| How To Optimize Your Sleep With Your Apple Watch | New Findings On How To Sleep Best Reported |
| Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report for the Fox News | News Wire Article published in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph |
| August 8, 2024 | September 6, 1929 |
| Feeling groggy in the morning? Wondering if youre getting enough shut-eye? Your Apple Watch might have the answers youre looking for. With the built-in sleep app you can easily track your sleep patterns right from your wrist. Its a great way to get insights into how much rest youre actually getting and the quality of your sleep. Heres why you might want to give it a try. … Read the full article here. |
New Haven Conn. Sept. 5 - New findings on how to sleep best were reported at a symposium on sleep at the ninth international congress of psychology today. To curl like a kitten seems to give the greatest possible relaxation. Sleeping like a log may be a bad sign a warning of overstrain. When sleep refuses to come it is probably the muscles that bar the sandmans arrival. Prevailing conceptions of sleep were heavily shaken by the findings presented by ten investigators said H. M. of Mellon institute Pittsburgh chairman of the symposium in summing up. He showed motion pictures taken at the institute. These pictures indicate that the greatest possible relaxation is in a coil much like a kittens and in a sprawling posture resembling that of a swimmer. A bed that is too narrow or badly designed simply limits the number of postures that are favored. The pictures disclose that a typical sleeper on a typical night lies in nine different postures in 1-3 hours. He shifts from one to another 33 times remaining quiet for periods of 2 to 56 minutes the average being 15 minutes. All postures that are held for a very long time are greatly contorted the most striking feature being that they are awkward and twisted quite at variance from recommendations of the doctors. About half the time is spent in postures that are mirror images of others that is they are designed to rest parts which were under some slight strain during the opposite posture. Dr. Coleman R. Griffith University of Illinois found college athletes distinguished members of Illinois football basketball and track teams of the past two years—about one-third more restless than an unselected college group. They were however about one-third quieter than young children. The wives of middle aged men were found by the Simmons investigators at Mellon institute to be about as restless as athletes. The middle aged men engaged in professional work were a little more restless than the athletes but not as much as young children. After a hard game of football Dr Griffith observed the athletes were more restless than usual and that sometimes they slept less after a game. |
| James Webb Telescope Reveals Mystery About The Energy Surrounding A Black Hole | ‘Holes’ In Space’? |
| Cybele Mayes-Osterman, Usa Today for the Usa Today | News Wire Article published in the Anniston Star |
| August 8, 2024 | November 25, 1973 |
| A team of scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer through the veil of dust surrounding a faraway supermassive black hole revealing that energy around the hole comes from jets of gas colliding together at near light speed. The Webb telescope the most powerful ever targeted the giant black hole at the center of a galaxy known as ESO 428-G14 about 70 million light-years away according to Space.com. As with our home galaxy the Milky Way a supermassive black hole sits at its center. … Read the full article here. |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three teams of scientists report firm evidence on the revolutionary theory that distant space contains ‘black holes.”’ Black holes are believed to be invisible collapsed stars so dense that a spoonful of material from them would weigh more than a billion tons. Nothing not even light is believed to escape from them. Matter coming near them is believed to be sucked into them with great force. Two Princeton University scientists theorized the existence of black holes in 1971 and astronomers have been eagerly hunting for the first definite example of one. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Saturday released a report by a team of scientists from University College London which assembled data from NASAs Orbiting Astronomical Observatory. The scientists said the X-ray equipment some 400 miles above earth had detected evidence of the black hole in a double star system Cygnus X1 more than 8000 light years away. The same discovery was reported by two teams of University of California astronomers working independently at Lick Observatory near San Jose Calif. Their results were published in the current Astrophysical Journal. The existence of Cygnus X-1 was detected in 1965 only because it emits intense X-rays representing a million times more energy than the total energy output of the sun. The newly reported evidence portrays this strange star as a kind of invisible but inseparable companion to a visible super-giant star called “HDE-226868. The British scientists concluded that Cygnus X-1 may be a black hole because it appears to be gobbling up extremely hot clouds of gas given off by its larger neighbor. The California astronomers said the issue was whether the visible star was really as big as it seemed. Only if this could be proven would it be reasonable to assume its partner was a black hole. |
