Operation Big Ears Russian Radio Stations Yield Secrets
On Cyprus moonlit plain near Karavas US listen post monitors 17 language broadcasts 20 hours daily. Analysts in Washington rush about 25 000 words weekly, tracing trends and major shifts like Tito Stalin rift from steady Soviet line.
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Karavas
Cyprus
United States
Siberia
Albania
Moscow
Blue
Mediterranean
US Foreign Broadcast Information Service
Washington
G. Ellis Porter
Philadelphia
Porter
Iron Curtain
Middle East
North Africa
Yugoslavia
Swing Your Partner Lesson Seven Square Dance Figures
Seventh of twelve lessons on basic and advanced square dance steps. Explains splitting the ring, swinging partners, and guiding calls like balance swing down center and split the ring. Describes active couple sequences across the set and common maneuvers on the floor with emphasis on following the caller. You meet the nicest people that way.
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Big Boy
Probe Launched In Plane Damage
London reports experts suspect a smuggled bomb caused damage to a British airliner carrying 32 people over the English Channel en route to Paris. The craft landed safely at Northolt after the blast tore an eight foot fuselage section. Authorities, including Scotland Yard and civil aviation, pursue explosive evidence while BEA workers point to communists in aviation posts.
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London
Marshall Law
English Channel
Northolt
Paris
Air Service
BEA
Aeronautical Engineers Association
Lord Pakenham
Civil Aviation
Pope Holds Audience For 35 000 Pilgrims
Pope Pius XII conducted a 35 minute general audience for 35 000 holy year pilgrims in Vatican City on Sunday. English girl guides joined mostly Italian attendees while Germans Spaniards Portuguese Brazilians and French were also present. A group of Italian children bringing first Communion gifted the pope a white lamb as a token of devotion. The pontiff rode a portable throne through the crowd and blessed attendees in six languages.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Briggs Sunday School Class Picnic on Lampasas River
Mrs. W. H. Bates led a Sunday School class outing with a fish fry and picnic on the Lampasas River. Attendees included W. H. Bates Daryl Edwards John Ray Hunt Barney Hill Jr Charles Barton Bessie Champlin La Verne Smith La Nita Baum Novella Shugart Glen Black T. R. Carson Jr Charles Moss Hansford Smith and Deward Montgomery.
Labor contracts show small share with dismissal pay
The Labor Department said Sunday that only 8 percent of 1949 labor contracts it sampled contained dismissal pay provisions for workers losing jobs through no fault of their own.
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Washington
API
Labor Department
Cat Loses 7 Lives as Tippy Turns Gray in Berlin Pa
Berlin Pennsylvania April 16. Tippy a nine month old black cat has used seven of his nine lives. Rescued after near starvation he was fed with warmed milk by Mr and Mrs Paul L initial s. Seven close calls follow including a worm attack a near electrocution a fall from a roof and a stove incident. Now with only two lives left the Lan dis family watches closely as the cat grows gray and life quiets.
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Tippy
Paul Lamdis
Landis
Met May Hire Negro Singers
Rudolf Bing, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera Association, said he would be glad to engage qualified Negro artists for the opera next season. He noted he invited Todd Duncan to Edinburgh in 1947 and emphasized he would hire Negro singers only if the voice fit the role. He denied reports that Wagner operas would dominate or that APE operas would be removed and said he had already engaged young American artists with no opera experience.
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New York
Rudolf Bing
Metropolitan Opera Association
Metropolitan
Bing
New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Columbia Broadcasting System
Todd Duncan
Metropolitan Opera
Search Launched For Missing Youth In Central Texas
An 11 year old boy named Fritz Lee Simons from Fisher Store has vanished since Thursday. A wide scale search is under way in Central Texas after the youth was last seen around 730 am Thursday. He reportedly had between 500 and 600 dollars in his pocket and was last known to drive a 1941 Ford sedan. He stands about five feet eight inches tall, weighs 160 pounds, with brown hair and grey eyes.
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Texas
Fritz Lee Simons
Fisher Store
Isher
Austin
English Resorters All Wet They Loved It
English beachgoers at Gillingham mobbed by a beer barge collision. The Genesta sank after striking another barge, its crew rescued unharmed. Beer barrels floated ashore drawing landlubbers who got wet as they celebrated.
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Gillingham
Eng
INS
Medway River
England
Genesta
Chile to Vaccinate All Residents for Smallpox
Authorities in Chile plan to immunize the entire 6 million population amid a parenting smallpox outbreak. Some 1,381 people are isolated with 1,555 total cases. about two million residents have already been vaccinated with vaccination certificates required for entry to theaters markets churches cemeteries and other public places. Argentina and Uruguay have dispatched vessels to assist.
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Santiago
Chile
Argentina
Uruguay
Vessine
Explosion at Shell Oil Plant Near Singapore Injures Eight
A pumphouse explosion sparked a raging fire at the Shell Oil Company plant outside Singapore on Saturday night. Eight people were injured as flames spread to the 9,000 ton tanker Lingola discharging cargo. The ship was moved seaward and remains burning with oil from the Persian Gulf aboard.
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Singapore
Shell Oil Company
Persian Gulf
Three Gibson family killed as Texas house burns down
Manning Texas April 16. Three members of the E H Gibson family perished in a fire that destroyed their farm home near here Saturday night. Mrs Gibson 28 and her children Billie Kayle 3 and Sandy Kayle 2 died in the blaze. Gibson a log worker fished on the Angelina River nearby when the fire started about 9 p m. The house stood amid tall timber with heavy undergrowth. Neighbors who were 300 to 400 yards away failed to reach the home in time to save the mother and children. The origin of the blaze was undetermined.
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Manning
Texas
E. H. Gibson
Gibson
Billie Kayle
Sandy Kayle
Lufkin
Angelina
Spaniards Started It Potatoes Brought to Europe
A historical note states that potatoes were introduced to Europe from South America by Spaniards. The claim frames the spread of the crop as a Spanish-led transfer shaping European agriculture and cuisine.
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Europe
South America
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