Eisenhower Mulls Knight Senate Bid After White House Talk
California Governor Goodwin J. Knight met with President Eisenhower in Washington to discuss withdrawing from the 1958 gubernatorial race to run for Senate seat vacated by Knowland. A decision could affect GOP unity and California’s next election dynamics as Nixon weighs the party’s path.
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Washington
California
Goodwin J. Knight
Eisenhower
U. S
Senate
Capitol
Nixon
Knight
Sen
Knowland
Knowlard
White House
Pesident
GOP
Court pauses ruling on NAACP case in Little Rock
U.S. District Judge Roy W. Harper delayed an immediate decision on the NAACP suit challenging a new city ordinance. He urged the city and NAACP lawyers to cooperate to test the law's constitutionality. The measure requires confidential organization files be filed with the city clerk. NAACP reps claim the ordinance targets and harms the Little Rock branch.
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Little Rock
Ark
U.S. Dist
Roy W. Harper
National Assn. For
Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Body recovered from lake near Cadiz identified man
Cadiz Ohio police reported the body of a man tentatively identified as 45 year old Robert M Dolson missing since last December. The body was recovered from an automobile found Monday under nine feet of water in Lake Clendening west of Cadiz.
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Cadiz
Ohio
Robert M. Dolson
Lake Clendening
Here
Consultant Won’t Say If He Paid Union Officials
Senate investigators pressed George Kamenow, former Michigan aide to Nathan Shefferman, about payments to union officials. He refused to answer and invoked the Fifth Amendment, as McClellan accused both unions and business reps of Fifth Amendment misuse. Witnesses from Flint firms testified labor troubles vanished after employing him. one firm claimed a $2000 offer failed to stop a strike. Shefferman heads Labor Relations Associates, Inc., labeled a union busting outfit.
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Washington
George Kamenow
Michigan
Nathan Shefferman
Senate
Kamenow
Sen
McClellan
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Teamsters Union
Flint, Mich
Shefferman
Chicago
Labor Relations Associates, Inc
Gaillard Selection Seen Certain for French Premiership
Paris The 38 year old Felix Gaillard appeared certain to win National Assembly approval for France s 24th postwar government today with a cabinet drawn from all factions except the Communists and Poujadists. Experts expected at least 350 votes in the 695 member Assembly amid a 36 day crisis, as Mollet and Pinay refused cabinet roles.
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Paris
Felix Gaillard
Gaillard
Guy Mollet
Antoine Pinay
Vienna Sees Sputnik Satellite Visible at Dawn
Vienna observers at the Vienna Observatory reported Russia's Sputnik VI visible before sunrise from 5:50 to 5:53 a.m. The object appeared as a second magnitude star moving rapidly from south to east across the sky.
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Vienna
Russia
Vienna Observatory
Murder Charged In Poison Death
Cleveland police charged Mrs Darlean Bonner 29 with first degree murder for the poison death of her husband Willie 33 after she admitted placing rat poison in mayonnaise spread on his sandwiches following a quarrel three weeks earlier She said she only wanted to make him sick not kill him Bonner a blast furnace worker died Friday A 24 year old man described as a friend of Bonner was released after questioning
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Cleveland
Darlean Bonner
Willie
Air Force probes reports of mysterious fireball sightings
In Lubbock Texas and across the region witnesses described a brilliant egg shaped object moving at high speed. Air Force teams at Holloman Alamogordo and Reese Base investigated with no radar trace detected and no conclusive findings reported.
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Lubbock
Tex
New Mexico
Air Force
James Stokes
Air Force Missile Development Center
Holloman Air Force Base
Alamogordo
N.M
Terry Clark
Kalg
U.S. 54
White Sands Proving Grounds
West Texas
New Orleans
Coast Guard
Sebago
Gulf of Mexico
Allan D. Baker
Las Cruces
N. M
Reese Air Force Base
Colorado Springs
Colo
Barry Oldfield
North American Air Defense
U S Could Launch Heavier Satellite Than Sputnik II
Dan A Kimball former Navy secretary and head of Aeron General Corp says the United States could build a satellite heavier than Sputnik II but lacks funding for a moon shot. He told reporters the nation has scientific know how but no money for such a venture.
