Niagara Falls May Be Gone In A Thousand Years
Inez Robb urges readers to grasp Niagara Falls while it lasts in 1956 as geologists warn the falls will erode to rapids by 2956. She laments future generations missing the Maid of the Mist and anticipates a world without the famed cascade. The piece blends humor and warning about the falls and contemporary political tensions.
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Niagara Falls
Rhodes
Babylon
Carrie Nation
Middle East
Mason-Dixon Line
Nixon urged Asiatic policy crescent to surround Sino Soviet empire
Washington report notes 1953 NSC memo urged a military crescent in Asia to encircle the Sino Soviet bloc. The Ralph Toledano biography also claims Nixon told Senator Joseph R. McCarthy in 1950 not to overstate his case about Communists in government, praising his intentions but criticizing tactics.
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Arthur W. Radford
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Turkey
Iran
Pakistan
Indo-China
Formosa
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
National Security Council
Ralph Toledano
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
McCarthy
Stormy The Thoroughbred Becomes Polo Champion
Disneyland presents a tale of an awkward colt that rises to become a champion polo mount in Stormy The Thoroughbred airing Wednesday on Channel 9 at 6 30 pm.
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Disneyland
Channel 9
Woman Admits Poisoning Six Relatives in Alabama
A 49 year old waitress Rhonda Bell Martin signed a confession admitting arsenic murders of six relatives including two former husbands three children and her mother. Police say she also poisoned her latest husband Ronald Martin now in Biloxi hospital. Bodies of victims were exhumed for tests and plans to exhume others were called off. She claimed to have spoiled all her loved ones and previously denied the charges.
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Ronald C. Martin
Veterans Administration Hospital
Biloxi
Miss
Martin
Mobile
Ala
Forsenic
Claude Carroll Martin
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