Whistle Stop Campaign By Soviet Leaders Across USSR
Soviet leaders led extensive speaking tours across the USSR to promote political unity and defend socialist achievements. Khrushchev and Bulganin headlined a drive stressing unity, anti imperialism, and support for agricultural advances in 1956 while praising Brezhnev era leadership.
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Central Committee
Communist Party
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N. A. Bulganin
V. M. Molotov
A. I. Miksyan
M. A. Susiov
China
Egypt
Middle Eastern
Middle East
Khrushchevy
Soviet Union
Eisenhower Parade Delays Short but Grand Washington Event
A lengthy parade honoring President Eisenhower unfolded in Washington on January 22. The event featured armed units, bands, majorettes, and floats, lasting about an hour longer than planned due to Eisenhower lingering at lunch in the Capitol, stretching the schedule by roughly 19 minutes.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Capitol
Eisenhower Inaugural Parade Draws 750000 Crowds
In Washington the presidential parade follows the Capitol ceremony with Ike in a open car waving his arms and a six mile route amid cheering crowds. The day includes notable floats from Pennsylvania and Georgia and a Redstone missile display drawing mixed reactions. Philadelphia? Washington? The event features Mrs. Eisenhower and the Nixons, police estimates, and memories of past inaugurations.
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Asylvania Avenue
Eisenhower
Washington
Robert V. Murray
Capitol
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White House
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Nixons
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Georgia
Gettysburg
Augusta
Yourch
Paul Dudley White
Vancouver
B.C
Boston
Christian George Hanna
Canada
Hanna
Academi PLC
Susan French Aga
West Point
Annapolis
New
Air Force Academy
Parading Floats In 1951 Washington DC Festival
The District of Columbia showcased a cherry blossom float while Florida featured a fountain of flowers and New York displayed a Niagara Falls replica. Many states offered Revolutionary era uniforms. Uncle Sam units appeared in groups and solo. A 408 foot float joined the procession amid hundreds of bare legged dancers. Guam Polynesian dancers wore sarongs.
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District of Columbia
Florida
New York
Niagara Falls
Uncle Sams
Uncle Sam
Guam
Lawyers push for Canada refuge for Hanna case
Sareen ET John Taylor said five young women have offered to marry Hanna to help him seek refuge in Canada. Taylor noted three offers were frivolous, two appeared sincere, both women aged and employed. He cited immigration barriers and possible romance as avenues to bypass them.
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Sareen
John Taylor
Canada
Hanna
Taylor
Immigration Department
Bare-legged majorettes march in inaugural parade
The Abbeville High School band drum majorettes, wearing red ear muffs, marched in the inaugural parade despite winter weather. The scene captured visitors and officials as groups prepared for chilly conditions.
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Washington
Abbeville
Iowa official charged with petty theft in Des Moines
Oliver P. Bennett 64 state insurance commissioner was accused in Municipal Court of stealing a 7 cent hair dressing from a downtown drug store last Wednesday night. He says he paid for it and was manhandled by two detectives and jailed five hours without a phone.
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Des Moines
Towa
Oliver P. Bennett
Bennett
Family perishes in fire at Abbs Valley Virginia
Six members of the Bostic family died in a Friday night fire that destroyed their frame home. Funeral services for Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bostic and their four daughters will be at 10 am tomorrow at Wesleyan Methodist Church Abbs Valley with burial in the Duty cemetery Buchanan County. A surviving 11 year old son Kenneth Bostic lives with grandparents Charles and Mrs Bostic across the road.
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Pocahontas
Sios
Roy Bostic
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Abbs Valley
Tazewell County
jDuty
Buchanan County
Kenneth
Delegates Injured In Night Maryland Legislature Crash
Two Maryland delegates C Clifton Virts and Charles Smelser were injured in a foggy US 40 crash near West Friendship while en route to Annapolis for a night session. Virts, blind, suffered facial and head lacerations and leg injuries. Smelser had a forehead cut and swelling. The trailer owner was cited for a lightless parked trailer. In New York, UN heard three new proposals to limit or regulate nuclear tests amid Russia’s ongoing explosions. Japan Canada and Norway urged advance registration and radiation data. Sweden proposed a two year moratorium. the Philippines urged a common testing ground for blasts.
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C. Clifton Wirts
Charles H. Smeiser
Maryland
U.S. 40
West Friendship
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Mt Airy Ambulance
Virts
Smelser
Delegate Virts
Delegate Smelser
Maryland Legislawrs
Annapolis
Smelsen
George Snyder
Robert E. Jacobs
Washington, Mich
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Ellicott City
Jacobs Ss
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Jen
U.N
General Assembly
Atomic Energy Commission
Japan
Canada
Norway
Sweden
U.N. Scientift Committee
Philippines
Nations Debate Nuclear Test Ban Proposals
A British spokesman signaled Britain would back the Japanese Canadian Norwegian plan for an immediate test ban while the United States did not comment. Earlier U S delegate Lodge Jr suggested advance registration of test explosions as a step toward a later ban. Canadian Foreign Secretary Pearson announced a new resolution to push disarmament talks in the five-nation subcommittee.
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Britain
United States
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Lester B. Pearson
USN
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