Nasser Opens Big Battle for Arab Unity
Nasser launches a bold clash with Saudi Arabia and other Arab rulers as he links Syria to the United Arab Republic. The accusation against King Saud and a plot to kill Lt. Col. Abdul Hamid Serraj signals a broader propaganda battle across the Arab East. Saudi rejects the charges as Nasser-backed campaigns fan nationalist fervor.
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Saud
Saudi Arabia
Nasser
United Arab Republic
Abdul Hamid Serraj
Serraj
Arab East
Jordan
Iraq
Isham
Mecca
Medina
Hussein
Faisal
North Africa
Tunis
Habib Bourguiba
Korean Boy Beaten as U S Army Officers Face Court Martials
U S Army charged Maj. Thomas G. James Capt. Marvin E. Kemp and Sgt. Robert E. Weidensaul with mistreating 14 year old Kim Choon wre Se II who was beaten tarred and stuffed into a nail studded box after a theft. James faced transfer and disobeying orders for flying a civilian in a military helicopter.
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Seoul
Korea
U. S. Army
Har
Kim Choon
Wre Se II
Ascom
Uijongbu
South Korea
U. S
Thomas G. James
Plymouth
Marvin E. Kemp
Kilmichael
Miss
Robert E. Weidensaul
Pottstown
Kim
Weidensaul
Kemp
James
8Th Army Aircraft Maintenance Center
Site Of A-Rocket Testing Is Opened
Atomic Energy Commission opens first nuclear rocket test site at Jackass Flats. Robert Campbell explains a remotely fired reactor heats fluid to power a rocket, with the Mad House assembling and testing the system before firing in a test cell. Nuclear rockets promise long endurance beyond present propellants.
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Jackass Flats
Atomic Energy Commission
Desert
Free World
Robert Campbell
Los Alamos
N.M
Waite It Over by R L Dieffenbacher
A devotional piece urges readers to turn from despair and self reliance to God. It argues personal crisis leads to self ruin unless one seeks divine guidance and accepts life through God, contrasting oblivion without faith with renewed life through faith.
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R. L. Dieffenbacher
D.D
NEA
God
Red Tape Fought In House Sale
In Renton Washington the Draviands agreed to sell their house for 13900 to the State Highway Department for a new highway route. A state check delay left them anxious as the predicament grew worse after earnest money was paid. The missing check could not be replaced without bonds totaling 27800, a sum beyond their means.
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Renton
Wash
State Highway Department
Seattle
Dravlands
Democratic solons push anti recession program
Democratic senators pressed an anti recession package including public works tax cuts housing and highways The Sparkman housing bill would add at least 200000 homes this year and the Public Works Committee was expected to approve by Thursday a highway bill The Federal Reserve Board cut discount rates to 2 percent for New York Philadelphia and Chicago banks to ease credit conditions and spur recovery Housing bill would provide 1850 million for government mortgage purchases and other programs
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Washington
Sen
Sparkman
D-Ala
Senate
Gore
D-Tenn
Public Works Committee
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Eisenhower
Johnson
Douglas
D-Ill
Federal Reserve Board
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Recession in America Hinges on Washington Action
Americans in states cities and industries look to Washington for stimulus as recovery hinges on federal policy. They urge tax cuts credit easing and bigger defense contracts while praising or criticizing the Eisenhower administration. Many seek quicker action despite existing programs.
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Washington
Associated Press
GOP
Eisenhower
Federal Reserve Board
Explorer I fate and Vanguard launch postponed in space failure
Cape Canaveral reports the Navy postponed daylight firing of the Vanguard satellite carrier after technical problems. Explorer I failed to reach orbit, dying in a fiery descent. Army plans for Explorer II launch this spring amid blame on the final rocket stage and unclear causes.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Vanguard
Army
Navy
Two American Pilots Describe Red Seizure of Airliner
American pilots Willis Hobbs and Howard McClellan recount being seized by Korean Reds on February 16 while flying a civilian airliner from Pusan to Seoul. They describe automatic pilots failing, gunfire in the cockpit, and a grim trip to Pyongyang with interrogation and propaganda visits before release.
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Seoul
Korea
Willis P. Hobbs
Vallejo
Calif
Red
Hobbs
Air Force
Howard W. McClellan
Buchanan, Mich
North Korea
Pusan
Reds
McClellan
Pyongyang
U. S
Hong Kong
Bulganin Urges East West Summit But Offers No New Breakthrough
Premier Bulganin’s fourth note to President Eisenhower repeats calls for a summit while offering no fresh proposals. The State Department rejected Soviet terms for a preparatory conference limited to logistics, insisting real issues be discussed before a top leaders meeting.
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Moscow
Bulganin
Eisenhower
Washington
State Department
Unio
United States
Bulgarin
Mikhail Menshikov
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
Europe
Germany
Air Defense Center Site Selection Moves Ahead
North or South Carolina are under study for a SAGE air defense plant near Goldsboro with location kept secret. The facility will cost about 30 million dollars, require 400 to 500 staff, and need military manpower and strong communications links to radar stations and bases.
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New York
North
South Carolina
Air Defense Command
ADC
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base
Goldsboro
N.C
Storm Drives Navy Bean Shower Across Southern California
A storm packing rain snow and hail struck southern California on Thursday. In Van Nuys resident Miss Teto Emerson described ice coated navy bean pellets hitting her office building aided by wind gusts north of the Tehachapi Mountains that carried beans about 30 miles to the San Fernando Valley.
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Los Angeles
California
Teto Emerson
van Nuys
Weather Bureau
Tehachapi Mountains
San Fernando Valley
Bullet Found At Slaying Scene In Wetzel Trial
State witnesses testified about a lead bullet recovered from a tree near the scene where State Trooper J T Brown was killed on November 5. The slug was sent for ballistics testing in Raleigh. Wetzel, tried for Brown’s death, is already serving a life sentence for the Reece murder.
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W. L. Reece
Wetzel
Brown
Reece
N.Y
Robert Terry
Terry
US. 1
U.S. 220
North Carolina
U.S. 1
N. C
Roy Gates
Frank Wetzel
Sanford
J. T. Brown
Gates
FBI
John L. McKenstray
Bakersville
Calif
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Barlier
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