Eisenhower Urges Khrushchev to Ban Atom Weapons
President Eisenhower urged the Soviet Union to join in stopping the manufacture of nuclear materials for war and to pursue a reliable disarmament program. He sent a letter to Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow replying to Khrushchev's April 4 proposal. The President questioned the Soviet timing and intent and pressed for fissionable materials to be produced only for peaceful purposes under international supervision.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
United States
Britain
Soviet Council of Ministers
Scrap Iron convict Hinkle in hospital after metal binge
Chester Ill. William Hinkle known as Scrap Iron while jailed at Menard State Prison recovers in a prison hospital after needing surgery for nails paper clips and metal pieces ingested previously. Warden Randolph says Hinkle seeks psycho ward placement as a result of repeated self injurious iron binges.
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Chester
Ill
William’ Hinkle
Menard State Prison
Nee Randolph
Hinkle
Donald Wham
Randolph
30 Ton Brontosaurus Reassembled at Chicago Museum
The Chicago Natural History Museum completed assembling a 72 foot Brontosaurus skeleton weighing about 30 tons. The 300 bones were gathered from two Brontosaurus specimens found in Colorado Utah by miners and date from 1901 to 1942. The fossil will go on display April 18. Bronty took decades to reconstruct with key pieces dug up in 1901 1942 and 1956 before mounting.
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Chicago
Ill
Chicago Natural Museum
Bronty
Orville Gilpin
Rainer Zangerl
Grand Junction
Colo
Utah
Gilpin
Jet Tanker Sets World Distance Record Flight
An Air Force KC135 Stratotanker landed at Lajes Field Azores after a 10,228 mile flight from Tokyo setting a world distance record for jet craft though it fell 1,259 miles short of Madrid. The record run was hampered by weak jet streams, with 13 hours of flight time from Tokyo and Hawaii where winds failed to pick up.
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Tokyo
Azores
Omaha
Neb
Lajes Field
Madrid
Hawaii
Washington
Pacific
United States
San Francisco
Fresno
Calif
Albuquerque
N.M
Associated Press
SAC
Air Force
Eubank
U. S
Yokota
Japan
Perth
Australia
Columbus
Ohio
Kuhank
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Unemployment rises in March amid seasonal outdoor work
The government reported March unemployment rose by 25,000 to 5,198,000, with 62,311,000 employed. Officials noted the gain partly seasonal and offset by outdoor work, while manufacturing jobs continued to cut back. The unemployment rate rose to 7.0 percent with a large core of idle workers in manufacturing.
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Washington
Commerce and Labor Departments
Commerce
Secretary of Commerce
Weeks
Secretary of Labor
Mitchell
Six Die In Fiery Baytown Crash With Gas Truck
In Baytown Texas an auto and a gasoline truck collided and exploded. Six people died including Mrs Mary Taylor 33 and her four children Leland 14 Mary 12 Linda 10 John 6 and truck driver Milton Heaton. Mil ton Heaton was alone. The explosion knocked out lines and blocked the highway near Baytown as Mrs Mattie Jones described the scene.
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Baytown
Tex
Mattie Jones
Texas
R. W Montgomery
Mary Taylor
Liberty
Leland
Mary
Cincinnati Officers Face Murder Charges In Teen Slaying
A Cincinnati policeman and two park rangers are charged with murder in the March 31 death of 14 year old Abe Savage Jr. after a high speed chase. Police fired eleven shots as the boy fled through red lights and barricades amid a suspected stolen car claim.
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Cincinnati
Park
Abe Savage Sr
Raymond Turner
Louis Meiners
Norbert Tieke
Sav
Abe
Tears and Mercy Overcome Hardness in Faith
The author argues tears signify compassion not weakness. Tears of joy or sorrow reveal human warmth and mercy. Love conquers self, while hatred harms both self and others, urging mercy over ego and strength in kindness.
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R. L. Dieffenbacher
D.D
NEA
Jesus
Canadian Survey Predicts Stronger Canada U S Ties by 1980
Ottawa reports the Gordon Commission foresees closer economic links with the United States as Canada's population and wealth grow. It urges tax cuts and higher spending during unemployment, warns against overproduction, and calls for a national energy authority to manage all energy forms.
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Ottawa
Canada
United States
Gordon Commission
Britain
U.S
Europe
Commission
George Jean Nathan dies at 76 in New York hotel room
George Jean Nathan longtime Broadway drama critic and Mencken ally died at 76 in his Royalton Hotel room where he had lived 34 years. He authored two score books, co edited with Mencken the Smart Set and founded the American Mercury in 1924. He was married in 1955 to Julie Hy.
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New York
George Jean Nathan
H. L. Mencken
Nathan
American Mercury
Royalton Hotel
Broadway
Mencken
Smart Set
New York Herald
Harper’s Weekly
Puck
Judge
Life
The
New Freeman
Saturday Review of Literature
Vanity Fair
Scribner's
Esquire
Newsweek
Eugene O'Neill
William Saroyan
Fort Wayne
Ind
Cleveland
George
Cornell University
University of Bologna
Italy
Julie Hy
Plans Revealed for 50 MW Nuclear Test Reactor
Gov. Luther Hodges announced a $12 million nuclear test reactor to be built on the Pee Dee River between Wadesboro and Rockingham. Operated by Testing Reactors Inc. in Charlotte, the GE unit will be the second largest in test reactors and designed for materials testing with 50 MW heat output, light-water cooling, enriched uranium fuel, and a large open pool for irradiation inside a containment vessel.
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Raleigh
Pee Dee
Wadesboro
Roc
Charlotte
Viral Testing Reactors, Inc
Atomic Energy Commission
Arco
Idaho
North Carolina
Luther Hodges
General Electric
Dulles Sees Future Atomic Tests and Inspection Needs
Secretary of State Dulles said the United States will likely conduct more nuclear tests after spring and summer Pacific detonations to gather data for smaller, cleaner bombs. He noted science advisers revised upward the required number of international inspection stations to police a Soviet test ban, though he did not specify exact counts. Former adviser Harold Stassen had suggested 11 or 12 stations in each side.
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Washington
Dulles
United States
Pacific
Eisenhower
U. S
Soviet Union
James R. Killian
Killian
Harold E. Stassen
Soviet UN
Jet tanker maps route for 10,288 mile flight from Japan to Azores
An Air Force airliner shows the approximate path of a large jet tanker on its 10,288 mile journey from Japan to the Azores after an initial aim toward Madrid to set a speed record and the longest non-refueled hop for the jet plane.
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Air Force
Japan
Azores
Orig
Inal
Madrid
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Dean
Hodges
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Equator
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