Canadian leader objects to Alaska Highway bill approach
Senator Neuberger's plan to fund and supervise a paved Alaska Highway with Canada paying 66 million over six years draws protest from Prime Minister Diefenbaker. He says consultation with Ottawa should occur before Congress acts while noting the wartime route and ongoing Canadian maintenance of the 1221 mile segment.
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Diefenbaker
Canada
U. S. Senate
Canadian
Sen. Neuberger
D-Ore
Neuberger
U. S
Congress
Dawson Creek
B. C
Fairbanks
Corps of
U. S. Army
Alaska
Pacific Northwest
Defense Co
Program Reform Seen For Foreign Aid Flounder
Washington notes describe two internal fights over the $3.9 billion foreign aid program. Congress backs a five year, revolving loan fund to expand repayable aid and curb military spending, while the administration resists enlarging the loan pool. The clash involves budget and treasury views, Senate Fulbright pressure, and House appropriations sensitivities, risking the program’s fate without strong cross party reform.
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William 8. White
Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Budget Bureau
State Department
Treasury Department
Pakistan
Peru
White House
Senate
Sen
J. W. Fulbright
Arkansas
Fulbright
Appropriations Committees
Senate Appropriations Committee
House Committee
House
Treasury-budget
Appropriations Committee
Capitol Hill
Saroyan Interview Probed for Soviet Beliefs and Bias
George E. Sokolski reprints a Moscow News interview with William Saroyan. The piece critiques Saroyan for praising Soviet life while accusing him of ignorance about Western and Soviet advances, noting Russian secrecy and the worship of self as a form of atheistic conformity.
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George E. Sokolsky
G. G
Moscow News
Worker
New York
William Saroyan
Saroyan
Soviet Russia
United States
Russia
D Day remembered in Sainte-Mere-Eglise by Jim Bishop
Jim Bishop recalls the D Day dawn at Sainte-Mère-Église 15 years after the invasion. He notes American paratroopers, German fire, mayor M. Renaud, General Maxwell Taylor meeting a private, and the town's first liberation as Utah Beach forces landed.
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Saroyan
Anastas Mikoyan
Ben Fairless
Russia
Atlantic City
California
Jim Bishop
Sainte-Merc-Eglise
M. Renaud
David Howarth
McGraw-Hill
Utah
Cherbourg
Vienna
Renaud
Naples
Maxwell Taylor
Sainte
Mander
McAuliffe
Taylor
Utah Beach
George Mabry
Eighth Infantry Regiment
U.S. Army
Mabry
Bolshoi Tour Under Fire for Espionage Ties and lax Security
Testimony in Congress accuses Bolshoi’s U S tour of sparking a web of Soviet espionage links. Former FBI agent and British secret service judge the group security as farcical, with Kudreavatev named as a Soviet secret police official. Maya Plisetskaya travels under tight chaperonage amid Kremlin ties and cultural exchange rhetoric.
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FBI
Matt Cvetic
Russia
Secret Police
Congressional Committee
Hurok
E. F. Cookridge
Secret Service
England
State Department
Aleksandr Alekasandrovich Kudreavatev
Arthur Lief
The
Bolshoi
United States
Nikita Khrushchev
Plizetskaya
Georgi
Zaroubin
Hoffa’s Political Act Keeps ILA Split Intact
Jimmy Hoffa engineered a Texas showdown that stalled moves to reintegrate the International Longshoremen’s Association into AFL-CIO. He warned of a Teamsters ILA alliance and prompted ILA leaders to delay any return, with a national convention planned for mid July in Miami Beach to decide next steps.
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Victor Riesel
New York
Jimmie Hoffa
Texas
International Longshoremen’s Assn
Afl-Cio
Hoffa
Brownsville
Louis Waldman
ILA
Big House of Labor
Teamsters
Puerto Rico
Labor
High Command
Afl-Cio Executive Council
Washington
Stage Hands Union
Uis Waldman
Stage Hands
Dick Walsh
Capt
Bill Bradley
Teddy Gleason
Veep Packy Connolly
Jim Hoffa
Miami Beach
Reindalent with Betty Burket
A literary note titled Reindalent features Betty Burket. The piece references a June scene centered on flowers and seeds from April, evoking poetic imagery.
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Robert Browning
Notable June Dates From Revolutionary Era to Seaway Plans
The excerpt lists key June events: 1776 Continental Congress names a five member committee to draft independence. 1771 Flag Day marks flag adoption. 1815 Waterloo ends Napoleon’s career. 1914 Archduke Francis Ferdinand’s assassination sparks WWI. 1944 D-Day quotes from FDR. Also notes 1 year ago Gaulle’s call and a 1959 planned Eisenhower Queen Elizabeth meeting on the St. Lawrence Seaway.
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Continental Congress
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Roger Sherman
Robert R. Livingston
Great Britain
Britain
Queen Elizabeth
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States of America
St. Lambert Lock
Montreal
St. Lawrence Seaway
Van Cortland Manor opens as Sleepy Hollow restoration
The 1680 Van Cortland Manor House near Croton-on-Hudson debuts as part of Sleepy Hollow Restorations funded by John D. Rockefeller Jr. The complex preserves colonial furnishings and original wall colors while linking Hudson Valley history to a modern tourist site.
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Hudson Valley
van Cortland
Albany Post Road
Croton-on-Hudson
Sleepy Hollow
John D. Rockefeller Jr
Pocantico Hills
Williamsburg
North
van Cortlands
Rockefeller
Pierre van Cortland
Pierre
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Howarth
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Fulton Lewis JR
Bolshoi Ballet
Moiseyev
Red
House UN- American Activities Committee
Moiseyevs
Kremlin
Maya Plizetskaya
West
Soviet Union
India
Jimmy Hoffa
Napoleon
Waterloo
Belgium
Duke of Wellington
von Blucher
Sarajevo
Bosnia
Francis Ferdinand
Franklin D. Roosevelt
French National Assembly
Charles de Gaulle
Saint Cyr
de Gaulle
France
van Cortland Manor House
Franklin
Anne Stevenson van Cortland
James Thurber
Ross
Atlantic Monthly
Harold Ross
New Yorker
Hudson
Thurber
Knights of the Round Table
Algonquin Hotel
Alexander Woollcott
Dorothy Parker
Peter Arno
Robert Benchley
Edna Ferber
Comic Weekly
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