Diamond hunter's great day at Crater of Diamonds
Retired businessman E. W. Goode, Urbana Ohio, found a 4.64 carat diamond and a 5.12 carat stone at the Crater of Diamonds in Murfreesboro Arkansas. The smaller gem is valued at about $1,000. the larger’s value is undetermined. Goode may keep the smaller diamond but owes a 25 percent royalty on the second over five carats. Tourists pay a small fee to hunt for diamonds.
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Murfreesboro
Ark
E. W. Goode
Howard Millar
Goode
Urbana
Ohio
Nixon Campaigns on Issues in Face of Kennedy Attacks
Vice President Richard M. Nixon charged Senator John F. Kennedy with a "low road" campaign focused on personalities. Kennedy had accused Nixon of lacking basic beliefs and betraying farm policy while Nixon asserted he would stay on the issues and let voters decide.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Nixon
Hyannis Port
Mass
Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson
Labor May Give Nod To Kennedy
Senator Kennedy aims for an early labor endorsement for his running mate Lyndon Johnson amid mixed union reactions. He meets Michigan governor Williams and Connecticut figures while United Steelworkers president McDonald backs Johnson, citing strength to the ticket. Kennedy cites steel industry distress and urges Congress to pass housing and school construction bills, credit relief, and lower interest rates.
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G. Milton Kelly
Kennedy
G. Mennen Williams
Michigan
Afl-Cio
United Auto Workers Union
Abraham Ribicoff
Connecticut
John M. Bailey
Democratic Committee
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers Union
Johnson
McDonald
Kennnedy
Eisenhower hints at surprises in 1952 campaign
President Eisenhower discussed campaign and congressional strategy with Vice President Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge for 65 minutes in Newport Rhode Island. Nixon said the President will take an active campaign role and shared that Eisenhower offered him good tips but would not reveal details.
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Newport
R. I
White House
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Henry Cabot Lodge
Nixon
Nixon comments on Kennedy influence in party rivals
Nixon said he respects Kennedy but warned that aides around him push for aggressive moves. He claimed Kennedy must appease extremists within his party while avoiding personal clashes.
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Kennedy
Nixon
Dancing Studio Rapped By FTC
The Federal Trade Commission ordered Arthur Murray Studios to stop using phony contests and high pressure sales tactics to push dance instruction. The decree targets Arthur Murray Inc and officials Arthur Murray Kathryn Murray and David Teichman along with studio operators licensed by the company.
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Washington
Goverment Today
Arthur Murray Studios
Federal Trade Commission
Arthur Murray Inc
Arthur and
Kathryn Murray
David Teichman
What Nudists Notice First About Each Other
Nudists in a Los Gatos camp say they first observe faces, expressions, and teeth rather than bodies. Interviewed by Allen Brown, they describe noting teeth, tan lines, facial friendliness, and first names as defining traits when meeting fellow nudists.
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Los Gatos
Calif
Lindsay Johnson
Oakland
Johnson
Dick Rogers
Bob Debernardi
Santa Clara
Larry Smith
Los Angeles
Allen Brown
The
San Francisco Chronicle
Smite
William
Family dynamics color voter choices says USC psychiatrist
Dr. Martin Grotjahn argues voters pick presidents via family imagery rather than pure policy. He compares Nixon and Kennedy as rival sons with similar images, while noting Lyndon Johnson, Lodge and others shift between father and son roles in the public mind.
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Los Angeles
Martin Grotjahn
University of Southern California
Grotjahn
Richard M. Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Nixon
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Dr. Grotjahn
Ucket
Lyndon B. Johnson
Henry Cabot Lodge
Quiet end to lunch counter integration in Miami stores
Florida's first race mixing at lunch counters occurred without notice at four downtown stores in Miami. Negro patrons sat at Woolworth, S H Kress, Walgreen’s, and Grant’s counters with no reported disturbances. Officials declined to discuss details while politicians weighed in on legal rights and moral considerations.
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Miami
Fla
Florida
F.W Woolworth
Grant's
S. H. Kress
Walgreen's
Raul Castro Seen as Likely Cuban Leader After Fidel Illness
Cuban officials and observers speculated that Raul Castro, 28, defense minister and Fidel Castro’s younger brother, is the front runner to assume power as Fidel rests after a lung infection. Cabinet plans remained uncertain while Raul and other ministers reportedly met at Cojimar. doctors said Fidel should soon resume duties.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Raul
Castro
Raul Trillo
Washington
Cuba
Fidel
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
United Arab Republic
Cojimar
Trillo
Humph Returns Trump To Humphrey Littleton After Festival Loss
British jazz star Humphrey Littleton known as Humph lost his trumpet at Beaulieu during the fifth annual jazz festival. A British airman found the horn at the festival bar, turned it to police, and Littleton retrieved it after motorists and officials searched the grounds. The Beaulieu festival ran over three nights on Lord Montagu’s grounds, near London.
