U S Missile Plans Okayed by Air Force Chiefs
Sen. Humphrey urges urgent national security program as Air Force announces shifts to operationalize long range missiles. SAC to lead retaliatory force with ICBMs and IRBMs. Jupiter and Thor production ordered. Wizard anti missile project discussed. White notes more bomber generations before reliance on missiles.
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Washington
Sen
Humphrey
D-Minn
U.S
Eisenhower
Congress
Minnesota
Air Force
Air Research and Development Command
Rategic Air Command
SAC
Thomas D. White
White
Army
Jupiter
Senate
United States
Free World
National Press Club
Kirtland Air Force Base
New Mexico
Scientists Predict Death Plunge of Sputnik I on Sunday
Cambridge reports Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory seeks to forecast the final 24 hours of the Sputnik I mission. Projections show the craft looping over the United States before a possible dramatic reentry as its orbital period tightens from about 89 to 87.6 minutes. The exact impact site remains uncertain.
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Cambridge
Mass
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
United States
Florida
Maine
New York
Boston
Texas
Midwest
Kansas City
Michigan
Smithsonian
Fred L. Whipple
Whipple
Earth
Colder Air Puts Chill On Midwest
A cold air mass moved eastward bringing gusty winds and snow flurries from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi Valley. An expansive area from the Rockies to the Great Lakes became an ice box with Fraser Colorado recording 18 below zero and readings generally 10 above to near zero east to North Dakota and Wisconsin. A warm southerly tongue eased freezes in Idaho and western Montana with 20s and 30s, while snow flurries occurred in the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley.
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Associated Press
Great Lakes
mid-Mississippi Valley
Rockies
Plains
Fraser
Colp
Dakotas
Wisconsin
Idaho
Montana
Ohio Valley
Adenauer Ill With The Flu Postpones London Visit
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 81, has influenza and postponed a three day London trip slated to begin Wednesday. A government spokesman said his cold worsened to influenza after staying home for three days.
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Bonn
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
London
Adenauer
Ike's Recovery Seen Excellent Progress
President Eisenhower shows excellent progress recovering from a mild stroke and watches the Army Navy game at his Gettysburg farm. He strolls the acreage with grandchildren while doctors plan several weeks of rest and monitor possible NATO summit travel.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Gettysburg
Eisenhower
West Point
White House
Army
Navy
Philadelphia
Snyder
Washington
Paris
NATO
Chuckle Two: Foreman’s Outside Contempt, Inside Kind
Two workmen discuss their foreman Joe. They say on the outside he is low down and mean, but underneath he is the opposite mean and low-down, implying a hidden softer side beneath a harsh exterior.
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Joe
Eisenhower Illness Leaves Policy Level Active At White House
Despite the President’s illness, routine continues as Sherman Adams and other aides run operations and guide policy. Nixon remains engaged, with officials noting no delegation of core powers, while calls for a constitutional clarification on presidential incapacity gain prominence.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Sherman Adams
Adams
Nixon
Eisenhower scales up science drive while satellite plans surge
President Eisenhower expands the White House Science Advisory Committee to 17 and places it under direct White House control to accelerate U.S. scientific and technological progress. The move coincides with preparations for the first American satellite and predictions about Sputnik I’s fate, with new members named to the advisory panel and calls for scientific autonomy in policy.
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White House
Office of Defense Mobilization
James R. Killian Jr
Science Land Technology
Washington
Eisenhower
U.S
White Nouse
Science Advisory Committee
Office For Defense Mobilization
Gettysburg
Eisenhowler
Russia
Earth
North Ameri
I. I. Rabi
Columbia University
James H. Doolittle
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Shell Oil Co
R. F. Bacher
California Institute of Technology
E. M. Purcell
Harvard
Algeria Home Rule Plans Approved by French Assembly
The French National Assembly backed two bills granting restricted home rule for Algeria while keeping Algeria within France. The measures stop short of independence, with a federal system and staged elections for both European origin and Arabic residents. FLN and allied rebels rejected the plans as insufficient and demanded independence.
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Paris
French National Assembly
Wartorn
Algeria
Felix Gaillard
Gaillard
France
Youth Dies In Crash Near Russia Ohio
Karl Miller aged 14 of Covington was killed when his car left a Shelby County road and struck a telephone pole half a mile southwest of Russia. The Shelby County sheriff's office reported the fatal crash occurred Friday.
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Sidney
Ohio
Karl Miller
Rt. 2
Covington
Shelby County
Russia
Shelby County Sheriff's Office
Morocco King Mohammed V Keeps Silence on Ifni Fight in Dallas Visit
King Mohammed V of Morocco rested in Dallas and did not discuss reports of fighting with Spanish forces in Ifni. He may comment on two French Assembly votes supporting Gaillard’s Algeria policy, while tensions rise over the Ifni clashes and Moroccan reports of royal orders to counter Spanish actions.
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France
Algeria
U.N
Dallas
Mohammed V
Morocco
King Ranch
Texas
Ifni
Felix Gaillard
America
Mohammed
Moulay Hassan
Africa
Man Walks From Jail In Downtown Cincinnati Escape
A Houston man Joseph Tiernan aged 24 escaped from detective headquarters by strolling out a door as staff were briefly distracted. He had been arrested in a tear gas raid and admitted burglaries with Urban Leon Gay who remains jailed with Tiernan and Gay’s spouses.
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Cincinnati
Detective
Joseph Tiernan
Houston
Tiernan
Henry Sandman
Sandman
Tiernon
Urban Leon Gay
Doris
France Pressed to Pursue Atomic Bomb Despite Opposition
France remains determined to pursue a nuclear weapons program, with Prime Minister Gaillard telling Macmillan that Paris intends to become the world's fourth nuclear power. U.S. and Britain oppose costly arms development while noting risks to economy and disarmament efforts. France may test an A bomb by late 1958 in the Sahara, and continues work on plutonium at Marcoule.
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London
France
U.S
Felix Gaillard
Macmillan
NATO
Paris
United States
Tunisia
Britain
Washington
Sahara Desert
Enterprise
Marcoule
Avignon
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