East Berlin renames Stalinallee and erases Stalin statues
East Berlin clears the Stalin statue and renames Stalinallee to Karl Marx Allee and Frankfurter Allee. East German plant in Treptow and the iron and steel town Eisenhuettenstadt reflect de-Stalinization signals as Ulbricht regime downplays a cult of personality.
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Stalinallee
Three Mile Avenue
East Berlin
Stalin
East Germany
Communist Party
Karl Marx Allee
Frankfurter Allee
Stalinstadt
Oder River
Eisenhuettenstadt
Neues
Josef W. Stalin
Berlin
Treptow
Electrical Apparatus Works
Berlin- Treptow
Walter Ulbricht
Neues Deutschland
Ulbricht
Catawba County votes show 70 cents per ballot in bond election
Catawba County cast over 7 000 ballots in the statewide bond referendum. County Manager George Wilkinson says total election expenses ran about 5 137 dollars including registrar and official pay, polling place rent, travel, janitorial services and social security. The county reported a heavy vote against the proposed 61.6 million bond issues.
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Newton
N.C
Catawba County
George Wilkinson
Catawoa County
Roustabout Faces Death By Gas In Child Murder Case
Richard Arlen Lindsey, 30, an ex convict, faced execution by gas chamber in San Quentin for the Jan 12 murder of Rose Marie Riddle a 6 year old with a congenital heart ailment. His common law wife Dixie Elaine Lindsey 23 mother of a newborn is serving two life terms for bludgeoning the girl with a tire iron after Lindsey raped and strangled her.
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Harold V. Streeter
San Quentin
Calif
Richard Arlen Lindsey
Rose Marie Riddle
Lindsey
Dixie Elaine
Rose Marie
Shafter
Everett
Chandler
Ariz
Lindseys
San Francisco
Bay
UN probes say Lumumba murdered with Katanga help
A four member UN commission said Patrice Lumumba was killed in January with Katanga officials present and blamed Congo President Kasavubu and his aides for handing him over. It named Moise Tshombe and Katanga minister Godefroit Munongo as key figures and cited Belgian mercenaries as involved. It urged further investigation and possible judicial action.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N
Congo
Patrice Lumumba
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Elisabethville
Lumumba
Godefroit Munongo
Munongo
U.N. General Assembly
Security Council
Justice Aung Khine
Burma
Ato Tashoma Hailemariam
Ethiopia
Salvador Martinez de Alva
Mexico
Maitre Ayite d’Almeida
Togo
Col. Huyghe
Gat
Joseph Okito
Maurice Mpolo
Joseph Kasavubu
Tshombe
Kasavubu
Mr. Lumumba
Africa Denuclear Zone Urged by UN Committee
The UN general committee backed Africa as a denuclearized zone by 57 to 0 with 42 abstentions. The resolution calls for halting nuclear tests in Africa and urges states to avoid transporting or storing hydrogen or atomic weapons on African soil. The United States and France opposed key provisions, while the Soviet bloc supported the measure. Britain and other Western nations abstained on the overall vote. The move challenges France, which maintains a Sahara testing base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max Harrelson
United Nations
N.Y
U.N
Africa
Afrian Territor
United States
France
Britain
Sahara
Yacht Sinks Off Bahamas. Captain Survives With One Child
In a Bahamas cruise tragedy, seven Americans aboard the 60 foot Blue Belle perished after a fire sank the yacht 50 miles northwest of Nassau. Captain Julian Harvey 44 reported a 10 year old girl drowned in the water and drifted 14 hours with her body before rescue by a tanker Gulf Lyon. Surviving crew included Capt Harvey and his wife Mary Dene Harvey 34. others aboard were Arthur Dupersault 40 and family members. The vessel owned by Harold S Pegg of Hollywood Florida departed Fort Lauderdale last Wednesday.
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Julian Harvey
Nassau
Harvey
Gulf Lyon
Mary Dene Harvey
Wnfe
Arthur Dupersault
Green Bay
Wis
Harold S. Pegg
Hollywood
Fla
Bahia Mar
Newport News Hotel Wing Leveled By Blaze
A basement mattress storage fire at the Warwick Hotel in Newport News leveled the old wing after nearly 12 hours of flames. About 200 guests were registered with several evacuated by firefighters. Seven firefighters were hurt and eight overcome by smoke as damage was expected to exceed one million dollars.
