Air Force Tightens Flight Rules To Halt Crashes in Living Areas
The Air Force imposes tighter flight rules to reduce crashes near homes and cities. New orders require rapid crash response, faster damage payments, and improved procedures for medical aid, housing, and debris cleanup.
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Air Force
Douglas Larsen
NEA
Washington
U. S. Air Force
South Carolina
Georgia
Alaska
England
Air Force Hospital
Air Force Base
New York
Levittown
Rats Squeal on Aging Workers and Slowing Down
Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health study aging by testing rats and humans to find how the nervous system governs slowing speed with age. Experiments compare young and old rats under shocks and measure reaction and perception, while psychologists assess elderly humans over two week periods with multiple investigators.
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Kenneth 0. Gilmore
NEA
Washington
National Institute of Mental Health
Bethesda
America
James E. Birren
Institute
Birren
The
Tery
Ivory Tower
National Coal Board
Britain
Tech Reps Create Elite Corps for Military Tech Support
A new corps of civilian technicians called tech reps has grown in the U S armed forces to stabilize technical expertise, train troops, and refine weapons. About 7 000 tech reps serve under private firms like Philco Boeing Electric and RCA earning 500 to 800 dollars monthly. They operate under private contracts and report to military commanders.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Philco Corp
U. S
Philco
Arctic
Boeing Aircraft
General Electric
Allison
Sperry
Republic Aviation
RCA
Department of Defense
Tokyo Rose to be released from prison in late January
Iva Toguri D AQuino, known as Tokyo Rose and treason convict, will leave Federal Prison for good behavior around January 28, ending her 10 year sentence. Born July 4, 1916 in Los Angeles, she is American born and was one of six English speaking women who handled Tokyo Rose broadcasts.
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Washington
Iva Ikuko Toguri D’aquino
Tokyo
Federal
San Francisco
Federal Women's Penitentiary
Alderson
W. Va
D' Aquino
Los Angeles
D'Aquino
South Pacific
D’aquino
West Coast
Chicago
Jun Toguri
Fred
Fisherman Drowns After Ice Break at Mogadore Reservoir
Akron man Earl Conrad 39 died after he and companion Louis R. Thomas 34 fell through the ice at Mogadore Reservoir. Louis Thomas was rescued after 35 minutes by Mogadore police officer David Bauer.
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Akron
Mogadore Reservoir
Earl Conrad
Louis R. Thomas
David Bauer
Mogadore
No Guns To Be Used in This Rhino Hunt
NEA staffer Lee Merriam Talbot, ecologist with the International Union for the Protection of Nature, travels to Africa and Asia to study rhinos. He never carries a gun, recounting escapes from charging rhinos and near-misses while documenting threats from human intrusion and Oriental superstitions.
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Grae Pee
Ayo
Washington
NEA ‘A
Lee Merriam Talbot
Berkeley
Calif
Talbot
International Union For the Protection of Nature
Asia
Middle East
Africa
Britain’s Coal Plan Fails After Ten Years Of State Run Mines
London reports a decade of government controlled coal mines collapsing the dream of Socialist planners. The feature notes a billion dollar flop amid disputes over power and production, reflecting widespread doubts about state operation in Britain’s coal industry.
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Britain
London
NEA
Hamlet on Moscow stage mirrors Britain in 1955
The all British Hamlet at the Moscow Art Theatre draws 13 curtain calls amid Pravda praise. The production reshapes Hamlet as a heroic fighter while Ophelia and the ghost are reinterpreted for a Soviet audience. Britain’s coal crisis and miners’ strike pressures frame the piece, with 60 000 more workers needed and Italian miners debated.
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Tom A. Cullen
London
NEA
Lefty
Shakespeare
Moscow
Russia
Moscow Art Theatre
Brooks Atkinson
Seven Bulgarin
Comrade Hamlet
Hamlet
Gene
Sheakespeare
Tom Williams
Bryniliw
Swansea Valley
Britain
Italy
Austria
Bargain Basement Ideas For U S Schools Rapped
A NEA speaker warns that poor school conditions teach wrong lessons to children. He argues inadequate staffing and equipment breed cynicism, cheating, truancy, and apathy, risking delinquency without strong public education and democratic literacy.
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U.S
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GCA
Civil Aeronautics Authority
CAA
Congress
Delaware
Mental Health Institute
James Birren
Rhino
East Africa
Orient
Ed Acene
Telfor
Lee Talbot
Athens Messenger
Ophelia
Horatio
Heaven
Gamlet
Midlands
Yorkshire
Scotland
Wales
Glendchil
Polkemmet
Cefn Coed
Cwmtillery
Alan Gregg
Rockefeller Foundation
Thomas Jefferson
Hatsuko Kitashirakawa
Japan
Prince Kitashirakawa
Akihito
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