Frankfurt Area Delights Tourists
Frankfurt area offers scenic river valleys hills and mild climate within 25 to 50 miles of the city. The region blends medieval Romanesque Renaissance and baroque heritage with easy access via Autobahns and Bundesbahn tours. TWA cuts Europe fares starting October 1 with 15 days in Europe at about $100 below current prices.
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Frankfurt -Am-Main
Germany
West German Republic
U.S
Bundesbahn Omnibus System
Frankfurt
New York
TWA
United States
Rhineland
Rhine
Mainz
Taunus
Europe
River Main
Heusenstamm
Balthasar Neumann
Seligen- Stadt
Heidelberg
Heidelberg Castle
Coast City taps Russia for power
Eureka California hosts the Donbass III steam turbine plant moored on the waterfront providing shore power to the inland area. The 6700 horsepower unit arrived after a transcontinental tow from Seattle by the US Maritime Commission. The ship formerly Beac on Rock carried aviation fuel and American aircraft and tanks during lend lease.
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Eureka
Calif
Nana
S.S. Donbass
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
U.S. Martime Commission
Seattle
Wash
Eurekans
S.S. Beacon Rock
Ussr
Pacific Coast
Vladivostok
Trade Fairs Propaganda Arsenal Gets New Weapon
President Eisenhower approves a permanent U S participation in world trade fairs. The Office of International Trade Fairs will direct a $5.9 million budget split with the cultural and artisanal programs of the State Department. The program expands beyond prior participation in 34 fairs over two years to formal American propaganda abroad.
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Washington
U. S
Eisenhower
U. S. Department of Commerce
Cultural and
Artis
Trade Fair Office
Airmen Rescue Sick Hunter as Bears Besiege Arctic Camp
At Ladd Air Base Alaska a routine mercy mission turns tense when 15 hungry polar bears surround a radar hut. The rescue helicopter frightens the ursines with engine noise, then airmen evacuate the ill man to hospital. The unit regularly flies mercy missions across the Arctic.
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Ladd Air Base
Alaska
Nana
Arctic Circle
Hardbitten United
Israel Kibbutz Crisis Deepens Despite Output Rise
Israel faces a financial crisis among kibbutzim as cash shortages push many settlements to seek unofficial loans at as much as 25 percent. Despair grows with 1500 houses deserted while leaders demand government loans and larger budget allocations to save the collective farms.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Rural Libraries Plan Traced for Rural America
Washington reports a federal state cooperative program to extend library service to 27 million rural Americans without local libraries. States plan regional libraries with initial allocations around 40 000, federal matching funds up to 7.5 million, and variable shares by income and rural needs. Senate approved 37.5 million for year one, House reduced to 2.055 million.
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Washington
Congress
Eisenhower
Uncle Sam
Senate
House
Sen
Lister Hill
D-Ala
Montreal Priest Devotes Life To African Lepers Colony
Father Paul Bechard of Montreal has led a leper colony in Basutoland since 1938. The settlement houses about 380 black men and women, once 780, with many hopeful for returning home as treatment improves.
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Montreal
Maseru
Basutoland
Nana
Paul Bechard
Laughing at the Iron Curtain Jokes From Across Europe
A montage of wartime humor from Czechoslovakia Hungary and Poland notes how citizens use jokes to defy Soviet rule. Jests about straight lines democracy and exile reveal grit under oppression as readers are reminded of life under communism.
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Vienna
Communist Party
Warsaw
Israel
America
Vienna Declares World’s Least-Dressed City Amid Nudist Movement
A Vienna survey finds 27,000 Austrians, mainly in Vienna, joining health and beauty brigades that require regular meetings and naked participation. Nudist colonies line the Danube banks with guards patrolling for voyeurs while membership ages stay under 60 and family members often join with the man.
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Vienna
Viennese
Danube
Replica Mayflower to be launched this week at Brixham
London report notes the replica Mayflower will splash into the water this week at Brixham England marking the completion of a ten year dream. War wick Charlton led the project a former Fleet Street journalist turned PR officer to Lord Montgomery. Skeptics doubted the build but backers say the ship will cross the Atlantic.
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London
Ins
Brixham
England
Atlantic
Warwick Charlton
Fleet Street
Lord Montgomery
America
Chariton
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State Department
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Delaware
Massachusetts
Rhode
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Budapest
Istvan Nagy
Lathe
Air Force
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