Khrushchev presses peace treaty demand at Italian reception
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev urged a peace treaty with Germany and an end to the West Berlin occupation at a Moscow reception attended by Italian leaders. He warned that without a settlement the world edge toward conflict. Italian Foreign Minister Pella and President Gronchi pushed back, saying no new agreement was reached.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Germany
West Berlin
Khrushchev
Klementi Voroshilov
Giovanni Gronchi
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Konrad
Adenauer
Guiseppe Pella
Berlin
Pella
Gronchi
Kremlin
Indians Eagerly Await Khrushchev Visit and Border Dispute
New Delhi officials await Soviet Premier Khrushchev as a potential broker in the India China Tibet border dispute. Nehru stresses India’s historical claim while Khrushchev’s stance could shape future negotiations. The visit echoes Eisenhower era warning and reflects shifts in India’s nonalignment toward Moscow.
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New Delhi
India
Nikita Khrushchev
Red China
Tibet
Eisenhower
Peiping
China
United States
Khrushchev
Nehru
Hindustan Times
Moscow
Nikolai Bulganin
Ndia
Queen Adopts Mountbatten-Windsor Name Sparks Debate
London reports center on Queen Elizabeth II declaring that her descendants not in the direct line will use the Mountbatten-Windsor surname. The move, linked to Prince Philip and Earl Mountbatten, draws mixed reactions from Daily Mirror Daily Herald and Daily Mail amid questions of consultation and sentiment.
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London
Queen Elizabeth
Mountbatten-Windsor
Daily Mirror
Mountbatten
Oppositon Labor
Daily Herald
Prince Philip
Earl Mountabatten
Daily Mail
House and Family of
Windsor
Eisenhower challenges Congress with farm plan reforms
President Eisenhower urged the Democratic-controlled Congress to craft a constructive farm plan addressing the wheat surplus. He outlined three guidelines tying price supports to production control, avoiding higher subsidies, and steering clear of direct crop subsidies. He offered willingness to back any realistic, nonpartisan proposals within these bounds.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Richard M. Nixon
Eiisenhower
Soil Bank
Food For Peace
Criticism Worries Labor Men Over Powell Remarks
Miami Beach AP reporting officials fear President Meany's attack on Rep. Adam Clayton Powell may backfire on AFL CIO goals. Meany calls Powell terrible for the Labor and Education Committee chair, Powell's voting and attendance cited, while A Phillip Randolph defends Powell and notes civil rights gains.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Organized Labor
Meany
Aflcio
Congress
Adam Clayton Powell
House Labor and Education Committee
Powell
Rep
Graham Barden
Afl-Cio Executive Council
A. Phillip Randolph
The
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Randolph
High Point Se wer Bonds Sold for City of High Point
The Local Government Commission sold two million dollars of sanitary sewer bonds for High Point at an interest cost of 3.3198 percent. The bonds carry an average maturity of 9.91 years and were purchased by Chemical Bank New York Trust Co. and associates in New York City.
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Raleigh
Local Government Commission
City of
High Point
Chemical Bank
New York Trust Co
New York City
and Associates
Herter cautious on Berlin as Paris talks near
Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, in a Washington news conference, grew less optimistic about avoiding a new Berlin showdown with the Soviet Union, though he does not expect Khrushchev to issue an ultimatum at the Paris summit in May. He urged further negotiations and possibly a second summit, while noting Soviet space successes bolster their prestige.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Christian A. Herter
Soviet Union
Berlin
Nikita Khrushchev
Paris
Herter
Khrushchev
United States
West Berlin
Khrush
Negro Students Protest Segregated Service in Charlotte Stores
About 150 Negro college students crowded into lunch counter seats at four Charlotte variety stores in a silent peaceful protest against segregated service. They followed demonstrations in Durham Winston-Salem and Greensboro and crews note the cities lack ordinances banning such actions.
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Charlotte
Durham
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
North Carolina
Durham High School
Woolworth’s
Woolworth's
Woolworth
Walgreen's Drug Store
Walgreen's
Textile wage rise talk circling North Carolina mills
Textile manufacturers remained mum on wage increases amid mixed signals from a Burlington Industries leader and early raises at Cannon Mills and Hanes Knitting Mills. The Textile Workers Union pressed for higher pay as demonstrations erupted at Woolworth and other lunch counters, with guards and bomb threats delaying classes in Durham.
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J. Spencer Love
Burlington Industries
Love
Wilmington
Del
Burlington
North Carolina
Cannon Mills
Kannapolis
N.C
Cannon
American Cotton Manufacturers Institute
P. H. Hanes Knitting Mills
Winston-Salem
Chatham Mills
Elkin
Bellevue Hospital Begins Large Sabin Polio Trial on Newborns
In New York 400 newborns at Bellevue Hospital received Sabin live virus polio vaccine over two months. Officials reported all infants well and said consent was obtained from parents. If antibodies develop within months, this could simplify future immunization.
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New York
Bellevue Hospital
Municipal
Morris Greenberg
City Health Department
Bureau of Preventable Diseases
Bellevue
Greenberg
Albert B. Sabin
Cincinnati
Sodom Destruction Theory: Nuclear Blast by Space Invaders
Soviet physicist M. Agrest suggests Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by a nuclear explosion detonated by outer space invaders. He cites biblical language about leaving the area and the petrified figures, and notes tektites as possible proof of pre landing rocket probes.
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Moscow
Sodom
Gomorrah
Space
M. Agrest
Agrest
Lot
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Atlas
Norman Walker
San Francisco
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
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High Point Sewer
Lec'y Herter
Associated Press
Cone Mills
Textile Workers Union of America
F. W. Woolworth Co
S. H. Kress & Co. Mclellan Stores Co
W. T. Grant Co
Kress
McLellan
Johnson C. Smith University
Joseph Charles Jones
House Committee On Un-American Activities
Jones
U. S
Surgeon General
Office
Jonas Salk
Pittsburgh
Ern Science
Bible Account
Earth
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