Day in the 1960

Day in the 1960

Good Morning Baltimore! March 16, 1963, was a bustling day in our nation’s history. According to the Baltimore Sun, the port city’s finest paper, many different events were ensuing, all over the world! Within the United States borders, life was seemingly stable. The headline read, “Draft Move Puts Fathers in New Class,” President Kennedy ordered the Selective Service deferment of all fathers except doctors, dentists and veterinarians. In Washington, DC, Pentagon diagnosticians found that the pulse of the ailing Dyna-Soar space-plane project is appreciably stronger as a result of Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara’s visit to the patient’s bedside in the Boeing Company’s Seattle plant. Also in the nation’s capital, President Kennedy received the traditional gift of a shamrock from Irish ambassador, Dr. Thomas J. Kiernan. In delivering the gift the Irish ambassador got a dig in at the English. The shamrock was in a tall vase of Waterford glass commemorating James Hoban, the Irish-born architect of the White House. The headline read, “US Radiation Belt Effect Reassessed,” in Washington, DC, Dr. James Van Allen conceded that the artificial radiation belt created by the previous summer’s high-altitude US nuclear test is going to last longer and cause more trouble than he had anticipated. In Chicago, a bomb damaged a plush Loop restaurant and in effect directed a loud defiance at officials trying to solve a series of blasts and fires. This was the twenty-third attack on a Chicago restaurant. Down South, in Albany Georgia, a rabbi, a Protestant minister and a Negro woman were convicted in Recorder’s Court of three violations of city ordinances during a prayer pilgrimage to this racially troubled southwest Georgia city. In local news, a Dundalk lawyer was rebuked for misleading Baltimore County officials in a hearing into charges that a taxi cab firm was illegally operating from a Middle River residence. A charitable bequests totaling about $30,000 was left by Judge...

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