Congress seeks disability laws after Eisenhower illness
Rep. Kenneth Keating calls for immediate House action to address presidential disability. Bills by Keating and Celler have stalled in committees as Congress considers who can act if the president becomes disabled. The issue arises from Article 2, Section 1, Clause 6, of the Constitution after Eisenhower's heart attack on Sept. 24, 1955.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Kenneth Keating
R-N.y
House Judiciary Committee
Congress
Judiciary
Keating
Celler
House
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Rep
Rochester
White House
Rival Unions Spur Dixie Textile Labor Rift in South
In Charlotte the UTW breaks from AFL CIO to “set its own house in order” amid raids by the CIO linked TWUA. Rivalry shadows the half million southern textile workers as merger chances look slim. race and integration loom in any drive, with observers warning of a brewing interunion war across the region.
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Charlotte
N.C
United 4
Afl-Cio
South
Carolinas
UTW
AFL
Textile Workers Union of America
Aflcio High Command
TWUA
Dixie
Hard Fiscal Facts Face New Federal Spending
Washington reports a muddled state of budget priorities as President Eisenhower weighs tax cuts and spending plans. The article outlines how both parties face tough choices amid fiscal pressures and political maneuvering in the federal budget debate.
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Truman
Congress
Teen-Ager Writes Jet Missiles Handbook in Canada
An 18 year old Russian immigrant, Andy Bilimovich, authored Jets and Missiles while a student at Shattuck School in Minnesota. The paperback, published by Trend Books in Los Angeles, is selling well in the United States as Bilimovich seeks money to finance college in the U.S. His mother Irene Bilimovich explains the age disclosure was not pursued. Born in Belgrade, he left Yugoslavia in 1950 and later moved to Canada. He gathered details from aircraft makers and Soviet sources, completing the book in six months.
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Winnipeg
Andy Bilimovich
United States
Trend Books, Inc
Los Angeles
Young Bilimovich
Shattuck School
Faribault
Minn
Toronto
Irene Bilimovich
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Trieste
Canada
Bilimovich
New York
Kenneth Bayless
Trend Books
Finke Town Bosses Of Beer As Water Fails
In Finke Australia on the edge of the Simpson Desert the thirsty town relies on a government railways water system now broken down. With temperatures over the century mark and a dusty river bed the proprietor of the town hotel reports mobs of beer for residents while calls grow for a new water supply.
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Sydney
Australia
Nana
Finke
Simpson Desert
Government
Allan Brumby
Soviets Mask Spies Amid Allied Trainees In U S
Security officials disclosed that Russia uses spies in U S training programs posing as allied military students. Ex First Lt Theodore Hiller, a German air force pilot, served as a Soviet agent with forged documents and was sentenced to 18 months plus supervision. Police recheck hundreds of other German trainees.
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BOM
NANA
Russia
U.S
U. S
United States
Theodor Hiller
Hiller
Espion
Soviet Union
Germany
Ross
Emnaniane
Britain mulls NATO charter plan amid cabinet revolt
London reports reveal Prime Minister Macmillan's proposal for a 15 member NATO super cabinet binding all member states. Right wing Tories oppose surrender of sovereignty while Labor calls the plan sensational and reports it could face a cool reception at the NATO ministers' summit in Paris.
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London
Nana
Macmillan
Ce Ma
NATO
Britain
Paris
Labor
Mondon Daily Herald
Labor Party
Mac
Senate expands inquiry into gifts by federal officials
The Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee broadened its gift policy probe to cover all executive agencies after King Saud donated gifts to the wife of a former State Department protocol officer. Donald F. O'Donnell said the inquiry seeks to learn how gifts from foreign dignitaries are handled across agencies and notes new State Department rules apply only to that department.
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Washington
NANA
Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee
State Department
Executive Branch
Donald F. O'Donnell
O'Donnell
Army
Navy
Air Force
Senate
King Saud
Victor Purse
Murder on a Geneva stairwell a case of gun running rooms abroad
Marcel Leopold a small, talkative merchant of sudden death was found dead in the hallway of his Geneva apartment. A blow gun murder weapon sparked a massive Swiss manhunt with police interviewing hundreds since the Sept. 19 killing.
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Geneva
Nana
Marcel
Leopold
Three Continents
Folerate
Marcel Leopold
Ment
Railroads Seek Subsidies and Merger To Curb Passenger Losses
Washington reports that New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroad consider a merger to cope with deficits in passenger service amid calls for subsidies and tax breaks. Baltimore and Ohio seeks permission to end all passenger routes from Baltimore to New York, signaling broader service cuts.
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Washington
Nanay
New York Central
New York City
George Alpert
New York
New Haven
Hartford
Win Govrned
Pennsylvania R.R
Baltimore and Ohio
Baltimore
Tw York
Detroit
Chicago
Aram Mewaana Fae Thea
Massachusetts
Alpert
Boston
Oil Firms Figure in Sahara Arms Deal Frenzy
Paris reels over American and British arms deliveries to Tunisia as two key events unfold. Algerian rebels launch first major attack into the Sahara oil belt while a Standard Oil executive visits the region, drawing sharp focus on France s Sahara oil stake and the involvement of U S firms in exploitation plans across a shifting political landscape.
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Paris
Tunisia
Standard Oil Co
New Jersey
Sahara
Guy Mollet
Mollet
France
Saharan
Bourges- Maunoury
The
Max LeJeune
LeJeune
Felix Gaillard
National Assembly
Canada Critics Challenge Dewline Obsolescence
Ottawa reports say the DEW line spanning the Canadian Arctic and Alaska is already seen as outmoded. Canadian scientists and defense officials urge a joint U S Canadian review to trim sections and reallocate funds to urgent defense projects while warning the United States risked a Maginot Line mentality.
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Ottawa
Nana
High Arctic
Alaska
Washington
Russia
Polar Basin
U. S. Defense Department
North America
Lions Roar Behind Fence Draw Complaint in Hobbs
A frantic caller in Hobbs reports a strange noise at the edge of town. Police find the sound comes from a cage of circus lions demanding their dinner.
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Hobbs, N. M
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