" low prices for the purpose of destroying competition |
Supreme
Court rules 8-1 that the Rhode Island Commission to Encourage Morality had
gone "far beyond" its constitutional rights in its drive against obscene
literature |
| House
Inter-American Affairs Subcommittee opens hearing into communist subversion
in Latin America |
Barry
Goldwater (R, AZ), in a Senate speech, calls for a total blockade of all
good shipped to Castro's Cuba |
| Pres.
Kennedy sends to Congress a bill authorizing a $500 million, three-year
program of federal aid to urban transit systems |
The
US's first National Medal of Science is presented by Pres. Kennedy to Theodore
von Karman for his contributions to "applied mechanics, aerodynamics and
astronautics" |
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CIA
Director John McCone tells the House Inter-American Affairs Subcommittee
that Cuban Premier Castro is actively supporting the revolutionary overthrow
of Latin American governments. McCone estimates that at least 1,500 Latin
Americans received guerrilla warfare training in Cuba during 1962. |
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Ambassador
to UN Stevenson, addressing the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, says
he is "far more concerned" about the training of Latin American revolutionaries
in Cuba than he is about the presence of Russian troops there. |
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sources report that the Kennedy administration has conducted a series of
high-level meetings to reconsider provisions in the Nassau accord and to
review general policy toward the rift in the Western alliance caused by
France |
Labor
Secretary W. Willard Wirtz proposes that the NYC and Cleveland newspaper
strikes be submitted to some forms of third-party arbitrations |
| Betty
Friedan's The Feminine Mystique is published. |
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Rep.
Adam Clayton Powell (D, NY) tells reporters that recent charges against
him are racially motivated based on deliberate inaccuracies |
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San
Francisco Giants outfielder Willie Mays signs a 1963 contract for an estimated
$100,000m thus becoming baseball's highest-salaried player |
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Defense Department alleges that two Cuban-based MiG's yesterday attacked
a US shrimp boat in international waters north of Cuba. Kennedy prders the
military to take "all necessary action to prevent a recurrence of such attacks |
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In
an opening statement at his news conference, Pres. Kennedy criticizes leaders
of NYC's striking typographical union for seeking to impose a settlement
which could shut down several newspapers |
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first Presidential message on ageing is sent to Congress by Pres. Kennedy.
In it Kennedy renews his request for enactment of an aged health care plan
financed through Social Security |
HEW
announces that it will build and operate integrated public elementary schools
at six military bases in three Southern states by Sept. 1 |
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Soviet
Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky warns that an American attack on Cuba
would result in a third world war |
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Pro
golfer Lee Elders wins the men's title in the north-south Negro tournament
in Miami; Tennis star Althea Gibson wins the women's title |
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| Walt
Disney is a named winner of the George Washington Award by the Freedoms
Foundation in Valley Forge, PA |
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Ford
Foundation announces a $4 million program to improve college teacher preparation |
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Dick
Tuger retains the world middle-weight championship by fighting a 15-round
draw with Gene Fullmer in Las Vegas |
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special Senate panel headed by majority leader Mike Mansfield (D, MT) issues
a report openly questioning the current high level of US aid to the South
Vietnamese government. The report concluded that "there is no interest of
the US in Vietnam which would justify…conversion of the war into an
American war." |
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Camera
Three (CBS 11-11:30 am) A study of the paintings of Surrealist Salvador
Dali |
| Carol
& Company (CBS 10-11 pm) Carol Burnett, who has escaped TV to go
to the movies, returns for a special with Guest Robert Preston |
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Pres.
Kennedy tells an American Bankers Association Symposium that if it is necessary
to choose between the reform and reduction components of his tax package,
he will give priority to a new tax cut |
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Supreme
Court, citing First Amendment rights of assembly and speech, overturns breach-of-peace
convictions against 187 Negroes arrested in March 1961 for demonstrating
on State Capitol grounds in Columbia, SC |
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Kennedy in Washington greets visiting Laotian King Savang Vathana with a
promise of US help to maintain Laos's independence and neutrality |
David
Brinkley's Jorunal (NBC 10-10:30 pm) An interview with Astronaut John
Glenn |
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US
helicopter crews assisting South Vietnamese troops are authorized to shoot
immediately upon sighting enemy soldiers. Heretofore, the crews had been
required to refrain from shooting until fired upon |
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In
an address to the Black Muslims convention in Chicago, New York leader Malcolm
X departs from his generally separatist theme to appeal for cooperation
with Negro integrationists in the fight for civil rights |
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| Commerce
Department reports that the value of US goods exported to the USSR and European
communist countries dropped over 12% in 1962 |
Scientists
at a NASA press conference report on data concerning Venus made available
by the Mariner II interplanetary probe which passed the planet Dec. 14,
1962 |
| Sen.
Mike Mansfield (D, MT) confirms that four US civilian airmen were killed
while flying air support missions in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion |
The
House Rules Committee votes 12-1 to table a proposal to transfer functions
of the House Un-American Activities Committee to the Judiciary Committee |
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signing of a 1963-1964 Cuban-Chinese Communist trade and credit agreement
is announced in Havana |
The
AFL-CIO Executive Council, meeting in Bal Harbour, FL, reiterates its support
for a 35 hour workweek |
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Soviet
Premier Khrushchev warns that a US invasion of Cuba would provoke a full-scale
counteraction by the USSR |
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Treasure
Secretary Douglas Dillon reassures the House Ways ∓mp; Means Committee
that Pres. Kennedy has not "lost interest in" tax reform despite his recent
statement that "nothing could stand" in the way of a tax cut |
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Secretary Robert McNamara declared at a Washington news conference that
the US would "not accept" the use of Soviet troops to put down an anti-Castro
revolt in Cuba |
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In
his first special message on civil rights, President Kennedy asks Congress
to enact measures to strengthen enforcement of the voting rights provisions
of the 1957 and the 1960 Civil Rights Acts |
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