Miss High Point 1962 Gail Geyer is crowned winner
Gail Geyer of Irvington New Jersey and a High Point College sophomore won the Miss High Point title at Memorial Auditorium. First runnerup is Claudia Lee Hamlin, second runnerup Connie Wood. Miss Congeniality is Fonda Darnell Hampton.
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High Point College
High Point
Gail Geyer
Memorial Auditorium
Claudia Lee Hamlin
C. W. Hamlin
River Road
Connie Wood
Thomasville
Gail
Fred Geyer
Irvington
N. J
Irvington High School
The
High Point Jaycees
Tommie Townsend
Geyer
Stupid prank leads to student withdrawal at Maryland campus
A letter to Radio Havana accusing the University of Maryland campus of serving as a staging area for an invasion of Cuba prompted two students to be asked to withdraw. B J Borrenson, executive dean of student life, said both had prior disciplinary problems and called the act a stupid prank. Officials did not release names.
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College Park
Radio Havana
University of Maryland
Cuba
B. J. Borrenson
Khrushchev Signals 50 Megaton Bomb Explodes Soon
Premier Khrushchev told the Soviet party congress that tests would resume despite world appeals to halt them. He denounced Western critics as harping on morality and cited the U S atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as precedent for Soviet action.
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Khrushchev
Soviet Union
U.N. General Assembly
U.S
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Congress
United States of America
U.S. Urges European Buildup Over Berlin Threat
U S Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric pushes West Germany Britain and France to mount the largest peacetime European military buildup. He outlines 57 000 new troops bound for Europe with possible 2 to 6 divisions, urging quick German financing and additional Allied force contributions.
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United States
West Germany
Britain
France
Berlin
Europe
U. S
Defense
Roswell Gilpatric
West Europe
Soviet Union
Gilpatric
Franz Josef Strauss
Pierre Messmer
Harold Watkinson
Algeria
Lauris Norstad
U S Plane Circles East Berlin Amid Berlin Tank Standoff
A U S Air Force C47 circled at low altitude over East Berlin amid tensions after Soviet tank withdrawals from Friedrichstrasse checkpoint. Brig Gen Hartel watched from checkpoint Charlie as the flight followed normal four power regulations and avoided comment on purpose.
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Berlin
U. S
Friedrichstrasse
Tempelhof
East Berlin
Frederick O. Hartel
U.S
Children Fleeing Cuba Reach Miami in Large Wave
Miami reports a massive child migration from Fidel Castro's Cuba with 400 to 500 children weekly arriving for safety and schooling. Public and parochial schools in the Miami area enroll 75 to 100 Cuban children each week as families flee food shortages and indoctrination fears.
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Fla
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Miami Area
Pan American World Airways
Soviet Union
Castro
Europe prospers from a maid shortage and peace boom
The Associated Press notes Europe’s postwar rise driven by peace and economic reform. A new Five year study by the Twentieth Century Fund argues prosperity reshapes society as job opportunities rise, class barriers fall, and living standards surge across 18 nations near the Iron Curtain.
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Associated Press
Europe
America
Twentieth Century Fund
Mrs. Jeeves
Berlin
Western Europe Economic Boom Tied to Marshall Plan Growth
Western Europe shows rapid GNP growth in the 1950s with 4.3 percent yearly rise, outpacing the United States. Projections through 1970 estimate GNP per person rising from 747 to 1067 dollars, with Western Europe supplying major shares of food, income, steel, and trade. Britain’s move toward the European Common Market is noted amid these optimistic figures.
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United States
J. Frederic Dewhurst
John O. Coppock
P. Lamartine Yates
Western
Iroe
Great Britain
Britain
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