Lipstick Testimony Highlights FDA Hearing on Dyes
In a Washington hearing room, FDA details tests on nine coal tar lipstick colors. Rats fed seven dyes show toxic results, threatening lipstick use unless findings are disproved. Housewives from the Federation of Homemakers attend as industry lawyers dispute harm. The event wraps as most affected—women and rats—remain quiet.
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Food and Drug Administration
FDA
William J. Risteau
Risteau
Federation of Homemakers
America
Air Force Cancels Long Range Atlas Rocket Flight
The Air Force scrapped plans to launch a beefed up Atlas missile from Cape Canaveral to fly 9000 miles toward Africa and over the Indian Ocean. Weather delays and a lack of public notice sparked Washington debate with reports Eisenhower may have turned down the idea.
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Geoffrey Gould Washington
Air Force
Cape Canaveral
Africa
Indian Ocean
Eisenhower
Canaveral
Washington
State Department
Calif train crash leaves many dead and injured
Eyewitnesses describe a fiery collision after an oil rig truck driver left his burning vehicle on the tracks. Rescue crews battled flames through the night as debris burned and cars were twisted, with Delma Casey and her two daughters among the survivors.
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Calif
John Holland
John Garrett
Garrett
Delma Casey
Waco
Tex
Air Force
Richmond
Jackie
Karen
Texas
San Leandro
California Governor pushes abolition of death penalty
Gov. Edmund G. Brown urged the Legislature to abolish capital punishment in California amid the Chessman case uproar. He called the system a gross failure unable to protect the innocent or deter the wicked, citing impacts on the weak and minorities and noting expected resistance in the Senate.
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Morrie Landsberg
Sacramento
Calif
Edmund G. Brown
Caryl ‘Chessman
California
Chessman
Los Angeles
Brown
Edwin J. Regan
Senate Judiciary Committee
Opera Star Rosanna Carteri Injured After Fall in Reggio Emilia
Opera star Rosanna Carteri was hoisted by fans after a Manon performance in Reggio Emilia. She slipped and fell against a pillar outside the municipal theater, dislocating her shoulder. Doctors say she likely cannot depart for London on March 7 to sing La Traviata at Covent Garden.
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Reggio Emilia
Italy
Rosanna Carteri
Manon
Agadir quake rescue effort grows as thousands flee city
The city of Agadir faces a night of evacuation after a powerful earthquake. Army and Red Cross teams, plus American, French, Spanish and Italian forces, work with a 40 000 population city, with survivors trapped for up to 12 hours and mass graves being prepared as 1 000 injured are airlifted to Casablanca and Rabat.
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Frank Akers
U.S. Fleet Air Arm
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Agadir
Casablanca
Rabat
Casbah
Red Cross
U.S
Conant urges balanced encouragement for gifted students
Dr James B Conant told the National Association of Secondary School Principals that exceptionally talented students should be urged to take advanced math and science courses while not forced into any path. guidance counselors should counsel unusually gifted youths toward arts or conservatories if appropriate. parents in affluent suburbs may push college for careers like doctor or lawyer, ignoring ability.
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Portland
Ore
James B. Conant
Conant
National Assn
Beverly Lake Enters Race For North Carolina Governor
Raleigh attorney I Beverly Lake entered the Democratic gubernatorial race in North Carolina promising to preserve social order He defended the pupil assignment law favoring token integration while denouncing moves by the NAACP The 53 year old candidate emphasized unity and pledged to use state powers to support white and Black residents Lake joins Malcolm Seawell Terry Sanford and John D Larkins Jr in the May 28 primary and advocated improved schools a balanced budget highway reform and work rights Robert Boyle noted as an early vacuum authority is mentioned in the piece.
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Raleigh (Ap
I. Beverly Lake
Raleigh
Lake
North Carolina
NAACP
Sion
Malcolm Seawell
Terry Sanford
John D. Larkins Jr
Highway Commission
Fleeing Bandits Shot Twice in Irvinton Liquor Store Holdups
Frank Gilfol, 84, kept a gun and club behind the counter and shot a fleeing bandit twice during a Tuesday night hold up at his Irvinton liquor store. Police followed a blood trail. bandits have five prior tries with no loot, while Gilfol has one killed, two wounded and three disarmed.
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Irvington
N.J
Frank Gilfol
Gilfol
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