Waste and mismanagement alleged in foreign aid hearings
A House appropriations subcommittee hearings report waste in U S foreign aid programs. Investigators described 20 years of WAC clothing and 70 000 tire chains left unused, plus vast carbine ammunition stored improperly. Testimony cited Korea related stockpiles and questioned aid efficiency amid Cold War concerns.
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Washington
House
WAC
Pakistan
Peru
U.S
Appropriations Subcommittee
Otto Passman
D-La
Eisenhower
Congress
Passman
Korea
Gerald R. Ford Jr
Rmich
America
United States
Charles H. Shuff
International Security Affairs
There's No Costlier Disease Than New Car Fever
A lighthearted column jokes that new car fever drives up expenses beyond the price of medicine. The piece riffs on buyers obsessing over vehicles, warning about impulse purchases and the lure of shiny features.
Miss U.S.A. Genelle Huntingdon Wins Pageant Title
Genelle Huntingdon, 19, a UCLA dancer from Mount Shasta, California, won Miss U S A in Long Beach amid 4000 spectators. Runners up were Miss Texas, Miss Florida, Miss Georgia, and Miss New York. She described herself as a tom boy before the win and is noted as an outdoor type who enjoys swimming and skiing.
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Terry Lynn Huntington
Mt. Shasta
Calif
Long Beach, Calif
Gen‘lemen
U.S.A
California
Terry Huntingdon
UCLA
Texas
Carelgean Douglas
Florida
Nanita Greene
Georgia
Dorothy Taylor
New York
Arlene Nesbitt
Baste Flicka
Sweden
Memorial Auditorium
Terry
Phil
Sis
A Jane
Iola Huntingdon
Mount Shasta
Tom
Bride In Blue and Groom In White Wed in Hospital
In Columbus at St Anthony's Hospital Benny Williamson 30 and Geneval Hale 23 tied the knot while he recovers from a June 27 crash. The ceremony was moved from July 4 to meet blood test rules and drew about 40 nurses and patients as witnesses. The couple plans a Florida honeymoon once he leaves the ward.
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Columbus
Benny
Desegregation Registrations Continue at Little Rock Schools
Sophomores register at Little Rock public high schools amid ongoing desegregation. Ten Negro students enroll for classes at white schools with eight at Central High and two at Hall. Police maintain surveillance as Gov Faubus had closed schools last fall. a federal court voided the law. Friday is final registration day for students unable to attend earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
Central High School
Hall
Central
Orvald. Faubus
Range Fire Rages in Southwestern Idaho
A range fire in southwestern Idaho burned between three and four thousand acres and was out of control early today. Some farm outbuildings were destroyed but no homes appeared to be in danger.
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Emmett
Idaho
House Labor Committee Approves Compromise Labor Bill
The House Labor Committee approved a watered down labor control bill by a 16 to 14 vote amid a split 10 to 10 in the Democrats and Republican factions. The measure, a rewritten Senate draft, removes criminal penalties for union rights violations and uses civil injunctions instead.
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Washington
House Labor Committee
Senate
Secretary of Labor
Cuba general strike aims to restore Fidel Castro as prime minister
Havana trembles as a one hour general strike paralyzes the city demanding Fidel Castro resume prime ministership. Castro signals a Sunday decision likely in his favor. In Geneva, US Secretary of State Herter tells Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko that the Big Four talks face slim chances without the Soviet Berlin demand concession.
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Havana
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Castro
Geneva
Christian A. Herter
Andrei Gromyo
Gromyko
Berlin
Berlin crisis returns to front as Khrushchev pressures West
Khrushchev and Polish officials warned at Warsaw that failure to liquidate the Berlin occupation could push the Soviet Union to support East Germany, raising the Berlin blockade threat. Western and Soviet ministers remained deadlocked over German reunification and a 18 month time frame while Herter denounced the move as ransom.
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Geneva
Nikita Khrushchev
West Berlin
Warsaw
Europe
Berlin
Soviet Union
Poland
East Germany
Khrushchev
Andrei Gromyko
Christian A. Herter
Germany
Herter
Gromyko
Missing socialite Jacqueline Hart vanishes in Short Hills
Police report no leads as Jacqueline Hart 21 remains missing after departing Newark Airport with fiance Stanley Gaines 25. Hart’s car was found at the airport. authorities search airport grounds and marshes with Coast Guard help. FBI liaises for possible federal involvement.
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Short Hills
Jacqueline Hart
Newark
Ralph Hart
Colgate Palmolive
Jacqueline
Stanley Gaines
Fayetteville
W. Va
Gaine
Pittsburgh
Gaines Goodby
Gaines
FBI
Steel Mediation Talks Underway As Steel Strike Widens
Federal mediators arrange first joint peace talks in nine day steel strike that idled over half a million workers. Aluminum giants Alcoa Reynolds and Kaiser reject wage demands while union seeks 15 cent annual increases. Finnegan plans further talks with Labor Secretary Mitchell as strike costs rise across related industries.
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New York
MVE Real Svevnur
Joseph F. Finnegan
Federal Mediation Service
Alcoa
Reynolds
Kaiser
Finnegan
Labor
James P. Mitchell
Washington
Mitchell
Eisenhower
Helicopter Crash Kills Three Soldiers and Rescued Professor
A Niagara Falls Air Force Base helicopter crashed into high tension lines over Letchworth State Park Genesee River gorge killing Maj. Leo J. Carbonneau Capt. Victor A. Hans and Sgt. John E. Tinsman. The elderly professor Walter R. Bloor, 83, survived after spending the night under a fallen tree and recounting a swim attempt. He was found alive and in good condition.
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Mount Morris
N.Y
Niagara
Fall Air Force Base
Genesee River
Letchworth State Park
Walter R. Bloor
University of Rochester
Leo J. Carbonneau
Arlington
Mass
Victor A. Hans
Baltimore
John E. Tinsman
Croyden
Mickey Cohen Faces Jail For Contempt
In Los Angeles AP report Mickey Cohen faces five days in jail for contempt of court after refusing to discuss his finances in a $50 000 damage suit filed by waiter Arthur Black alleging Cohen assaulted him and threatened his wife at a Hollywood restaurant on January 29 1958 Cohen had paid a 500 battery fine and disputed hitting Black He refused questions about ownership of an expensive car and his lifestyle citing possible self incrimination Judge Joseph L Call gave him until Friday to appeal the citation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Mickey Cohen
Arthur Black
Cohen
Hollywood
Black
Joseph L. Call
Nixon Arrives in Moscow for Frigid Welcome
U S Vice President Nixon lands in Moscow for a planned U S exhibit opening and talks with Premier Khrushchev amid a cool reception. Khrushchev denounces the United States over Captive Nations Week and U S attitude while Nixon warns of a future war with no victors.
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Moscow
Richard M Nixon
Niki Ta Khrushchev
United States
Soviet Union
Nixon
Khrushchev
Poland
U.S
Frol R. Kozlov
Nervy young man posed as doctor in Memphis hospitals
Harold Lee Aldridge on his 18th birthday posed as a physician and wandered three Memphis hospitals for five months. A porter noticed him wearing ear phones and alerted police who found thousands in stolen medical supplies at his trailer. He admitted wanting to be a doctor though he says he never treated anyone.
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Memphis, Tenn
Memphis
Harold Lee Aldridge
Aldridge
Wiliam Chandler
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Richard Nixon
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United Steelworkers
Captive Nation
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U. S
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