Hoffa Secures Teamsters Presidency in Surprise Victory
James R. Hoffa won the Teamsters Union presidency by a wide margin as delegates backed the 44-year-old Detroit leader amid corruption allegations against Hoffa and Beck. He will assume Oct. 15 with plans to challenge AFL-CIO leadership and mobilize local federations to reverse the federation’s stance.
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Miami Beach
Fla
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Detroit
Hoffa
Thomas J. Haggerty
Chicago
William A. Lee
Lee
Haggerty
Dave Beck
Beck
Afl-Cio
Lawr
Afl-Ci
Wayne County
United States Takes 3-1 Lead in Ryder Cup Foursomes
The U S won three of four opening Scotch foursomes to lead Britain 3-1 in the Ryder Cup with Art Wall Jr and Fred Hawkins the lone American losses. Eight singles remain Saturday as Washington lightweights Russo ill and unable to fight Sonny Williams in a nationally televised 10 round bout.
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Lindrick
England
United States
Britain
Art Wall Jr
Pocono Manor
Fred Hawkins
el Paso
Texas
Washington
Johnny Russo
Ernie
Sonny Boy” Williams
Maugham Sees Moon and Sixpence Opera in London Visit
W Somer set Maugham, 83, returns to London to buy underwear and enjoys an opera version of The Moon and Sixpence by Sadler's Wells. He notes weather in damp London and recalls a sailor’s audacious visit to his Cap Ferrat villa. He dismisses earlier works as rubbish and refuses reprinting.
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Maugham
Willie
Cap Ferrat
French Riviera
Prince Rainier
Monaco
Villefranche
Painer Gauguin
Sadler's Wells Opera Company
London
Mollet Asked to Form France Government
Paris President Rene Coty asked Socialist Guy Mollet to form the next government. Mollet said he would study the possibility and answer in a few days. Observers predicted Mollet would be chosen to succeed Maurice Bourges-Maunoury after his resignation over Algerian policy.
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Paris
Rene Coty
Oday
Guy Mollet
France
Mollet
Maurice Bourges-Maunoury
National Assembly
Coty
Rene Pleven
Robert Schuman
Europe
Author Michener Survives Pacific Plane Ditching
A US Air Force C47 carrying 13 aboard including author James A Michener ditched in the ocean three miles north of Iwo Jima. A rescue brought all aboard unhurt. Cause of the ditching remains unknown. Michener had been at Guam for two weeks researching a magazine piece on Strategic Air Command.
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Tokyo
James A. Michener
Iowa Jima
Air Force
Japan
Michener
Guam
Strategic Air Command
Ex Tito associate Djilas on trial for third time in Belgrade
Milovan Djilas, once close to Tito and a wartime comrade and biographer, faces a third trial in Sremska Mitrovica on charges that his book The New Class harms Yugoslavia. He is already serving a three year sentence for earlier writings. The case centers on alleged publication during 1955-56 in New York and its alleged aim to undermine the state.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Milovan Djilas
Tito
Sremska Mitrovica
Djilas
New York
Frederick A. Praeger
Prank Kills Boy On Platform At Train Tracks
A fourteen year old boy, John Daly Graham of Scarsdale, was killed by a New York Central express train in Mount Vernon after two school friends played a prank. The youths fled after grabbing his books and crossing the rails, leaving the books on the opposite platform.
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Mount Vernon
N.Y
New York Central Railroad
John Daly Graham
Scarsdale
Graham
Ronald Nutz
Tiny
Ronnie
Selma Nutz
Bridgeton
N. J
Poland Students Riot in Warsaw Clash with Police
In Warsaw students clashed with riot police and factory militia after a protest outside the Warsaw Polytechnic over a government order shutting their anti Stalinist paper Po Prostu. Tear gas and truncheons drove about 2 000 youths to a boarding house and order was restored hours later.