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Eddy Gilmore
London
Humph
Trump
Britain
Humphrey Littleton
Festival Bar Park
Lord Montagu
Beaulieu
Jazz show riot at Windsor home ends in injuries
A jazz concert in Windsor attended by thousands from Detroit erupted into a riot early today. Police, ambulances and firefighters were called as youths clashed, with fires set on Lord Montagu’s Beaulieu estate. Montagu banned further festivals at his home, though future events may occur with tighter restrictions.
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Windsor, Ont
Detroit
Lord Montagu
Montagu
Beaulieu
Absent mindedness saves officer in Alabama burglary attempt
Uniontown police officer Risten Spence, 32, recounts foiling a Sunday night burglary when two suspects attempted to shoot him after he had them in custody. He explains the revolver misfired twice due to no ammunition, a quirk he attributes to his absent mindedness.
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Uniontown
Ala
Risten Spence
Spence
Rains Slack On Formosa After Typhoon Shirley
In Formosa the death toll rose with 23 confirmed dead and 12 missing as rains eased. Police and troops aided thousands made homeless, with 188 injured overall. Reports say a driver and 28 opera troupe members may have drowned when a truck was swept from a southern Formosan bridge. Two deaths were also reported in the Ryukyu Islands.
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Taipei
Formosa
Ryukyu Islands
Formosa Disruption Hampers Rail and Air Transport
Rail services between north and south Formosa were disrupted as transport planes were pressed into service. Helicopters dropped food to isolated areas and rescued marooned persons. Road damage was extensive with many power lines down. Only negligible crop damage reported as 99.58 percent of the year's first crop had been harvested before Shirley's Sunday night approach over Formosa.
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Formosa
Food Bureau
Shirley
Marx Bust Desecrated Again in London Grave Site
White paint was poured over the large bronze Karl Marx bust atop his grave in London marking another act of desecration. The vandalism underscores ongoing tensions around the symbol in a historic burial area.
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London
Karl Marx
FBI Won't Hunt For Two Missing NSA Employees
Bernon F. Mitchell 31 and William H. Martin 29, junior mathematicians at Fort Meade's Communications Intelligence Agency, left for a vacation on June 24 and went to Mexico City on June 25. They have not contacted families or agency. FBI lists them as missing persons but says no federal laws were violated.
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William H. Martin
Bernon F. Mitchell
Supersecret
National Security Agency
Washington
FBI
West
Mexico
Mexico City
Ft. Meade, Md
Communications Intelligence Agency
Defense Department
UN Stays Hands Off Kasai Tribal Warfare
In Leopoldville the United Nations Command refused direct involvement in the Kasai province tribal fighting. The Security Council sent an international force to permit Belgian troops to withdraw, and the UN said the unrest is an internal Congo government and army matter, not a UN mandate.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
U. N
Congo
Kasai
UNC
Security Council
Soviet Claims Capture of American Spy V M Slavnov
Moscow reports the Soviet National Security Committee captured an American spy named V. M. Slavnov in June near the Iran border. He allegedly trained in Western intelligence schools, planned to infiltrate Soviet defenses from Leningrad, and to procure Soviet identities and funds for future operations.
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Moscow
V. M. Slavnov
National Security Committee
Iran
State Department
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington
Slavnov
Limburg
Fuessen
West Germany
Leningrad
Soviet Union
Security Committee
Weather Outlook for Early August Humid Heat Prolonged
A low pressure system in Hudson Bay draws moist air into the Miami Valley with hot and humid conditions. The forecast calls for fair warm weather today and tonight with a high near 90 and a low around 70. Wednesday brings partly cloudy skies, warmth, humidity, and scattered showers by afternoon. Middletown reported a high of 86 degrees yesterday and a low of 62 this morning.
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Hudson's Bay
Miami Valley
Middletown
Bloodhounds Used in Hunt for Raby Killer
Police pursue Clarence Leon Raby 26, a former convict, in the murder of Union County deputy Ben DeVault and an Anderson County merchant. Gunfire wounded Kaley Cooper and his father, with bloodhounds employed as officers close in on the suspect linked to the Keith store slaying and ambush at Heiskell.
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Clinton, Tenn
East Tennessee
Clarence Leon Raby
Knoxville
Anderson County
Union County
Raby
Dan Cooper
Kaley Cooper
Knox County
Kaley
E.B. Bowles
Coopers
Kaley ‘Cooper
Bowles
Heiskell
Raley
Here
Cooper
Jim
Colquitt
Cooplers
Ben DeVault
Lloyd
Rutherford
Billy McCoy
Frank C. Keith
Andersonville
Tenn
Keith
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