Earthquake Felt Across Georgia and South Carolina
A 1959 earthquake tremor rattled Columbia S C and Bruns wick Ga and was sensed as far as Savannah Ga. Augusta Ga. and Charleston S C with mild damage reported no injuries. State Treasurer Edwin Gill defended tax withholding plans during a Raleigh Rotary Club address.
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Associated Press
Georgia
South Carolina
Columbia
S.C
Brunswick
Otis Hillyer
Augusta
Savannah
Raleigh
Edwin Gill
General Assembly
North Carolina
Gill
Hilda Mauldin
Orangeburg
Charleston
University of South Carolina
Waycross
Aiken
Newberry
Beaufort
Army Advocates Balanced Forces at AUSA Convention
At the AUSA convention General Lemnitzer urged reducing reliance on mass destruction weapons. He emphasized that well equipped land forces can secure decisive outcomes and warned against nuclear stalemate from mutual destruction.
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Washington
Association of the United States Army
United States
Soviet Union
Lemnitzer
Nixon Swept Off His Feet In Welcoming Warsaw Crowd
Vice President Richard Nixon received a tumultuous Warsaw greeting with about 5 000 Poles cheering as he laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and waved through a flower shower. He met Polish leaders at Belvedere Palace and with President Was on Gomulka, Premier Cyrankiewicz, and Foreign Minister Rapacki.
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Warsaw
Poland
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Adam Rapacki
United States
Neexon
Alexander Zawadski
Belvedere Palace
Gomulka
Communist Party
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Jozef Cyrankiewicz
Aleksandr Sawadski
Czeslaw
Moscow
Khrushchev
Babice
Myslewicki Palace
Rockefeller delays 1960 bid decision amid polls in Puerto Rico
New York Governor Nelson A Rockefeller hedges on a presidential run, saying he will decide by November 1 based on public opinion polls. He notes he will enter only if polls show Nixon unlikely to beat a Democratic rival. Rockefeller, in San Juan for the Governor's Conference, dismisses Dewey and Javits predictions and says many letters urge him to run.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Richard M. Nixon
Rockefeller
Nixon
Thomas E. Dewey
Jacob K
Senate edge on desegregation amendment vote tally
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee, with three members absent, debated a proposed amendment by Sen. Herman Talmadge to give states exclusive control over public schools. The vote stood 2-1 with Kefauver supporting sending it to the full committee and Hennings moving to table. Absentees Eastland Dodd and Langer were to be polled within 24 hours.
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Washington
Senate
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Full
Judiciary Committee
Sen
Thomas C. Hennings Jr
D-Mo
Kefauver
Everett M. Dirksen
R-Ill
Hennings
James ©. Eastland
D-Miss
Thomas J. Dodd
D-Conn
William Langer
R-Nd
Herman Talmadge
D-Ga
Queen Elizabeth II Returns From North America Tour
British papers publish photos showing a tired queen on return from a 16000 mile North American tour with Prince Philip. Newspapers warn about health strain and call for shorter, more frequent future royal trips.
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London
Today
Elizabeth II
Canada
Prince Philip
North America
Daily Herald
Daily Sketch
Daily Telegraph
The
Daily Mail
Yukon
Queen
Prince Charles
Princess Anne
Elizabeth
Princess Margaret
Eisenhower to Visit Russia in Fall Talks With Khrushchev
Washington reports that President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Khrushchev will exchange visits this fall to ease East West tensions. Khrushchev will visit Washington in September, Eisenhower to Moscow later, with exact dates not yet fixed.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Moscow
Congress
Eisenhower - Khrushchev
Aan Ree
Everett M. Dirksen
Homer E. Capehart
R-Ind
United States
Nixon Says Khrushchev Visit Date Around Sept Fifteenth
Vice President Richard M. Nixon said the date for Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the United States is around September 15. He indicated tentative scheduling and expected formal confirmation later.
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Nikita
Eisenhower Khrushchev Talks Aim to Ease Berlin Crisis
Western leaders see top level talks with Khrushchev as a move to freeze the Berlin crisis. Eisenhower intends a solid Western front with Britain France West Germany before Khrushchev visits Washington. Gromyko Lloyd Herter Couve de Murville to meet as Four Powers seek a way forward amid stalled negotiations.
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Eisenhower
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Berlin
France
Britain
West Germany
Khrushchev
Washington
Moscow
Flare Aids Two Rescued From Alaska Glacier
Two men marooned for seven days on a Brady Glacier face after a helicopter crash were rescued when a single flare sighted by a search helicopter led to their discovery. Robert Baldwin, a geophysicist from Ridgefield Connecticut, died in the crash. Survivors are geologist Robert Sheldon of Spokane Washington and pilot Melvin Guerrera of Lafayette Louisiana. They were treated for exposure and bruises with no serious injuries.
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Juneau
Alaska
Gilman Glacier
Robert Baldwin
Ridgefield, Conn
Newmont Exploration Co., Ltd
New York City
Robert Sheldon
Melvin Guerrera
Joseph C. Rude
St. Anne's Hospital
Sheldon
Spokane
Wash
Baldwin
Brady Glacier
National Monument
Guerrera
Reno, Nev
Margo
Leonard Daniel
New Orleans
Juneau Harbor
U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Center
Sessions On Strike Resumed
In New York and Washington a second joint session of industry and union negotiators took place as federal mediators stepped in after Secretary Mitchell sharply criticized both sides. Mitchell warned they must bargain seriously, while Steelworkers and industry spokesmen defended their efforts and pressed positions amid a nationwide strike that began July 15.
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New York
James P. Mitchell
Mitchell
Washington
Eisenhower
United Steelworkers of America
Joseph F. Finnegan
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Finnegan
Lost stream cave-in swallows patrolman in Philadelphia
Patrolman Joseph Reiss, 35, disappeared after a street intersection cave-in opened a 43 foot deep, 60 by 60 foot hole. Officials say a 1 foot arch over a forgotten stream, turned sewer 75 years ago, caused the collapse.
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Joseph Reiss
Northe
Samuel Baxter
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