Call Girls and Prostitution Tactics in Global Business Rumors
Edward R Murrow reports from January on American executives using prostitution to finance deals with a NY figure claiming 30 000 call girls in the city. A large executive admits it helps business asserting buyers are often married. The piece notes concubines in Chinese history and China’s potential puritan shift.
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Edward R. Murrow
Peking
New York
Columbia Broadcasting System
NCNA
Our Reputation Abroad A Call for Better Overseas Training
An editorial argues Americans abroad lack proper preparation and cultural study. It cites Syracuse University researchers Harlan Cleveland and Gerald Mangone on 240 Americans in Mexico, Yugoslavia, Ethiopia, Iran, noting motives include higher income and escape from home. It urges preassignment schooling in geography language and social/political context and urges Americans abroad to be effective ambassadors of American life.
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United States
Syracuse University
Harlan Cleveland
Maxwell School of Citizenship
Gerald J. Mangone
Cleveland
Mangone
Mexico
Yugoslavia
Ethiopia
Iran
Iraq
William M. Roundtree
Richard M. Nixon
Peru
Venezuela
State Department
Protecting Individual Freedom Against Totalitarian Pressure
A viewpoint from The Ashland Times-Gazette argues education should serve the individual. Archibald MacLeish warns against turning out only engineers and specialists to compete with the Soviet Union. The piece stresses preserving individuality to sustain freedom and national strength.
Meetings as the voice of democracy in America
The piece extols Americans as meeting driven, civil society actors. It contrasts free assemblies with state restrictions and tradition, arguing that voluntary organizations express democracy, even if not all meetings yield results. It frames grassroots gathering as essential democratic growth.
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America
Red China
Soviet Russia
Yale
New Haven
China
Worcester Gazette Fights Highway Sign Gobbledygook
Plain English advocate Representative Shostak seeks simpler traffic signs in Connecticut. He blasts official wording like Crossing Median Divider Prohibited and urges translations such as Dont Cross the Center Strip. Citizens back the effort to curb bureaucratic phrasing for drivers.
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Connecticut
Connecticut Turnpike
Local Club Officers Named in Scrambled Memo
In a fragmentary notice the names D. A. Rawley is listed as president while Mrs R. B. Terry serves as secretary-treasurer and LT McPherson appears as another official. The text remains incomplete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. A. Rawley
R. B. Terry
LT McPherson
Baitor Ssee We Idol, JR
Eisenhower restraint cited as key to averting crises
The article credits President Eisenhower with careful restraint during dangers in Berlin and Indochina. It notes Khrushchev's belligerent posturing and the shift toward negotiation, including hints of a possible summit later this summer, as U.S. and Western allies seek stability.
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Washington
Berlin
Eisenhower
Egypt
Soviet Union
Red China
U.S.S.R
Indochina
Viet Nam
Ho Chi-minh
Nikita
Khrushchev
West
East Germany
Remembering High Point’s dawn of streetcar era at Broad and Main
Guest columnist Herbert Field recalls the first unloaded streetcar on Broad street at Main crossing and the town’s early life. He lists prominent local families, merchants, bankers, and fashion among memories of 1910s High Point, including the Wachovia branch opening, Trinity College students, and colorful local characters.
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Herbert Field
High Point
Broad Street
Main Street
Mechanicsville
South Main Street
John Greene
South Main
George T. Wood
Trinity
Main and
Washington
Cecil Marriner
R. C. Charles
Mr. Rountree
Mr. Idol
First Joint House Senate Talk on Constitution Court Reform
Lynn Nisbet reports a first joint meeting of North Carolina House and Senate committees on the constitution to consider court reform. The audience filled chairs as members debated the need for reform, planned larger quarters, and urged reading the bill and report. The piece notes the 1775 NC constitution and the 1868 revis ion with 91 years since adoption and over 100 amendments.
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House
Senate
General Assembly
Soenemanrmanetel Saewang
Joint Appropriations and Finance Committees
North Carolina
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Cecal Fekt
Nation
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U. S
U.S
Formosa
Ashland
Ohio
Times-Gazette
Free World
Archibald MacLeish
Harvard
Saturday Review
MacLeish
Spe
Montana
Worcester (Mass
Shostak
Webster
High Point Enterprise
Associated Press
N. C
Codene
Citullege
High Enterprise, Inc
White House
James Marlow
Charles Pearson
Southern Railway
Southern Car Company
Perley A. Thomas
Bob
Charlie Amos
Kearns Furniture Co
Lindsay Chair Company
Carter Dalton
Charlie Kephart
Talmadge Rochelle
Rodney Snow
Hal Ingram
Hal
Talmadge
Trinity College
Babe
Jee Welch
Rankin Street
J. C. Welch, Jr
W. W. Tool’s
Robert Brockett
Brockett Flats
Dorsey Brockett
W. A. Davis
Clarence Dunbar
Lindsay
R.B.) White
Mary
Henrietta
Nancy
Annie Elizabeth
Irene
Annie Mae Walker
Max Wall
Rachel
Edna
Dr. Goley
Bob Sechrest
Ed Freeze
Church Street
White
Elizabeth Linebach
George Hutchens
Ruths
Ruth Welborn
Ruth Owens
Bob Jones
Will
N. Main
Enterprise
John
Andrew Lindsay
Andrew
Berta
E. A. Snow
E. A. Bencini
Snow Lumber Company
J. P. Redding
Alma Furniture Company
Myrtle Desk Company
Vassie Wilson
Pine Street
Thurlow Kearns
Lynn Nisbet
Capitol Square
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