Congress in limbo as Nixon seeks delay on adjournment
The article reports a tense Congress edging toward an uncertain adjournment with housing compromises stalling civil rights and Senate rules enforcement. Lyndon B. Johnson hints at a likely early next week session while Khrushchev may address the body if in session.
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Congress
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
State Department
Nikita Khrushchev
Atlas ICBM First Flight Tests At Vandenberg Base
Combat ready Air Force troops fired the Atlas intercontinental missile for the first time at Vandenberg California. The weapon flew at 10:49 a.m. veering westward and observers estimated an immediate flight range up to 1,700 miles.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Combatready Air Force
General Sink Promoted to Lieutenant General at Fort Bragg
Maj. Gen. Robert F. Sink, commander of Fort Bragg and STRAC, was officially notified of his promotion to lieutenant general. Nominated by President Eisenhower on Aug. 7, his appointment follows Senate Armed Services Committee approval and a Senate confirmation process. Sink, 54, a Lexington native and 1927 U.S. Military Academy graduate, leads STRAC with three divisions and multiple supporting units nationwide.
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Robert F. Sink
Strategic Army Corps
Sink
Lexington
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Eisenhower
Senate Armed Services Committee
Senate
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STRAC
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4Th Infantry
Ft. Lewis
Wash
United States
Army-Navy-Air Force Journal
16Th Airborne Corps
U N Fact-Finding Team May Go to Laos by Week’s End
The United Nations Security Council formed a four nation fact finding subcommittee including Italy Argentina Japan and Tunisia to probe alleged invasions in Laos amid Hanoi North Viet Nam opposition. The panel aims a quick mission as Western powers back intervention and Geneva 1954 accords are cited.
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N.Y
U.N
Laos
Investi
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Viet Nam
Security Council
Council
Egidio Ortona
Whe Anand Lssion
Ortona
Italy
Argentina
Japan
Tunisia
U. N
South Korea
North Korea
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
SEATO
United States
Southeast Asia
International Control Commission
Mario Amadeo
Monghi Slim
Khrushchev Visit Details Still Secret
The article reports that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's U S travel plans remain largely undisclosed due to Moscow red tape. White House and State Department officials note uncertainty over which farms factories and routes he will see as his Sept 15 27 tour unfolds with dates in New York Washington and Los Angeles outlined.
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Nikita Khrushchev
United’ S States
Moscow
White House
James C. Hagerty
U. S
Khrushchev
New York
Los Angeles
Robert Murphy
Mikhail Menshikov
Menshikov
Atlas Capsule Flight Test Falls Short in Atlantic
An unmanned Atlas rocket failed to reach 100 miles after launch from Cape Canaveral. The capsule separated and surfaced, with signals largely good and recovery teams rushing to the scene, marking a partial success for Project Mercury preparations for a 1961 manned orbit.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Atlantic
Harry Smith
Robert Gilruth
Project Mercury
Gilruth
SS Case
Peepee
Ig Joe
Southern Resistance Stirs Over Two Year Civil Rights Extension
Washington AP reports a controversial Civil Rights Commission life extension faces Southern resistance as senators weigh a two year renewal. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved the foreign aid bill rider 13 to 7, amid debate on federal voting registrars and states rights.
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Washington
Civil Rights Commission
Cctaliatnaas Raganeon
Senate
Senate Appropriations Committee
Jacob K. Javits
R-Ny
Winds Shift Fire Rips Through Deadwood Targeting Homes
A rapidly shifting soy fire swept Deadwood South Dakota burning about a dozen homes and four businesses before spreading into timber north and south. No deaths were reported though a bulldozer operator was seriously burned and another escaped with light burns while fighting the blaze. Evacuations occurred in Deadwood and Lead as winds scattered flames into tree tops and a three fourth mile flank near Homestake was halted.
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Deadwood
S.D
Asst
Tom Borden
Delaware Schools Begin Integration for 5th Year
Delaware schools opened with 30 Negro children registered across Kent and Sussex counties in nine districts. Troopers directed traffic at each school as white and Negro pupils arrived with mothers or friends and began classes amid calm. federal court orders begin with first grade integration each year for 12 years.
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Dover
Del
Delaware
Kent
Sussex
Milford
New York Metal Worker Seeks Return from Soviet Citizenship
Nicholas Petrulli, 38, of Valley Stream, N.Y., who applied for Soviet citizenship 10 days ago, appeals to the U.S. Embassy to restore his American citizenship. He says he has no family or job in Moscow, fears learning a new language, and has a round trip ticket home. His divorced wife in Los Angeles is glad he changed his mind.
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A. I. Goldberg
Moscow
New York
United States
Nicholas Petrulli
Valley Stream
N.Y
Petrulli
Soviet Union
Los Angeles
Helen
Urges Settlement of Strike
McDonald said representatives of the steel companies have refused or lacked authority to negotiate except on the basis of denying any justice to the steelworkers. R Conrad Cooper, the industry’s chief negotiator, said they do not believe surrender to inflationary pressures is desired by the President, by the American people, or by the steel workers themselves. We have been trying for weeks.
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McDonald
R. Conrad Cooper
Khrushchev Rise Elimination Closeups From 1957 1956
A brief notes on Nikita Khrushchev and Soviet leaders from the Stalin era with references to 1955 1956 and 1957. The caption mentions closeups and an American diplomat remark on Stalin’s foreboding death in March and Malenkov’s rise.
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Nikita Munist
Andiimit
Khru- Khrushchev
Shchev
Stalin
George M. Malenkov
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