Top News Stories of 1953 Highlight Korean Truce and Stalin
In AP poll ranking the Korean war truce topped the list as the year’s biggest story. Stalin’s death and Malenkov’s rise followed, with the Bobby Greenlease kidnap murder and Elizabeth II’s coronation also among the top ten. Eisenhower’s inauguration and Rosenberg executions appear further down the scale.
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Panmunjom
America
Associated Press
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Georgi Malenkov
Stalin
Malenkov
Lavrenty P. Beria
Malenor
Greenlease
Elizabeth II
Harry Dexter White
Bobby Greenlease
Bobby Franks
Chicago
Franks
Wastrel
Carl Austin Hall
Bonnie Brown Heady
Missouri
Victoria
Britain
Dwight David Eisenhower
Ben Elizabeth
Robert Alphonso Taft
Ohio
Beria
Berlin
Russia Loses Many Distinguished Citizens in 1953
The Soviet Union suffered numerous deaths arrests and disappearances in 1953 with Stalin and Beria among the most noted figures. Other losses included Prokofiev Pudovkin Merkulov Kobulov Goglidze and several top generals and ministers. Some disappeared then resurfaced or were later executed or jailed.
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Russia
Tom Whitney
New York
Soviet Union
Moscow
Stalin
Petrovsky
Communist Party
Joseph Stalin
Lavrenty Beria
B. N
O. V. Lakhtionov
Nikolai Derzhavin
Boris Grekov
Army
Vsevolod Merkulov
B. Z. Kobulov
S. A. Goglidze
Beria
V. G. Dekanazov
Red Army
Transcaucasian
U.S.S.R
A. I. Mgeladze
V. M. Bakradze
Mir Bagirov
Azerbaijan
G. A. Arutinov
Armenia
Mgeladze
Soviet
Georgia
A. N. Rapava
M. I. Baramia
I. S. Zodelava
Research Revises Theories On Oil Formation
Linden New Jersey scientists challenge the idea that oil forms only over millions of years. Tests by Standard Oil Development Co suggest oil can be found in artificial lakes less than 20 years old and may exist in younger earth formations.
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Linden
N. J
Standard Oil Development Co
Paul V. Smith
Standard Oil Co
New Jersey
Smith
Scientists Test Fish For Hydrocarbon Content
Researchers analyze certain fresh fish species using chromatography and report hydrocarbon levels from 30 to 50 parts per million.
Solon seeks Chief on lead issue as State of the Union eyed
Representative Ed Edmondson of Oklahoma pressed Chief for a public discussion on the lead and zinc problem. He telegraphed McKay that nine weeks had passed since the inquiry and urged assurance that President Eisenhower’s State of the Union address would address the crisis.
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D-Okla
Eisenhower
Edmondson
McKay
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