Westbury High School - Wing and Spur Yearbook (Westbury, NY)

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Col John H Glenn, first U.S. man to orbit earth smiled beside recovered capsule In a year full of pioneering successes in Victorious Sonny Llston stood over Floyd Patterson after the shortest heavyweight Former Gen Edwin A Walker escorted off University of Mlsslsslppl campus by US. Marshals as federal action upheld enroll- New York Yankees won the Series from San Francisco in spite of Chuck Hiller's fourth-game gland slammer. ,rt , ,MM tif' !'P's Q

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tests and test-ban talks continued. This 290-foot lforegroundl rose from Nevoda's desert floor three after blast which left a 1200-foot crater. Buildings of mound were about 10 feet high. Live transoceanic TV began as American Telephone and iw Telegraph's Telstar relayed this image from U.S. to Europe - over first privately-owned satellite. ff! ,K G ' Algerian women cast ballots in referendum ,, k which resulted in independence and an end ' gf I to nearly 8 years of war. i, ' la K X5 I . i 'xx I Fw S 'r y' I wioEwoRLD PHOTOS sf - P Y ' Q it 1 4,Q,!,,g' ' . 4 . K A hwy ? ox .I A ,A 'it'-Tk' k I , C214 V 1' fm ,. ' sn flfff ff? f f tier ' J. M I d h f. . h I. d . . I b . Q' J' 'gf,5':.4. ' ly 3, Weatlweny grosse' t : gnsldline eciiivel iatinro One of the worst earthquakes in modern .QV ,ufmzzm S fefe 'nl e ec' 'ng race or E me times reduced dozens of Iranian towns to rf V' U S UP- rubble and left io,ooo dead. N tiff- ,l?fyjjw Left: Cuban invasion prisoners made it home just in time for Christmas after being ransomed from ' i f 'i ff' ,. Cuban prisons. Right: USS Barry makes visual inspection of missiles on deck of Russian freighter Ano- ,G .5 .1912 ,QA sov as Navy patrol plane flies overhead after U.S. demanded removal of offensive weapons from Cuba. i , ' ' M fi, I if ,s al .. 4, s L, -. 1 A ,4. 1 vi NS-. as-rm'

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Philharmonic Hall, first unit of New York s proiected Lincoln Center for Performing Arts opened in a blaze of light. Steeple at Oregon State College of Edu- cation , Monmouth, Oregon, fell before hur- ricane-force winds which raked the West Coast in October causing maior damage and communication breakdown. U.S. and French officials gathered to wel come crated Mona Lisa as the priceless painting arrived in New York en route to a showing in Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery. azfzonal Events in Review WIDE WORLD PHOTOS The Space Needle and Monorail train were hallmarks of the successful World s Fair in Seattle, Washington. Sabin oral vaccine was made available nationally and offered promise of complete immunity from all types of polio. Left Solid fueled Minuteman successor to more complex liquid fueled ICBM S begins 4 000 mile lourney from Canaveral. Others went into readi- Nuclear submarines USS Skate and USS Seadragon rendezvoused at the North Pole hundreds of miles from open sea.