G D EV EN ING E VE YBODY: The new year be ins optimistically - tor President K nnedy. At l e ast - personally. the political probl . . s of the N e w Year - It, there the balance of optiai• and The President's pereonal good fortune, the iaproveaent in the condit i on ot his father. J~t,.,_ .. Kennedy, rallying - from hi• stroke. Pneuaonia - cleared up. Fever - slll>siding. Rehabilitation procedures - begun at the hospital. The elder Kennedy, even allowed to ait up for - I M ~ o. fe w d nutes. This, on the advice o~ Dr. Howard Rusk. A nother .emb e r o f the Kennedy faaily • was under discussion today. Th e fi r st lady. The question - to aake • or not to aake h e r seheduled trip to India and Pakistan. Jacqueline Kennedy i s due to leav e ne,rt month. The belief in W ashingt• is that she'll go ahead wi th her trip - now that her fa t h er - in-l a w i s recov e ring. The newest o!ficial 9roup established by the Oefen•e Department - has a ~"''1bleJf. naae: - ~ "Joint Ta■k Force Eight", ti► a But thie ■eaaingly colorless COllll'litt- - may , h ve a dramatic bearing on our survival as a nation. "Joint Ta■k Force Eight" to supervi11e nuclear explosions in the atao11phere - if and when Pre ident Kennedy ivec; the or'1•• The Co1m11ittee i• headed by General Alfred Starbird • of the army. Hi• deputi•• - General John Samuel of the Air Force. And - . dmiral Lloyd Muatin of the Navy• All thr e e services, involved - becauN the tests would be held at our atomic tcstin ground in the far pacific. ,...~~wu.1111uww_.. / . { In his New Year•s ddrc.s to the t,rench peopl , • Genernl DeG ulle reitterated that he's standing firn on his ba ic policies. E•pccially, two ot them - Berlin and / ilger ia .", The t 11 soldier o! France told his audience - that . he's not holding up negotiations with Khrushchev. TJ• culprit in the case - Khrushchev. DeGaulle, inviting the boss~ the Kremlin - to drop his ultioatua on Berlin. stop - .> threatoni~ the west. Att a r which, th@ French govornment will be pleased to enter - genuine negotiation■• A l eria? DeGaulle is still pushing his plan tor - an ,1 erian , l g eria . . . . . . ,,_ an independent state based / on a i ree vote of all the people in the north-African tertitory. He•s not about to surrender - to his enemies. He ,lfOn•t give in to the Moslem rebels. or th right-win underground. A h e P r e s i dent of F Tance wae sp eaking - thirty-thousand French tr ups ,vere 111ovin r, into lgiera. Loyal deta.tchnenta of th e r rench army, ready to aeet any challenge. froa either side. It' s likely tWllt they'll get a atitf challenge from both side•• Today, the Nill Moaleaa 1111d the settler•• were out on the street• aQainj FlghtinQ one another• w ith aticka and etonea)~uching off more terroriat boab•• Th tol.1, aountinQ in Algeria ~ aa eac DaGaull• ~ carries his campaign for a11 l•IIIN'lalli aettle•nt,into nineteen sixty~. - - - A year-end tabulation of space achievsant• - looke like thi■• Ruaeia and ~he United State• have launched. seventy-eight artificial ■atelllt••• Of theN, tbirty•■ ix are ■till up th re. But only a dosen are still ■ending back infor m tion. A,'9( The entire dozen,( Aaerican. Let•• tnke a quick run-dotm of the aoet spect&Clllar. Vanc,uard One - launched in March of .M,•t•en-titty-..!,_ight. It's radio, aa atmng a• ever - trannitting scientific data about the effect of aunlight on ■pace ahipa. Explorer seven - twel C launched in October of !!!netee :tj.tty-nine. Noone expected it to remain vocal for so long_ but its radio keeps on chattering away. Telling us more about - ra di ation in outer space. S PACE - 2 E cho One - launched in Au ust of !