Destiny in a Shiny Metal Ball Aims for Space
The article describes a NASA era plan to launch a man made moon, a magnesium ball with sensors, to orbit Earth every 9 to 100 minutes. It notes rival Soviet plans, IGY aims, and the scientific goals of measuring space temperature, cosmic rays, magnetism, weather, and Earth shape, with a multi stage rocket and strict speed requirements.
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Alton L. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Science
Washington
Space
Russia
John P. Hagen
Naval Research Laboratory
Project Vanguard
IGY
Dr. Hagen
Earth
Outer Space
Martin Co
U. S. Naval Research Laboratory
SY Spy
White men face trial in church dynamiting case
In Montgomery Alabama two white men Raymond C. Britt Jr. and Sonny Kyle Livingston Jr. go on trial for dynamiting Negro churches and a taxi stand as part of a January terror wave aimed at intimidating Black residents after bus desegregation. Co defendants James D. York and Henry Alexander plead not guilty and seek separate trials.
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Montgomery
Ala
Raymond C. Britt Jr
Sonny Kyle Livingston Jr
James D. York
Henry Alexander
Ralph D. Abernathy
Abernathy
Montgomery Improvement Assn
York
Alexander
Britt
Longview Attendant Accused In Beating
A Longview Mental Hospital attendant, Harold E. Dunn, 35, is under questioning in Cincinnati for allegedly beating patient Andrew Shannon, 77, who remains in critical condition. Shannon was restrained to prevent falls when Dunn and fellow attendant Harold Brock, 24, allegedly struck him multiple times.
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Cincinnati
Longview Mental Hospital
Harold E. Dunn
Andrew Shannon
Camp Washington
Shannon
Dunn
Harold Brock
Roy
Cason
Brock
Longview
Eisenhower Aide Pushes Item Veto Power
Washington reports that Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey and Budget Director Brundage were assigned to urge Congress to empower the item veto for appropriation bills. They present to a House Judiciary subcommittee amid debate on a constitutional amendment.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
Percival F. Brundage
House Judiciary
Negro Population Growing In Cities
Baltimore report notes Ohio Illinois New York and Pennsylvania may send more Negroes to Congress due to white suburban migration. Clarence Mitchell of the NAACP Washington bureau predicts the shift and cites neighborhood segregation as the cause discussed at a real estate brokers meeting.
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Baltimore
Ohio
Illinois
New York
Pennsylvania
Congress
Clarence Mitchell
Washington
The
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Everybody's A Problem At One Time
Dr. Nathan W. Ackerman of Columbia University warned at a National Conference of Jewish Communal Service that mental disease is widespread and hard to prevent without a healthy human-relations formula. He tied turbulence in relations to a rise in psychiatry and warned that the atom age increases total destruction risk. He cited cancer striking one in 20 and polio one in five, noting mental illness affects one in one.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Nathan W. Ackerman
Columbia University
Ackerman
National Conference of Jewish Communal Service
Tongue Tied Boy Tangles Shimoneseki Water Works
In Shimoneseki Japan a 3 year old boy got his tongue stuck in a public fountain faucet triggering a 20 minute response from the fire brigade ambulance corps and city water works. Officials note water pressure can cause suction when taps open and advise waiting for water to spout out.
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Shimonoseki
Japan
City Water Works
Shigeyoshi Kawashima
Water Works
Sigeyoshi
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