GE Sets World Record Voltage Transmission
GE today boosted the United States ahead in extra high voltage transmission by placing 710000 volts on its Lenox prototype, the highest operating voltage ever, surpassing Russia’s 600000-volt record from 1954. WMEC VP Robert L. Gibson closed the switch as wind swept the Housatonic valley and technicians watched from an 80-foot tower. Pittsfield and Berkshire County see this as a leadership moment in high voltage research, with GE’s Lenox facility expanding its five mile outdoor testing span and a three million volt impulse generator under construction inside a plastic dome. The project, a five year effort begun in 1958, aims to move larger blocks of power with improved equipment, with GE and WMEC joined by 10 contributing companies. Dr. Pier A. Abetti oversees the team in Lenox as the work progresses toward 1963 completion.
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Librizei
General Electric Co
Lenox
United States
Russia
Leningrad
Robert L. Gibson
Western Massachusetts Electric Co
Housatonic River
Pittsfield
Berkshire County
Lynn Wetherill
Power Trans
Frank Peek
Tyler Street
Mr. Wetherill
EHV
WMEC
Abetti
Pier A. Abetti
New Lenox Road
War-Ready Laos Capital Asks Red or Rightist Help
In Vientiane government forces seized the capital to fortify against Pathet Lao threats. Pro-Communist elements fled as tanks and troops manned the streets. Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma backed a three side meeting to push a cease-fire and neutralist policy while paratroop units maintained security downtown.
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Vientiane
Laos
Pathet Lao
Souvanna Phouma
Phoumi Nosavan
Namkadinh
Pakadinh
Paksane
Souvanna
Laotian Youth Association
Abeui Answers Oun Question on Unbubbled Bubble
Dr. Pier A. Abetti of General Electric explains a huge plastic dome for the ex tra-high-voltage project is kept inflated by interconnected blowers. He says a gas motor backup exists and warns of a 20 minute emergency exit if all systems fail.
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Pier A. Abetti
General Electric Co
Dr. Abetti
Congo Blocks UN Transit Curb Amid Congo Crisis
LEOPOLDVILLE Congo authorities order a blockade of all UN military surface transport. Brig. Indarjit Rikhye calls the move the gravest challenge to UN Congo operation. The first test is a UN supply convoy up the Congo River. Victor Nendaka demands Otraco be allowed to haul Congo goods with special permission. The UN warns of paralysis and a breach of the UN Congolese accord while Kasavubu imposes a state of emergency in Oriental Province to curb Mobutu loyalists.
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Leopoldville
Congo
United Nations
U.N
Indarjit Rikhye
India
Hikhye
Congo River
Victor Nendaka
National Security Police
Otraco
Rikhye
Nendaka
Joseph Mobutu
Mobutu
Police Lumumba
Kasavubu
Oriental
Lumumba
Bumba
Russia is repulsed in U N Congo debate
United Nations Security Council debates on Congo intensify as Dag Hammarskjold defends U N operation and warns against withdrawal. Yugoslavia, Ceylon, and United Arab Republic report troop withdrawals while Soviet diplomat Valerian Zorin clashes with U N leadership over Lumumba case.
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Russia
United Nations, N.Y
Dag Hammarskjold
Congo
U.N
Security Council
Yugoslavia
U.N. Congo
Ceylon
United Arab Republic
Ghana
Leopoldville
Valerian Zorin
Hammarskjald
United Nations
Hammarskjold
Lumumba
U. N
Joseph Mobutu
United States
James J. Wadsworth
Zorin
Blue Laws Seen as Economic Pressure on Jews in Supreme Court
In a two day Supreme Court session about state blue laws, Jewish merchants argued that Pennsylvania Sunday sales limits force observant Jews to choose between Sabbath observance and profit. Massachusetts kosher supermarket counsel echoed claims that Sunday meat bans impose hardship and function as religious coercion, challenging the law as unconstitutional favoritism.
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Supreme Court
Washington (Ap
Pennsylvania
High Tribunal
Springfield
Mass
Boston
Massachusetts
Asst
Joseph H. Elcock Jr
Herbert Ehrmann
Ehrmann
Bomb Explosion Kills Driver in Forest Hills NY
A bomb rigged to an automobile exploded near Forest Hills Tennis Club, killing the driver and shattering windows in a quiet suburban street. The victim was not immediately identified and apparently had just started the car when the blast occurred.
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New York
UPI
Forest Hills Tennis Club
Forest Hills
GE and Westinghouse Admit Price Fixing Pleas
GE and Westinghouse Electric admit guilty or no contest pleas to federal price fixing indictments in bid rigging for power transformers and related equipment. Three Pittsfield Mass managers face charges, with others pleading no contest or innocent, and judge will sentence next year.
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Eagle Philadelphia
General Elec
Tric Co
Westinghouse Electric
Pittsfield
Mass
J. W
Larry) Seaman
Cincinnati
Marc A. de Ferranti
DeFerranti
International Group
New York
Ginn
Arthur F. Vinson
GE Group
W.C. Rowland
Westinghouse
J. Cullen Ganey
Cullen
White Offered Post in Kennedy Administery
President-elect Kennedy offered Byron White a post in his administration. White, a Denver attorney and former Colorado football star, met reporters on Kennedy’s Georgetown doorstep and declined to name the position. White lagged for a return decision in a few days and would head back to Denver.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
Byron Leslie
Whizzer
White
Justice Department
Kennedy
Denver
England
Joseph P. Kennedy
London
Sen. Estes Kefauver
D-Teno
Adlai E. Stevenson
Dean Rusk
Rockefeller Foundation
Truman
Rusk
State Department
Stevenson
U. S
United Nations
Government says insurgents wiped out at Cabanas
Havana reports the army destroyed a band near Cabanas 32 miles from Havana. Eleven captured including commander Capt. Miranda Mendiela, who was wounded, and his brother killed. The army claimed no survivors, while earlier reports spoke of up to 200 deserters with arms.
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Havana
Cabanas
Ciodomira Miranda Mendiela
Fidel Castro
Miranda Mendiela
Castro
Seboruico
Pinar del Rio
Dermidio Escalona
San Julian
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Las Villas
Escambray Mountains
British cuts Bank of England rate to 5 percent
London AP report says the British Treasury cut the Bank of England lending rate from 6 to 5 percent, aiming to slow hot money flows from the United States and curb gold outflow. The move eases Conservative credit squeeze blamed for auto layoffs and weak exports, following a 4.4 percent rate in effect since Oct 27.
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London
Britishes Treasury
Bank of England Lending
Bank of Fingland
United States
America
Bank of England
Canny Lad Admits Milk Theft From Rival Firm
A juvenile offender in Edinburgh confessed in court to stealing and drinking 21 pints of milk. He said the milk came from a rival company. The case highlights youth crime and corporate rivalry in Scotland.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
UPI
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Kong le
Abeui
UPS
Patrice Lumumba
Philadelphia
Elcock
N.Y
William S. Ginn
Schenectady
Raymond W. Smith
Refauver
Justice Dept
Georgetown
Georgetown University Hospital
Department
Ruske, Stevenson
Economic Aid Report
Ree Pees
Swersey
Byron
Cuba
UPE
U.S
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