Dividing Minds on New Tests to Pick Future Scientists
A national push seeks more scientists and engineers amid intensified academic screening. Dr Charles Tanzer discusses a new written science test by the CEEB to distinguish practical problem solvers from factual memorizers, aiming to identify future leaders in science and technology.
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New York City
New York Academy of Sciences
New York Association of Biology Teachers
Charles Tanzer
College Entrance Examination Board
CEEB
Pearson Plan merits United Nations action on border patrols
The piece argues that the UN peace machinery favors powerful states and endorses Lester B. Pearson's proposal to deploy Emergency Force troops from the Israeli-Egyptian border to the Turko-Syrian front. It frames the plan as a safeguard against accidental war and a check on Soviet influence in the Middle East.
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Soviet Union
Janos Kadar
United Nations
United States
Turkey
Nasser
Europe
Middle East
Lester B. Pearson
Man Warned About Overreach of Legal Rights
A statement cautions that pursuing every legal entitlement can lead to serious trouble for an individual, implying limits on the exercise of rights and potential consequences.
Medics debunk myth that hard work causes heart disease
A New York news conference with four Boston physicians including Dr. Stare Dr. Sprague Dr. White and Dr. Levine debunked the belief that hard work or stress causes heart disease. They urged expressing emotional tension through physical exercise and noted the public lags behind medical advances.
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New York
Boston
Howard B. Sprague
American Heart Association
Harvard Medical School
Frederick J. Stare
Harvard
School of Public Health
Paul Dudley White
Eisenhower
Samuel A. Levine
Stare
New Haven Plans First Center for Elderly Citizens
Mayor Richard C. Lee announced a day center for New Haven’s elderly to open next year. The program will emphasize counseling, hobbies, and job placement for part time work, with housing concerns also a focus. The initiative aims to inspire statewide interest in elder care and self-help.
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New Haven
Yale Divinity School
Richard C. Lee
Lee
Barking lobsters in Australian waters puzzle scientists
The New London Day reports a Canadian fisherman claimed a cod chased a herring on the surface while allegedly barking lobsters in northern Australian waters draw attention. Scientists debate if the sound-making crustaceans are true lobsters or crayfish and ponder whether bark pitch varies by age, with ideas of sound devices guiding pots.
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St. Bernard
Better Safety in Connecticut
Connecticut tightens highway rules with 1957 laws aimed at cut crashes on the Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways. Massachusetts drivers are warned that driving too slowly, using high beam headlights behind another car, leaving turn signals blinking, and passing on the right are now illegal or enforceable in Connecticut.
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Connecticut
General Assembly
Merritt and
Wilbur Cross
Massachusetts
Merritt
The coming upheaval in the aircraft industry
Sylvia Porter predicts a 1960s overhaul of aerospace with mergers and consolidations. Many small firms will disappear or be absorbed as defense spending shifts and aircraft demand concentrates power in a few giants, reshaping jobs, stock values, and industry structure.
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Russia
Sputnik
Defense Department
Wall Street
Beech
Bell Boeing
Cessna
Chance Vought
Convair
Curtiss-Wright
Douglas
Lockheed
Martin
McDonnell
North American
Northrop
Temco
United
Seminole Settlement Ends Long War in 1934 Treaty
The Florida Seminole Indians did not make peace with the U.S. government until 1934. That year they signed a treaty ending what has been called the longest war in American history.
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Florida
U.S
Hawaii Delegate Voices in Congress Without Voting Power
A Hawaii territorial delegate can speak on House matters but cannot cast votes. The status limits legislative influence while allowing representation and participation in debates and committees.
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Territory of Hawaii
Congress
House of Representatives
NATO at Risk in Dulles Threats to Strike Russia
Ray Tucker argues that U S threats to retaliate against the Russian heartland over a Russo Syrian invasion of Turkey expose NATO weaknesses. He cites potential limits on European willingness to host airfields for atomic strikes and questions Article V solidarity amid domestic political constraints in Britain France Italy West Germany and Rome.
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NATO
Dulles
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Turkey
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Leningrad
Harold Macmillan
Washington
Eisenhower
Middle East
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Truman
North Korea
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Germany
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Kremlin
Hitler
Ivhole
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Denmark
Balkans
North Africa
Macmillan
House of Commons
Labor Party
National Assembly
West Germany
Nenni
Italy
Rome
Arab unity as pan Arab dream explained by King Hussein
AP analysts quote Jordan's King Hussein outlining Arab unity as an aspirational goal. He distinguishes between rulers and the street, noting a one world Arab federation is distant while practical unity may resemble Benelux cooperation within Fertile Crescent and Arab Peninsula units. A US gesture to Arab nationalism would cost nothing but could aid restoring prestige.
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Persian Gulf
Atlantic
Hussein
Benelux
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Fertile Crescent
Arab Peninsula
Nile Valley
Arab North Africa
Gulf
Crescent
Iraq
Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
U.S
America
Talks Between Eisenhower and Macmillan Signal Nuclear Risk
Foreign Affairs notes reveal advisers prepare position papers for the Eisenhower Macmillan talks. The piece compares the potential meeting to Roosevelt Churchill ties at sea near Argentina in 1941. It discusses shared Western aims, missile development cooperation, and hurdles including the McMahon Act and Soviet and Chinese expansion.
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State Department
Pentagon
Roosevelt
Churchill
Argentina
Britain
Free World
U.S.S.R
America
Germany
France
Congress
Middle East
Egypt
Nasser
Macmillan
Washington
Kremlin
London
Cabinet
House of Commons
Neville Chamberlain
Dulles
Eisenhower
White House
Rats and Mice See Death in Teutonic Lore
A fragment notes how Scandinavian and Teutonic peoples once viewed rats and mice as omens tied to the dead. The text hints at myths of death and decay linked to these rodents in historic folklore.
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Dead
Garman Hce
Quotes and quips from varied figures spark freewheeling musings
A collage of remarks from public figures and performers includes Warden Percy A. Lainson on censorship of the Towa State Penitentiary Paper Presidio actress Debbis Reynolds on her hit record a Japanese premier and a Ozark farmer jailed for plowing clad only in shoes. The London Times and Eugene R Black quoted on broader fears and social commentary.
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Percy A. Lainson
Towa State Penitentiary
Presidio
Jim
Debbis Reynolds
Tammy
Ozark
John Mianig
Ike Rejects Stennis Plan To Gauge Southern Resistance
President Eisenhower rejected Sen. John Stennis by declining personal advisors meeting with school patrons to assess southern resistance to integration. Stennis said the South’s schools could be saved only by the President’s direct leadership, while the President stressed his role is to uphold a court order.
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Grenada
Miss
Eisenhower
John Stennis
D-Miss
Stennis
South
Executive Branch
Little Rock
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