The Soviet Union middle class revolution emerging
A three month US trip through Soviet republics reveals a growing middle class eager for ownership and private initiative. Bureaucracy remains a barrier, but optimism grows as Malenkov promises better living in years ahead. If reforms succeed, the USSR could become a powerful, altered nation.
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Us.s.r
Inch Ryan
Stalin Russia
Fe AP
William L
Communist Party
Central Asia
Stalin
Horizion
Georgi Malenkov
Malenkov
Moscow
Leningrad
Farflung
L. P. Beria
Lenin
Trotsky
Marx
Russia
Kentucky Boy Sees Cowboys After Trip to Texas
Herman Rowland a 9 year old polio victim from Lexington Kentucky visited the Southwestern Respiratory Center in Houston and asked to see a cowboy. Harris County Sheriff's mounted posse staged a horsemanship display for him and others. He watched from a window and said it was better but he is not ready to give up Kentucky for Texas.
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Houston
Herman Rowland
Lexington
Southwestern Respiratory Center
Herman
Texas
Houston Post
Harris County Sheriff's Mounted Posse
Kentucky
Sitters Increase Rates After Magic Hour in Chicago
Chicago babysitters raise after midnight New Year’s Eve rate to $1.25 per hour. Mrs Beatrice Painter of Personalized Sitter and Nurses' Service notes limited availability as the market shifts from the $1.00 pre midnight rate.
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Chicago
Beatrice Painter
Wayward Car Crashes Topple Trees in Dallas
David Kaufmann woke at 2:30 a.m. to survey damage from a wayward car that toppled a tree. He had just returned to bed when another crash occurred, knocking down two more trees.
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Dallas
David Kaufmann
Luce urges sympathetic understanding with Italy
Clare Boothe Luce, ambassador to Italy, calls for sympathetic understanding between the United States and Italy to solve mutual problems. She returned to New York by airplane yesterday.
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New York
Clare Boothe Luce
U. S
Italy
United States
Worry Clinic advice on interdenominational marriage choices
Thelma R. asks Dr. Crane how to handle parental opposition to marrying a man from another church. He argues no church owns heaven and cites Jesus ethics over sectarian monopoly, urging reading the New Testament and stressing heart over form. Readers may request psychological charts by mail.
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Thelma R
Dr. Crane
Jesus
Japan
Christ
Earth
Peter
Satan
Banting
Crane
Stockholders Vote On Briggs Sale to Chrysler
DETROIT stockholders of Briggs Manufacturing Co vote on selling the Briggs seven plant auto body and aircraft parts unit to Chrysler Corp for 35 million dollars. Chrysler also bids to buy Briggs inventories, potentially 35 million, while Briggs keeps its Beauty wear Division of plumbing and bathroom and kitchen appliances.
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Detroit
Briggs Manufacturing Co
Briggs
Chrysler Corp
Chrysler
Sunken Civil War Boat Is Exposed
In KIMMSWICK Missouri the hull of a sunken Civil War craft was exposed by falling river water near the Mississippi. The ar mored 135 foot vessel is described as a gunboat but officials say it may have rammed enemy ships. It is unclear whether it served the Union or the Confederacy.
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Kimmswick
Ere
Confederacy
Iroquois Theater Fire Spurred Safety Reforms
Fifty years ago this week readers recalled the Iroquois Theater disaster in Chicago that killed nearly 600 people. The blaze started when stage drapery met an arc light causing fast spread, leading to new theater safeguards like outward opening exits and automatic sprinklers.
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Chicago
United States
Europe
Nixon improves as theater blaze toll rises in history
The account notes Frank A. Nixon, father of the vice president, recovering from a gastric hemorrhage at St. Joseph's Hospital. It recalls a Lewes theater fire where flames overwhelmed the venue, with 571 dead reported then, later up to 602, cited by the National Fire Protection Association as the era's worst.
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Phoenix
Ariz.a
Frank A. Nixon
St. Joseph's Hospital
Lewes
Boyertown
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