Nixon Heads to Hawaii on 1960 Presidential Campaign
Vice President Richard Nixon and Pat Nixon left Los Angeles early morning for a three-state swing aimed at Hawaii’s vote. Nixon, first presidential candidate to campaign in Hawaii, landed in Honolulu later that day as crowds greeted him at Whittier College and statewide events highlighted his effort to keep peace without surrender.
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Richard M. Nixon
Los Angeles
Hawaii
Nixon
Pat
Mirs
mid-Pacific Islands
Honolulu
Joan F. Kennedy
Alaska
West Coast
Whittier College
Washington
Reno
Nev
Richard A. Nixon
Police Sergeant Uses Lid and Truncheon in Knife Arrest
Police Sergeant Percy Pettit used a garbage can lid and his truncheon on Tuesday to disarm and arrest a man armed with a knife. The incident underscores quick action by officers to prevent harm.
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London
UPI
Percy Pettit
Four Nuclear Powered Subs Out of Operation
Navy reports four of its twelve nuclear powered submarines are temporarily out of service due to design changes routine overhaul and an accident. The Nautilus the Sea Wolf the Sargo and the Triton face repairs refits and return to duty dates ranging from two weeks to about November first.
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Washington
Grodeck
Navy
U.S
Moon Talk Demonstrates Two Way Radio With Moon
A Bell Labs and Jet Propulsion Laboratory demo tonight will bounce radio signals off the moon, enabling coast-to-coast wireless telephone conversations. The public event in Holmdel will show lunar bounce tech as Army submarines at Fort Myer and US Navy tests push missile and radar programs forward.
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N. J
Navy
Robert E. Lee
Polaris
Soviet Union
17 Persons Killed In Crash of Street Cars
Vienna reports a disastrous streetcar crash during rush hour as a conductor Hudolf Trummier and a crowd of passengers collide head on with another car. Dozens injured, with ten killed instantly and four more dying later, totaling at least 14 fatalities and many in critical condition.
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Vienna
Austria
Hudolf Trummier
Trummier
Vas
Serial
Shreenegun
Rien
Doebing
Reuther Says Labor Help Turned by LBJ
UAW president Walter P. Reuther announces Lyndon B. Johnson has earned organized labor's backing for the vice presidential race after a meeting with Senator John F. Kennedy. Reuther spoke at a Kennedy news conference atop Kennedy’s summer home, noting his earlier support for Kennedy and implying shifts in labor loyalty.
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Reuther
Labor
LBJ
Byannis
Kennedy
Johnson
Science building planned for Oshkosh State College campus
A new science building for Oshkosh State College is planned to house multiple science classes and the music department, with occupancy aimed for September 1952. The project, cost estimated near a million dollars, will undergo analysis drawings by an architect to secure State Building Commission authorization in the 1951-63 biennium. Final plans for a $1,300,000 library addition are set to go to bid this fall, with construction to start late this year or early winter.
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Oshkosh State College
Roger E. Guiles
State Building Commission
Karel Yasko
Madison
Guiles
Commission
Dempsey Hel
Harrington Hall
Rose C. Swart
Elm‘wood Avenue
Woodland Avenue
Herrington Hs
OSC
Premier Tshombe mobilizes Katanga to meet UN entry
Premier Tshombe announced mobilization of all able bodied men in Katanga to oppose a scheduled UN force entry. He asserted Katanga will fight if UN troops land, rejecting UN entry as aggression while awaiting Bunche to discuss the move. Belgian officials doubtful of real fighting capability.
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Katanga
Moiseshombe
Elisabethville
Congo
U. N
Elisabethville, the Congo
Tshombe
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Krioneleod
Nalanga
Patrice Lumumba
Ralph J. Bunche
Hammarskjold
Bunche
Nor
Elsabethville
CU. N
Leopoldville
Hammarskiold
Saturn rocket second stage approved for moon missions
Space officials report Space Agency authorization to continue development of the Saturn rocket’s second stage. The rocket is being designed to travel to the moon and planets as part of NASA projects.
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Santa Monica
Calif
UPI
Douglas Aircraft Co
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Eisenhower and Norstad Plan Meet in Newport
President Eisenhower holds a conference with NATO supreme commander General Lauris Norstad at Newport Rhode Island. The two discuss North Atlantic Treaty forces in Europe while aides from Washington join later. The president had previously urged Korean students to stay vigilant against international communism.
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Newport. RI
Eisenhower
Europe
U.S
Lauris Norstad
White House
Norstad
NATO
Washington
Seoul
South Korea
Trujillo Resigns From Dominican Congress in Irrevocable Move
President Hector Trujillo presented his irrevocable resignation to the Dominican Congress in Ciudad Trujillo. He has led the country since 1952 and his term would have ended in 1962. Vice President Joaquin Balaguer also submitted his resignation, with the announcement carried by La Voz Dominicana.
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Ciudad Trujillo
Dominican Republic
UPN
Hector Trujillo
Dominican Congress
Trujillo
Rafael I. Trujillo
Caracas
Venezuela
la Voz Dominicana
Joaquin Videla Balaguer
Congress
Prather jailed for tossing matches at zoo lions
Harvey L. Prather, 21, was sentenced to five days in jail after throwing 69 lighted matches at lions in Columbian Park Zoo in Lafayette Indiana. Prosecutor George L. Hanna of the Lafayette Lions Club lamented that the law prevents returning the matches and opening the cage door.
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Lafayette, Ind
Harvey L. Prather
Columbian Park Zoo
George L. Hanna
Lafayette Lions Club
Prather
Guatemala Fearful Of Cuban Invasion Plot
President Manuel Ydigoras warned that Cuban backed invaders aboard the schooner Theresa, carrying 80 to 90 Guatemalans, Cubans and Nicaraguans, passed north of Bluefields on July 26 and aimed at Puerto Barrios military base. He blamed ex leaders Jacobo Arbenz Guzman and Juan Arevalo, with ex-Col. Carlos Paz Tejada as plot leader, saying forces are ready to repel the attack.
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Guatemala
Presi
Manuel Ydigoras
Cuba
Ydigoras
Theresa
Bluefields
Nicaragua
Puerto Barrios
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman
Juan Arevalo
Carlos Paz Tejada
Arevalo
Soviet Bloc pushes boycott of UN Disarmament meeting
Soviet bloc campaigns to urge a general boycott of the August 15 United Nations Disarmament Commission meeting. Nine Communist delegations visit Asian and African missions urging abstention, while promoting a Soviet plan for a summit of all 62 UN members at the September General Assembly. Diplomatic sources note many delegations may reconsider to avoid highlighting the West Communist deadlock.
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United Nations
U.N. Disarmament Commission
United States
U.N
Soviet Union
General Assembly
Disarmament Commission
Commission
Luis Padilla Nervo
Mexico
Nikita
State Department
Jin
Lincoln White
Washington
Nikita Khrushchev
White
LCS
Delecate
Henry Cabot Lodte
VeatTiviv Augunz
Permit Blind Man To Carry Pistol
A blind man, Paul W. Starnes, 54, received a permit to carry a pistol for protection from Fulton County official Eugene Gundy. Starnes, an employee of the state factory for the blind, stated in his application he needs the gun for protection and noted he has 20 years of shooting experience with limited vision.
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Atlanta
Paul W. Starnes
State Factory For the Blind
Fulton County
Eugene Gundy
Starnes
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