Masonry Homes Show Survival Likely After Atom Blast
An American family living in a concrete masonry home could survive an atomic blast, says F. Leonard Christy of a Marietta firm. Tests at Survival City Nevada found light reinforced concrete block homes with basements offer best safety despite minor structural damage from a 35 kiloton device.
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F. Leonard Christy
Marietta
Christy
National Concrete Masonry Association
Chicago
Ill
Survival City
Yucca Flats
Nevada
Yugo Soviet Talks Signal Khrushchev Dominant Figure
Western diplomats question Russia lineup as Khrushchev outshines Bulganin in Yugoslavia. Tito treats Khrushchev as equal, while Bulganin's role appears subordinate despite slated summer talks with Eisenhower Eden and Faure.
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Tito
Belgrade
Nikita Khrushchev
United Nations, N. Y
NEA
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Nikolai
Bulgarin
Eisenhower
Anthony Eden
Edgar Faure
U. S
Pert Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Iian
Kremlin
Pravda
Communist Party
Buiganin
Eden
France
Stalin
Lheth
Russia
Geronimo Kin Eye Dune Ranch Venture on New Mexico Reservation
Geronimo's Apache descendants in Mescalero New Mexico consider a high end dude ranch on their T19 square mile reservation. Wendell Chino, tribe business leader and minister, touts improving living standards and timber sale income while noting unemployment remains a challenge.
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Mescalero
N.M
Geronimo
United States
Far West
New Mexico
Wendell Chino
Chino
Reformed Church In America
Smoking Habits Change Public Doubt and Kings Cost State Half Million
In Ohio, ten months through April 1954 saw cigarette tax receipts fall to 16.33 million from 16.91 million. Tax officials attribute the drop to public doubt about smoking and a shift to king size cigarettes, which carry more tobacco yet same tax per pack. They expect revenues to rebound as publicity wanes.
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Columbus
Stanley J. Bowers
James Maloon
Bowers
Maloon
Jungle Cat Arouses Domestic Felines
Long Beach California reports Diabla a 14 pound margay from Nicaragua caused a commotion at a home after unhooking a window screen and fleeing. Owner Mrs Beverly Caugh ey tracked her by the yowling of nearby cats. The margay is Central American cousin to the ocelot.
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Long Beach
Calif
Diabla
Nicarange
Beverly Caughey
Long-Gone Emperor Bao Dai Enjoys Luxe Life At Cannes
Bao Dai the deposed emperor of Indochina moves through Cannes with aides and a guarded chateau, famed for wealth and leisure yet pressured by Ho Chi Minh and regional tensions. His study and mistrusted rule persist as Paris ministers weigh his fate.
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Cannes
France
Ringe de Chateau de Thorenc
Bao Dai
Indochina
Dai
Cote d'Azur
Red Vietminh
U. S. State Department
Paris
Viet Nam
Naguyen
Motorist’s Gas Tank Serves as His Bank
A man drove to a Kings Mountain station and asked his gasoline tank be removed. He admitted he had been filling the tank with money each fill. The car sputtered recently. The banked cash amounting to 25.95 was emptied. the tank cost 4.50 to remove and reinstall.
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Kings Mountain
N. C
Frustrated Love and Chou En-lai tale from Formosa
Mme Ma Sheun-yi sister-in-law of Chou En-lai recounts his pre Communist life in Canton and Che Kiang. She recalls a double life, eventual purges, and her own exile in Taipei. She hopes to swap her name and learn her sons fate from the mainland.
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Taipei
Formosa
NEA
Chou En-lai
Red China
Chou
Ma Sheun-yi
Mme
Bandung
Mme. Ma
Che_Kiang
Canton
Chiang Kai-shek
U S Pits More Than Just Planes In Aerial Might Race
Washington reports emphasize that the U S Air Force relies on pilots, supplies, guns, bombs, and mechanics alongside aircraft to deter Soviet aggression. Analysts argue SAC's reach, mobility, and training give the United States an edge, with concerns over Russian bombers and range.
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U. S
Washington
NEA
America’s
Charles Wilson
America
Wilson
Moscow
Gen Twining
Greenland
Uncle Sam
Congress
Twining
Russa
Korea
Strategic Air Comand
Curtis LeMay
Air Force
LeMay
SAC
Bee Swarm Forces Syracuse Driver to Seek Help
Bil Cole found a queen bee and a large swarm on his car hood in Syracuse. He raced to heat the engine to scatter them but the bees followed, covering the service station as a friend called for water. Cole drove away with the swarm still clinging to the vehicle.
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Syracuse
N.Y
Cole
George
Lee
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