Resumption of Aid Improves U S Egypt Ties
Washington reports that the United States will provide 37 million dollars in surplus food to Egypt under a three year aid program ending June 30. The decision, aimed at mending strained relations after a Cairo library fire and Nasser's arms shipments to Congo rebels, was announced by the State Department.
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Washington
U.S
Egypt
Johnson
Middle Eastern
State Department
Abdel Nasser
Congo
Robert J. McCloskey
U.A.R
United States
Nasser
Two Furniture Executives Named Man of the Year
The American Furniture Mart board named James T. Ryan of High Point North Carolina executive vice president of the Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association and Roscoe R. Rau posthumously of Glen Ellyn Illinois man of the year. Their combined service totaled 94 years.
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Chicago
Trade Association
American Furniture Mart Board of Governors
James T. Ryan
High Point
N.C
Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association
Law and Poverty Conference Opens
More than 500 legal minds gather in Washington for a three day National Conference on Law and Poverty. Sponsored by the Justice Department and the Office of Economic Opportunity the talks urge lawyers to expand free legal services to the nation s poor.
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Washington
S Rt
Justice Department
Office of Economic Opportunity
Books for Appalachia reach West Virginia students
Nearly 250 000 books are shipped into West Virginia to aid children in rural one and two room schools. The program is sponsored by the Council of the Southern Mountains National Congress of Parents and Teachers and the Railway Express Agency. The first carload left Louisville Kentucky for the Welch area. The books target the first eight grades and are coordinated by the State Education Department school library division.
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Charleston
W.va
West Virginia
Council of the Southern Mountains
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Railway Express Agency
Louisville Ky
Welch
Peppard to Star in The Blue Max Filmed in Britain
George Peppard will star as an ambitious air ace in The Blue Max to be filmed in Britain and Ireland this summer. Eight World War I aircraft are being built for the movie, and Manfred von Richthofen is written into the script with casting for the actor to portray him still pending.
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George Peppard
Britain
Ireland
Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen
Germany
Richthofen
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Law and Poverty
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W. Va
Appalachia
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N. Levdeun Street
J.C. Penney
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