Touring Troupe Finds Great Curiosity About U S Abroad
New York reports on the touring Por gy and Bess company led by Robert Breen visiting the Soviet bloc. About 650 players and staff performed 62 shows in Leningrad Moscow Stalinograd Warsaw and Prague drawing massive crowds and eager questions about American life. Teachers worked as waitresses while locals learned about U.S. culture and college life, with the tour ending after strong Soviet ovations and a Warsaw excursion plan.
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Three Scouts Honored For Religious Endeavor
Vice President Nixon congratulated three Boy Scouts at Westmoreland Congregational Church for receiving God and Country awards. The Wisconsin natives John Eisele 13 Rodger Carten 14 and Doug Olson 13 were praised after services in Washington with Olson born in Eau Claire and Eisele a Milwaukee native.
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Rodger Carten
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Milwaukee
Carten
Soviet sergeant flees back to West Berlin from East
Ivan Sharikov, 37, a former Soviet army sergeant, says he fled East Berlin to return to the West after being asked to spy on Americans. He reported to a West Berlin exile group that he escaped Tuesday before planned departure for Russia. He had defected in 1946, working as an unskilled laborer in West Germany.
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Ivan Sharikov
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Science Shrinks Piles New Way Without Surgery
For the first time science has found a new healing substance with the ability to shrink hemorrhoids and relieve pain without surgery. In many cases, while easing pain, actual reduction occurred and results were thorough, prompting sufferers to seek continued treatment.
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New York, N. Y
Return to West Germany on spy mission refused
A man seeking repatriation returned to the Soviet Embassy in Bonn and was sent to the East Berlin embassy where a Russian official urged a spying assignment. He refused, was slapped, and escaped through a washroom window.
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