| Fan Removed From Arena After Unfurling Flag At Lin Yu-Ting Fight | Ninth Olympiad Opens Amidst Controversy |
| Josh Peter, Usa Today for the Usa Today | (By Associatec? Prace) published in the Kalispell Daily Inter Lake |
| August 10, 2024 | July 28, 1928 |
| PARIS − A spectator holding a flag promoting independence for Taiwan from China was removed from the seating area at Roland Garros-Stadium Saturday night. The incident took place as Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting was getting ready to receive a gold medal for winning the women’s featherweight division. The spectator a woman refused to give up the flag as she was pulled out of view by what appeared to be stadium security. Earlier the woman appeared to strike an employee in the head with a small flag. … Read the full article here. |
Amsterdam July 28. With flags flying in the cool breezes under overcast skies and with 40000 visitors jamming the great elliptical amphitheater the ninth Olympiad was formally opened this afternoon in a spectacular ceremony. The sun broke through for a few minutes as the chorus of 12000 sang the Dutch national anthem from a location across the field from the official tribune. The parade of the national athletic arrays immediately following the opening gestures aroused spontaneous enthusiasm in the stands each contingent stopping to salute before the prince consorts royal box. An international controversy growing out of a French official being punched by a Dutch stadium gatekeeper fell like a bombshell in the midst of the spectacular Olympiad opening. The entire French delegation withdrew from the opening parade and failed to take the Olympic oath the situation reaching diplomatic proportions when Franz Reichel secretary of the French Olympic committee told The Associated Press he would consult the French ambassador on a decision as to whether to compete in the games. The steadfast Dutch contention that Its all due to bad weather is not supported by Reichels formal statement of the difficulties involving the use of the stadium by the French team. On Friday a guard at the stadium without provocation struck Paul Mericamp general secretary of the French athletic federation and a member of the Olympic committee with his fist and the French general secretary requested that the guard be removed which was agreed to together with other reparations with the sole reservation that an administrative order would be issued there and then after an investigation. The Dutch-French controversy over the alleged insulting and punching of a French official by a Dutch stadium gatekeeper closed today as suddenly as it had developed. The French accepted a formal Dutch apology took the special Olympic oath and decided to compete in the games beginning tomorrow. |
| Robotic Drones Are Revealing Secrets About Natures Deadliest Hurricanes | Hurricane Busters Chase Freak Storm |
| Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report for the Fox News | News Wire Article published in the Morning Herald |
| August 1, 2024 | September 9, 1947 |
| Have you ever wondered why some hurricanes transform from relatively mild storms into monsters in just a day? This process called rapid intensification is one of the biggest challenges in hurricane forecasting. Imagine youre living in a coastal town preparing for what you think will be a moderate tropical storm. Suddenly within 24 hours it becomes a Category 5 hurricane. Thats exactly what happened with Hurricane Otis in October 2023 catching many by surprise and causing widespread destruction. … Read the full article here. |
Minor Tropical Storm Sneaks Into Gulf of Mexico. A minor tropical storm made a sneak appearance in the Gulf of Mexico today and became a meteorological guinea pig for historys first hurricane-busting experiment. Todays storm developed too close to the Florida west coast to be seeded with dry ice or other crystals by Army and Navy planes. The military services and scientists cooperating with them want a bigger storm farther at sea for their first real effort. A Navy hurricane hunter plane from the Miami Naval Air Station probed the Gulf storm for possibly the last bit of research before the actual hurricane busting effort begins. The hurricane hunter craft was piloted by Lt. R. Dannetell with Lt. Comdr. C. Marshall the co-pilot and Ensign W. J. Remillard the meteorologist. No chemicals were dropped into the storm. All phases of the plan to artificially disintegrate hurricanes will be ready next weekend. Crews are being briefed photographic equipment gathered and scientific data studied for the effort. The Army Navy and General Electric Company will cooperate in the plan which has been worked out by Dr. Irving Langmuir a noted physicist and Nobel prize winner. |
| Ultra-Fast Charging Ev Sports Car Can Juice Up In 5 Minutes | Joe Adcock To Manage Cleveland Ford Shows Battery To Power Small Cars |
| Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report for the Fox News | News Wire Article published in the Kenosha News |
| July 31, 2024 | October 3, 1966 |
