Plight of Japan and Cold War risks loom large
The piece argues the main global danger is Japan slipping to communism, urging bold U S policy review to prevent losing a key industrial power. It notes Japan must embrace democracy, resist neutrality, and align with the free world amid rising Red China pressure, then shifts to a brief business snapshot: auto demand rising, steel inventory slow, aluminum poised for a record year.
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America
Japan
White House
Germany
Free Nations
Red China
No Man Enters Single Combat With a Skunk and Smells Like a Rose
An opinion piece argues against a presidential trip to Japan, claiming it risks dignity and invites Moscow and Tokyo disruption. It criticizes student and union pressure, notes Japan's need for American trade, and warns that confronting the demonstrators would yield no win for the United States.
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Ike
Washington
Japan
Kishi
United States
Community notices and social events around town
The note tree lists residents vacationing in Chicago and Perth Amboy, dinners to be hosted by the Buxtons in Springfield, farewells for the Gutteridges in their two years here, and gatherings in Wallingford. It also covers a church meeting at First Presbyterian to vote on the pastor’s possible assistant and mentions Dr Mowry’s potential resignation awaiting congregational decision.
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Patrick Cuff
W. 35Th St
Michael O'Malley
Upland St
Chicago
Ill
Florence Feinberg
Sandoland St
Perth Amboy
N.J
Penn’ State
Arthur Leyba
Pennell St
Sophie Starcherski
Reading
John W. Buxton
Congress Ave
Springfield
Park Place
First Presbyterian Church
P. H. Mowry
Experts Miss Economy Forecasts In 1960 Shape
Sylvia Porter notes economists wrongly anticipated a saucer shape for 1960. The current view predicts a right side up saucer with modest gains as consumers spend, inventories adjust, housing loans ease, and government spending rises, potentially ending the year on an improving track.
Omnibus Judgeship Bill Sparks Senate House Pact
The Allen-Scott team report a behind the scenes deal among President Eisenhower Speaker Rayburn and Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson to push the Omnibus Judgeship Bill creating 32 to 39 new district judges and 3 circuit judges. The plan reserves half the posts for Democrats and blocks interim appointments until the next Congress, with confirmation risk to come under a new White House and Senate.
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Robert 8. Allen
Paul Scott
Washington
Congress
Eisenhower
Sam Reyburn
Senate
Lyndon Johnson
House
Rayburn
Rogers
Johnson
Mark
John Kennedy
Stuart Symington
Thomas O'Neill Jr
Mass
Kennedy Backer
Richard Bolling
Symington
House Rules Committee
O’neill
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Michigan
Mississippi
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
Alabama
Canal Zone
Georgia
British disarmament views spark U S debate in Washington
Philip Noel-Baker, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former British cabinet member, criticizes American attitudes toward Khrushchev and disarmament talks. He argues for negotiation with the Soviet leader, noting U S reluctance to disarm and the impact of the U-2 incident and Eisenhower policies. Frederick M. Eaton returns to Geneva after consultations while Western disarmament positions evolve.
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Washington
Nea
Philip Noel-Baker
Khrushchev
Ieader
Paris
Geneva
Noel-Baker
Eisenhower
Noel Baker
United States
Noe Baker
Friends Ambulance Corps
League of Nations
U.S
Russia
Frederick M. Eaton
Carnival Crossroads Times Square book review
W G Rogers and Mildred Weston present a brisk tour of Times Square, the frantic Broadway and 42nd Street intersection. The authors seek evocative rather than exhaustive history, delivering a swift lively kaleidoscope of the area’s mammoth confusion as a book.
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Times Square
W.G. Rogers
Mildred Weston
Doubleday
New York
Broadway
42Nd Street
Union Chiefs May Seek Mitchell on Ticket
Dwight D. Eisenhower supporters discuss Labor Secretary Jim Mitchell as a potential running mate while Labor leaders plan a nonpolitical farewell dinner in Washington. Mitchell is portrayed as an avowed candidate with strong ties to Nixon and Eis enhower, known for his frugal lifestyle and labor policy influence.
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Mitchell
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Washington
Statler-Hilton
Richard Nixon
Secretary of
Labor
Jim Mitchell
All Labor
Ari Goldberg
Electrical Brotherhood
Joe Keenan
Goldberg
Keenan
Jim
al Hayes
Nixon
Diogenes
Afl-Cio
San Francisco
Hotel
Fairmount
Miami Beach
Operating Engineers
Labor Chiefs
Gold Coast
Beach
Sen
Barry Goldwater
Spokane
Wash
Goldwater
Arizona
Dick Nixon
Oldest Catholic Cathedral and Statuary Hall Honor
Quiz Bits notes the oldest Catholic cathedral in the United States is in Baltimore Maryland, Basilica of the Assumption. It also notes Sequoyah is honored with a place in National Capital Statuary Hall by Oklahoma.
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United States
Baltimore
National Capital
Oklahoma
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