Release of Two Americans in Spy Exchange Sparks Columia Day Flush
In a two for two spy swap, the United States freed Jesuit priest Walter Ciszek and a young scholar after 26 years in Soviet captivity. Ciszek, 58, greeted by Rywn ey at Idlewild Airport, struggled for words, recalling his last formal greeting in 1941 as he spoke through an interpreter before finding speech.
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New York
Soviet Union
Columbia Day
United States
Russia
Walter M. Ciszek
R Ywney
Idlewild
Ciszek
Jury Deliberates On Smoke Verdict
Washington AP reports the scientific panel assessing the link between smoking and health is near end of deliberations. The advisory group aims to report by year’s end on validity of the links, not on legislation. Panelists come from health agencies, federal units and the tobacco industry amid delays and a growing evidence base.
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Washington
Advisory Committee On
Weather outlook shows warmer weekend and brisk winds
The forecast calls for a fair and warmer night and Sunday with lows in the upper 50s and highs in the upper 60s. Southeast winds will run 15 to 25 mph.
Garden Sass Gas Garden Motto Prompts Wastebasket Plan
Garden Sass Gas Garden reveals a quirky motto urging readers to search wastebaskets for instructions after initial failures. The piece frames experimentation and persistence with a humorous, light tone.
Tate Testifies At Writ Hearing In Kansas
TOPEKA The U S District Court writ of habeas corpus appeal for Rich ard Hickock and Perry Smith proceeds next week Judge Roland H Tate of Garden City will testify for the state along with A M Fleming the Garden City attorney who defended Smith in the Finney County trial If not finished by noon a recess is planned Judge George Templar presides The session yesterday was brief Harrison Smith Hickocks former trial attorney testified that Hickock confessed freely and sought life rather than the death penalty Roy Church Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent described the confession and the move from Las Vegas to Garden City for trial
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Topeka
U.S. District Court
Richard Hickock
Perry Smith
Roland H. Tate
Garden City
A. M. Fleming
Smith
Finney County
George Templar
Harrison Smith
Hickock
Roy Church
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Las Vegas
Nev
East West Blockade Eases as US Convoy Reaches Berlin
A Soviet backed down after a 48 hour standoff over American troops dismounting for a head count on the autobahn to West Berlin. The convoy proceeded 14 miles to its station as 205 soldiers and 43 vehicles were involved in the tense exchange amid Cold War tensions.
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Berlin
Soviet Union
West Berlin
Babelsberg
U.S
United States
West Germany
Babels
Moscow
Marienborn
Return of a priest after long Soviet captivity
English used sparingly by Rev. Ciszek in Russia as he describes two decades in confinement. He says religious freedom exists only in state approved churches. A student Makinen, Ashburnham, Mass., and two Russians, Egorov and Aleksandra, depart to Moscow after charges against them are dismissed. Makinen served one year in a Kiev prison for alleged photographing military targets.
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Marvin W. Makinen
Ashburnham
Mass
Marvin
Makinen
Ciszek
Russia
Edward McCawley
Father Ciszek
Siberia
Soviet Union
Idlewilg
Ivan D. Egorov
Aleksandra
Moscow
Copenhagen
Brooklyn
Bernadette Order of St. Francis
Reading
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Conrad
Bernadette Order
Welen Gerhardt
Washington D.C
State Department
Robert F. Kennedy
Free University
West Berlin
Kiev
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