President Kennedy responds to U-Thant's note, he will avoid a direct confrontation with Soviet ships if such ships avoid the interception area.             

Voices in The Headlines was an American news program broadcast on ABC radio featuring the top news stories of the day. It was hosted by long-time radio and television announcer Fred Foy. 

A review of the week's news: Pope John 23rd marks Easter week, U-Thant comments on the world situation, Laos fighting breaks out in Plain Des Jars-comment by Dean Rusk, Canadians elect Lester Pearson as Prime Minister, scientists working on neutron bomb, negro demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King is jailed, a gasoline bomb is thrown at a negro home, steel prices are raised, the Senate finally passes a Kennedy bill, Senator Hubert Humphrey attacks critics of foreign aid, the US submarine "Thresher" is lost at sea with 129 aboard, Sir Winston Churchill is made an honorary citizen of the US, President Kennedy confers the honor, the baseball season opens, Branch Rickey comments on the New York Mets. 

Narrator: Fred Foy.   

NOTE: Fred Foy, best known for his voicing the opening of THE LONE RANGER on radio joined the ABC TV announcing staff in New York in 1961. For ABC RADIO he narrated the award winning news documentary, VOICES IN THE HEADLINES a 25 minute weekly wrap up of salient news events of the week with sound bites representing the news as it was recorded.                                                                                                                                          

World Today is a radio news program broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting System and hosted by Tony Marvin. 

Topics: Summary of today's news: President Kennedy hailed in Ireland, problems of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in England sex-scandal, Macmillan awaits President Kennedy visit, the communist clan gathers in East Berlin, Khrushchev Ulbricht talks, London trial of Dr. Stephen Ward in John Profumo sex-scandal-witnesses include Christine Keeler and Mandy-Rice Davis, call girls involved in the UN, comment by U-Thant on female activities with the UN delegates, U-Thant is not optimistic about a nuclear test ban treaty, controversy continues over TFX plane.

Host: Tony Marvin. 

                                                                                                                                              

The nuclear test ban treaty is signed by the big three in Moscow, festive occasion, Dean Rusk, Nikita Khrushchev, U-Thant, and Averill Harriman are all on hand, comment by Rusk, Robert McNamara in Germany also comments, Governor Nelson Rockefeller is questioned on 1964 convention choices, civil rights demonstrators block trucks in a racially disputed area, in South Vietnam, Buddhists demonstrate against the Government, Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali makes a record entitled "I Am The Greatest." 

Mike Wallace reports.                                                   

Leftist students riot at House Un-American Activities Committee investigation into their unauthorized Cuban trip, President Kennedy comments on the support of the war in South Vietnam, Madame Nhu attacks the US, U-Thant says the Vietnam situation is getting worse, Senator Frank Church urges the Diem regime to mend its ways, President Kennedy comments on desegregation in Southern schools, a report from Birmingham-boycotting white students in protest, the Soviet-Chinese dispute continues even on trains crossing their borders, The Kennedys celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary, an interview with songwriter Irving Berlin.                         

Voices in The Headlines was an American news program broadcast on ABC radio featuring the top news stories of the day. It was hosted by long-time radio and television announcer Fred Foy. 

A review of the week's top news stories: US troops wage huge battle in Da Nang, South Vietnamese suffer high casualties, North Vietnamese peace feeler rejected by the US, comments by U-Thant and congressman Gerald Ford, suggest US bomb North Vietnam, Red China is refused admission to the UN, former vice president Henry Wallace is dead.

Narrator: Fred Foy.   

NOTE: Fred Foy, best known for his voicing the opening of THE LONE RANGER on radio joined the ABC TV announcing staff in New York in 1961. For ABC RADIO he narrated the award-winning news documentary, VOICES IN THE HEADLINES a 25-minute weekly wrap up of salient news events of the week with sound bites representing the news as it was recorded.                                                                                                                                          

Vietnam peace not yet possible according to UN Secretary U-Thant.             

Senator Everett Dirksen comments on the possibility of a 2-day holiday truce in Vietnam, Radio Peking  talks about a disturbance at the University of Berkeley campus led by Mario Savio, Ronald Reagan comments on Berkeley sit-in, suggests disturbances end, Red China loses vote to become a member of the UN, U-Thant will stay on as the UN Secretary-General,                       

Nasser demands withdrawal of forces from the Egypt-Israel area, he predicts holy war with Israel, UN secretary U-Thant sees grave consequences.