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Sacramento
Calif
Dan A. Kimball
Navy
United States
Kimball
Aeront General Corp
Bears to remain on Earth not used in space travel
The Air Force confirms four black bears bought from Catskill Game Farm will stay in ground tests at Holloman Air Force Base. A spokesman says no decision has been made on specific experiments, though the bears join the Aero Medical Laboratory collection.
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Washington
Air Force
New York
Aero Medical Laboratory
Holloman Air Force Base
M. M
Roland Lindemann
Catskill
Yeomen Guard Sweep Parliament on Guy Fawkes Day
London Yeomen of the Guard searched Parliament crypts ahead of the opening of Parliament on Guy Fawkes Day to ensure no one planned an attack. The timed security coincides with the 1605 gunpowder plot anniversary.
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London
Parliament
Guy Fawkes
Cabinet Meets Twice in a Week Amid Space Race Focus
President Eisenhower held two cabinet sessions in one week as White House officials cautioned no emergency and planned discussions on spending and legislative programs. Russian Sputnik II and space progress loom over talks with science and national security advisers weighing rocketry implications.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Monthey
Russia
Friay
Fisenhower
Anne Wheaton
Soviet Union
Congress
Pravda Assays U. S. Reaction To Sputnik I
Pravda in London quotes New York correspondent saying U.S. reaction to the Sputnik II launch ranges from admiration to panic and hysteria. The dispatch, cited by Moscow radio, reflects mixed American responses.
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U. S
London
U.S
New York
Soviet Communist Party
Moscow Radio
Todays Chuckle Defines An Executive With Humor
An executive is a person hired to talk to visitors so other employees can do the work. This light definition reflects workplace roles in a humorous, everyday sense.
Collapse of Soviet disarmament talks shocks U N delegates
At the United Nations, Russia quits the 82 nation talks stalling disarmament efforts. Western powers reject widened negotiations while Moscow insists on broader participation. U S delegate Lodge and others call the move discouraging and hope for reconsideration.
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N.Y
U.N
Russia
US. N. Disarmament Commission
V. V. Kuznetsov
Assembly
Kuznetsov
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Kremlin
Jules Moch
France
Soviet Union
Allan Noble
Wallace Nesbitt
Canada
Nesbitt
London
United States
U. N. Assembly
Hoffa Out Until Court Rules On Convention Legality
Hoffa remains barred from the Teamsters presidency until the court decides the legality of the convention that elected him. An appeals court extended the temporary injunction, blocking constitutional changes from taking effect. Cross of the Bakers Union says he will not leave office despite AFL-CIO orders. Both Hoffa and Cross face charges of misusing union funds and powers. AFL-CIO seeks their expulsion.
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Washington
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
U.S. Court of Appeals
Hoffa
U.S
F. Dickinson Letts
James G. Cross
Bakers Union
Afl-Cio Executive Council
Cross
Senate
Afl-Cio
Russia reports new fuel and brain system for Sputniks
A Soviet scientist described a new fuel to reach 8 kilometers per second for Sputnik rockets and an electronic brain to correct deviations in flight. Laika's survival remains debated, with Tass confirming some health readings. American scientists weigh in with cautious estimates as Sputnik II orbits change.
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Harold K. Miles
Moscow
T. Khachaturov
Transport Ministry
Gudok
Khachaturov
Laika
Tass
Soviet Planetarium
Earth
Kiril P. Sanyukovich
Proje
Vanguard
Defense Plea in Girard Japanses Slay Trial
In Maebashi Japan the defense in the William S. Girard murder trial asks acquittal arguing he acted to protect Army equipment on duty. Court will rule Nov. 19 on verdict and a defense motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. Prosecution seeks five year sentence. Girard claims the fatal shot was accidental.
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Maebashi
Japan
William S. Girard
Illinois
Naka Sakai
Girard
Yuzo Kawachi
United States
Japaense
Sakai
Itsuro ‘Layashi
Imation
Victory Nickel
Inkster
Mich
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