Laika May Have Died After Space Flight Report
Soviet premier Bulganin was cited saying Laika the space dog was alive at the time. An Italian paper claimed Laika was euthanized with a narcotic to prevent suffering and that the dog would never return to earth. Tass said the Sputnik program fulfilled its goals and no direct Moscow word on Laika's fate was given.
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Sputnik
Washington
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L’unita
Moscow
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Tass
Moscow Radio
Russia
Sputnik II
Heiserman to resign from bench in Iowa
Judge J E Heiserman announces resignation from the Eighteenth district bench effective year end returning to Jones county private practice. Heiserman, 52, has served 19 years and presided over the 1949 Rutledge murder trial. He is to be succeeded by Dr Herschel C Loveless appointee with governor’s approval pending.
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Iowa
Jones County
Anamosa
Heiserman
Eighteenth Judicial District
Linn
Jones
Cedar Counties
Floyd Philbrick
Charles Penningroth
B. J. Maxwell
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Penningroth
Cedar Rapids
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Tipton
Herschel C. Loveless
Eighteenth District Bar Association
Robert Rutledge, Jr
University of Iowa
Iowa Law School
Monticello High School
Coxsee
American
Jones County Bar Associations
Iowa District Judges Association
Hagen Sees Muttnik Failure After Dog’s Death
Dr. John P. Hagen head of the U S satellite program says Russia’s second earth satellite appears flawed. He doubts real scientific value from the short flight of the dog and notes slim chances for a post mortem. He links the dog’s death to loss of signals suggesting an experimental problem.
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Washington
John P. Hagen
U.S
Russia
Hagen
Margaret Jobs Dance Teachers No Bouquets for Margaret
London report says Princess Margaret's liking for rock and roll harmed ballroom teaching causing a 27 percent revenue drop versus 1956. Midland Association of Teachers of Dancing blames the royal taste for loosening censorship and hurting the profession.
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London
MNL
Margaret
Midland Association of Teachers of Dancing
Price Jumps Hit Food and Fuel in France
Paris reports another surge in living costs with beef and pork up four to eight cents a pound and ham six cents. Meat prices average around 1.50 per pound while coal climbs about 6.5 percent as France enters a cold spell. Premier Gaillard expected to weather the inflationary wave amid looming gas and electricity price hikes.
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Paris
France
Gaillard
Bricklayers Rediscover Big Stone for Cornerstone
In Long Beach AP report Local 13 Bricklayers laid a cornerstone but the granite stone would not fit the hole. Secretary John J Murphy from Washington packed the mortar and bricklayers moved the ceremony to November 20 after enlarging the hole.
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Long Beach
Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers International Union
John J. Murphy
Washington, D. C
Union Hall
Reunion Ends 11 Year Siberian Family Separation
William Gavecus, a 47 year old naturalized American, reunites with his wife Monika and children Ruta and Romutis in Chicago after 11 years apart spent mostly in a Soviet labor camp in Siberia. The couple married in 1939 and pressed officials, including Khrushchev and Mrs. Roosevelt, to secure release and return to the United States.
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Chicago
Siberia
William Gavecus
Midway Airport
Monika
Ruta
Romutis
Gaveus
Lithuania
U.S
Garcus
New York
Marshall MacDuffie
MacDuffie
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Khrushchev
Oak Park
Petras Dauzvardis
Doctors Remove Calcified Infant After 37 Years
CHICAGO doctors disclosed the removal of a calcified fetus from a 67-year-old woman last December. The lithopedian formed in a fallopian tube, grew for about four months, then calcinated after rupturing the tube and nourishing stopped. The woman died following tumor removal in a surgery for stomach cancer.
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Chicago
Holy Cross Hospital
Edward J. Krol
Erol
Baby dies after neck caught in car window in Kansas City
A 22 month old baby, Lucinda Howell, was strangled when her neck was drawn into a raised rear car window. Her mother Merriam, Kansas, 25, sat in front and rolled up the window without looking. The infant was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital.
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Kansas City
Kan
Lucinda Howell
Merriam, Kan
West and Communists Reach Joint Resolution on Radiation
United Nations negotiators reach a wartime style compromise deferring action on radiation until 1958. The draft omits a Czech call for a global conference and directs the Scientific Committee on Radiation to report promptly. Major sponsors include the United States Poland Yugoslavia Japan India Egypt Mexico Canada Argentina Australia Belgium Brazil France Sweden and Britain.
