May Nominated to Oppose Byrd in Virginia Senate Race
May of Saluda chosen on the third ballot by the Republican State Central Committee to oppose Senator Harry F. Byrd in November. A Harvard graduate and former GM executive, May vows to be a voice not an echo and carries Goldwater support as a national convention delegate. Byrd, 77, seeks his sixth full term and has run unopposed by major parties since 1948.
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Richard Arnold May
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Goldwater
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Danville
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Congress
Rights Bill Passage Is Slated This Week
Washington AP reports the House will take final action on the civil rights bill this week with a likely Wednesday or Thursday vote before a July signing at the White House. Senate action includes federal pay raise for workers and lawmakers.
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Washington
House
P Dent Johnson
Hare
Otto E. Passman
D-La
Senate
Man Drowns in Basement Fall in Los Angeles Home
Police report 76 year old Charles Schaeffer tripped on a broken step in his Los Angeles basement while repairing a leaky pipe. He fell striking his head, collapsed in three inches of water and died. his wife found him Sunday.
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Los Angeles
Charles Schaeffer
James Earl Jones in Othello and Emperor Jones roles
James Earl Jones endures a strenuous summer with The Blood Knot at the Central Park Shakespeare Festival then Othello at upcoming venues. He will perform The Emperor Jones at the Boston Arts Festival in August before returning to Othello for a Philadelphia engagement.
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New York
James Earl Jones
Central Park
O’neill
Boston
Philadelphia
Mass Immunizations By Airborne Vaccine
Denver scientist says mass immunization by inhaled vaccines could combat TB polio and measles but public fear blocks use. Dr Gardner Middlebrook of National Jewish Hospital notes airborne aerogenic immunization uses attenuated germs sprayed in controlled amounts and could work for any infectious disease once highly infective safe vaccines are developed.
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Gardner Middlebrook
National Jewish Hospital
Denver
Middlebrook
U.S
Goldwater Scranton Move Toward GOP Convention
Washington AP reports Goldwater leads the GOP field with 689 delegates in a preconvention AP survey as Scranton tours North Carolina Georgia and Tennessee to win over uncommitted delegates. Both candidates address Illinois delegates in Chicago while the convention starts July 13 in San Francisco.
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William W. Scranton
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Goldwater
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Georgia
Tennessee
Illinois
Chicago
GOP
San Francisco
Scranton
Nelson A
Rockefeller
Henry Cabot Lodge
Margaret Chase Smith
Richard M. Nixon
Stanton
Old Water
Formosa crash inquiry finds no pistol fire
In Formosa the crash on June 20 that killed 20 Americans and 7 others had no gunfire involvement from two pistols found among wreckage. Civil Air Transport officials urged investigations while police said tests showed neither pistol had been fired.
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Taipei
Formosa
Civil Air Transport Line
Chang Chen
Saic
Paris
Ion Gheorghe Maurer
France
Temperature tolerant plants thrive in temperate zones
A brief note highlights that a certain plant type is rare in tropical regions but common across temperate areas in both hemispheres.
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Tropics
A Flag of His Own by Executive Order
The fragment notes an executive order issued by President F. D. in February establishing a flag or emblem tied to a person or entity, with emphasis on presidential action and timeframe mentioned as February.
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F. D. Revere
Pickets Demonstrate Outside White House Amid Coin Shortage Plan
Sunday night on the White House sidewalk featured civil rights demonstrators with candles while 15 American Nazi party pickets protested with flags and racist placards. Treasury plans to boost coin production by 75 percent over six months and double within a year to curb a national shortage. Postmaster General officials say zip code adoption is progressing with 43 000 large volume mailers pre sorting to speed handling. large volume mail accounts for 75 percent of first class mail.
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White House
Nazi Party
New York
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Washington (Ap
Treasury Department
Zip
Wife charged in Virginia gun death case
Dorothy Stephens faces murder charges after admitting to shooting her husband John M. Stephens at their Salem home. Police say an old Derringer caused the fatal wound early Saturday. Stephens is free on $5,000 bond awaiting a July 15 preliminary hearing.
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Dorothy Stephens
Wena Willigedees
John M. Stephens
Stephens
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