Britain to fight Russia pledges air bases for US aid
Debate among war chiefs during defense talks centered on whether Britain would join the US in any likely Red Army advance into Europe. Britain has now pledged to fight, making British bases available for American bombers if Russia attacks. The article also probes Navajo Nation uranium extraction by Vanadium Corporation of America on the reservation in Arizona and New Mexico, with royalties disputed and secrecy cited. Comrade Gromyko is profiled with a humorous anecdote about cigarette-case inscriptions at Yalta.
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Great Britain
U. S
Europe
Britain
United States
Red Army
English Channel
Spain
Russia
Arizona
New Mexico
Vanadium Corporation of America
Vanadium Corporation
Atomic Energy Commission
Joint
Congressional Committee On Atomic Energy
Navajo
Andrei Gromyko
United Nations
Gromyko
Yalta
Winston Churchill
Stalin
Fdr
Winston
House of Commons
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
Count Szecheny
Jockey Club
Science Q and A Snapshot
Answers cover a range of trivia about invention, geography, birds, oysters and vision. Franklin is credited for a pole tool, Verkhoyansk is cited as the coldest land location, birds sleep only when too young, pearls in restaurant oysters are usually worthless, and moving eyes cause temporary blindness.
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Benjamine Franklin
Verkhoyansk
Siberia
Lynn man recovers after chase of runaway car
Roger Bragdon, 23, of Lynn, drove to Revere when his car collided with a trolley. The crash threw him from the vehicle, which kept moving. He chased the runaway car for several blocks and climbed back into the driver's seat.
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Lynn
Mass
Roger Bragdon
Revere
Bragdon
Retired Minister Reads Bible Multiple Times in Daily Practice
CAMBRIDGE Mass Rev Benjamin Beers 71 has read the complete Bible 50 times and the New Testament 115 times He reads the Bible two or three times daily for about two hours each day continuing his long standing religious routine
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Cambridge
Mass
Benjamin Beers
United Pentecostal Council of the
Assemblies of God
Ain't It So and Other Quotations in Print
An assortment of wry aphorisms on human folly and conflict. The speaker notes that hatred is costly for nations and individuals, that the dumb mislead themselves, and that pride and persistence reveal deeper limits.
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Margaret Hose
New York
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Studebaker Corporation
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Senate Armed Services Committee
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Robert D. Eaton
Sewickley
Secretary of the Interior
Julius Krug
Bureau of Land Management
Krug
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Princess
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