Dulles Rejects Acheson Mideast Resolution Plan
Secretary Dulles sharply rejected Dean Acheson's idea to replace President Eisenhower with a joint House Senate resolution on the Middle East. He warned the Red threat requires action now, not mere opinion. Acheson, former secretary of state, proposed televised testimony to urge Congress to adopt the plan.
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Egypt
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Right Wing Tories Rule in Britain in Macmillan Era
Britain’s Conservative Party solidified power under Prime Minister Harold Macmillan with a largely familiar 138 man cabinet. London observers note Lloyd remains foreign secretary and Butler plus Thorneycroft gain top posts as Eden’s Suez fallouts recede, while several Eden ministers are dropped and public debate swirls over policy and leadership.
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Suez
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Richard Austen Butler
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Antony Head
Butler
Queen Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
Find Missing Plane Wrecked All Dead
Wreckage from a missing small plane on a Las Vegas to Reno flight was located near Goldfield on Sunday. Searchers reported all aboard were likely dead as details emerged from the recovery effort.
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Reno
Las Vegas
Goldfield
Liquor and Cigarette Tax Hike Opposed in Schools Debate
SACRAMENTO California legislative leader Sen Hugh Burns says he will oppose a teachers demand for a 69 million boost in state school aid funded by higher liquor and cigarette taxes. The California Teachers Assn met in Los Angeles calling for pay raises and school improvements, arguing taxation should finance the boost. Names aboard a missing single engine Cessna 182 include pilot Patrick D Sanford and passenger Paul King both of Del Norte County. Authorities consider the tax plan a potential funding source if teachers present a stronger case.
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Fire traps 50 leap to safety as Alaska building burns
In Fairbanks Alaska a January blaze at Northward Building sent acrid smoke through nine stories. About 50 residents leaped into nets or climbed down ladders as temperatures tumbled to 15 below. One man died on the stairs, William Stebbins a bar owner. Over 300 were temporarily trapped while 14 injured included two women with spinal fractures. Firefighters from Fairbanks and Ladd Air Force Base aided the dramatic rescues amid bitter cold. A woman saved her six month old baby by tossing him to a net before leaping to safety.
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Alaska
Associated Press
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William Stebbins
Ladd Air Force Base
Hungary Finding New Jobs for Churchmen
Budapest reports indicate the Hungarian communist government is reassigning Protestant church dignitaries after the uprising. Bishop Laszlo Desery, named lecturer on Budapest radio, and Bishop Janos Peter of the Reformed Calvinist Church appointed chairman of the Institute of Cultural Relations and Evangelical.
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Sunday Press
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Ane
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Rela
Laszlo Desery
Budapest Radio
Reds Hold Life Photog in Budapest
Hungarian authorities acknowledged American free press photographer Georgette Meyer Chapelle has been held incommunicado for over a month. She left Vienna in December to photograph refugees for Life Magazine and was reportedly seized nine miles inside Hungary on December 16 while in the company of Hungarian students. The American legation said she crossed into Hungarian territory without a visa around December 5 or 6.
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Georgette
Meyer Chapelle
Milwaukee
Chapele
Life
Vienna
Hungary
Legation
Chapelle
McDonald Offers Reward in Kidnap Case
Beverly Hills actress Marie McDonald says two men abducted her from Encino on January 4 and took her to near India with a plan to convict her story. A $5,000 reward was offered for information leading to arrests, while attorney Jerry Giesler opposes a polygraph, arguing it could taint the prosecution. Los Angeles Police Chief Parker seeks action but cautions on the evidence.
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Marie McDonald
Encino
India
Twoumen
Jerry Giesler
Giesler
McDonald
Los Angeles
William J. Parker
Thev
Giesser
No National Aircraft Show Cancelled by Air Foundation
The Air Foundation announced from Cleveland that there will be no National Aircraft Show this year. The long running event featured military pilots and planes, with five shows since 1946 in Dayton Philadelphia and Oklahoma City drawing about 150,000 attendees last year. No official reason was given, though a Washington report cited Defense Department scrutiny of the expenditure versus benefits.
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Air Foundation
Dayton
Ohio
Philadelphia
Oklahoma City
Armed Forces
Washington
Defense Department
Longest Dam Opens with Floodlight Tribute in Orissa
The ceremony marked the completion of Hirakud Dam in Orissa state as floodlights stretched across its six mile span. Prime Minister Tawahari Neh pressed the moment to honor the end of centuries of flood and famine in the region.
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India
Tawahari
Nehmm
Orissa
Eastbourne Widow Morrell Death Trials Dr Adams Case
Scotland Yard investigated the Morrell death case in Eastbourne where Sir Herbert Hannam built a crime theory around doctor John Bodkin Adams. Prosecutor Melford Stevenson alleged Adams drugged and hastened death with morphine and heroin to gain Mrs Morrells wealth. The hearing will decide if enough evidence exists to pursue a murder charge.
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England
John Bodkin Adams
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Scotland Yard
Herbert. Hannam
Melford Stevenson
Stevenson
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