| Imagine pulling up to a charging station plugging in your electric vehicle and driving off with a near-full battery in less time than it takes to grab a coffee. Sounds too good to be true right? Well Nyobolt might just be turning this scenario into reality. The prototype that\s turning heads Nyobolt a U.K.-based battery technology company has recently unveiled a working prototype of an electric … Read the full article here. |
DEARBORN Mich. — Ford Motor Co. today unveiled an inexpensive high-energy battery to electrically power small cars for city driving. But Ford gave no timetable on when electric cars would be available except to say it might be ‘within the next decade. The breakthrough battery which promises to relieve air pollution caused by exhaust from conventional gasoline-powered cars is based on a new principle. It is made of crystalline ceramic sodium and sulphur three cheap and abundant materials. Ford did not show how big the battery would be how fast it could propel a car or how far the car could go between battery charges. But Michael Ference Jr. vice president for scientific research said the battery could store up to 15 times as much electrical energy as the conventional lead-acid batteries of today. Ference said Ford also has developed a rugged low-cost electric car motor which weighs only one-fourth as much as today’s best direct current motors with equivalent power rating. Ference said Ford studies indicated a whole new approach to vehicle engineering is needed to develop a car for use with the electric system. He said Ford of England is now engineering a low-cost city car smaller than today’s U.S. compact models to carry two adult passengers and two children. Construction of the first car is now underway and will be completed next spring. It will be shipped to the United States for testing under urban-suburban application. Ference said more development work is needed to enable the new battery to provide better acceleration and make it go further between charges. |
| Within Hours Of Discovery Wildfire Outside Denver Triggers Hundreds Of Evacuations | California Homes Leveled By Blaze |
| Christopher Cann, Usa Today for the Usa Today | News Wire Article published in the Post Herald |
| July 31, 2024 | January 1, 1959 |
| Hundreds of central Colorado residents were evacuated early Wednesday after deadly wildfires spread fiercely over mountainous terrain as firefighters in California battled the fifth-largest blaze in state history. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis told reporters Wednesday afternoon that Boulder County authorities confirmed one fatality from the blaze and at least five homes have been destroyed as strong winds and dry heat hampered emergency responders efforts to quell the flames. … Read the full article here. |
TOPANGA CANYON Calif. (AP) — A wind-driven fire believed to be started by an arsonist sped wildly through the Santa Monica Mountains Wednesday night burning homes and forcing thousands to flee. An estimated 50 homes and cabins have been destroyed and 3000 acres blackened. An army of men aided by fire-bombing planes fought the blaze. The fire started Wednesday morning near Woodland Hills and swept along by gale-like winds raced up the inland slope over the crest and down populous Topanga Canyon to the sea. In the canyon community of Glenwood at least 35 structures were razed Fire Capt. Jack Connors said. Dozens of homes were in its path as the fire headed toward the Pacific. How many could be saved was not known firemen said. The blaze swept through the property of the late actor Richard Dix His $100000 home was saved. The Pacific Coast Highway was closed as flames raced down the hillsides to its edge. Flames leaped 75 feet into the air. Beach property was endangered. Said Asst. County Fire Chief Paul Clark: We better catch this little firebug. Hes set 20 fires in this area in the last three days. This is definitely arson. The others were small blazes quickly controlled. Hot dry desert winds have raked the area the past two days making the brush tinder dry. Just before noon a tremendous wall of flames roared into the canyon community of Glenview and rolled on. |
| It Was Their Rocket: U.S. Blames Hezbollah For Attack That Killed 12 Children And Teens | Palestinian Attacks Raise The Ire Of Syrians |
| Michael Collins And Francesca Chambers, Usa Today for the Usa Today | By The Associated Press published in the Austin Daily Herald |
| July 30, 2024 | October 12, 1976 |
| WASHINGTON – The White House said Monday the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was responsible for the weekend rocket attack that killed 12 children and teenagers in the Golan Heights. It was their rocket. It was launched from an area that they control White House national security spokesman John Kirby said. Hezbollah has denied any role in the attack which happened Saturday when a rocket slammed into a soccer field in the Israeli-controlled Golan. The attack has escalated t … Read the full article here. |