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INS
U.N
India
Japan
Scientific Committee On
U.S
Poland
Yugoslavia
Egypt
Mexico
Canada
Argentina
Australia
Belgium
Brazil
France
Sweden
Britain
Last Solo Honor Paid to Unknown of World War
President Eisenhower and Brig. Gen. Andrew Goodpaster led the nation in Veterans Day rites at Arlington Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Gov Joe Foss delivered the keynote, urging vigilance in missile defense and criticizing defense-spending cuts as risky to national security.
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Washington
INS
America
Arlington National Cemetery
Andrew J. Goodspaster
Eisenhower
Walter Reed Hospital
South Dakota iGov
Joe Foss
U. S&s
Foss
Congress
Sad-Fyed Laika Obituary For a Space Dog in Moscow
Moscow reports a somber portrait of Laika the space dog as obituary folklore. The dog trained for the first orbital flight endured tests in vacuum and cramped Sputnik cabins with calm resignation. Her fate remains uncertain as Ogonyok questions past rockets and the animal’s forthcoming end in history.
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Sputnik
Ogonyok
Laika
Kennan Sees Khrushchev Power Shaky After Demotion
George F. Kennan warned that Nikita Khrushchev's hold on power is precarious despite his peak position. He cited Zhukov's demotion and said the leader has estranged many political groups, with instability unlikely to end soon. Kennan spoke on a BBC lecture series and noted Soviet economic gains but growing political crises. He warned both sides can inflict terrible destruction and urged preserving retaliatory capacity.
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London
George F. Kennan
Nikita Khrushchev
Marshal Georgi Zhukov
Kennan
Soviet Union
Russia
West
Bus Plunge Kills Six in Euboea Cliff Fall
Six people died and twelve were injured when a bus plunged from a cliff into the sea on the Greek island of Euboea on Sunday.
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Athens
Euboea
Eisenhower Pronounced In Excellent Condition After Medical Checkup
President Eisenhower completed a Walter Reed physical exam showing no unfavorable complications from his 1955 heart attack or 1956 ileitis operation. He weighed 173 pounds, up one pound in the year, with normal blood pressure and a stable heart trace.
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Washington
Ins
Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Howard Snyder
Leonard Heaton
Walter Reed
Earth Moving Machine Crushes Cedar Rapids Man to Death
Joseph A. George, 49, a Cedar Rapids construction worker, was killed Monday when a front end loader toppled at 3017 Carroll Drive SE while digging a basement. He backed toward a hill edge, the machine slipped, flipped down a 10 foot embankment, and pinned him under the right rear wheel. He died at Mercy hospital. He lived at 837 Second Street NW.
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Cedar Rapids
Joseph A. George
George
Mercy Hospital
Second Street
Carroll Drive
Beas
Senate rackets probes lose six key witnesses
Senate rackets probes say six witnesses for questioning in New York garbage collection racketeering have disappeared. Robert Kennedy says hearings proceed as planned despite agents failing to locate the missing individuals, several of whom have long criminal records.
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Washington
Senate
New York
Robert Kennedy
Rackets Investigating Committee
Rita Hayworth and James Hill Plan Marriage
Hollywood producer James Hill said he and actress Rita Hayworth plan to marry but have not set a date. It would be Hayworth’s fifth marriage and Hill’s first.
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Hollywood (Ap
James Hill
Rita Hayworth
Miss Hayworth
Hill
Warren Irons Named Executive Director of Civil Service
Washington based government career official Warren Irons will take the post of executive director of the Civil Service Commission on February 1, succeeding John Macy whose departure was announced Sunday.
U S Urged To Put Man Into Space
Dr John P Hagen director of Project Vanguard urged a new U S program to send a man into space and return him safely. He said a Jupiter C rocket could have launched a satellite sooner and that the Army should join the Navy led effort before IGY ends in 1958. Hagen noted Vanguard weighs 21 pounds and expects a small test satellite next month.
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Washington
U.S
U. S
John P. Hagen
Project Vanguard
Russia
Army
Defense Department
Hagen
Vanguard
IGY
May Offers to Volunteer for Space Satellite Mission
Dr. Alan Nunn May, released after six years in prison for passing British atomic secrets to the Russians in 1945, said in Cambridge England on Monday he was ready to volunteer to go aloft in a space satellite to aid science. He rejected claims he helped Soviet space leadership, noting the Russians’ heavy investment in scientists.
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Cambridge
England
Alan Nunn May
May
Byrd Wild Claim on Missile Spending Without Budget Balance
Senator Byrd says the United States could spend two billion dollars more on missile development without upsetting the budget if President Eisenhower cuts non essential domestic spending. He emphasizes a reallocation rather than overall deficit growth.
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Washington
Byrd
D-Va
U.S
Eisenhower
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