Machines Mining Coal By Charles Stafford
A report on how mechanization transforms the West Virginia coal industry. The rise of continuous miners and underground assembly lines reduces miner demand, with unemployment rising while production holds steady. Experts predict stabilization within five years and a possible future shortage of miners as jobs shrink.
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Charles Stafford
Associated Press
West Virginia
National Coal Assn
Crawford L. Wilson
West Virginia Department of Mines
Wilson
New Scale For Satellite Launching
Two Army scientists in Huntsville correct a math error in spaceflight calculations. The fix promises greater accuracy in placing satellites and the Moon, reducing design and launch time by addressing displacement energy. The concept links to gravity, energy, and orbital dynamics, with implications for atomic forces too.
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Huntsville
Ala
Army
Helmut
Hoeppner
Isbell
Tesalom
Refugees Bring Skills to Israel Institute of Technology
Refugees from behind the Iron Curtain join Israel's Technion as students and teachers. Henry Trachtenberg and Roman Malinowski fled communism and now teach and study in Haifa. The institute expands to handle growing enrollment with support from the United States and the Israeli government. General Yaacov Dori heads the institution which houses top scientists including Markus Reiner and Franz Ollendorf.
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Israel
Institute of Technology
The
Technion
Henry Trachtenberg
Ase
Yes Hear
Tan
Trachtenberg
Viet Nar
Tel v
Roman Malinowski
Tates
United States
Gen
Yaacov Dori
Joe
Soviet Union expands foreign publications program
Moscow reports a special state body oversees export of Soviet press and books abroad. Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga distributes over a thousand Soviet newspapers and magazines and 16 000 book titles this year, with officials noting current active distribution.
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Moscow
Soviet ‘Union
Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga
Dulles Faces Health Trials With Unyielding Resolve
John Foster Dulles, 70, secretary of state, continues to work through illnesses and operations. He survived a cancer operation in 1956 and a diverticulitis attack in 1957, saying, Don't worry and keep busy, as long as the President wants him. He travels about 550,000 miles since 1953 and rests at Duck Island, Ontario, when away from capitals.
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Mexico City
Alfonso Lopes Mateos
San Francisco
Army
Walter Reed Medical Center
Eisenhower
Dulles
Mrs. Dulles
Duck Island
Lake Ontario
John ‘Watson Foster
Benjamin Harrison
Robert Lansing
Woodrow Wilson
Allen Macy Dulles
Upstate
New York
Princeton University
Hague
Budgets Rise Across States Amid Inflation and New Taxes
An Associated Press survey finds state budgets climbing with higher costs and school and highway outlays. Governors propose reorganizations and efficiency measures while many states weigh new taxes, including higher gasoline and diesel taxes, to fund rising expenses. Federal budget neared two billion dollars as spending pressures grow.
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Associated Press
Eisenhower
Congress
South Dakota
Minnesota
North Dakota
Delaware
South Carolina
Eemnernanss M Ssouri
Indiana
Massachusetts
Colorado
Maine
Washington
Oregon
Utah
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Artful keepsake boxes grace Richmond hospitals
Richmond's hospitals receive small personal effect boxes produced by the Westhampton Junior Woman's Club. The pastel decorated boxes feature painted flowers and designs from old costume jewelry, with options for youngsters and adults. Some covers include small pipes or stays as ornaments.
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Objets D'Art
Richmond
Westhampton
States eye tax hikes and withholding plan
The text notes proposals for higher state taxes including a payroll withholding system for income tax and a cigarette tax rise. Governor estimates New York could gain 35 million dollars annually from withholding, while Michigan considers a state income tax and Minnesota supports higher taxes on individuals and corporations. Missouri plans a two cent increase in the gasoline tax.
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Herschel Loveless
Iowa
William G. Stratton
Illinois
Ernest Vandiver
Georgia
B. E. Thrasher Jr
New York
Citizens Tax Committee
Michigan
Orville Freeman
Minnesota
James T. Blair
Missouris
Raisirzacene
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Aberdeen
Scotland
Baltimore
Texas
Rhode Island
Israel Institute
Haifa
Taman
Reichman Malinovski
Markus Rener
Franz Ollendorf
MT. Carmel
RED Circulation Dept
John Foster Dulles
Warren Rogers Jr
Korea
Formosa
Indochina
Hungary
Suez
Lebanon
Iraq
Berlin
Jamaica
Aie
Nelson Rockefeller
Abraham Ribicoff
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Wesley Powell
Concord
and Atlantic
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