Baptist Resolution Calls Desegregation of Seven Col leges
The North Carolina State Baptist Convention considers a resolution by Rev. Robert T. Seymour calling desegregation of seven Baptist colleges with Wake Forest and Meredith to be achieved by all deliberate speed. The measure urges admitting Black students and was sent to a committee for floor discussion. The convention also weighs a $40 million expansion plan for the seven schools and other resolutions on hospital funding and baptism drives.
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Asheville
N.C
North Carolina
Baptists
State Baptist Convention
Robert T. Seymour
Binkley Memorial
Chapel Hill
Wake Forest
Meredith Colleges
Wake Forest College
Mars Hill
Campbell Junior Colleges
Winston- Salem
Tar Heel
John F. Kennedy
Resolutions Committee
Kennedy
C. Emanuel Carlson
Washington
Southern Convention
Committee On
Ford Bid Provokes Protests in Britain
Ford Motor Co of Detroit seeks to acquire full ownership of British Ford, triggering protests in press and Parliament. Government likely to approve the multi million dollar deal amid anti American sentiment, with critics worried about exports and profits. Sir Patrick Hennessy says the takeover boosts Ford’s British production and preserves jobs.
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London
Ford Motor Co
Detroit
Macmillan
Ford
Britain
Patrick Hennessy
British Ford
Ford Works
Detroit Ford
Top Cuban Jurist Takes Asylum
Havana AP reports Cuba's Supreme Court president Dr Emilio Menendez sought asylum Tuesday in the Argentine Embassy while court member Jose Morell Romero took refuge at the Mexican Embassy. Reports lack official confirmation. Menendez appointed president last December by Prime Minister Fidel Castro. both men held high judiciary posts under Batista amid rumors of a major judicial reorganization.
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Havana
Cuba
Supreme Court
Emilio Menendez
Jose Morell Romero
Menendez
Fidel Castro
Romero
Fulgencio Batista
Castro
Protests Spread as New Orleans Integrates Schools
In New Orleans a 1,000-strong youth protest disrupted downtown and halted attendance at two newly integrated elementary schools. Mothers opposed to integration led marches from City Hall to the School Board office on Canal Street, while police reinforced the scene. The four Negro first graders faced icy reception as attendance at McDonogh declined.
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New Orleans
City Hall
R D Canal Street
School Board
McDonogh
Kennedy and Johnson Begin Talks at LBJ Ranch
President elect Kennedy flies to the LBJ ranch near Johnson City Texas for talks with Lyndon B Johnson on a peaceful transition of power and a new congressional program. They plan days of discussions and possible Cabinet considerations.
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Palm Beach
Fla
John F. Kennedy
Texas
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
Henry Cabot Lodge
Kennedy
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Austin
Tex
Johnson City
Johnson
Senate
Bergstrom
Nuclear Force For NATO Uncertain
The United States leans toward providing NATO with its own strategic nuclear force though officials await President Elect Kennedy’s views. Plans discussed include Polaris submarines under NATO command or mobile Polaris bases in Europe, with congressional backing anticipated. Kennedy’s stance remains unclear until he selects key cabinet members and reviews the issue.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
State
Defense Departments
United States
Eisenhower
NATO Council
Paris
Christian A. Herter
John F. Kennedy
NATO
Polaris
Jof
Europe
U. S
Kennedy
Defense
Freed Atom Bomb Spy Greenglass Leaves Jail
New York 38 year old Greenglass who helped convict Julius and Ethel Rosenberg walked free after 912 years in prison. He left the federal house of detention at 8 35 am with attorney C John Rogge amid jeers from longshoremen and truckers.
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David Greenglass
Federal House of Detention
Greenglass
C. John Rogge
New York’s
New York
Dron
Julius Rosenberg
Ethel Rosenberg
Sing Sing
Brooklyn
Rosenbergs
Harry Gold
Philadelphia
Sobell
Gold
Soviet Union
United States
Lower East Side
Young Communist League
Los Alamos, N.M
Nagasaki
Rosenberg
Anatoli Yakovlev
Klaus Fuchs
England
Fuchs
Iron Curtain
Ruth
Severe Magnetic Storm Disrupts Communications
Washington AP report says a worldwide magnetic storm, the most severe in a decade, disrupted short wave radio for days. James Weldon of the National Bureau of Standards cites intense activity on the north Atlantic radio route linking New York and Paris, with Pacific interference as well. The storm peaked at 268 on a severity scale, far above the 50 threshold, and was recorded near Washington on November 13 before subsiding and then surging again Tuesday night.
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Washington
James Weldon
World Warning Agency
National Bureau of Standards
North Atlantic
New York
London
Paris
Pacific
Weldon
Cuba-Soviet Trade Hampered in Maritime Move
Washington AP reporting the Maritime Administration announced a new rule restricting U S ships transferred to foreign ownership from being chartered for Soviet bloc Cuba trade without prior approval. The agency had already barred transfers to Cuban nationals without advance sanction as of Oct 20.
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Washington
Maritime Administration
Cuba
U.S
De Gaulle Plans Referendum on Algerian Administration
Paris report says President de Gaulle intends a referendum to approve a new Algerian administrative system to be governed by Algerians at all levels. He warned the referendum could be held in France and Algeria at the proper time. Rioting in Algiers left about 50 injured as right wing opposition grows amid tensions over Algerian independence. French authorities arrested several leaders and banned two newspapers in response to the unrest. About 500 000 troops have been deployed to quell a nationalist rebellion ongoing for over six years.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Algeria
France
de Gaulle
Algiers
Pierre Poujade
France - Soir
Paris Presse
Ike Calls Top US Leaders to NSC Meeting
President Eisenhower summoned the nation's top National Security Council aides to Georgia for a Thursday conference. The meeting includes Dulles Lemnitzer Herter Anderson Gates with Nixon absent due to Florida campaigning. He also ordered agencies to curb overseas spending to protect the dollar and gold reserves.
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John Scali
Augusta
Eisenhower
National Security Council
Georgia
Nixon
Richard M. Nixon
Florida
NSC
Central Intelligence Agency
Allen W. Dulles
Lyman Lemnitzer
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Christian A. Herter
Treasury
Robert B. Anderson
Defense
Thomas S. Gates Jr
White House
John F. Kennedy
Liberal Democrats Seek Strong Voice in Congress
The Senate liberal bloc plans strategy meetings next month to win a stronger role in policy. They consider Hubert Humphrey for assistant Democratic leader and aim to seat more liberals on the Democratic Policy Committee while resisting efforts to curb the platform’s civil rights plank.
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G. Milton Kelly Washington
Senate
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Democratic Policy Committee
Paul H
D-Ill
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Humphrey
Minneapolis
Douglas
Chicago
Proxmire
Sheboygan
Wis
Congress
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
House
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Ike
Senate Liberal
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Montana
Joseph S. Clark
Pennsylvania
Frank Church
Idaho
Sister Hill
Alabama
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Oklahoma
J Randolph
West Virginia
Eugene J. McCarthy
Mansfield
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