Star Shaped Plan for Washington D C Growth
Historic design proposals by Pierre L Enfant evolve into a star shaped city plan to manage rapid growth. The National Capital Planning Commission and the National Capital Regional Planning Council recommend a hub centered metropolis expanding to five million by 2000 with orderly suburban development and pay as you go financing.
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Pierre L’enfant
Washington
Potomac
Congress
National Capital Planning Commission
National Capital Regional Planning Council
Living Document of Independence in National Archives
The Declaration of Independence is housed in the National Archives Building Washington in a helium sealed case raised and lowered by electricity to prevent deterioration The document embodies the ideal of freedom and justice under representative government and has inspired many peoples to strive for equality and rights The famous line Our Truths to be self evident that all men are created equal appears in this description
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National Archives
Washington
New Madison Square Garden to Rise Over Penn Station
Irving Mitchell Felt and Admiral John J. Bergen plan a 9 acre mega garden arena atop Penn Station featuring a 25 000 seat main arena a 4 000 seat secondary space a 28 story hotel and 34 story office tower with modern construction tech and TV booths They aim for a World Fair 64 65 opening and have a 99 year lease with the Pennsylvania Railroad Architect Charles Luckman will use innovative swayback roof woven concrete facades and ingrown lighting The project may transform transit hubs and allow city life to stay indoors through a hub of shopping dining and entertainment
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Madison Square Garden
Madison Square
Harry Thaw
Stanford White
Eighth Avenue
49Th
50Th
Pennsylvania Railroad
Communist Party
Dominican Republic
Broadway
Irving Mitchell Felt
John J. Bergen
Graham-Paige Corporation
New York
Archie Moore
Charles Luckman
Lever
Park Avenue
U.S
New Delhi
Pennsylvania Terminal
Scottsdale Readers Ask Park, Paving and Lights Questions
Mr and Mrs Devon Showley ask where the nearest neighborhood park is and when West Thomas between 56th Street and Scottsdale Road will be paved. Assistant City Manager Jim Smith says the community center is at Second Street and Ball Park Plaza and the work may occur late in the current fiscal year or by the next year. They note Hy-View gas lights are privately owned and not in a lighting district. The Scottsdale BPW Club commends the newspaper for Americanism articles and plans a program on the theme for the coming year.
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Scottsdale
West Thomas
56Th Street
Scottsdale Road
Devon Showley
Windsor
Jim Smith
Second Street
Ball Park Plaza
Hy-View
Scottsdale Business and Professional Women’s Club
Age of Man Rewritten As Skull Tin Toy Tanganyika
Scientists revise the age of Zinjanthropus skull to over 1.7 million years based on rock tests in Tanganyika. Geologists and anthropologists react with surprise though the finding fits the long timeline of Earth's history.
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Zinjanthropus
Tanganyika
Anlyone
The
World News
Dollar collapse traced from 1939 to Kennedy era
Washington window columnist Lyle C. Wilson traces the decline of the U.S. dollar from 1939, when FDR held a 100 cent bill, through Truman and Eisenhower, to Kennedy and Dillon. He warns deficit spending could push the dollar toward 27 cents, urging fiscal restraint.
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U.S. Senate Finance Committee
Fdr
U.S
Harry S. Truman
Pru
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Truman
Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Treasury Douglas Dillon
City mayor ends traffic ticket fix policy in Jackson
Jackson mayor Al len Thompson says motorists cannot have tickets fixed and policemen feel discouraged when tickets are voided. Congo president Kasavubu urges unity to save the country in Leopoldville. An elderly Alhambra woman explains pennies at meters to avoid violations and a Quinn Martin memo advocates alternatives to sadism before Congress.
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Leopoldville
The
Congo
Joseph Kasavubu
Alhambra
Calif
Washington reports sour notes in West Berlin propaganda clash
German diplomats complain the United States loses the propaganda fight over West Berlin. They urge an offensive stance and highlight East German and Soviet spy networks in Berlin and the role of agencies like VOA and Radio Free Europe in the Cold War information battle.
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Washington
United States
West Berlin
United States Information Agency
Edward R. Murrow
U.S
Berlin
East Berlin
Committee For State Security
KGB
Ministers’ Council
Ussr
GRU
Defense Ministry
Ministry For State Security
Military
Red
Free Germany
African Leader Balewa Visits United States
In Washington, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Nigeria’s prime minister arrives with a 15 member delegation to discuss aid and cooperation with the United States. Balewa, seen as moderate, seeks swift progress and practical development for Nigeria amid regional tensions and colonial legacies.
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Washington
Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
Nigeria
America
Great Britain
Sir Abubakar
Africa
United States
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Considine
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John Reed Kilpatrick
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National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
Capital City
By Lyle C. Wilson
HST
Anand ER
World AT Large
Interlandi
Quinn Martin
Senate
Washington Report
Germany
Fulton Lewis JR
Lewis
Voice of America
Radio Free Europe
Central Intelligence Agency
Adenauer
Adolf Hitler
Pentagon
St. Antonius Hospital
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Fedenko
Ministry For
East Germany
Erich Mielke
National Scene
Ralph McGill
McGill
South
Thery
Latin America
Tunisia
India
Ireland
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