Almighty Buck Pushes Britain Toward Common Market
AP analysis notes Britain's economic strain pushes Prime Minister Macmillan to favor joining the European Common Market. Tracing postwar aims, Monnet and Pleven propelled six nations toward economic unity, while Britain clung to EFTA until market pressures shifted policy. The shift follows decades of reluctance and a desire to counter U.S. and Soviet dominance with greater European strength.
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James Marlow
Associated Press News
Washington (Ap
Western
Europe
Macmillan Monday
Britain
Rome
Bonn
United States
Russia
European Free Trade Association
EFTA
Switzerland
Austria
Portugal
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Macmillan
Lamb Crop Is Higher In 1961 Record
Washington report shows the 1961 U S lamb crop up one percent from 1960 and about ten percent above the 1950-59 average. Western states led with two percent gain over 1960 and fourteen percent over average, while 35 native states saw a two percent decline from last year but two percent above average. The lamb crop percentage stands at 95, unchanged from last year and two points above the long term average.
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Washington
US Agriculture Department
Texas
South Dakota
Divorces Granted and Mergers Filed in Seven Pairings
A set of divorce actions from Dorothy Roberts et al and Christine Jenkins et al is listed, with marriages merging seven and six cases. The note discusses potential Britain preferential trade within the Commonwealth and a future merger toward a United States of Europe driven by economic power rather than rational diplomacy.
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Britain
Europe
United States of Europe
Kennedy's Foreign Aid Looms Before Congress This Week
Congress prepares a week of debate on Kennedy's foreign aid plan a five year program of economic development loans totaling 8.8 billion while the House moves to speed up defense and military aid bills and to extend federal airport aid. Senate and House committees prune appropriations and explore annual supervision by appropriations panels for treasury borrowing to fund the aid.
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Washington
Congress
Kennedy
Senate
House
Berlin
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Veterans Administration
Welfare
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Treasury
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Appropriations
Humphrey
Sen
Styles Bridges
New
R-Vt
Executive Branch
John Sparkman
D-Ala
Thomas H. Kuchel
California
Atomic Admiral Suffers Mild Heart Attack
Vice Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, the atomic submarine pioneer, is hospitalized after what the Navy calls a mild heart attack. Officials say he is in stable condition and responding to treatment as standard medical checks continue.
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Washington
Hyman G. Rickover
Navy
Rickover
Navy Hospital
Bethesda
Leonard Contends Almost Everyone's Interest Conflicts
Santa Fe AP Leonard jokes about his resignation from the State Highway Commission amid conflicts over business with road contractors. He suggests three Albuquerque Democrats may join the commission but notes any contractor ties could disqualify them. He cites George Baldwin, Tony DeCola, James Barber as possibilities and warns Lovelace Clinic doctor W R Lovelace could face a conflict if surgery aids a dying contractor.
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Santa FE
H. E. Leonard
State Highway Commission
Commission
Albuquerque
Albuquerque Tribune
George Baldwin
Tony de Cola
James Barber
Grants Beacon
Leonard
W. R. Lovelace
Lovelace Clinic
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Edgar Roberts
Morris John Allen Jr
Doris Ann Allen
Gladys Marie Helmer
Char Edward Helmer
Bobby Turner
Louise Lucille Turner
Marquita Collins
Billy Earl Collins
Thomas Vogler
Pauline Vogler
Christine Jenkins
Bobby Gene Jenkins
Glenn's
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Wilton
Union AT
Alameda
Karl L. Bergener, M.D
Pediatrics
Kansas
General Electric
Gallett
Walter Sever Trol
Steplens
Gensrel Moeckis
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