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Warsaw
Poland
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Warsaw Polytechnic School
Po: Prostu
Communist Party
Gomulka
Poznan
Stalinist
Narutowicza
Polytechnic School
Gestapo
Warsaw Radio
Blackie the Pup Survives after Sewer Standoff
A two month old dog named Blackie fled into a storm sewer to escape a menacing brown dog. Neighbors alerted police who called street workers to jackhammer the pavement. Blackie emerged, then was hit by a car days later but the veterinarian says he will recover to keep living with Terry Grimm.
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Eureka
Calif
Blackie
Terry Grimm
Terry
Two Alternate Jurors Sought In Abel Spy Trial
In New York the judge and defense and prosecution weighed two alternate jurors during the espionage trial of Col Rudolf Ivanovich Abel a 55 year old Soviet secret police officer A jury of nine men and three women had been chosen at the Brooklyn Federal District Court opening yesterday.
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New York
Col
Rudolf Ivanovich Abel
Poice
Brooklyn
Federal District Court
Army Chief Denies Unnecessary Force at Little Rock
Secretary of the Army Brucker rejects accusations of excessive force during U.S. paratrooper deployment at Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas. He cites Blake's refusal to move and a scuffle that left Blake with a head wound as part of an attempted disarmament incident.
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Washington (Ap
Bracker
U.S
Little Rock
Ark
Brucker
C. E. Blake
North Little Rock
Frank Holt
Blake
Litte Rock
Central High School
Brucker Ae
Poles Trip Hits Snag Over Fuel
Washington reports a privately financed round the world flight honoring Admiral Byrd faces a fuel snag. Refueling at McMurdo Sound is blocked by Asst. Secretary Garrison Norton who says fuel must stay minimal for Deep Freeze operations and science missions.
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Washington
Navy
South Poles
Eyr
Richard E. Byrd
McMurdo Sound
U.S
South Polar
Garrison Norton
Norton
McMurdo
Air Force
Chuckle Teacher Says Spell Inconsequentially Joke
A classroom quip features the teacher asking how to spell inconsequentially and Willie replying with a sharp misdirection about the answer, delivering a brief punchline.
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Willie
United States Seeks Assembly Backing for Western Disarmament Plan
United States plans to push the U N General Assembly to endorse Western disarmament proposals and to renew negotiations on that basis alone. Washington opposes endorsing Indian, Japanese and Soviet test suspension plans. Britain Canada and France joined in presenting the Western plan in London talks.
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United States
Assembly
United Nations
U.N. Assembly
Soviet Union
World Forum
Britain
Canada
France
London
Girard Fired At Others Court Told
In Maebashi Japan two more Japanese farmers testified that GI William S. Girard fired at brass scavengers on a firing range on January 30. A blank shell from his grenade launcher killed Mrs. Naka Sakai during Army practice.
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Maebashi
Japan
William S. Girard
Naka Sakai
Gumpei Sakai
Hatsuo Mihara
Girard
Mihara
Sekai
Itsuro Hayashi
Cooling Off Period Is Suggested
In Little Rock Arkansas an escort of soldiers faced no trouble as nine Negro students entered Central High School for the 40th day of integrated classes. About 100 white students gathered outside the front entrance with a few displaying Confederate flags but there was no hooting or jeering seen that day.
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Little Rock
Ark
Central High School
Stalemate Persists At Central High After Walkout
White student walkout at Central High School failed to gain momentum as about 75 of 2000 students left class. Federal troops and Arkansas National Guard kept order while Gov. Faubus faced praise from locals and urged continued restraint amid a tense integration stand-off.
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Eisenhower
101St Airborne Division
Arkansas National Guard
101St
Arkansas
Orval Faubus
National Guard
Central High Sept. 2
Arkansans
Blytheville
Ark
Mystery Shrouds Death And Missing Motorist
In Harrison County a traveling salesman from Youngstown drove a car into Tappan Lake off U S 250 killing Clarence Dowdell 23 of Scio who wore Don McPhee’s coat and tie. McPhee 35 remains missing after the car was found four miles away with his sample cases inside.
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Cadiz
Ohio
Harrison County
Youngstown
Tappan Lake
Clarence Robert Dowdell
Scio
Don McPhee
Otis Yoho
Dowdell
McPhee
U.S. 250
Here
Yoho
Uhrichsville
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