Eisenhower links summit to Geneva progress on tensions
President Eisenhower said a summit is likely if the Geneva foreign ministers conference reduces East-West tensions. He named Khrushchev as the sole Moscow leader able to negotiate authoritatively and urged concrete progress at Geneva to justify a later summit. He also spoke on steel wage talks, Truman invitations, and 1960 GOP prospects in the South.
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Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
Russia
Kiseer
Geneva
United States
Truman
White House
Winston Churchill
Nixon
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
South
Rockefeller
Eisenhow
WCEF Reaffirms Bid For Governor Almond Speech
Warren County Educational Foundation directors unanimously reaffirmed Invitation for Gov. J Lindsay Almond Jr to speak at the Warren County Private High School commencement. Almond had offered to withdraw after a citizens committee petition objected to his support for a school integration program. The foundation called the address a tribute to students and sought his delivery as fitting for the first graduation of the private school.
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Front Royal
J. Lindsay Almond Jr
Warren County
Warren County Educational Foundation
Almond
Citizens Committee
Virginia
Loudoun Street parking limits change and patrol checks begin
Forty parking meters on Loudoun Street shift from two hour to one hour limits today. The first ten meters on each side near Boscawén now take nickels and dimes, one hour for a dime and half hour for five cents. Chief J Thomas Boyd says city police will start tomorrow with three shifts to conduct road blocks checking city tags inspection stickers licenses and registrations. One woman slipped through a luncheon crowd by claiming a virus to shorten lines. Reminiscences mark a reunion of long separated friends connected to an 1890s Conley Rinker Pierce class. Two Strasburg seventh grade classes visited Winchester, led by Mrs Gilbert Beeler and Mrs Eldred Helsley with 92 students, touring Hebron National Cemetery and George Washington's Headquarters.
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Loudoun St
Boscawén
J. Thomas Boyd
Strasburg
Winchester
Gilbert Beeler
Eldred Helsley
Hebron Cemetery
National Cemetery
George Washington
Formal Negotiations Open For New Steel Labor Pact
U S Steel and United Steelworkers began formal talks in New York with two months before a possible July 1 strike. Bethlehem Steel and Republic Steel also opened bargaining as unions seek bigger profit share, wage gains, shorter hours, and pensions. U S Steel faced about 100 union negotiators across a long table as talks started.
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New York
Steel Industry
U.S. Corp
United Steelworkers Union
Roosevelt Hotel
Bethlehem
Repub
U.S. Steel
Churchill Heads to America On Personal Visit
The 84 year old Sir Winston Churchill arrived at Washingtons National Airport for a three night stay. He will visit the White House and British embassy and spend time in New York in a purely personal trip described with wit and charm.
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Eisenhower
Sir Winston Churchill
National Airport
White House
East Jecceay Bestrope
Wnson
Winston
Washington
Churchill
America
Lord Montgomery
Moscow
Khrushchev
New York
Truman Advises Against Cutting Foreign Aid
Former President Harry S. Truman urged Congress not to slash foreign aid, arguing the Development Loan Fund should remain funded. He said the fund could finance projects banks cannot handle due to risk and suggested a five year authorization, referencing the Marshall Plan as a model.
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Washington
Harry S. Truman
Congress
Truman
Europe
Girl Falls Ten Floors Survives With Scratches
New York AP report says 12 year old Formia Williams found her daughter Herschelle after hearing a sudden silence. The girl apparently fell from an open window but sustained only facial scratches.
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NEW York
Formia Williams
Herschelle
MacLeish Wins Third Pulitzer for J.B. Drama
Archibald MacLeish collects his third Pulitzer Prize, the 1959 drama award, for J.B. the modern retelling of Job. The piece makes him the eighth American to win three Pulitzers, with prior poetry honors in 1933 and 1953.
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Archibald Macleish
J.B
AP Wirephoto
New York
MacLeish
Grayson Kirk
Columbia University
Bill) Mauldin
Soviet Union
Boris
California
Robert Lewis Taylor
Sharon, Conn
Ralph McGill
Atlanta Constitution
McGill
Parker suspect body found in Pearl River near Bogalusa
A 23 year old African American man accused in a rape case was found drowned with injuries three miles south of the Poplarville Bogalusa bridge. An FBI agent and a Mississippi highway patrolman located body parts in the river as investigators traced the killing and kidnapping connected to an April 25 incident.
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FBI
Mississippi
Parker
Poplarville
Poplarville-Bogalusa
Pearl River
Awarom
Cororier
Charity Hospital
Freedom of Press Day Noted in Soviet Union Celebrations
Moscow reports a formal Soviet observance of Freedom of the Press Day. The accompanying dispatch, though, was subject to censorship and altered before release.
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Freedom of Press
Soviet Union
Eisenhower Denounces Antagonisms Over Strauss AEC
President Eisenhower defended Lewis Strauss as a valued public servant amid Senate clashes over his AEC leadership. He warned that denying a man a job due to personal antagonism marks a low point, while Strauss planned to rebut after Anderson testifies.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Strauss
Atomicergy Commission
AEC
Anderson
Senate Commerce Committee
Cabin
Nominatie 5
Clare Boothe Luce
Brazil
Senate
Court Set Aside Seven Year County Desegregation Moratorium
The 4th U S Court of Appeals reversed a seven year delay for Prince Edward County public schools desegregation and ordered immediate steps to admit qualified Negro students to white schools in September. The case returns to District Judge Hutcheson with orders to apply the school ratings to enrollment and to ensure non-racial admission.
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Richmond
U.S. 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Prince Edward County
Sterling Hutcheson
Prince Edward
Hutcheson
County School Board
Shah Begins Britain Visit With Two Personal Questions
The Shah of Iran arrived in London for an official visit with two pressing concerns on his mind. He seeks a future wife and closer Western ties, as Prime Minister Macmillan and Cabinet members greet him at Victoria Station. A rumor about a romance with Margaret is noted but playfully dismissed by London's observers.
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Shah
Britain
London
Iran
Harold Macmillan
Mohammedan Shah
Church of England
Victoria Station
Margaret
Diplomat
Defender Says Prince Edward Will Stand Firm
Robert Crawford, president of the Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties, vows no public school integration in Prince Edward County after the 4th Circuit ordered consolidation. White residents remain opposed as in five years, with Blanton Hanbury noting private classes could start soon.
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Farmville
Prince Edward County
Robert Crawford
Crawford
Prince County
Ormy
U.S. 4Th Circuit of Appeals
Blanton Hanbury
The
Foundation
Court ruling could be appealed in school desegregation case
Richmond AP reports the state attorney general said Prince Edward County would appeal a Fourth Circuit ruling ordering public school desegregation. If the Supreme Court rejects the appeal, the county may gain an extra year of school operation while the case continues.
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Richmond
U.S. 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Prince Edward County
General Assembly
J. Lindsay Almond, Jr
U.S. Supreme Court
Prince Edward
Angry Youths Demonstrate Against De Gaulle in Constantine
Several thousand European residents of Constantine march in a funeral cortège for Helene Serio a 16 year old French girl killed by Algerian rebels. The protest reflects anger over De Gaulle’s stance on integrating Algeria with European France and preserving European minority control.
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Algeria
Charles de Gaulle
Helene Serio
de Gaulle
France
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