New York Summer Festival Offers Wide Range of Events
The New York Convention and Visitors Bureau announces the 1956 Summer Festival a three month city wide celebration with music art and drama festivals major league sports and sightseeing including the Empire State Building United Nations Rockefeller Center and Statue of Liberty. Visitors can enjoy outdoor concerts art shows museums and a three hour boat cruise around Manhattan. The Colosseum hosts the Sewing Fashion Festival in June and the National Baby and Children's Show in August. A free Calendar of Events and Visitors Guide will be mailed to interested readers.
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New York
New York Convention and Visitors Bureau
New York City
Empire State Building
United
York
Greenwich Village
American Museum of Natural History
Hayden Planetarium
New Coliseum
E. 42Nd Street
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Nuremberg Lawyer Opens Private H-Bomb Shelter Scheme
Nuremberg attorney Walter Frisch forms Emergency Stocks Shelter Society to rent hydrogen bombproof caverns in the Jura Mountains. He subdivides the cavern into family compartments at 73 to 75 cents a month and provides maps and stocked shelters for members.
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Nana
Nuremberg
Walter Frisch
Jura
Frisch
Dee Squid
Drive in House Aims to Split One Foreign Aid Package
A House push seeks to divide the Mutual Security program into separate military and non military parts after this year. Rep. Armistead Selden argues the military aid fits defense budgets and voters should choose non military items separately, with support from several colleagues.
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Washington
NANA
House
Armistead Selden
Ala
Foreign Affairs Committee
Selden
Congress
Adm
Arthur Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
U. S. Defense Department
Alabaman
T John Foster Dulles
Defense Department
Col. Gs
Acrobat's passport found in elephant trunk incident
Vienna report says Lopold Slovcek claimed his passport was in a trunk. The circus elephant Trixi picked up the document and caused a mix up with customs, leading to an affadavit sworn in Trixi's absence.
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Vienna
Leopold Slovcek
Trixi
Hramintiy Xwattawadi Slovcek
Whisky Aged-in-Sea 69 Years Revealed Off Queensland
Divers salvage whiskey from the Scottish Prince wreck sunk 69 years ago near Southport Queensland. After a week they recovered two bottles but many remain buried under 40 feet of sand. The recovered liquor samples test as 77 percent proof spirit while divers expect fuller finds later. cargo included sewing machines and other goods. The operation continues with many weeks ahead.
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Southport
Queensland
United Kingdom
Brisbane
Avolt Font
Godiva Ride Idea Sparks Welsh Valley Contest
Cardiff Wales June 16 plan draws church leaders and organizers into a contest where seven girls compete for the title Lady Godiva with a long wig as the prize of 75 dollars. Public reaction mixed amid controversy over the event in the mining valley.
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Cardiff
Wales
Nana
Lady Godiva
Godiva
Jude
Coventry
England
Old Woods Sherwood Forest Ties to 1921 Robin Hood
Wood near Los Angeles known as Sherwood Forest namesake from a Douglas Fairbanks 1921 Robin Hood filming site. Alan Ladd’s Santiago scenes also shot there, linking historic Hollywood backdrops to the same region.
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Old Woods
Sherwood Forest
Los Angeles
Warners
Alan Ladd
Santiago
Douglas Fairbanks
Robin Hood
Reds Infiltrate Bonn's Recruits in W German Defense
The West German defense ministry assesses Communist infiltration of Bonn forces with 2000 Reds among fresh recruits. Details include a defection from Fuerstenfeldbruck to the Soviet zone and questions about screening recruits beyond officers. Page 2 continues.
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Bonn
NANA
West German
Defense Ministry
Theodore Blank
Blank
Social Democratic
Air Force
Fuerstenfeldbrook
Munich
Luftwaffe
Wertter von Panilski
Moscow orders Canadian Reds to focus on DEW Line and intel
New Moscow directives push the Canadian Communist Party to target distant early warning and mid Canada radar lines while boosting economic intelligence on Canada. Tim Buck, described as top Red, is cited returning from Moscow with his position intact as security services warn of intensified propaganda and espionage activity.
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Ottawa
Moscow
Canadian Communist Party
Canada
Mid-Canada
Russia
Tim Buck
Kremlin
Unt
United States
Central America
Mospene
Dominion
Effert
Adventurous White Water Plans On Green River Bain
Adrian Reynolds, 27, a veteran in the new river running hobby, is painting cataract boats for an early summer trip on the Green River. Once guided by Norman Nevills, Reynolds will navigate the canyon waters that carve Wyoming into Utah and Colorado, with Dinosaur National Monument canyon walls framing the voyage.
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Green River
Wyo
Adrian x. Reynolds
A-K
Norman Nevills
Nevills
Wyoming
Wind River
Utah
Colorado
Colorado River
Dinosaur National Monument
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Soviet Arctic
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Arctic
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Leningrad
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