Space Agency awards 33 million to Convair for Vega craft
NASA announced a 33 million dollar contract to General Dynamics Convair Division for design construction testing and launching of eight Vega rockets by 1961. The Vega will lift a two ton space laboratory capable of carrying several astronauts into a 300 mile Earth orbit for weeks.
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Washington
Nov- Space Administration
General Dynamics
Convair
Vegas
NASA
Vega
Space Laboratory
Earth
Churchill Visits Old Friends Echoes of War Bond Years
Washington AP Churchill 84 visits gravely ill old allies Water Reed Army Hospital with Eisenhower. He meets Gen. George C. Marshall recently incapacitated by strokes and John Foster Dulles amid a White House pace of aging leaders.
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Washington
Winston Churchill
Eisenhower
Britain
Water Reed Army Hospital
John Foster Dulles
George C. Marshall
Marshall
U.S. Army
Churchill
Dulles
Vic Bubas Named Duke Basketball Coach
Victor A Bubas 31 a former North Carolina State assistant was named head basketball coach at Duke University today. Athletic director Eddie Cameron announced the decision at a Duke campus press conference ending a six week search to replace Hal Bradley who resigned to take a Texas post.
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Durham
Victor A. Bubas
N. C. State College
Duke University
Eddie Cameron
Duke
Bubas
Hal Bradley
Texas University
Johnson moves near presidential race as Truman ally
Washington report notes Lyndon B. Johnson quietly positioning for 1960 while four rivals lead a field including John F. Kennedy Stuart Symington Adlai Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey. Truman signals mixed support but keeps plans open as Johnson campaigns for a moderating civil rights bill and a unified party.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
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Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Adlai E. Stevenson
Missouri
Symington
Kennedy
Stevenson
Hubert Humphrey
D-Minn
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Harsiobers
Congress
Judgment Set Aside in Wanamaker Libel Case
U S District Judge George L Hart Jr set aside a 145000 libel verdict against Fulton Lewis Jr as excessive. The suit stems from a January 6 1956 broadcast claiming Mrs Pearl A Wanamaker had a brother who fled the Iron Curtain renouncing citizenship for Communism. Lewis later apologized for a wrong name in a January 9 broadcast.
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Washington
U. S. Dist
George L. Hart Jr
Pearl A. Wanamaker
Fulton Lewis. Jr
Hart
Lewis
Washington State
Cooperation In Space Exploration Is Urged
U S delegate Henry Cabot Lodge urged United Nations members to pursue full international cooperation in space to advance satellite use for mapping and navigation and to enable manned and interplanetary travel. The Soviet bloc boycotted the committee meeting along with several other nations, leaving 13 delegates present.
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United States
U.N
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
U.N. Committee
Lodge
Boy‘cott
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Czechoslovakia
Poland
India
United Arab Republic
Iess
Fallout rate from Soviet nuclear tests reaches Earth faster
Scientists testified before a Senate subcommittee that Soviet fallout descends to earth in about one year, faster than U S and British debris as well. AEC Chair John McCone reassured the public that the hazard remains very small and advisory committees will offer further reassurance. Weather experts noted northern hemisphere fallout is heavier and likely to be the highest spring rate in years.
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Senate House Atomic Energy Subcommittee
United States
Atomic Energy Commission
John A. McCone
National Press Club
McCone
Soviet Union
Britain
Geneva
Willard F. Libby
AEC
Subcommittee
U.S
Pacific
Lester Machta
U.S. Weather Bureau
Steel industry weighs mutual aid for strike shocks
New York AP report says steel industry negotiators consider a mutual aid plan to share profits if a plant shuts during a strike to avoid a full industry stoppage. R Conrad Cooper and David J. McDonald urged reaching a contract before June 30, with no strike planned.
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NEW York
R. Conrad Cooper
U.S. Steel Corp
Newsmen
Cooper
David J. McDonald
McDonald
Roosevelt Hotel
Two Young Sons Killed By Couple
San Diego sheriff’s deputies say a mother and her unemployed boyfriend calmly confessed to murdering her two young sons last Saturday. They described kidnapping the boys from the car in the Laguna Mountains and strangling them, saying they were “bad.” The suspects, Merriam and Mrs Brogdon, will be arraigned on two counts of murder.
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Calif
Here
Kenneth Archie Merriam
Merriam
David Wayne Brogdon
Virgil Brogdon Jr
Cynthia
Laguna Mountains
Tom Isbell
Margaret Schmitter
Spring Valley
Wage Bill Advances in North Carolina Senate
RALEIGH AP The North Carolina Senate voted 43 to 6 to pass on second reading a bill guaranteeing a 75 cent hourly minimum wage. The measure stays on the calendar for third reading, expected tomorrow.
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Raleigh
Senate
North Carolina
Truman Day Proposed By Governor Hodges
Governor Hodges issued a proclamation proposing May 8 as Harry S. Truman Day in North Carolina to honor the former president on his 75th birthday. The governor praised Truman's leadership, integrity, optimism, and courage during a pivotal era in U.S. history.
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Hodges
Harry
Truman
North Carolina
Baptists To Study Proposals On Two Church Papers
A Baptist State Convention special session decides to study proposals about The Biblical Recorder and Charity and Children. The committee favors Charity and Children as an orphanage house organ and a Baptist press at Mills Home Thomasville. The Recorder might move printing to Mills Home if a Raleigh contract ends. Further study to be done by General Board and the two paper boards.
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Raleigh
Baptist State Convention
Biblical Recorder
Charity and Children
Convention
General Board
Mills
Thomasville
Recorder
M. C. Owens Jr
Lenoir
National Flower Debate Shakes Congress in Falls Church
In Washington a garden club prompts lawmakers to argue over the U S national flower. Three senators and a House member clash on roses corn tassels and marigolds with sharp quips about lobbying and grass. The scene unfolds in the Senate caucus room as votes loom for a formal choice.
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ED Creagh
Washington
U. S
House
Igin
Thruston Morton Othery
Kentucky
Hugh Scott
Morton
Scott
Douglas
Capitol Hill
Falls Church
Senate
Congress
Khrushchev says no trouble expected in Berlin
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev told visiting West German socialist editors in Moscow that Berlin will not face trouble regardless of talks. He warned a separate peace pact with East Germany could end Allied control of West Berlin and affect access routes, tying crisis to broader European security.
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Soviet Union
East Germany
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