Senator Flanders urges direct talks with Moscow on German reunification
Senator Flanders proposes West Germany open direct negotiations with the Soviet Union to end East Germany and seek a united Germany that is unarmed and neutral. He notes the plan clashes with Eisenhower era policy and questions the feasibility of Soviet willingness to release East Germany. He argues rearmament contradicts German aspirations and fuels allied fears.
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Washington
Sen. Flanders
West Germany
Moscow
Flanders
Konrad Adenauer
Russia
East Germany
Germany
Adenauer
United States
Britain
France
For an Englishman auto nuts and bolts are fittings
A concise note explains a regional usage where car hardware words such as nuts and bolts are referred to as fittings by an Englishman. The piece highlights linguistic variation in technical vocabulary.
Steel contract talks inch toward compromise amid looming strike
In New York the steel industry and United Steelworkers consider limited movement in negotiations to avert a strike by 650,000 members at midnight Saturday. The Big Three producers push for a five year no strike deal, while the union backs a shorter term with a wage boost. Some firms prep blast furnaces for possible strike as talks continue.
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New York
United Steelworkers of America
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem
Republic
John Morse
Morse
Pittsburgh
USW
David J. McDonald
Thomas Patton
Republic Steel
ELC votes to broaden merger plan in northern states
In Minneapolis the Evangelical Lutheran Church calls to invite the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church into merger talks with the American Lutheran Church and the Evangelical United Lutheran Church. The ELC suspends its century old Lutheraneren newspaper and endorses a ban on interstate liquor advertising.
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ELC
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Upper Peninsula
Michigan
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church
Suomi Synod
American Lutheran Church
Evangelical United Lutheran Church
Lutheraneren
North Dakota Primary Brings Unopposed Democratic Slate
In BISMARCK North Dakota the Democrats joined by the Nonpartisan League present an unopposed slate led by Quentin Burdick for U S senator and Wallace E Warner for governor. Burdick, an attorney, is the son of Republican Rep Usher Burdick.
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Bismarck
N. D
North Dakota
Nonpartisan League
Quentin Burdick
U. S
Wallace E. Warner
Burdick
Usher Burdick
Republicans Set statewide contests with varied contenders
The piece lists Republican and Democratic candidates across Minnesota, noting Bemidji Milton Young facing Ray Intl Falls Lake, Dunseith operator, and others for governor as well as Brunsdale not seeking re election. It mentions fusion efforts by the Mason City party and challenge to two congressmen Asher Burdick and Otto Krueger by Gordon Conitz.
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Alexandria
U. S
Bemidji
Milton Young
Ray
Re- Rapid City Publican Organizing Committee
Minot
Gordon Conitz
Washington
Miami
New Orleans
Agnes Gee
Calgary
Lan
Edmonton
S. B. Hocking
Devils Lake
Regina
Winnipeg
Iowa to Fight Hopper Threat
The Iowa Department of Agriculture launched a roadside and railroad right of way spraying program in 32 southern counties to curb a severe grasshopper infestation unseen since 1936. Farmers were urged to use chemical sprays in fence rows hay fields pastures and field margins where hoppers are dense. The plan was announced at a Statehouse meeting with 125 county supervisors weed commissioners extension directors and highway and railroad officials.
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Des Moines
State Department of Agriculture
Iowa
Highway Commission
Statehouse
Poll of Demo Governors Shows Adlai Likely to Get 400 Nominating Votes
Atlantic City report on a AP survey of 27 Democratic led states says Stevenson could secure more than 400 nomination votes at the August Chicago convention. Harriman gains as Kefauver fades, with Kentucky and New York votes in play and Stevenson's first ballot lead widening.
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Adlai
Atlantic City
N.J
Adlard Stevenson
Associated Press
Stevenson
Chicago
Averell Harriman
New York
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Harriman
Kentucky
A. B
Happy
Oklahoma
Raymond Gary
Kefauver
Fred Hall
Kansas
Eisenhower
Alabama
James E. Folsom
Harry S. Truman
Sen. Sparkman
Arizona
Ernest W. McFarland
Colorado
Edwin C. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Connecticut
Abraham A. Ribicoff
Florida
Leroy Collins
Georgia
Marvin Griffin
Griffin
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Van's Farm Service
Hollandale
Minn
Elmore Nursery
By Jack Bell
Arkansas
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Faubus
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Louisiana
Earl Long
Maine
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Muskie
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Mississippi
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Symington Boom
Missouri
Phil M. Donnelly
Stuart Symingtom
Boom
Cleveland
Sterling
Firestone
Tebed Typ
Pius Tan
Sele Price Eoch
Exkeene
Price
America
Ee Road Atlas
Ang Travel Guide
Road of All
Mexies Coronmene
Firestone Transport
South Main
Austin, Minn
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