Eisenhower in Retirement Still Central to Party Life
In Gettysburg Ike adjusts to life after the White House. He stays busy with letters, speeches, and a farm office, while remaining a focal point for Republicans. He meets with leaders and writers, plans possible amendments, and writes his presidency book.
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Eisenhower
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Everett M. Dirksen
Rep
Charles R. Halleck
Gen
Arthur §. Nevins
Europe
Mamie
New Purchase
Eisenhowers
Farm House
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Integration In Atlanta Shows Promise For Peaceful Change
Atlanta witnesses peaceful school integration with nine Black students joining white peers at four high schools. Prayers and precautions accompanied the shift, while some agitators were jailed. Governor Vandiver opposed desegregation, praising the calm and predicting further change may end Jim Crow practices in stores.
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Atlanta
South
John F. Kennedy
Alabama
Mississippi
South Carolina
Little Rock
New Orleans
Ernest Vandiver
Atomic bombs pale beside US rockets power, Rheims memory lingers
Cape Canaveral reports that Hiroshima’s 20 000 ton dynamite equivalence is dwarfed by Atlas Titan and Minuteman Polaris warhead yields. The piece notes Titan development aims at 10 megatons while Minuteman and Polaris reach 0.5 megatons. It reflects on a president’s failed chance for lasting world peace and a Rheims memory as a defining moment.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Hiroshima
United States
Atlas
Titan
Minuteman
Polaris
Rheims
Task Force ALFA Hunters Submarines On Open Seas
A Navy task force off the American coasts uses carrier Randolph, six destroyers and two submarines with jets radar planes and sonar to detect and neutralize Soviet missile subs. Operators describe MAD sonar and drop torpedoes while acknowledging submarines’ freedom below sea level and the peril of missed contacts.
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Sid Moody
ALFA
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Soviet Union
Cmdr
Frank Dunham Jr
Cony
Norfolk
Randolph
Pacific
Atlantic
STF
MAD
Ams
ASROC
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Willie Fudds
Dick Page
Grampus
Earl Eastwold
U.S
Navy
Page
Task Force
Andrea Doria
Shanghai City Of New China Aboard A Polish Ship
Beverly Deep charts Shanghai from the Whangpoo River past U S and Soviet vessels. She notes police control of foreigners, a Soviet exhibit, crowded docks, and a city of shortages with a rising economy and strict social rules. The piece contrasts cafes and money culture with repression and resilience.
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Whamgpoo
Chiang Kai-shek
Formosa
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Frontier Police
China
Cuba
Palace of Culture
North
Teens exposed to intoxicating paint at Sapulpa High
Sapulpa Oklahoma AP report says two teens painting a basement scene at Sapulpa High inhaled fumes from an alcohol based paint. Ed Witney the boss heard loud singing and found one boy unconscious and another unable to navigate.
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Sapulpa, Okla
Ed Witney
Sapulpa High School
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