Soviets Order Step Up In Consumer Materials
MOSCOW The Soviet government orders immediate increase in consumer goods production to meet rising demand. An official New York Times report says design upgrades, lower unit costs, and housing fixes will accompany higher output, with target boosts in refrigerators, washing machines, vacuums, sewing machines, TVs, bicycles, and irons through 1961.
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Explosion Kills Three at Fujida Fireworks Plant
An explosion at a Fujida fireworks factory 75 miles southwest of Tokyo killed three workers and seriously injured another. Police and safety officials investigated the blast, with the site sealed as investigators determine the cause.
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Japan
UPL
Tokyo
De Gaulle Plan For Algeria Wins Approval
Paris reports President Charles de Gaulle wins overwhelming National Assembly backing for his Algeria peace plan after three days of debate. Premier Debre asserts France will keep Algeria, promising not to withdraw force and offering integration or home rule options while rejecting independence.
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Second attempt reported on Iraqi premier Kassem's life
Iraqi authorities uncovered a second plan to kill Premier Abdel Karim Kassem after authorities said the United Arab Republic and its troops concentrated along Iraq's borders before the October 7 daylight attack. Major General Ahmad Salim al Abdi gave the report, stating a Syrian infiltrator was arrested with 75 dynamite sticks and other explosives in Mosul after the assault. The timing of the second attempt's discovery was not released.
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Polaris missile needs forty to fifty test shots
Cape Canaveral Fla UPI Rear Adm. Raborn told the American Rocket Society that at least 40 to 50 test shots are required before the Polaris submarine launched ballistic missile becomes operational. He said Polaris could deter surprise attacks.
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Congo Clashes Leave Heavy Casualties Near Tuluabourg
In Leopoldville reports say fighting between Lalua and Saluba tribes near Tuluabourg caused heavy casualties with more than 20 Africans killed, hundreds wounded, and about a thousand huts burned as conflict raged in the southern Belgian Congo.
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Display of John Brown Relics at the Mayflower Museum
A lengthy biographical note on John Brown, famed abolitionist who led the Harpers Ferry raid, his youth in Ohio and later moves to Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New York. It covers his family, two marriages, twenty children, and the raid’s outcome, with contemporary debates on his sanity, martyrdom, and impact on abolitionism.
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John Brown’s Body Rings in the Grave in Civil War Ballad
The passage recalls John Brown’s body in a memorable marching song during the looming Civil War era. It highlights the enduring fame and symbolic funeral march associated with Brown as his legacy echoes in the period’s rhetoric.
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Fumes Panic New York Tenement Residents
Fumes from a defective boiler flue caused panic in a West Side five story tenement. Nine residents were hospitalized but none remained in serious condition, as officials traced the fumes to a hot water boiler in the basement.
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West Side
Lloyd Cancels London Talk Due to Cold
British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, taken ill with a cold, canceled a speaking engagement in London on Thursday night and spent the day at home. Follow-up details were not released.
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London
UPI
Cnld
Selwyn Lloyd
Calif Fires Rage Unchecked Threaten Hundreds of Homes
A massive brush fire in the Los Angeles foothills blackened 7 200 acres and put 30 to 40 homes within a mile at risk while hundreds more faced potential danger. A second blaze in Topanga Canyon near Malibu burned about 250 acres with no immediate home threat.
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UPI
Here
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Angeles National Forest
Russians reveal plans for manned satellites and training
Washington reports a Soviet scientist predicting recoverable artificial Earth satellites carrying pilots and scientists for training distant interplanetary flights. Officials acknowledge Moscow could be first to send a man into space as USA plans Project Mercury. Names of three prospective Soviet astronauts Ivan Kaehur, Alexei Grachev, and Alexei Belokonev are cited in magazines Soviet Union and Ogonok.
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UPI
United States
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Moscow
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Office of Technical Services
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U.S
Russia
Soviet Union
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Ivan Kaehur
Alexei Grachev
Alexei Belokonev
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US protests British jet sale to Castro forces
The United States protests Britain's plan to sell 15 Hawker Hunters to Castro's Cuban air force. Cuba reportedly seeks a swap for 15 Sea Fury prop fighters and possibly a second batch of 25. State Department warns deliveries could heighten Caribbean tensions while Castro says the jets are for defensive use only against Dominican leader Trujillo.
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United States
Britain
Fidel Castro
Castro
State Department
Caribbean
Rafael Trujillo
Dominican Republic
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