South Africa faces strike call amid police warnings and protests
Tensions rise as police vow stern action to deter the stay at home strike. Officials appeal to African workers to ignore ANC leaflets while urging protection for those who work. Prime Minister Verwoerd shows progress as governments consider a new deal to accelerate integration and development. Demonstrators meet the cricket tour with anti apartheid chants at London airport.
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British United Press
African National Congress
American
Associated Press
Dr. Verwoerd
South Africa
London
Johannesborg
NSW Easter Toll Falls Short of Last Year
NSW records the highest Easter road toll among states with 291 deaths so far this period. A 14 year old boy died when a utility overturned on Bellard Road near West Wyalong. another boy was hospitalized with shock. Multiple other fatal crashes are reported across Bathurst, Heathcote, Marysville, and Melbourne suburbs with several injuries.
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N.S.W
Victoria
Nsw
Dow
Bellard Road
West Wyalong
Tour
Roy Edward Pion
Wilea Street
Geoffrey Allen Pereira
Railway Road
John Leslie Solomon
Town Hall
Forest Odee
Heathcote
Liverpool Road
Sutherland District Hospital
Athurst
John Gordonavin
Keith Anthony Navin
Torch Street
Bathurst
Francis’ James Navin
Durham Street
Bathast
Noel John Rowe
Briggsvale
Coff's
Arbour
Call's Harnt
Yestern
Queensland
South Australia
Port Adelaide
Tasmania
Launceston
Lindsay King
West Tamar
Khrushchev A Blue Blood Report Cites Ancestor Link
A Frankfurt Abendpost report links Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev to Ukrainian noble Peter Khrushchev, a 18th century Cossack plot leader exiled for treason. The piece notes Peter settled as a farmer in Kursk and had descendants, including Serge Khrushchev, Nikita’s father, claiming a portion of blue blood.
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Bonn
Khrushchev
Frankfurt
Abendpost
Katharine
Peter Khrushchev
Kurskm
Serge Khrushchev
Nikita
Menzies Heads to London for Commonwealth Talks
Prime Minister Menzies departs for Rome then Geneva and London before a historic Commonwealth summit. Crowds of 500 bid him farewell as he travels via Qantas B707 to Rome, then on to Geneva to visit his granddaughter Heather Henderson before reaching London and continuing to Washington and Ottawa.
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Qantas Bovine 707
Rome
Geneva
London
Overseas
United Kingdom
Macmillan
Commonwealth
Mr. Menzies
Bob
Jlo
Dobell’s
Heather
Peter Henderson
Henderson
New York
Washington
Ottawa
Brando to Star in The Ugly American in Siam This Summer
Marlon Brando will play the lead in The Ugly American to be shot in Siam this summer. The story adapts a scathing indictment of incompetent officials overseeing U.S. military and economic aid in the region.
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Bangkok
P.reuter
Marlon Brando
Siam
U.S
Tourists Swarm Canberra During Peak Weekend Visit
Hundreds of visitors packed Canberra attractions as accommodation sold out. Many slept in cars or camped near Black Mountain while 7,000 toured the Australian War Memorial and 5,000 visited Parliament House. Officials reported crowds at main ACT events and tours.
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Canberra
Canberr
Black Mountain
Australian War Memorial
Parliament House
Famous English artist Eric Kennington dies at 72
English artist sculptor Eric Kennington aged 72 died last Wednesday in a Berkshire nursing home. He created the bronze head of his close friend T. E. Lawrence housed in St. Pauls Cathedral and served as an official war artist in both World Wars.
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London
A.a.p.reuter
Eric Kennington
Berkshire
T. E. Lawrence
St. Paul's Cathedral
Kennington
Trees Disprove Red Scientists Nuclear Views in Moscow
Tass reports the Academy of Sciences now supports the original meteor theory after two ancient larch trees in the zero zone show no radiation. The Siberia Tunguska event of 1908 is reinterpreted as not a nuclear explosion, per Soviet descriptions.
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Moscow
P.reuter
Siberia
Tass
Soviet Academy of Sciences
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