Butler Brains in His Feet Create Dances for TV Opera
New York choreographer John Butler explains how he and the John Butler Dance Theater craft dances. He outlines improvisation on the floor with eight dancers, shaping from an outline rather than fixed plans. Butler recalls training with Martha Graham and Eugene Loring, and notes his company with NBC CBS and City Opera frequently hires them for TV and stage works.
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Butler
New York
John Butler
Choreographer Butler
NBC
Strauss
Moliere
Pope Reaffirms Goodwill Toward Argentina Clergy
Pope Pius XII, age 79, expressed continuing goodwill toward Argentina's Roman Catholic clergy and people after a private audience with two priests expelled by Argentine authorities. The brief meeting focused on church relations and Refuge for those affected by the expulsion.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Argentina
Polish woman glider pilot sets world record
London notes Polish glider pilot Czmielonna completed a two way single seater flight from Wroclaw to Poznan and back covering 207 miles, surpassing the former 179 mile record. Other brief notes report an earthquake in northern Italy and French Riviera, and clashes near Matsu with Chinese vessels sunk. Eighteen Japanese injured in a truck crash during a forced removal protest against U S Army artillery near Mt Fuji.
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London
Warsaw
Czmielonna
Wroclaw
Poznan
Tokyo
Mt. Fuji
Sacred Mountain
Hearings Next Week on Social Security Plans
House Ways and Means Committee to begin three days of closed hearings on a Democratic plan for a larger social security program. Leaders support changes costing about two billion dollars annually, including reducing the eligibility age for women from 65 to 62 and providing immediate benefits to insured workers who are permanently and totally disabled, regardless of age.
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Washington
Cooper
D-Tenn
House
Ways and Means Committee
Damages at Blackwell and Udall Run High
Insurance firms estimate payouts totaling about 100 million dollars to Kansas and Oklahoma tornado victims from May 25 and 26. The National Board of Fire Underwriters reported 1,280,000 dollars paid at Blackwell Oklahoma and about one million at Udall Kansas, with special offices opened there to process claims.
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Kansas
Oklahoma
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Blackwell
Okla
Udall
Kas
Jewelry Stolen From Mission Hills Home
An $11,000 jewelry theft was reported in Mission Hills. Dr and Mrs Desmond Curran said burglars entered their home through a second floor window while they hosted a guest downstairs on Wednesday night.
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Mission Hills
Kasi
Desmond Curran
Warrant Out For a Salesman
Warrant issued this week by Trego County court for arrest of C. W. Baker who sold Big 8 Mineral Feed as a cure all for animal diseases. The State Board of Agriculture found the feed labeled 5 percent phosphorus actually contained 1.7 percent. Baker claimed the product would eliminate lice, prevent bloat, cure hoof trouble, and save feed, prompting several farmers to file complaints after cattle refused to eat it.
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C. W. Baker
Big 8 Mineral Co
Woodward
Okla
State Board of Agriculture
Board of Agriculture Laboratory
Baker
Economic Policies To Be Campaign Issues
Vice President Nixon frames economic policy as the central campaign issue of the 1956 election. He argues a GOP defeat would return to Truman era policies and warns the New and Fair Deal favored government action to solve problems. He spoke at the Young Republican National Convention outlining differences over nationalization and socialization of economic policy.
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Detroit
Nixon
Eisenhower
Court Invalidates Censor Board Abolition Bill
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a measure to abolish state film censorship is unconstitutional. Attorney General Harold Fatzer challenged the act, noting it was tacked onto a rider bill repealing obsolete motor vehicle laws passed by the 195% Legislature.
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Kansas
State Supreme Court
Atty
Harold Fatzer
Argentine Priests To Be Freed From Jails
A Montevideo dispatch says Argentina’s interior ministry ordered the release of all Roman Catholic priests held under arrest. The radio broadcast, carried on the Sanita network, reported the action.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Ministry of Interior
Argeniinte
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