No Choice For Cuba Said In KU Forum
A Fair Play for Cuba Committee speaker at the University of Kansas argued for closer ties with Cuba under Castro and claimed most Cubans support him. He cited prisoners’ reports to push a view of Castro’s legitimacy and urged free elections to prove true popular support.
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University of Kansas
Cuba
U.S
Edward Shaw
Mid-West
Fidel Castro
Shaw
Castro
Latin America
Rethinking Census Units for Suburban Growth
The article argues that 1960 census figures undercount urban influence as suburban areas expand beyond city boundaries. It calls for extending census unit boundaries to include close suburban districts and creating a distinct official designation to restore the economic usefulness of urban population statistics.
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Census Bureau
Distaff Side: Regret Over Missed Hat Bargain at Wichita
A Wichita reader passes up a $65 hat for $16 this month and laments the loss. At the cinema Rhett and Scarlett evoke a sigh from a nearby fan who quotes a line from Gone With The Wind. A cat placement note offers two kittens from Norma Dawson at 618 Evans and a blue mama cat with kittens at Lloyd Black’s on Imperial route.
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Rhett Butler
Scarlett O'Hara
Yin
Aber
Norma
Evans
Lloyd Black Place
Imperial
CIA Linked to Early Arms Shipments to Castro
Drew Pearson reports circumstantial evidence that the CIA and former CIA employee Samuel Cummings may have used the International Armament Corporation to supply arms to Castro during his guerrilla war, a link that could implicate CIA involvement in Castro’s rise and warrant Senate investigation.
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Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Castro
CIA
Batista
Sierra Madre
Central Intelligence
International Armament Corporation
Arma
Guatemala
Arbenz
Samuel Cummings
Stich
Sam Cummings
U.S
Senate
House Committee On UN- American Activities
Cheater A. Emrick
Internal Revenue Building
Customs Bureau
Samuel
Cummings
iInterarmco
Emrick
International Armament Corp
United States
Subject Corporation
Interarmco
Comintern
State Department
un-American Activities Committee
Robert N. Margrave
Office of Munitions Control
Department of State
Margrave
Senate Subcommittee On
Wayne Morse
Ore
Russell Long
John Sparkman
Ala
Frank Church
Idaho
Bourke Hickenlooper
George Alen
Homer Capehart
Ind
Newton Minow
Federal Communications Commissions
New York
Emanuel Celler
House Judiciary Committee
Minow
Kennedy
Navy
John Haley
Everett Dirksen
Tennessesen
Albert Gore
Dicksen
Gore
Tennessean
Dirksen
New York City
Harry van Arsdale
New York Central Trades Council
John O'Rour
CIA Spent $45 Million In Training Cuban Force
Washington AP report details that the CIA spent 45 million dollars to train and equip a 1,500 man guerrilla force for an invasion of Cuba. Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer testified that informal approval was given for an operation requiring specific conditions, but the plan failed as bombers failed to hit airfields and Cuban defenses anticipated the landing, resulting in island resistance and the loss of key communications equipment.
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CIA
Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
Lyman L. Lemnitzer
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Senate Foreign Relations
Fidel Castro
Castro
Cuba
Steinbeck Says World in Shock and Reflects on Aging
New York AP interview with John Steinbeck portrays a world in shock as he notes upheaval of old authorities and a restless public. The author discusses his prolific output, daily writing routines, aging, and belief that ideas outlive energy, with playful asides about Shelley's hairs and snails being both sexes.
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New York City
Afl-Cio
Arkaraas
John McClellan
Jimmy Hoffa
Hoffa
New York
Steinbeck
Pone
United States
East Side
J.P. Morgan
Shelley
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