_ineteen-!DtY• No radio voice - but it reflects radio waves. • key to co11UJunicat i ona on a world-"1de •cal•• Tiro• Three - launch ~ >d last July. Purpose - to sand back p hotos of meteorological conditions ax,und the globe. A step to~ard - control of the eather. Arti f icial satellite• have already blazed the path - to the noon und beyond. Russian co-••• - have orbited the earth. Next into apace, . . _ . . next 110nth - an A m n ric a n Astronaut,~, l L 1i The "Lonli e st Islan · h in t e ' orld" is 90in to remain lonely. In act, uninhabited . Tristan oa Cunha - far off i n t S outh t l , ntic. The isl a nd had two-hundred r sidents, ~ .J~u 4-.,?t4--4- until ~ v lcano errupted, nd forced then to l e ave. /\ They , r in London now - wi ■hing they could go back. That's why the British ovcrnment sent Geolo ist Peter Harris - to have a look t Tristan Da Cunh.~. Hi Vt:!r ict - ''No return possible." The islnnd - almost c ropl tely co v u red \ ' I i th lava. The fish cannery, its only in ustry - now urie c. ,cneath tons o! molton rock. G olo ist Hnrris, addin - the houses will disappear after he " "· t ru ti n, which ooul d oome at any tirae. Les than a c ntur y , n < , a half of history - for he "Lonliest Island in the , rld." . ,ettle in •i~ht en fifte n by oldiers - - · I H ho h t, n . u a rding Napolean on t. Helena. banrloned in nineto n sixty _£ne - by their descendant•• - I AND - 2 ~--- Trist n ' unha 1 ft t o t e vole no, th e sea ulls and t e oun in tlantic urf. ► I liT E R ----- s f or we at h er n e 1 'l s on t hi s side o f the w o rld. .,.zf1 / fly in_ s 0 u t f ro 1 ska we 0 t riu ite a chan u e in tem pe rature - C l rio11s to knm • w heth r a break in the record a laskan col ci spe l l I i ght be in s i h t today} KCBS San Francisco got m e th e a st n nis h in g v , o rd that t h is aft e rnoon it •s sixty-two b e l ow in F ai rba n ks. .-Jhich ~ means that somewhere in ~ t h e int e ri o r laska it's colder than that, ma ybe in the A. m inus seventies,or even - m inus e i g ~ty. t anw h ile, over in G reat Britain they are co 11 1plaining b e c a u se i t ' s thirty above. But, no 1'Qnder, since only five rcent o f r ' tish hom e s have furnace•• Result - an out b r e a k o f i nf lu e nza, taldn9 a toll of a hund red a nd fifty live s so f ar. • Th re' tin an le to that archaeolo ical story fr I L m ! on. B. tM1iMl.f ra rt from the historical si g ni!i ance. ,,I . n excav a tion n ar ew~ate Street, uncov ring thousands of R o r.ii\ n c ins. ilv r an old ieces, datin frnn h~ . riod - when Britain was a p rovince f the R oman Empire. \/hen Ro111an Leoions were based in London• and paid their bills in th Imp e rial currency. More he uiling, the t ~ of coin• just discover d. horde of what the Romans called - Liber, Solidu•, and • Oenarius. Those Latin words survived to this day - in the jar on for B ritish money. t~ere , e say "Dollars and cents" - they say "l 8 d"• }'he first letters of - Lib . r, olirlus, . . ) Uen~rius. In short, 1 s d. ~ ~ ~ , t&,() ~ w-e...t w-< ~ (1_ ii ~ ~~ OrOW1 L .s S ~ C 1 E ------- ev 1-n J·u t e o ay en d ed - o ne o he m ost nt ~ tic c a r ee rs int hi s t o r y of m r i can c r i me • T he c r i iil i n a 1 - • r • et ty " ad e, by ~ a y, r e s . a ct ble Cle velen:l u ewi e ; b 1 t, dr iver of I e eta 1 ay car for a ga ng 0 o bers. ickin g u . h er share of the roceeds - a fter job; then drivin ome - to h er usb n d n children; who 1 n't th e faintest notion of wh a t ama wa s doing • .. r s . n ad e ' s o ub 1 e c are er mi g ht st i 11 be go i ng on - exce t t ha t her car was hit by p olice bullets, as she drove away from " he scene of her 1 s t crime. 'l'he l ad y robber ge ttin · ten to twenty-five years. I er m otive? The old story - 0 a mbling. B · e . tty ade, the housewife, losin g so much to the ga mblers - she tried to recou by becoming lietty \' ade, th e car-moll. LTP.1961.12.29i.pdf LTP.1961.12.29ii.pdf