Chamoun Faces Cabinet Crisis Over Re Elect Bid
Beirut amid cabinet threats to quit unless Chamoun abandons second term plan. Compromise settlement proposed to keep him in office until elections. Military clashes erupt in Sidon and Halba as insurgents challenge government forces. British Cyprus alert linked to Lebanon tensions. Four killed and 12 wounded, including troops.
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UPI
Camille Chamoun
Chamoun
Nicosia
Cyprus
Lebanon
Sidon
Halba
Tripoli
Aramco
Senate Farm Committee Pursues New Aid Approach
The Senate Agriculture Committee opens two weeks of hearings led by Chairman Allen Ellender to craft a farm bill after President Eisenhower vetoed a price support freeze. Discussions focus on cotton rice and feed grains with aims to expand production and ease surpluses while avoiding a veto override.
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Washington
Exeenhower
Senate Agriculture Committee
Allen J. Ellender
Eisenhower
Senate
Lyndon B Johnson
D-Tex
Ellender
White House
George D. Aiken
R-Vi
Aiken
Aircraft Workers Rebuff McDonnell Offer in St. Louis
McDonnell Aircraft Corp in St. Louis faces a potential strike as Machinists Union Local 9, with 15,000 members, rejected a company two year contract. The vote 2791 to 2614 toppled a final offer raising wages 11 to 20 cents in year one and 34 percent in year two, while the union demanded at least 30 cents.
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ST. Louis
McDonnell Aircraft Corp
Nine Jazz Fans Plunge From Hudson River Boat
Nine Dixieland enthusiasts leapt into the Hudson River during a weekend excursion aboard the Hudson River Day Line Knickerbocker. George McLaughlin, 71, was first overboard, followed by Eugene Cahill, 21, and Joseph Barry, 19. Lifeboats rescued all nine as Coast Guard cutters and harbor patrols aided the recovery on a night crowd near Manhattan. Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy urged an end to such behavior as organizer Andrew McCaw promoted further events by the Dideland Admiration Society.
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New York
Hudson River
Coast Guard
George McLaughlin
Knickerbocker
Stephen P. Kennedy
Kennedy
Andrew McCaw
Dideland Admiration Society
Dideland
Manhattan
Acheson Attacks Ike as Leader in New DNC Pamphlet
The Democratic Advisory Council releases a 19 page critique by Dean Acheson accusing the Eisenhower administration of lacking will vigor and perceptive intelligence to lead the free world. It warns of timidity and calls for talks with the Soviets and a trusted secretary of state. The pamphlet portrays Eisenhower as misled and uninformed and questions his capacity for the presidency.
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Washington
Democratic Advisory Council
Dean Acheson
White House
Council On Foreign and
Soviet Union
Democratic National Committee
Eisenhower
Czechs Refuse d Test Invitation
Czechoslovakia followed the Soviet lead and declined to send observers to the American hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific this summer. The Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia were the only two communist nations invited by the United States to join the U N Scientific Committee on Radiation.
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Vienna
Czechoslovakia
U. S
Pacific
Soviet Union
United States
U. N
Britain
Japan
Goofy Bird Seeks Nest on Airline Constellations
In Cincinnati a small bird named Goofy builds a nest on the tail sections of three Constellation airliners arriving at Greater Cincinnati Airport. Airline agent Bill Birkley says the bird stashes sticks and grass on the tails whenever the engines stop, repeating the act three times daily.
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Cincinnati
Goofy
Martin
Greater Cincinnati
Bill Birkley
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