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...Senate vote that could add a 49th star to the U.S. flag. Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, getting word that diehard opposition, mostly Southern, had gasped its last, rushed from a steak dinner to Capitol Hill. Alaska's Governor Mike Stepovich excused himself to his dinner hosts, sped to the Capitol. The Senate roll was called, and the U.S. Senate last week voted 64 (31 Democrats, 33 Republicans) to 20 to admit Alaska to the Union. Barring only the foregone conclusions of a presidential signature and an Alaska referendum next month, the U.S. had its first new state since Arizona...
...T.W.A., Hughes picked an old airman. Californian Thomas climbed into the air as a World War I Navy aviator, bossed the big Foreman & Clark men's clothing chain from 1937 to 1953, was G.O P. national finance chairman until he resigned last week. As Navy Secretary, he sped the fleet into the age of seaborne missile armaments and atom power...
Before it could be withdrawn, the U.S. last week latched onto the U.S.S.R.'s tentative acceptance of President Eisenhower's offer of joint technical studies on the feasibility of stopping nuclear tests. President Eisenhower sped off a "Dear Mr. Chairman" letter to the Kremlin's Khrushchev, proposed that delegations of Western and Communist scientists meet in Geneva next month to discuss ways and means of detecting nuclear explosions. The scientists should aim for an initial progress report in 30 days, a final report in 60 days, wrote Ike, and the U.S. and U.S.S.R. should keep...
...minutes later a passing motorist sped word of the crash to the police and to the power company. The power company pulled the switch on the line, and patrolmen headed out to the wreckage, urged the passengers to come on out. But they refused to move until a power and light man showed up, climbed up and cut the line away from the bus. After that the ambulances took Shirley Stith and daughter Melanie Jane off to Madonna Hospital at Denison, both dead of electrocution...
...tomb the car suddenly veered off into a side street. Glancing through a shattered side window, Nixon could see a mob of 3,000 rioters, mostly high school students, waiting for him. (Days later, policemen found 400 Molotov cocktails cached in the basement of a nearby house.) The limousine sped off to the safety of the U.S. embassy residence...