The Syrian government vowed today to take decisive deterrent and punitive action following Palestinian attacks on Syrian embassies in Pakistan and Italy. The attacks were a reprisal for Syria’s intervention in the Lebanese civil war against the Palestinians and their leftist Lebanese Muslim allies. Three Palestinians brandishing machine guns broke into the Syrian Embassy in Rome on Monday. They wounded the first secretary in the leg and held five embassy officials hostage for two hours before surrendering to Italian police. Later Monday three Palestinians tried to take over the Syrian Embassy in Islamabad Pakistan after throwing bombs at the ambassadors residence. One of the attackers was reported killed. In Beirut a spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization denied that the PLO was responsible for either attack. There was no comment from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and other radical groups. Acts committed by gangs of criminals will not pass without punishment the Syrian government’s Damascus Radio said. Those criminals and their sponsors tend to forget that the embassies they attacked were a mecca for the noblest and the most courageous fighters for the Palestine cause. They forgot that the Palestine revolution was born in Syria. They want to destroy what was built with Syrian sacrifice sweat and blood. The Syrian government made similar statements following an attack Sept. 2 by four Palestinians in Damascus. The three surviving raiders were hanged publicly within 24 hours and the Syrian army and Lebanese Christian militiamen launched a campaign in which they drove the Palestinians from mountain positions northeast of Beirut. Italian police sources said the Syrian government told the Italian government it would seek the extradition of the Palestinians who invaded the Rome embassy. The raiders intended to capture the Syrian ambassador and demand as ransom for him the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon or their surrender and the release of 100 Palestinians held in Syrian prisons the police said. But the ambassador was not in the embassy. The ambassador was not present at the time. The official said the other two Palestinians were. |
| Who Is Josh Shapiro? Get To Know The Pennsylvania Governor And Potential Harris Vp Pick | Warrens To Go To New York To Take Mrs. Warren And Girls To See Some Shows |
| Victor Hagan, Usa Today for the Usa Today | News Wire Article published in the Oil City Blizzard |
| July 31, 2024 | June 26, 1948 |
| Vice President Kamala Harris has yet to select a running mate for her 2024 presidential campaign but according to the campaign she’s scheduled to visit several swing states next week with her vice presidential pick meaning that a decision and announcement is near. Once selected the Democratic duo plans to visit Philadelphia western Wisconsin Detroit Raleigh N.C. Savannah Ga. Phoenix and Los Vegas according to the campaign. Based on prior reporting by USA TODAY the first stop will … Read the full article here. |
Philadelphia. — Republican vice presidential nominee Earl Warren departs tomorrow for New York and the Broadway shows he has been promising Mrs. Warren and the girls. The big ruddy-faced Californian made this a prime order of business. First however he set aside most of the day to confer with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey the man who defeated him for top spot on the ticket but then tapped him as his personal choice for a running mate. The two governors—of New York and California—dined together last night at Deweys hotel suite presumably to lay campaign plans and discuss election of a new chairman of the Republican national committee. They got together again today. Dewey expected to leave for Pawling N. Y. sometime after noon when convention business was cleaned up. Then Warren planned to bundle up Mrs. Warren and his three blonde daughters - Virginia 19 Dorothy 17 and Nina 14 — and head for New York to fulfill the pledge on which “I havent yet been able to deliver.” Warren said they probably will stay there several days — “long enough to take in some shows.” Then he will return to California. Warren told his first news conference as Vice presidential nominee that he “definitely” will not resign as governor to campaign. But he said he intends to spend the summer and fall “in making a great crusade for the upholding of Republican principles.” If he and Dewey are elected he said a prime objective of his will be to make the government “a human government an efficient government and—above all—a government of integrity from top to bottom” Not one to take the sidelines if he can help it Warren drew from Dewey a promise of something more to do as vice president than act as the senate’s presiding officer. Warren said he didn’t know what specific other duties he might be able to assume under the Constitution. But he said he thinks the vice presidency should be “of greater public service.” Warrens last-minute willingness to take the nomination came as a surprise. He had said frequently he did not want the No. 2 spot. Warren said yesterday he accepted Deweys invitation to join the ticket because Dewey personally wanted him and because he felt he owed it to the Republican party. Only the day before Warren had declared he would not take a $15000 a year cabinet post as attorney general because he could not afford it. He has no independent means he said and a big family to support. As governor of California he is paid $25000 with the equivalent of possibly another $20000 or $25000 in the emoluments of office. As vice president at a $20000 a year salary he stands to lose $5000 a year in pay. But the job gets $37385 in expense money—$32385 for clerical help plus $5000 for a car and its upkeep. |
