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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1956
Page
5
Stella offers December 18 horoscope born personalities with traits and career hints. The piece lists notable figures born on the date and outlines daily zodiac advice for each sign, from Sagittarius to Scorpio, including travel, romance, and shopping guidance.
The Terre Haute Tribune Gazette lists contact numbers for service calls and office divisions, hours for Sunday and holidays, and mail subscription rates. It notes post office handling and ownership liability limits for unsolicited submissions and provides pricing for various subscription options.
The article portrays Jawaharlal Nehru as a calculating leader who seeks peace with the West while pursuing India’s modernization. It notes his self confidence and secrecy as described by Frank Moraes, his early exposure to poverty, and his lifelong opposition to colonial rule. It also highlights Nehru’s neutralism as a strategic policy rather than dogma and the mutual wariness between India and Western powers.
The piece traces energy use from human effort to tools, fire, wheel, water power, and levers. It notes humans harness animals and later undergo the industrial revolution with electricity, creating vast energy—like many slaves at work for each person—on the cusp of a new era. It emphasizes the historical rise of energy consumption.
At an ASME meeting experts forecast energy consumption in the United States will double within a quarter century. They note abundant coal oil gas and water power but warn fossil fuels are finite and urge rapid development of atomic power and solar energy.
The former international city Tangier, long a haven for vice and espionage, is now annexed to Morocco and will be governed like other cities. Law and order, narcotics suppression, and taxes reshape its shadow economy, ending its era of impunity. Decent men welcome the social progress.
The book by Lewis Atherton surveys the small town in the American middle west from founding days to modern times. It traces transportation shifts from horse to railroad to automobile and covers social life schools stores and rural culture with sympathy and historical insight.
The nation spends richly on defense but curtails vital aviation research as scientists leave for higher pay in industry. To lead in military air development, the United States must retain talent by paying suitably.
In Terre Haute last night the Rose Poly basketball team edged Huntington College 33 30 in a hard fought game at the Rose gymnasium.
Answers cover daily meteor strikes, define catholicon and poetaster, explain QED, and identify whose two years away from the world Walden records.
A cautious forecast advises prudent planning for the coming year. It counsels restraint in spending while encouraging disciplined effort by a youthful, enterprising individual aiming for success in their chosen profession.
Betty Grable veteran screen star is noted for a birthday today along with boxing figure Freddie Steel and actress Celia Johnson.
A dictionary style entry explains ascribe as a transitive verb meaning to attribute or assign to a cause or source. It covers usage with examples like death ascribed to poison and links to Latin origin ascribere meaning to write.
A concise record notes Antonio Stradivari, famed violin maker, death in 1737. It lists the 1766 settlement of the New York Canada boundary, the 1787 New Jersey ratification of the U S Constitution, and the 1939 death of Heywood ap a columnist and labor leader.
A reflective adage from Samuel Johnson notes health as essential to every duty and pleasure, warning that wasting it is folly and harmful to life.
A compact note lists phrases including about five billion a panacea an inferior poet and quod erat demonstrandum which was to be demonstrated alongside Henry Thoreau s.
Maripopa County Sheriff L. C. Boies seeks the person who cashed a $64 forged check at a Phoenix supermarket. The check bore the signature L. C. Boies and claimed to come from the Maricopa County Sheriff.
Walter Winchell surveys Broadway divas Rosiland Russell Helen Hayes Ethel Barrymore Shelley Winters Ethel Merman Judy Garland Mary Martin Julie Andrews Tallulah Bankhead Shirley Booth and others, noting public adoration and artistic influence across stage and screen. He quotes stars and colleagues on fame, nerves, and the theatre as a temple of art.
Two high school students from Marquette University High School asked county officials for permission to erect a statue of Pere Marquette in the new Pere Marquette park downtown. They seek 2000 dollars from fellow students to fund the statue and honor the missionary explorer.
This introduction by Malcolm Cowley surveys Wilder's three early novels The Cabala The Bridge of San Luis Rey and The Woman of Andros published 1926 27 and 30. It contrasts Wilder with 1920s contemporaries calling him a novelist of morals and notes the enduring appeal beyond Our Town.
Mrs. Ruby Brown of Dunsmuir owns a 5,000 item collection of campaign pins and buttons made from bone jet leather china pewter and steel. One piece commemorates Carrie Nation’s anti saloon campaigns of 1901.
A quirky column reviews fashion limits of Marilyn Monroe and rivals, notes on X ray shoe fittings and anti snoring gadgets, and humor about Paris food fads. It also covers boxing ranking opinions, racing wisdom, Holland traffic law, Liberace in Dublin, Irish emigration trends, and a liquor shop window offer for a Scotch bottle aged origins.
Miami Beach columnist columns reveal quirky facts about the heart weight and beating, centipede legs, water atom counts, and daily blind life. It notes Teresa Brewer’s family plans, Jackie Gleason's shirt habit, and a Wayne University survey on housework, ending with the author’s wife’s grievance.
The Office of Medical Defense orders 330,000 packets of measured salt and sodium citrate with quart containers to aid first aid stations and mobile hospitals in emergencies. Reports note risks from improvised home solutions and stress the need for precise measurements.
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