Humphrey Criticizes Equal Time Rule In 1960 Bid
Senator Hubert Humphrey blasted the federal equal time rule after CBS canceled his Face the Nation appearance citing his status as an official candidate. He said NBC invited him to Today, while CBS faced pressure from network lawyers. Humphrey had earlier signaled a September campaign kickoff and pressed for a Senate bill to revise the rule.
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CBS
New York
Sig Mickelson
Netvons
Mickelson
Sen
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Orville Freeman
Minnesota
Eugene J
McCarthy
D-Minn
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Jury Named in Dynamite Conspiracy Case
Franklin County twelve jurors were seated after three days of screening to hear dynamite conspiracy charges against eight textile union members. The pool included alternates and was watched by police as Judge Mullard warned against jury pressures. Defendants face up to 45 years. Payton leads the group with union ties.
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Henderson
N.C
Franklin County
Raymond Mallard
Venice
B. L. Wilcox
Burt Wester
Louisburg Carway
Boyd E. Payton
Carolinas
Textile Workers Union of America
Harriet-Henderson
Payton
Charles Auslander
Lawrence Gore
Calvin Ray Pegram
Robert Edward Abbott
Warren Walker
Malcolm Jarrell
Johnny Mar ‘Tin
Gore
Auslander
Chester Vaughn
Louisburg
Committee Approves New AEC Budget With Nuclear Plane Funds
The House Appropriations Committee recommends $2.629 billion in new AEC funding for the current fiscal year. It includes $65 million to continue nuclear powered aircraft work with the Defense Department and trims special materials programs and school research equipment aid. The panel also proposes allowing the AEC to retain $316.731 million in unobligated prior funds.
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Atomic Energy Commission
House Appropriations Committee
AEC
Defense Department
Eisenhower
Commission
Bunche Drops Tennis Club Dispute
Dr Ralph Bunche says West Side Tennis Club barred him and his son as Negro and Jewish applicants before the club’s board stated it accepts members regardless of race creed or color. He plans to inform the City Commission on Intergroup Relations at a closed meeting.
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Ralph
West Side Tennis Club
U.N. Ry
New York City
Ralph Jr
Bunche
Board of Governors
Castro Resigns Premier Post in Cuba
Fidel Castro resigns as premier amid efforts to win confidence from Cuban and international critics. Revolucion reports he sought national unity. Raul Roa or Augusto Martinez Sancha could be interim successor. News ties amid Batista officials in U S planning an invasion.
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Feee
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Citi
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Roa
Batista
United States
Congress
Dominican Republic
7 Year Old Helps Find Stolen Car
A seven year old boy, Fred Hammond, helped recover his mother's stolen car by recalling its license number 20-1829. He identified the sedan on Riverside Drive after traveling to Yonkers day camp, and he alerted his mother and the police, earning praise for his memory.
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New York
Fred Hammond
Fred
Riverside
Yonkers
N. Y
Tea Party Diplomacy Opens Secret Berlin Talks
In Geneva the Big Four ministers held a social lunch that masked a new round of secret diplomacy on Berlin. Gromyko resisted secret talks without East and West German representation, while Herter Lloyd signaled partial agreement on several points but split remained over a Berlin truce and unification talks.
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Couve de Murville
Berlin
Andrei Gromyko
West Germany
Gromyko
Christian A. Herter
Selwyn Lloyd
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
No End In Sight As Steel Strike Grips Nation
Steel production losses near 100 million dollars as 500000 United Steel workers picket darkened mills. Federal mediation to be renewed in New York with leaders in Bethlehem and Pittsburgh reporting stalled negotiations and no concessions.
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United
New York
David J. McDonald
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Bethlehem
Coal and Transportation
McDonald
Howard R. Hague
USW
Chicago
I. W. Abel
R. Conrad Cooper
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Foster Furcolo
Massachusetts
Eisenhower
Conferees Near Agreement on Foreign Aid Bill
Senate House conferees shaping a 3 billion dollar foreign aid bill edged toward final wording to satisfy President Eisenhower. Key points include 1.4 billion for military aid this year and removal of NATO earmarks, allowing funding for non NATO allies. actions tentative awaiting today’s session. Morrisville steel plant tensions rise as strike and lock in draw lines between management and union amid pay worries.
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Congress
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Republic of Korea
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Ind
National Tube
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American Bridge Division
East Chicago
Ing
Republic Steel Corp
Inland Steel Co
Russell Thompson
Billie Holiday Dies at 44 in New York Hospital
Billie Holiday, famed blues singer known for Them There Eyes and Strange Fruit, dies at 44 in a city hospital after battles with narcotics and liquor. Born Eleanora Fagan in Baltimore, she rose to fame with Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong, performing with Artie Shaw and breaking color barriers in big bands.
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Billie Holiday
Miss Holiday
Benny Goodman
Louis Armstrong
Eleanora Fagan
Baltimore
Loin
Billie
Billie Dove
Holiday
Jimmie Monroe
Artie Shaw
Tiny Korean Orphan Dies On Arrival
The Low ell Brubakers waited to meet their four month old adopted daughter from Seoul. At Tampa International Airport the infant died moments after the plane touched down as a stewardess handed her to a caregiver and then she was gone. The Bradenton couple had communicated with a Korean adoption agency for over a year and hoped to grow their family with two sons, Bobby and Dean.
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Fla
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Tampa International Airport
Seoul
Brubakers
Bradenton
Bobby
Dean
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