| Chicken Wings Advertised As Boneless Can Have Bones Ohio Supreme Court Decides | Birds Without Wings The Latest Thing In Chicken Raising; 400 In Flock |
| Michael Rubinkam for the Associated Press | News Wire Article published in the Northwest Arkansas Times |
| July 25, 2024 | July 7, 1949 |
| Consumers cannot expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday rejecting claims by a restaurant patron who suffered serious medical complications from getting a bone stuck in his throat. Michael Berkheimer was dining with his wife and friends at a wing joint in Hamilton Ohio and had ordered the usual — boneless wings with parmesan garlic sauce — when he felt a bite-size piece of meat go down the wrong way. Three days later feverish … Read the full article here. |
Des Moines Iowa July 7 - Wingless chickens have been developed by Peter H. Baumann of Des Moines after 12 years of selective breeding. Baumann 32 has about 400 of the wingless chickens. The advantages? Well for one thing Baumann says his birds have white meat where others have only bony wings. It makes them better eating. And besides no high fence is needed to keep the chickens in the yard. The birds cant fly at all and Baumann says they can only “high jump” 18 to 20 inches. A two-foot barrier is high enough. Baumann reports the chickens lay an average number of eggs but he says in time he expects the breed will out-lay other chickens as well as produce more meat. The reason is that the energy an ordinary chicken wastes in “useless flapping and flying about can be utilized in production of meat and eggs.” Lack of wings also makes the drumsticks bigger. That according to the raiser is because the chicken’s upper leg has to work harder to hold the bird upright. The breed isnt perfect yet. Baumann still gets about five chickens with stubby little wings out of every 100. These are carefully weeded out of the breeding stock. |
| Israeli Airstrike Hits School Sheltering People In Gaza Killing At Least 30 | Israel Appeals To Egypt For ‘End To Bloodshed’ |
| Wafaa Shurafa, Sam Metz for the Associated Press | Ry United Press International published in the Lowell Sun |
| July 27, 2024 | November 12, 1977 |
| DEIR AL-BALAH Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes hit a school used by displaced Palestinians in central Gaza on Saturday killing at least 30 people including several children as the country’s negotiators prepared to meet international mediators about a proposed cease-fire. Seven children and seven women were among the dead taken from the girls’ school in Deir al-Balah to Al Aqsa Hospital. Israel’s military said it targeted a Hamas command center used to direct attacks against Israeli troops … Read the full article here. |
Israel has appealed to Egypt for an end to war an end to bloodshed but Israeli jets raided southern Lebanon for the second time this week in retaliation for Palestinian guerrilla gunfire. Egypt cautiously welcomed the Jewish state’s plea for peace and Arab foreign ministers gathered in northern Africa to decide their next move. Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin in an unprecedented move in the history of the Middle East conflict broadcast his remarks to the Egyptian people Friday only two days after Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in a dramatic gesture offered to go to Jerusalem for peace talks. We the Israelis stretch out our hand to you Begin said in his five-minute prepared statement aired on national radio and television and beamed to the Arab countries. Quoting from the Koran and invoking the name of our common father Abraham Begin called not only for peace but for a start on the road of friendship. We do not want any clashes with you he said. Let us say one to another and let it be a silent oath by both peoples of Egypt and Israel: No more wars no more bloodshed and no more threats. But as he spoke Israeli warplanes struck southern Lebanon for the second time in three days in response to Palestinian missile attacks. An Israeli army spokesman said the planes on a reconnaissance mission over the region where a massive bombardment Wednesday killed at least 100 people destroyed a missile position south of the biblical city of Tyre. Hospital reports in Lebanon listed 14 people injured but Palestinian guerrilla spokesmen said their anti-aircraft and SAM-7 missiles kept the planes at high altitude and eventually forced them back to Israel. They said they had called a full military alert because of Wednesdays raid. You can bet we were ready a spokesman said. Earlier Israeli gunners responded to a guerrilla pocket attack on the frontier kibbutz of Yiron with a heavy barrage. There was damage to the kibbutz but no casualties were reported. Israeli planes Friday also attempted to attack Nabatiyeh in the southeast but Palestinian officials said they were turned back. In Cairo Egypt cautiously welcomed Begin’s appeal for peace. This call in itself is welcomed by Egypt which has always made a strong plea for peace a government spokesman said. |
| New Prosthetics Restore Natural Movement Via Nerve Connection | Old Idea Of ‘Hopeless’ Cripples Goes Overboard In Face Of Dramatic Evidence Of Competence In Use Of Artificial Legs |
| Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report for the Fox News | News Wire Article published in the Findlay Republican Courier |
| July 26, 2024 | March 24, 1950 |
| In the world of prosthetics a groundbreaking advancement is changing the game for individuals with lower-limb amputations. Researchers at MIT in collaboration with Brigham and Women\s Hospital have developed a neuroprosthetic system that allows users to control their prosthetic legs using their own nervous systems. This innovative approach could bring us closer to a future of fully integrated naturally controlled artificial limbs. … Read the full article here. |
WASHINGTON March 23—Some “hopeless” cripples showed today why there’s plenty of room for any handicapped person to have hope. A man with one leg ran a credible 60-yard dash. A man with only two stumps for legs and with no control over either stump not only walked but climbed a stair. A man who had put on the second of his two artificial legs only a month ago walked jauntily across the room. This was part of a demonstration at the national conference on workmens compensation and rehabilitation. It illustrated a change that has come over the thinking on the proper treatment for cripples. In the old days a man with no legs for example was taught a job in which he needed no legs. Now the theory is to give him legs— and teach him to stand both literally and figuratively on his own two feet. Dr. Henry H. Kessler of West Orange N. J. and Dr. Josephine J. Buchanan of Fisherville Va showed what hard work and patience on the part of both the patients and the doctors can do. Charles Cook 30 of Keen Mountain Va. hurt his back in a mine accident in 1943. Paralyzed from the hips down he couldnt walk for five years. Then the United Mine Workers’ welfare fund paid for an operation and for instruction at the Fisherville Woodrow Wilson rehabilitation center. “Charlie fell down in the hotel today” Dr. Buchanan said “and everyone rushed to pick him up. ‘Leave him alone’ I said ‘Charlie can get up by himself.” Charlie got up by himself. Earl Fink a handsome mustached 33-year-old from Harrisburgh Pa. lost both legs in an automobile accident three years ago. He got one artificial leg Jan. 27 the other only a month ago. Yet he walked confidently and jauntily across the room. Among Dr. Kessler’s helpers were Ben Combs of Hazard Ky. and Donald Kerr a product of New Orleans. Combs lost both legs in a mine accident five years ago when he was only 17. In addition he was paralyzed and had no control over the short stumps. Yet today he managed his crutches and body so well that he swung his legs along and then climbed some stairs. Kerr was the prize exhibit. He lost a leg when he was just nine yet he captained the Tulane fencing team dances plays tennis and badminton roller skates high jumps. It was he who ripped through the 60-yard dash. Kerr said that as a youngster he walked four and a half miles to school cut grass and ran errands despite his artificial leg. And he told this story: “A neighbor came to my mother and said ‘Youre a fiend Mrs. Kerr.’ My mother replied ‘Tell me how does my boy act?’ ‘Perfectly normal’ said the neighbor. ‘All right.’ said my mother ‘hes perfectly normal and Im a fiend’.” Everybody got the point. |
| Ai Concerns Spur Video Game Workers To Go On Strike Starting Friday | Film Employees Continue Work Despite Strike |
| Jasmine Baehr for the Fox News | News Wire Article published in the Linton Daily Citizen |
| July 26, 2024 | May 1, 1937 |
| Video game performers with SAG-AFTRA will strike beginning Friday as AI loopholes have caused concerns. Beginning at 12:01 Friday morning video game voice actors and motion capture performers under the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists will strike over artificial intelligence protections. This is the second strike for SAG-AFTRA performers in video games. While the union has conceded that wages and job safety have made gains in video game contracts … Read the full article here. |
Film employees passed into the major studios today by the truckload despite the strike called by three unions. Pickets made no effort to molest those running their lines. It was uncertain however if the movie stars would pass the picket lines at Paramount R. K. O. Columbia and other studios. Their guild left the matter up to the individual. They will not report for work until later. The major studios apparently determined to continue production despite the strike of 2500 craftsmen in three unions slipped several truckloads of men inside the gates at dawn for later other trucks loaded with workmen were permitted to pass without opposition. There were but 18 pickets at the main gate of the Paramount lot. There were 10 each at Columbia and R. K. O. The strike order affecting film painters scenic artists and makeup men became effective at 6:00 oclock Friday evening after being called by the Federated Motion Picture Crafts. A conference between union leaders and producers’ representatives previously ended in a deadlock arising from refusal to recognize bargaining rights. It was reported the striking groups are without the support of the strong older unions which are members of the so-called basic studio agreement. These unions include the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners the musicians International Brotherhood of Electric Workers and the Truck Drivers Chauffeurs and Teamsters’ Union all affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. |
