Eden's shak y reign contested by party rebels in Parliament
Eden returns from Jamaica to lead Britain as Conservative divisions show strain over the Suez intervention. Fifteen abstentions on the confidence vote reveal deeper discontent, with rebels quietly working inside the party as Eden fights to retain leadership and complete his term. A separate note discusses Hungary, US policy, and nationalism versus communism amid Cold War tensions. A New York study group recommends city income tax, but Mayor Wagner dismisses it as politically dangerous amid public resistance to personal levies.
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Anthony Eden
Jamaica
Her Majesty
Britain
Labor Party
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Egypt
Richard M. Nixon
Hungary
United States
Gamal Abdel Nasser
New York
Robert F. Wagner
New Narcotics Law Targets Minors With Severe Penalties
President Eisenhower signed a tough narcotics law raising penalties for selling drugs to minors. The first cases in New York involve two men, ages 26, charged with selling heroin to a 17 year old and a 15 year old. They allegedly paid $60 an ounce, highlighting desperation and the drug trade’s reach into poor neighborhoods. The act threatens fines up to 20000 dollars and imprisonment up to life or death per jury discretion.
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Eisenhower
New York
Coufort
Retirement village offers self-contained community for aged
A planned fourteen mile north of West Malin Beach retirement village, funded by the Upholsterers International Union, aims to provide $5,000,000 in a self-sustaining complex. The initial block will include 240 cottages, with one to three bedrooms, plus a sheltered workshop, pool, and fully equipped police and fire departments to support a communal twilight-years lifestyle.
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West Malin Beach
New York musings on lunch culture and city life
A columnist riffs on urban lunch habits and a new SoconyMobil building dining hall near Grand Central, noting 8,000 workers lunch cheaply in a modern basement eatery. The piece wanders through celebrity chatter, theater talk, and Manhattan satire, ending with holiday musings and a hotel anecdote about a Yale student liaison.
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York
New Yorker
Manhattan
New York
Socony-Mobil
Lexington Avenue
42Nd Street
Grand Central Terminal
Unrest Spreads Across Eastern Europe and U N Votes
Eastern Europe faces turmoil as Hungarian workers strike against martial law and anti Soviet riots erupt in Poland and other satellite states. The U N General Assembly condemns Russia’s Hungary intervention while Japan gains U N admission amid a Russian Japanese peace treaty. Dulles warns NATO on action without allied consultation as China threat looms.
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Poland
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Hungary
Soviet Union
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Japan
World Organization
General Assembly
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Paris
United States
Janos Kadar
Lithuania
East Asia
Dulles
NATO
Formosa
Suez Canal
Hungarians Hand USSR Unprecedented Defeat in 1956
Ten million Hungarians, armed mainly with courage, revolt against Soviet occupation exposing the brutality of communism. Russell Jones reports on civilian defections, heroic acts by workers and women, and the lasting belief that Hungarians will prevail despite occupation. The piece also notes editors ranking 1956 as the biggest news year, led by Revolt in Hungary, with Suez crisis and Eisenhower reelection following.
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London
Russia
Communism
Kremlin
Hungary
Red
Peter Fryer
Daily Worker
Budapest
Legation
Sam Russell
Fryer
Andre Stil
L’humanite
Asia
Africa
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Moscow
Red Army
New York
United Press
Earl J. Johnson
Eisenhower
Johnson
Calli
Coloumbia
Cal
Kelly
Prince Ranier
Don Larsen
Grand Canyon
McKeon
South
Grace Kelly
Josef Stalin
Peter Weinberger
Victor Riese
Poland
Europe
South America
Bennett Oer Try and Stop Me Cartoon Drawn for Sports Illustrated
The year’s best cartoon by Robert Day shows a moose in Yellowstone Park near a warning sign that reads Do not feed the bears. A placard around the moose says I AM NOT A BEAR. A Bronx wedding reception spoof and Hollywood party quips follow in a light Bully Bullpen style.
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Robert Day
Sports Illustrated
Yellowstone Park
Mitchell Home Marker Installed
WEST ALLIS Wisconsin Rotary club erected a historical marker at Hayes Street on Gen Billy Mitchell's boyhood site. The plaque notes his early daring youth and later role as a pioneer advocate for air power, honoring his courage and judgment and Milwaukee's General Mitchell Field as a memorial.
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West Allis
Wis
Billy Mitchell
Thend Hayes Streets
Mitchell
U.S
France
All America
Milwaukee
General Mitchell
Vermont Christmas trees hit half‑million profit mark
Vermont Christmas tree industry now a $500,000 annual business. University of Vermont extension forester Raymond Foulds notes an average year with about 900,000 cuttings. Trees fetch 15 to 30 cents on the stump and about $2.25 per bundle of four.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Raymond Foulds
University of Vermont
Roads Are State's Top Problem Says Underwood
Governor-elect Cecil H. Underwood declined to name a specific highway route but called roads the states top problem in a speech to a West Virginia road development group. He urged federal aid and noted Route 19 and Route 50 updates as key aims amid St. Lawrence Seaway context and regional port competition.
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Clarksburg
Cecil H. Underwood
West Virginia
West Virginia Pennsylvania Turnpike Assn
Road Commission
Turnpike
Morgantown
Beckley
Pennsylvania
John Hooks
Waynesburg
Erie
Hooks
Great Lakes
Ohio
St. Lawrence Seaway
Charles A. Montgomery
Route 50 Assn
National Route 50 Assn
Only Once a History Has Arkan Sas Gone Republican
A historical note recalls Arkansas voting Republican only once since joining the union, dating to 1872 when Ulysses S. Grant sought a second term. The brief marks a rare party realignment moment in postwar politics.
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Arkansas
U.S. Grant
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