Een
paar berichten uit DE OCEAANPOST van 13, 16 en 18 Juli 1962 (uitgave "GROOTE
BEER") met onderwerpen die toentertijd speelden: Indonesië en Nieuw
Guinea, jeugdcriminaliteit in de USA, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK),
de oorlog in Vietnam, de Telstar satelliet, de Tour de France, en de Miss Universe
verkiezingen.
De
Oceaan Post (uitgave Radio-Holland, Amsterdam)
Friday July 13th, 1962:
WASHINGTON
- Indonesian and Dutch officials are to resume talks here on the West New Guinea
question. Meanwhile fresh military clashes are reported from the disputed territory.
WASHINGTON
- People under 18 made up 43 percent of all police arrests for major offenses,
including murder, rape and robbery in America last year, an official report says.
The serious crime rate was four per minute.
De
Oceaan Post (uitgave Radio-Holland, Amsterdam)
Saterday, July 14th, 1962:
NEW
YORK - A detective left a baseball game, in which he was playing, jumped into
the crowd and arrested a wanted man. He turned him over to a patrolman and returned
to the field. The police lost 14-13 to the firemen.
WASHINGTON
- President Kennedy nominated career diplomat Foy D. Kohler to succeed Llewellyn
Thompson as American ambassador to Moscow.
OSLO
- The low price of whale oil will mean that only three Norwegian whaling expeditions
of 1500 men will take part in the coming antarctic season, compared with six of
4500 men last year.
De
Oceaan Post (uitgave Radio-Holland, Amsterdam)
Monday, July 16th, 1962:
LONDON
- British and American engineers conversed for 55 minutes by telephone beamed
through satellite Telstar between Goonhilly and Andover. The transmission and
reception, both in America and Britain, were said to be perfect.
SAIGON
- An American army helicopter with five Americans and two Vietnamese aboard was
shot down by communist guerilla groundfire in the mountainous country near the
Laotian border with central Vietnam. The helicoptger was on a supply mission and
came down in the jungleclad mountainside, 17 miles from the Laotian border.
PARIS
- Cycling - France's Jacques Anquetil won the Tour de France cycle race, which
ended here Sunday. Belgium's Raymond Poulidor third. British Tommy Simpson sixth.
The tour started on June 24 at Nancy and the riders covered 2.655 miles in 22
stages.
WASHINGTON
- America's recovery from last year's recession will not be as strong as had been
hoped, according to a revised forecast by the commerce department.
MIAMI
BEACH - Miss Argentina was chosen Miss Universe 1962 from 93 beauties from
all over the world. The winner, 24 year old Norma Nolan from Buenos Aires, is
a granddaughter of an Irish farmer immigrant. The 15 semifinalists included miss
Canada, miss New Zealand and miss Britain.