Oilborne Seamen Fuel Europe Push Amid Suez Crunch
Robert Lee Fawcett and other tanker crewmen in Texas face longer routes around Africa to keep oil flowing to Britain and France. Supertankers and T2 class ships vary in capacity from 130 000 to 220 000 barrels, with crews of 36 to 48 and daily operating costs around 3 000 to 4 000 dollars.
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Whitey Sawyer
Beaumont
Tex
Robert Lee
Shorty) Fawcett
Fawcett
Middle East
Suez Canal
Africa
Texas
Britain
France
U.S
Shorty Fawcett
Bosun
Borrowed skin may live in mice despite different strain
Scientists at University of Kansas Medical School partially repeal a nature rule by grafting skin from one mouse strain onto another after pre injecting skin extract. The method kept about 10 percent of grafts alive for over a year, suggesting a path to human organ and tissue transplants.
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Kansas City
Dec
University of Kansas Medical School
Creighton
Werder
General Wheeler Leads Difficult Suez Canal Clearance
Lt. Gen. Raymond A. Wheeler, adviser to U N Secretary General on clearing the Suez Canal, calls the task the toughest in his career. He notes political and military hurdles as crews remain post‑withdrawal, with work to begin in Ismailia after Christmas.
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Wilton Wynn
Cairo
Raymond Albert Wheeler
Suez Canal
Panama Canal
Ledo-Burma Road
China
U. S. Army
International Bank For Reconstruction and Development
Egypt
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Port Said
el Cap
Wheeler
Britain
Viscount Hailsham
U.N. Guard
Vera Cruz
Vera Cruz Harbor
Hawaii
Mississippi River
China-Burma-India
India
Burma
U.S
Middle East
Suez
Ismailia
Chapel Hill Working Wives Push Husbands Through College
UNC in Chapel Hill relies on married women to fill over 150 secretarial and clerical posts as student husbands pursue degrees. Wives juggle work at hospitals, firms, and campus offices while husbands finish education, with many noting mutual benefit despite long hours and tight housing.
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Buck Paysour
Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
UNC
Carolina
University
J. A. Williams
Williams
N. C. Memorial Hospital
The
Hospital Savings Association
Frank McKeown
McKeown
Joan Glenn
Asheville
Wright's Machinery
Durham
Victory Village
Bob Gaines
Gastonia
McKeowns
Gaines
Memorial Hospital
Salem College
Medical College of Virginia
Robbie
Christmas in Soviet Russia Lacks prerevolutionary Flavor
Russians observe Christmas but merge it with New Year celebrations. A Christmas tree is a New Year tree, Grandfather Frost replaces Santa, and cards carry peace slogans. The revival came during World War II and persists, though many feel the flavor has faded since the prewar era. department stores are crowded, champagne flows in liquor boutiques as festive scenes unfold.
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Tovarich
Soviet Union
AP News
Joe Cunningham
Santa Claus
Grandfather Frost
Russia
Moscow
Soviet
Soviet Russia
Stalin
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Associated Press Science
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Karachi
Kunming
U.S. India-Burma
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Southeast Asia
Peoria, Ill
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B Roy Essoyan
Motorola
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