Nationalist China Appeals to UN to Avoid Munich Comparison
Dr. Tingfu F. Tsiang leads Nationalist China at the United Nations General Assembly urging the world to resist appeasing the Red Chinese. He stresses authorities should allow anti communist Chinese to help themselves without seeking active UN aid. A reference notes British rail express trains now reach 90 mph shortening routes by up to 30 minutes.
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United Nations, N.Y
China
General Assembly
United Nations
Munich
Tingfu F. Tsiang
Chiang Kai Shek
U.N
Russia
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Tsiang
Assembly
World Organization
Yale Booze Report Details College Drinking Habits
Yale University releases a 214 page study on 17 000 students across 27 colleges finding 74 percent drink. Men 45 percent and women 56 percent began before age 11. The report links alcohol to sexual activity and arousal with dry colleges showing higher disobedience to rules.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale University
Yale University Center of Alcohol Studies
Robert Straus
Syracuse, N.Y
College of Medicine
Selden D. Bacon
Yale Center of Alcohol Studies
Joe
Indian Relic Made in Japan Could Miss the Ages
Jefferson City Missouri experts reveal a clay whistle long hailed as an Indian relic is a modern toy from Japan. Smithsonian and state museum scholars traced the backward-spelled "Japan" lettering and concluded the object was a late commercial product.
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Jefferson City
Japan
Smithsonian Institution
Virginia
North Carolina
Missouri
Russellville
L. V. Morrow
State Capitol
México
Smithsonian
T. Robert Halbrook
State Museum
Halbrook
Concession men face charges over magnetized cat game
Oscar C. Buck and Steve Jankura, both from Troy, New York, appeared in district court in Great Barrington Massachusetts charged with allegedly magnetizing the bottoms of the dummy cats in their baseball-throwing concession to prevent customers from knocking them off shelves.
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Great Barrington
Mass
Oscar C. Buck
Steve Jankura
Troy
N.Y
Toay
Want Your Cake, Eat It Too Fluff Dry Laundry Tie-In
The Fluff Dry service from Dutch Laundry and Martin Cleaners, launched about ten days ago, promises low cost laundry with pickup and delivery. It offers a quarter barrel of laundry for 1.49 including flatwork. shirts cost 15 cents each extra. missing buttons are repaired or two shirts are done free. customers encouraged to call 3319 or 4501 to try the new service.
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Dutch Laundry and
Martin Cleaners
H. M. Taylor
Dutch Laundry, Inc
Dutch Laundry
Tually
Highway Officials Meet in Asheville for Regional Convention
More than 700 delegates are expected at the 12th annual Southeastern Association of Highway Officials convention in Asheville North Carolina. The 12 member states include Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Tennessee Virginia and West Virginia. Delegates register September 30 with the general session on October 1 led by President E J James chief engineer of the Louisiana Department of Highways. Welcome addresses will be given by Asheville Mayor Earl W Eller and Governor Umstead. North Carolina Highway Chairman A H Graham will extend greetings.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Asheville
N.C
Southeastern Association of Te
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
Teiny
E. J. James
Louisana Department of Highways
Earl W. Eller
Umstead
North Carolina Highway
A. H. Graham
Brownilly Peak Crowned England’s Western Cornwall Summit
National Geographic Society notes Brownilly in Bodmin Moor as England’s highest hill in Cornwall at 1,375 feet above sea level. The name derives from Bryn Whelli, an old Celtic term.
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England
Cornwall
National Geographic Society
Bodmin Moor
Florence Chadwick Sets Gibraltar Strait Swim Record
Florence Chadwick, 34, of San Diego, swam 14 miles across the Straits of Gibraltar in five hours six minutes, breaking the previous six hour 58 minute record. She started near Tarifa at 6 57 a m and finished in Morocco at 12 03 p m, aided by favorable currents and a protective rowboat crew. Chadwick plans to next attempt the Dardanelles, aiming for another continental crossing.
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Algeciras
Spain
Florence Chadwick
Straits of Gibraltar
Dardanelles
San Diego
Calif
North Africa
Jorge Sugden
Argentina
Miss Chadwick
England
France
Tarifa
Chadwick
Morocco
Istanbul
Turkey
Europe
Asia
Hungarian Stakhanovite in Vienna reports 1957 plan ahead
A Hungarian factory worker named Stephen Badics is lauded by Communist bosses in Nepszava as a Stakhanovite who is far ahead of his schedule and already working on his 1957 plan, despite being four years ahead of himself.
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Vienna
Austria
Stephen Badics
Nepszava
Badics
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