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Newport News
Warwick
Norfolk
Baptists Open State Convention Urge Desegregation
The Greensboro session of the Baptist State Convention was urged to implement desegregation resolutions from prior years. Rev. Wilbur A. Huneycutt called for ending Jim Crow at local levels and urged colleges to desegregate, while a record budget of 5.465 million dollars was presented for approval. A Winston-Salem minister, Rev. R. M. Pitts, reportedly became the first Black speaker at the gathering.
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Greensborom
Baptist State Convention
Wilbur A. Huneycutt
Valdese
Greensboro
War Memorial Auditorium
Mr. Honeycutt
Wake
Christian Life Committee
Admis
Talks With JFK Korean Leader Asks More U S Support
South Korea's military leader Park Chung Hee meets President Kennedy to seek stronger U S economic aid and military assistance as Washington plans to back modernization of Korea's 600 000 man armed forces. Park seeks continued U S backing to fight graft reform and rebuild the nation.
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Washington
Chung Hee Park
South Korea
Kennedy
U.S
Park
Dean Rusk
Fowler Hamilton
White House
United States
National Airport
Lyndon B. Johnson
America
Levis For Ladies Fashion Show Highlights Low Rise Styles
Beverly Hills reports the 11th annual press week showcases California designers presenting tight fitting Capri pants and other low rise silhouettes. Garments range from midriff briefs to cropped tops with bold prints while teen behavior and household humor frame the provocative styles.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
California
Alma Mater
Three Injured In Car Train Collision Near Archdale
A car and a Carolina and Northwestern freight train collided at a grade crossing on Flint Hill Road near Ward's Grocery south of Archdale. Injured were Nora Williams Sophia and Mr and Mrs Lynn Murchison. They were taken to High Point Memorial Hospital with injuries not yet determined.
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Carolina and Northwestern
Randolph County
Flint Hill Road
Ward's Grocery
Archdale
Nora Williams
Rt. 1
Sophia
Lynn Murchison
High Point Memorial Hospital
Lucille Ball to Wed Comedian Gary Morton
New York report says comedienne Lucille Ball will marry Gary Morton whom she met on a blind date. The couple plans to wed in a private ceremony.
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Lucille Ball
New York
Idlewild
Gary Morton
Los Angeles
Morton
Norman Vincent Peale
Desi Arnaz
Miss Ball
New York City
Manhattan
Army Special Services
Fort Riley
Kaw
Broadway
Copacabana
Macapagal Holds Early Lead In Philippine Election Returns
Vice President Diosdado Macapagal leads over President Carlos Garcia as about 2 percent of the vote tallies show 104,561 to 74,301 for Macapagal in the Liberal and Nacionalista contest. Palaez edges Osmena for the vice presidency with 76,322 to 75,108.
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Manila
Diosdado Macapagal
Carlos P. Garcia
Philippines
Macapagal
Liberal Party
Garcia
Nacionalista Party
Emmanuel Palaez
Ramon Magsaysay
Sergion Osmena Jr
Palaez
Osmena
Se. Gil Puyat
Soviet Fishing Fleet Seen as Economic and Defense Threat
Bernard M. Kassell, a retired U S Navy commander who reads Russian, argues in the United States Naval Institute Proceedings that the Soviet Union's growing and widespread fishing fleet challenges Western defenses and economics by reducing Soviet imports. He cites the November issue and notes recent large Soviet trawler activity off Massachusetts, with estimates of 200 to 400 vessels.
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Fred 8S
Hoffman
Washington
Soviet Union
Naval Affairs
United States Naval Institute Proceedings
Bernard M. Kussell
U.S. Navy
United States Naval Institute
Navy
Coast Guard
U.S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Adm
George W. Anderson
Kassell
Massachusetts
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Lenin
Moscow
Pediatrics
DE CL
U.N. Probers
Milton Besser
Tanjug
Paese Sera
Rome
Gerd Arnim Katz
Bahamas
Baptists
JFK
Levis
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