United Nations Builds Quiet Force Against Global Locusts
The UN Food and Agricultural Organization coordinates 19 governments in a behind the scenes effort to curb locust swarms in Africa and Southern Asia. Officials say knowing breeding grounds and cooperative early warning could prevent crops from being devastated.
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United Nations
Security Council
General Assembly
New York
Gether
United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization
Africa
Asia
Weather control and global cooperation moving forward
The piece notes progress toward large scale weather control and near global cooperation. It highlights the US satellite TIROS I circling Earth and taking cloud photos, improving observation techniques and understanding of how weather forms, while urging worldwide cooperation now.
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United States
Tiros I
Mark Hellinger Award in Journalism Honors John Checkett
Jim Bishop recalls the first annual Mark Hellinger Award luncheon in New York honoring John Howard Checkett of East Meadow Long Island. The event at 21 included committee members and priests who funded a $500 prize and a job, with Checkett aiming to become a newspaper reporter.
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Florenz Ziegfeld
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John Daly
Douglas Edwards
Toots Shor
Shor
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Charles Berns
Bradley Kelly
King Features
Russell Jandoli
Mark
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St. Bonaventure University
Olean
Malachy Wall
O. P
Jandoli
John Howard Checkett
Gerald Avenue
East Meadow
Long Island
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Nassau County Tax Department
John
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Checkett
Bona Venture
WOFM
Joe Cummiskey
E. Boyd Fitzpatrick
Vince Flaherty
Burris Jenkins
Louis Sobol
Walter Winchell
Mike Romanoff
Mahar
Journal-American
Charlie Berns
Pasternak Says Nobel Prize Saved His Life in 1958 Interview
Interviewed by Gustav Svensson in Geneva in 1958 Pasternak states the Nobel Prize steadied him amid Soviet storm over Doctor Zhivago and affirms he never renounced the award. He plans to claim prize money if allowed, calls Western protests crucial to his survival.
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Moscow
Associated Press
Boris Pasternak
Pasternak
Geneva
Doctor Zhivago
Gustaf VI
Sweden
Stockholm
Swedish Academy
Nobel Committee
Academy
Communist Party
Pravda
Dear Abby Answers and Readers Offer Practical Advice
A collection of Dear Abby letters with Abby Van Buren advising on family tease about girlfriends pass inspection, a soldier’s mother on underage marriage, wedding aisle traditions in Jewish faith, a girl turning down a dance and later bringing another date, and related reader questions.
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Doctor Crane's Personal Cases Feigning affection ends divorce risk
Polly G a 25 year old wife shares how she followed Dr Crane's sex guidance to feign ardor, rekindling love and career promotions amid quarrels, while revealing her parents' divorce and urging readers to seek his booklet for marriage advice. A separate note reports a French expedition planning a spring 1962 attempt on 25 000-foot Jannu Peak in Nepal.
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Polly
George W. Crane
Arden
Dr. Crane
Katmandu
Nepal
Health And Happiness Through Child Assistance At Home
The article urges working mothers to teach self reliance in children by assigning age appropriate chores, with praise and gradual responsibility. It advises starting before school age, using consistent routines, and using requests rather than commands to foster obedience and support at home. It includes practical Q and A on guiding a young child and notes long term moral benefits.
Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf satire
A humorous clippings note recounts Jonathan Swift persuading a parish to give to the poor with the line I shall be brief. The collection breaks a record and Bennett Cerf cites witty quips about growing up and social commentary from the 1960 book.
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Bennett Cerf
Soviet Echoes on U S Espionage and Summit Clash
Viktorov, a Soviet commentator, denounces U S gangsterism as a violation of international law and morality. He notes American espionage fears, Khrushchev era talks, and the proposed summit’s fragile outlook. Powers’s U-2 flights and Russia’s response amplify tensions ahead of the May 17 summit.
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United Nations
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Eisenhower
de Gaulle
Khrushchev
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