Greensboro Bond Vote Shows Vision but No Auditorium
Greensboro voters rejected a 1.9 million supplemental bond for a Memorial Auditorium by 434 votes with under 5 percent turnout. They approved multiple other bonds including 2 million water, 2 million sewer, 2.25 million streets, 500 thousand paving, 150 thousand yards, and 750 thousand bridges, signaling support for civic growth while withholding municipal funding for the auditorium project.
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Greensboro
Memorial
Supreme Court Extends Desegregation to Public Colleges
The ruling extends the ban on racial segregation from public schools to tax supported colleges and universities nationwide. It notes progress in the South while urging orderly, fair integration across higher education and cautioning against further violence or outside pressure. The UNC example is cited as a quietly managed case of gradualism.
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Supreme Court
Rodman
University of North Carolina
Deep South
Alabama
Autherine Lucy
University of Alabama
South
Legislative Push to Ban Mechanical Eavesdropping Devices
Editorial notes growing pressure for laws to curb private eavesdropping with micro phones and bugging devices. It cites 1950s hearings on Fourth and Fifth Amendment limits and federal law, urging comprehensive action by Congress in 1956 to prevent interception and disclosure of conversations.
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House Judiciary Subcommittee
Congress
Wiretap debate spans federal and state laws
The piece outlines federal resistance to wiretap evidence in trials and cites past Coplon case disqualifications. It notes calls from the Senate and House to permit taps in national security and narcotics cases with judge or attorney general authorization. State laws remain variably permissive while New York probes private detective wiretap operations.
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Justice Department
Judith Coplon
U. S. Court of Appeals
Senate Judiciary
House
Senate
Herbert Brownell
Khrushchev’s Twentieth Congress Turns Soviet Path
George Sokolsky argues the Twentieth Congress marks a turning point toward collective leadership and renewed Leninist dogma. He contrasts Stalin’s autocracy with Khrushchev’s flexible rule and warns the United States about neutralism and Soviet expansionist moves during Geneva.
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Khrushchev
United States
Ushchev
Stalin
Geneva
State Department
Israel
Czechoslovakia
Poland
John Foster Dulles
Soviet Russia
Russia
Can It Be Ike Hears He Won't Keep Nixon On Ticket
A Washington row follows President Eisenhower’s response on Nixon as running mate. The President’s sister in law Mrs George Gordon Moore and Mamie’s sister friends quote the moment amid a tense political atmosphere. McCormack and Martin were dining together the day of the announcement.
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Ike
Benson
Washington
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
White House
George Gordon Moore
Mike
Mamile
Allen
George Allen
Nixon
House
John W. McCormack
Joe Martin
Notable reactions brew over Eisenhower reveal in Massachusetts
Massachusetts Democrats lament the surge of reaction to Eisenhower's announcement while GOP leaders joke about feminine instincts and leap year quirks. Rep Thaddeus M Machrowicz jokes of a Feb 29 national holiday and Sen Kerr ponders the Benson farm program impact on farming.
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Thaddeus M., Machrowicz
Michigan
Hamtramck
Ike
Robert 8. Kerr
Oklahoma
White House
Kerr
Benson
Granny Wins Free Ride After Identifying Suspect
Nancy Finch known as Granny helps police by identifying a man using an alias. He is found drunken and violating laws, taking a free ride to the county farm. The writer hints at extrajudicial reactions from officers and ends with a farewell note about leaving the paper.
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Nancy Finch
Granny
Big Question In Middle East Would Soviet Send Armies
Washington officials and Western ambassadors weigh the risk of a Soviet push into the Middle East if new Arab Israeli hostilities erupt The analysis notes Moscow previously lets others fight but could deploy troops via Turkey or Iran and warns such action might start a world war II efforts toward a peaceful settlement are seen in steps proposed by Sir Mohammed Zafrulla Khan including breaking issues into smaller parts and addressing refugees and borders first
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United States
Britain
France
Russia
Middle East
Moscow
Korea
Indo- China
Greece
Ros
Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Israel
Czechoslovakia
Egypt
Turkey
Iran
U. S
Robert Murphy
Roger Makins
Maurice Couve de Murville
Soviet
Moscow Foreign Office
Mohammed Zafrulla Kahn
Pakistan
World Court
Aqabah
Red Sea
Saudi Arabia
Communists urge atomic energy use at party congress
In a collage of quotes, Bulganin advocates placing atomic energy under communist service while criticizing health and lifestyle in the Soviet Union. Other remarks touch on staying in the United Nations, Civil War volunteers, and Cold War rhetoric from U.S. figures.
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Nikolai Bulganin
Communist Party
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