Policy urged for national science strategy and defense
Will iam D. Carey, head of the labor and welfare division of the budget bureau, called for a comprehensive national science policy to mobilize resources for long term results and integrate science with government. Senator Bourke Hickenlooper rejected claims of U.S. lag in missiles and Satellites amid White House rebuttals to reports of weakness.
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Iowa
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Senate
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Communist Plot Details Emerges From Indonesia Study
The U S information agency reports possession of a Communist plan for taking over Indonesia. It cites a December 1955 booklet by Dipa Nusantara Aidit, secretary general of the Indonesian Communist party, claiming it targets voters publicly while guiding insiders privately.
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Washington
U.S. Information Agency
Indonesia
Voice of America Radio Network
U.S
Dipa Nusantara
Indonesia Drafts Dutch Technicians to Stabilize Economy
Premier Djuanda issued an order empowering Indonesia to conscript Dutch technicians and other experts for military and civilian needs. The move follows Indonesia seizing over 1 billion dollars of Dutch business and mass Dutch departures, as officials describe the measure as a crisis defense.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Diplomats Exempt Berlin Visa Ruling
The Soviet Union opens a loophole in East German visa rules affecting Western diplomats and civilians traveling to West Berlin. Diplomats attached to Allied military missions may travel via main overland routes without East German visas, while others must obtain East German clearance, risking renewed Cold War tensions with the United States Britain and France.
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Soviet Union
West Berlin
United States
Britain
France
West Germany
Russia
Ingenious Ghosts Haunt London Streets in Odd Spectral Tales
London reports of phantoms include a shivering Highgate chicken tied to 1626 experiments by Francis Bacon and a haunted Kensington phantom omnibus at St. Marks Road and Cambridge Gardens. Other figures include Victorian actor William Terriss in Covent Garden Underground and a skeletal Sir Geoffrey de Mandeville seen in East Barnet.
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Francis Bacon
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Covent Garden
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Geoffrey de Mandeville
Earl of Essex
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East Barnet
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Cold sweep across Saskatchewan and eastern Alberta
The morning reports show temperatures plunging to thirty below in parts of Saskatchewan and eastern Alberta. Mild air in southwestern Alberta raises highs to fifteen to twenty above, with some moderation expected in eastern and northern Alberta within 36 hours while the prairies elsewhere stay largely unchanged.
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Alberta
Prairies
Calgary
Lethbridge
Moose Jaw
Plane Carries Aid To Victims Of Ceylon Floods
A Royal Canadian Air Force North Star transported from Montreal carried about 10,000 pounds of powdered milk and other relief supplies to aid flood victims in Ceylon. The flight, led by Flt. Lt. C. D. McBurnie, with a six person crew, planned four days of travel via Gander Nile Azores Gibraltar Malta Beirut Lebanon Bahrain Islands and Bombay. Hundreds were killed and hundreds of thousands homeless in the floods.
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Ceylon
Transport Command
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C. D. McBurnie
Carbon Monoxide Kills Four in Quebec Apartment
Four members of the Erickson family and Ethel Erickson, 81, were found dead from carbon monoxide in a Sherbrooke apartment. Dr. Louis Gagnon confirmed CO poisoning from a gas fired refrigerator with an overpowered flame and blocked exhaust. Autopsy not planned. deaths dated back to December 21 with unopened Christmas gifts nearby.
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William Erickson
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Ethel
Ericksons
Aprtment
Newcomers Win Hollywood Awards
Joanne Woodward and Andy Griffith, first film appearances, named best actress and actor of 1957 in The Film Daily poll. Woodward honored for Three Faces of Eve, Griffith for A Face In the Crowd. both also named top new talents.
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New York
Joanne Woodward
Andy Griffith
Film Daily
Miss Woodward
Griffith
Maltese Premier threatens break with Britain over dockyard jobs
Premier Dom Mintoff urged Malta’s 7,000 dockyard workers to demand guaranteed employment or Britain risks severing ties. He told 12,000 protesters and warned parliament to refuse obligations until jobs are secured as Malta faces potential defence cuts. Britain offered no decision on dockyard future.
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Malta
Reuters
Britain
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Alan Lennox-Boyd
Dom Mintoff
France
Mintoff
NATO
Mediterranean
Transit Strike Threatens Choke New York Traffic
New York City faced a possible Total transit shutdown as the Transport Workers Union planned a midnight New Year’s Eve strike. The walkout, backed by nearly 5,000 members, would halt city buses and subways and affect private lines in Westchester. Negotiations with the Transit Authority stalled over wages and the subway contract, with TWU demands at 65 cents an hour in one year versus 18 cents offered across two years. TWU President Michael Quill warned of jail if an injunction blocked the strike.
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Westchester County
Autonomous Transit Authority
TWU
City
Harold A. Felix
Michael Quill
State Supreme Court
Quill
British Troops Shoot Shepherd in Cyprus Operation
British troops fired on and wounded a 65-year-old deaf shepherd, Nicolas Loiza, during an anti-terrorist sweep in the Kythrea region near Nicosia. He failed to answer two challenges and was not on any wanted list. The dawn operation saw hundreds of troops sweep the foothills while Greek Cypriots were detained for questioning.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Reuters
Nicolas Loiza
Kythrea
Here
North Cyprus
First U S atomic power station at Shippingport opens
The Shippingport Pennsylvania atomic plant has operated for over a week tying output into regional hydro and steam systems. It uses uranium fuel in a large scale reactor design with a cost of 55 million dollars.
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First Atomic Electrical Power Station
U.S
Shippingport
Well Blows Wild Near Edmonton As Drillers Strive To Cap
Crews pressed Sunday to seal an oil well that had blown wild since Friday near Edmonton Alberta ten miles northwest. Imperial Oil blamed mechanical faults for the failure to choke the flow as drillers neared a 4800 foot target. The derrick remained intact with no injuries as a hazardous oil pool formed along the Sturgeon River three miles south of the French speaking community.
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Alta
Edmonton
Imperial Oil Company
Imperial
Trans Empire Oils
Pan American Exploration
Sturgeon River
Ben Gurion to resign as Israeli premier after cabinet meeting
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion said he would submit his resignation to President Yitzhak Ben Zvi no later than Tuesday. He cited damage within his five party coalition and blamed Abduth Haavoda ministers for leaks about a mission to West Germany.
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Jerusalem
Reuters
David Ben- Gurion
Ben-Gurion
Yitzhak Ben Zvi
Abduth Haavoda
West Germany
Foot To Report Ceylon Progress
Governor Sir Hugh Foot of Cyprus left for London with new proposals on the island’s future after four weeks in Nicosia He will report to the British government on solving the Cyprus dispute Greek Cypriots powerful minority seeks union with Greece Turkish Cypriots favor partition Foot’s talks with Greek Cypriots raised hopes of Makarios’ possible return from exile and recall from detention in 1956.
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