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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1953
Page
4
Bathing-suited models will serve breakfast at the Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Forum in Wilton Hotel. Barbara Blakely leads a program preview of the Miss Universe Pageant with Oscar Meinhart presenting and a KGER tape on the 1952 contest to be played.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg asked Chief Justice Vinson for a new stay of execution after the Supreme Court refused a third time to review their case. The couple sit in Sing Sing's death house as two Rosenberg attorneys filed a petition in the Supreme Court clerk's office seeking the stay pending reconsideration.
A North American design for an atomic electric generator under a commission contract aims to match conventional plant scale. The pilot plant, externally like a normal power plant, uses heat from fission to boil water via liquid metal, driving a turbine. Full operation slated in about two years with higher initial costs but potential long term savings through research. The article notes restricted data and mentions a legal case where James C. Sargeant, 19, received 90 days for drug possession related to marijuana.
The State Department framed the envoy Zambezi as attempting to recruit for Romania’s communist regime, while Georgescu, a Standard Oil executive based in New York, has lived in the United States since 1946 with his wife and two sons not allowed to join him since 1947. Three Romanian legation aides were previously expelled in 1948.
The Duke of Edinburgh flew a Sikorsky 55 helicopter from Buckingham Palace garden to Pirbright in Surrey to inspect Commonwealth troops for Queen Elizabeth's coronation procession. He won his wings recently, with a Royal Naval pilot handling the craft, and about 400 feet overhead the crowd watched the unusual royal air visit.
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