Eisenhower Considers Special Study Committee for Coal Crisis
President Eisenhower met with a 15 member soft coal delegation and nine Congress members at the White House to review a 12 page memo outlining a 30 percent fall in demand and a plan to relieve the industry. They urged a government aid package, a fairer competitive basis, lower freight rates, import limits on foreign oil and Canadian gas, and funds for coal research and use in government buildings. The group sought a list of 45 names for the proposed committee within hours.
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Fienhower
Congress
Sinchar Weeks
White House
Weeks
John Sherman Cooper
RKO
Eiseshower
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Guatemalan diplomat resigns seeks asylum in US
Francisco Anguiano 37, the first secretary at the Guatemalan embassy in Washington, resigns and seeks political asylum in the United States. He accuses Guatemala’s new leadership of being a maneuver by communist minority to keep control.
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Francisco Anguiano
Washington
Anguiano
Guatemala
International
Family Of 1 103 Lives In Ex Gang Hideout
Exiled puppeteer Bil Baird and wife Cora live with 1103 puppets and a small son in a West Side New York home that adjoins a shop used to craft and stage giant ventriloquist figures. The household includes a crew of 10 who sew costumes and manage the vast collection. Baird recalls shaping each puppet individually and notes the need to invent new material for TV weekly.
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Charlemagne the Son
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W. 70Th Street
Baird
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Bil Baird
William Britton Baird
State University of Iowa
USA
Bairds
Bil Baud
Heat triggers bank alarm during burglar hunt in Jackson
In Jackson Mississippi police searched a Deposit Guaranty Bank branch after a late Tuesday alarm. A scorching 101 degree heat hampered the investigation and no burglar was found inside the building.
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Jackson
Miss
Deposit Guaranty Bank
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