Taboo barriers broken as GI aids Japan eye bank victory
Former GI and North Hollywood resident Joel Steinberger is credited as the father of Japan's first eye bank. He describes overcoming social and legal taboos on corneal donation and obtaining a government backed citizenship award after pressuring for legal changes.
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Los Angeles
Nana
Japan
First Eye Bank
Nippon
Tokyo
Joel Steinberger
North Hollywood
Steinberger
Americans Pour Cash Into Hawaii Tourism
Honolulu reports a boom in tourism as investors led by Henry J. Kaiser and Clint Murchison fund major hotel and entertainment developments in Waikiki. Tourism becomes Hawaii's fourth largest industry with 125 000 visitors spending 65 million dollars, up 18 percent yearly in the postwar decade. New high rise hotels transform Waikiki and 1 000 rooms were added in 1955.
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Honolulu
Nana
America
Henry J. Kaiser
Waikiki Beach
Clint Murchison
United States
Hawaii
Waikiki Strip
Waikiki
National seed storage lab opened at Fort Collins
The Department of Agriculture established a national seed storage laboratory at Colorado Agricultural and Mechanical College in Fort Collins to preserve diverse seeds for future breeding research. Existing facilities cannot store the thousands of different seeds from abroad or developed in the United States, though they handle current breeding needs.
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Washington
Nana
Department of Agriculture
Colorado Agricultural and Mechanical College
Fort Collins
Colo
Cape Town Booms With Suez Ship Traffic
Detour around the Cape of Good Hope swells to a global shipping lifeline with about 45 ocean-going ships daily seen entering Cape Town as Suez Canal remains closed. Harbor activity surges, earning the city the title Tavern of the Seas amid renewed port traffic.
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Capetown
South Africa
Cape of Good Hope
Grand Central Station
Cape
Col. Nasser
Union of South Africa
Signal Hill
Nuclear mobilization plans show wartime readiness growth
Washington reports that U S industry has long range mobilization plans to raise production to wartime levels fast, with 21 000 plants on phantom orders ready for military needs. The plan spans 12 to 15 months versus 21 months without phantom orders, amid a shifting defense landscape and confidential plant listings.
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David Barnett Washington
Nana
America
Labor Department
U. S
R. C. Lanphier Jr
Pentagon
Defense
U.S
Lanphier
Moscow aims fail to split Polish church and Pax movement collapses
Copenhagen dispatch reports Moscow efforts to disrupt Poland's Catholic church and the Pax lay group failing. Three Polish MPs among leaders desert Piasecki as mass exodus undermines the movement once led by the anti Semitic, pro German figure who faced death in war.
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Moscow
Poland
Zycie Warsazny
PAX
Boleslaw Piasecki
Piasecki
Antarctic Deep Freeze Report From McMurdo Sound
Leverett G. Richards writes from McMurdo Sound about Operation Deep Freeze, noting no deaths likely among seamen Sea Bees and airmen, describing the antiseptic Antarctic environment and a lone bacteria found on Ross Ice Shelf. He recalls Captain Robert F. Scott's box cabin and mutton carcass preserved in the cold, concluding with a continuation on page 6.
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Leverett
G. Richards
Mcmurdo Sound
Nana
Antarctic
Paul A. Siple
Richard E. Byrd
Ross Ice Shelf
India
Robert F. Scott
Scott
Luxurious Retired Bombers Turn Private Planes
Los Angeles report describes retired military aircraft converted into luxury interiors. Planes feature wall to wall carpet thick padding, zebra hide upholstery, mahogany bars, rotisseries, ovens, and 27 inch TV sets. Buyers include firms, hotel chains, newspapers and foreign officials.
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Los Angeles
Nana
Lucius
Saudi Arabia
New Almanac Predicts Mild Winter for 1957
Lewiston Maine reports the Farmers Almanac for 1957 issued by Geiger Brothers Projects a fairly mild winter. Editor Ray Geiger notes the issue, the 140th in sequence, and highlights the almanac as a calendar centered publication.
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New Almanac
Lewiston
INS
United States
Ray Geiger
Geiger Brothers
Hess Mopes In Prison
In West Berlin Spandau prison Hess, once Hitler’s top aide, spends exercise periods in the garden but no longer cultivates it. He suffers amnesia and memories the garden as a past habit, while Almanac pages and calendar items fill his days with plants, weather, and lore.
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Berlin
Nana— Ruldolphi Hess
Hitler
Spandau
Hess
Nuernberg
Prices Rise as War Fear Grips West Berlin
West Berlin merchants hike Christmas prices by 13 percent, citing high short term money costs from West German bankers amid Cold War tensions. Berliners cite uprisings in Poznan, Hungarian revolt, Tito’s Yugoslavia break, Romania and East Germany student protests, and Polish freedom movements as threats to the Kremlin system and a potential wider conflict.
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Kurfuertendamm
Free World
Vladislav Gomulka
Marshal Tito
Stalin
Moscow
Romania
East Germany
Poland
Kremlin
Tanganyika Witches Are On The Run
British colonial authorities in Tanganyika plan to prosecute suspected witches under colonial law. They claim some witches are genuine while others are fraudulent, aiming to curb what they describe as the baneful effects of witchcraft on local Africans. Tanganyika, a tea and coffee growing colony in East Africa, has about 6 million Africans and 20 thousand whites under a UN mandate.
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London
Cotton Mather
Salem
New England
Tanganyika
East Africa
Britain
UNO
Smile In Polio Posters Highlight Marlene Olsen Heroine
Four year old Marlene Olsen, daughter of Air Force Capt. Arnold Olsen, becomes a familiar image for a nationwide March of Dimes drive. Polio struck her in 1955 during Massachusetts epidemic. she endures weekly physical therapy and may need ongoing treatment for years.
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Marlene Olson
Boston
Massachusetts
Marlene
Air Force
Arnold Olsen
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Suez
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South Pole
Ithey
Colombia
Brazil
Jorge Pasquale
Mexico
Mississippi Valley
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Martin
Hayden
West Berlin
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