Salk Institute Under Construction On Pacific Cliff
Dr. Jonas Salk leads a $15 million project at Torrey Pines Mesa near San Diego. The facility will house two laboratories and host scientists from chemistry to philosophy, aiming for no rush projects and broad antiviral research. A July 1964 start is planned with some staff in temporary labs within months.
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Walter Gray
San Diego
Calif
Salk Institute For Biological Studies
Pacific
Torrey Pines Mesa
Institute
Salk
National Foundation
Utopia
Science
U Thant Pushes UN Military Power in Peacekeeping
U Thant told Swedes last year the United Nations must have military power to keep peace. Premier Tage Erlander outlined a 3000-man Scandinavian emergency force for UN service as a forerunner of a permanent UN military arm. Sweden, Denmark, and Norway agreed to equip the force. Sweden seeks greater aid and European economic integration.
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Brack Curry
Stockholm
Sweden
United Nations
U Thant
Tage Erlander
U.N
Associated Press
Erlander
U.N. General Assembly
Europe
Negro Spaceman Dwells on Mail After Space Program Selection
Edward J. Dwight Jr., the first Negro chosen for the U S space program, reports receiving about 509 to 600 letters from across the country and abroad since his selection on March 30. He says none have been derogatory and notes the mails have a positive impact as he and his family stay with his aunt in Oakland. Dwight compares going into orbit to driving his car to the supermarket.
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Oakland
Calif
United States
Edward J. Dwight Jr
Katsag City
Kan
Air Force
Rona Dennis
Dwight
Planners to Honor Perry Cookingham
The American Society of Planning Officials awarded its highest honor to L. Perry Cookingham a former Kansas City city manager from 1940 to 1959 and later Fort Worth leader. He received a silver medal for his work as executive director of the People to People Program.
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Seattle
American Society of Planning Officials
L. Perry Cookingham
Cookingham
Kansas City
Fort Worth
Tex
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