Key System Faces Recurring Transit Strikes and Public Ownership
The piece likens Key System to a diseased industry prone to attacks such as the 1953 siege and a 72 day strike. It discusses wage talks with the carmen’s union, past losses, and tax credits. It notes California actions to let public agencies operate trains if Key System strikes, and explores franchise tax cancellation as a potential subsidy to prevent a public takeover.
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Key System
Carmen
California Toll Bridge Authority
Toll Bridge Authority
Bay Area Rapid Transit District
Hayward
Traffic Lights Are the Answer for Highway 17 Safety
Irivington Centerville and Alvarado residents press for immediate traffic control along Highway 17 after a schoolboy death and rising speeding. They call for traffic lights to shield pupils crossing the roadway, arguing the need persists during a three year freeway completion and beyond.
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Washington Township
Highway 17
Highway Patrol
Irvington
Centerville
Alvarado
Oakland
San Jose
GOP chief targets Wayne Morse in Oregon race
Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall drives a fundraising effort to defeat Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon, arguing Morse’s defection harmed the GOP and helped Democrats. Goldwater reports Morse can be beaten with money and stronger state organization, with Governor Patterson reportedly set to run, while Truman may stoke opposition.
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Washington
Leonard W. Hall
Wayne Tuyman Morse
Oregon
Senate
Hall
New Yorker
Norris, Borah and
Johnson
Coolidge
Eisenhower
Morse. Co
Northwest
Morse
Goldwater
Paul Patterson
Fraul Butler
Portland
Ike
Nnroyate
Warren Magnuson
Tennessee Valley Authority
Dixon- Yates
Hell’s Canyon
Niagara River
Capitol Hill
Herbert H. Lehman
New York
Ma@gnusen
St. Lawrence
Niagare
Cowles Warns of Global Imbalance Threatening Peace
In New York Gardner Cowles warns that becoming the sole fat duck in a hungry world risks upsetting peace for future generations. Paris notes French Foreign Minister Pinay emphasizes security and concrete guarantees as essential for true peace.
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New York
Gardner Cowles
Paris
Antoine Pinay
Partisan voting in Senate slips as House stays strong
A Congressional Quarterly survey shows party unity declining in the Senate in 1958 while the House remains more polarized. Democrats and Republicans varied sharply by region with Western and Southern states showing different patterns, and a minority of senators voting in full party alignment.
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Washington
Senate
House of Representatives
House
Congress
Eisenhower
GOP
Paul HM. Douglas
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minn
Mike Mansfield
Mont
John J. Sparkman
Ala
Clifford P. Case
N. J
Norris Cotton
N. H
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Calif
Thomas E. Martin
William A. Portell
Conn
H. Alexander Smith
Arthur V. Watkins
Ulan
Choosing a Pet for Your Home in Casual Guidance
Ranger Eugene Burns advises careful pet selection focused on living space sunlight and schedule. He suggests pairing daytime song birds such as finches or siskins or opting for a golden hamster or small mammals for companionship and ease of care, to enrich urban life.
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London
Copenhagen
Oslo
Rome
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
Aes
Pertais
Konrad
Lorenz
Eugene Burns
Three Kremlin Goals Drive Prep for the Summit
The article outlines three Soviet aims seen as central to Kremlin policy ahead of the upcoming summit. They include dismantling key Turkish air bases, admitting Red China to the United Nations in exchange for non aggression pledges, and pressuring West Germany from NATO by offering German unification for neutrality. It notes Khrushchev Bulganin’s Yugoslav visit as revealing, plus Dulles’ talks and UN anniversary events as context.
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Turkey
Russia
Moscow
China
United Nations
West Germany
NATO Alliance
Germany
Kremlin
Dulles
New York
San Francisco
United Nation
Europe
Khrushchev
Czar
Bulganin
Khushchev
Who Is Top Leader in Russia This Summit Era
John H. Martin analyzes power dynamics in the Soviet leadership, arguing Khrushchev has emerged as the top figure over Bulganin and Molotov. The piece traces shifts since Stalin’s death, noting Khrushchev’s rise from a coal miner’s son to a central party leader amid Tito and Belgrade diplomacy.
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John H. Martin
Chiefs of State
Nikolai Bulgantin
Soviet Union
Bulganin
Russia
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet
Yugoslavia
Khrushchev
Krushchev
V. M. Molotov
Beria
Malenkov
Molotov
Kruzachev
Belgrade
Stalin Jeter
Melenkov
Maler- Jeev
Tito
Comity Party
Kursk
Ukraine
Donbas
Moscow
Stalin Industrial Academy
Vanity and vanity in music and comedy
The piece notes Gershwin’s vanity as he enjoyed a Paris premiere of Rhapsody in Blue with a witty exchange with critic Deems Taylor. It also mentions W C Fields’ well known taste for hard liquor and a backstage exchange about lateness. The tone mirrors a light, anecdotal late 1920s-1930s gossip style.
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George Gershwin
Gershwin
Paris
George
Deems Tayior
Reems
Phensecy
W. C. Fields
Fields
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Wayne Morse
Barry M. Goldwater
Arizona
Butler
Democratic Heirarchy
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Aoe
Emily and
Mabel
Aidel
Mracle
Congressional Quarterly
Ures
Rayburn and
Janson
William F. Knowland
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Mass
GOF
Ranger Eugene Burns
Robert$. Allen
Red China
Greece
Ber
Marshal Tito
SALK
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Oveta Hobby
Lister Hill
D. Ala
Hobby
Biologics Control Laboratory
Senator Hill
Paul Douglas
Til
Harley Kilgore
W. Vz
Senate Appropriations Committee
Kilgore
Douglas
Civil Aeronautics Board
CAB
World Report
Taylor
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