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...motorists massacred one another over the Christmas weekend: 523 Americans died in auto accidents during the 78 hours between 6 p.m. Friday and Christmas midnight; a projection of the injured who might yet die put the total at nearly 700. It was the highest highway toll for the three-day holiday weekend since the "Black Christmas" of 1955, when 609 were killed and 201 of the injured died later. In 1961, as always, the first few hours of the weekend were the deadliest as the gin-glazed celebrators motored unsteadily home from office Christmas parties...
Most good will visits are forgotten as soon as the dignitaries depart, the confetti is swept up, and the trucked-in crowds are trucked back where they came from. But President John Kennedy's three-day foray into Latin America seemed to be leaving a somewhat more lasting imprint. Those who saw him, in Caracas and Bogota, appeared genuinely touched by his charm, his obvious good intentions, his interest in them, and his pretty young wife. But more important, they-and indeed the entire hemisphere-responded to a message he brought...
...basketball team will travel to St. Louis, Mo., for a three-day tournament with mid-Western teams on the campus of Washington University, Dec. 28-30. The team will stop in Pittsburgh, Pa. Wednesday, Jan. 3, for a game with Carnegie Tech on its return trip...
...three-day trip would carry risks for the Kennedys. Although the hosts will be old U.S. friends-Governor Luis Munõz Marin of Puerto Rico. Presidents Rómulo Betancourt of Venezuela and Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia-the latter two nations hold riotous bands of leftist students and workers, with disciplined Communists to lead them. Last week in Caracas (where Vice President Nixon was set upon by a Red-incited mob in 1958) leftist organizers in the high schools burned two cars and a bus, passed out leaflets exhorting the capital to "receive Kennedy as it did Nixon...
Yesterday's estimated total of $4,500 put the three-day mark at $16,000, the same as last year at this point in the drive. The 1960 drive also had a poor third day in the collecting...