| Charlotte Dujardin Out Of Olympics After Video. Gold Medalist Is Suspended | U.S. Suspends Pair |
| Chris Bumbaca for the Usa Today | News Wire Article published in the Brownwood Bulletin |
| July 23, 2024 | October 18, 1968 |
| PARIS – One of the most decorated members of the Great Britain Olympic delegation has withdrawn from the 2024 Paris Olympics following an equine-abuse investigation. Equestrian athlete Charlotte Dujardin a three-time Olympic gold medalist in dressage announced the news Tuesday after a video she said was from four years ago surfaced and showed her acting “completely out of character.” The International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI) investigation resulted in a six-month suspension … Read the full article here. |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Olympic Committee suspended star sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos from the U.S. Olympic team after midnight Thursday for untypical exhibitionism during an Olympic victory ceremony Wednesday. The decision followed a complaint by the International Olympic Committee regarding the conduct of Smith when he received the gold medal for winning the 200-meter event and Carlos when he was presented the bronze medal for finishing third in the 200-meter finals Wednesday. Both Smith and Carlos raised clenched fists clothed in black gloves during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner and also wore black knee socks without shoes during the presentation ceremony. They also wore identical buttons on their team uniforms citing demands for racial equality. Two members of the U.S Olympic Committees board of consultants John Sayre a rower in the 1960 Olympics and Billy Mills the 10000-meter winner in 1964 went to the Olympic Village after midnight to notify Smith and Carlos to leave. The statement from the U.S. Olympic Committee said that any repetition of such incidents by other members of the U.S. team can only be considered a willful disregard of Olympic principles that would warrant the imposition of the severest penalties at the disposal of the U.S. Olympic Committee. The statement expressed profound regrets to the IOC the Mexican Organizing Committee and to the people of Mexico for the discourtesy displayed by two members of this team in departing from tradition during a victory ceremony at the Olympic Stadium Oct 16. This action is necessary in belief such immature behavior is an isolated incident. However if further investigation or subsequent events do not bear out this view the entire matter will be re-evaluated. |
| Will Netanyahu Visit Lead To Progress In A Cease-Fire Agreement Between Israel And Hamas? | Kissinger In Jerusalem; Reassures Nervous Israel |
| Francesca Chambers, Usa Today for the Usa Today | News Wire Article published in the Lompoc Record |
| July 24, 2024 | May 2, 1974 |
| As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kicks off a high-profile visit to Washington that includes an address to Congress and meetings with top officials the issue that has been at the forefront of U.S.-Israel relations − a Gaza-war cease-fire − may seem elusive. Negotiators are still working on a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas that would bring prisoners and hostages home and establish a roadmap for a permanent end to the war. U.S. officials have said for weeks that an agreement … Read the full article here. |
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger arrived in Jerusalem today and reassured a nervous Israel that he would not work against its security or apply pressure in seeking a peace settlement on the embattled Golan Heights. Israeli-Syrian fighting on the Heights entered its 52nd day. Kissinger’s task appeared to be growing more difficult by the minute. The Syrian leadership has stated that fighting will continue until Israel withdraws from all captured Arab territory including the Golan Heights. Israel refuses but has offered to give up territory captured in October. Youthful Israeli demonstrators chanting and carrying signs against Israeli concessions were outside his hotel when Kissinger arrived in Jerusalem. There also were anti-Kissinger demonstrations in Damascus Wednesday where gun-carrying students in a May Day parade denounced Kissinger as a ‘cheap American a Jewish conspirator.’ On the war front the Israeli command said its jets strafed Syrian positions around Mt. Hermon and carried out artillery duels with Syrian guns on the Heights below. The Israelis also reported their jets attacked an Arab guerrilla concentration in Lebanese territory on the western slopes of Mt. Hermon where the Israelis came under fire Wednesday. Syrian communiques said a Syrian patrol destroyed three Israeli tanks and their occupants with hand grenades and light weapons. Kissinger said on arrival ‘I come here not to discuss concessions but to discuss security. The issue is not pressure but a lasting peace. He immediately began a series of meetings with caretaker Prime Minister Golda Meir Defense Secretary Moshe Dayan and Foreign Minister Abba Eban. On Friday Kissinger flies to Damascus. London diplomatic reports said Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko also would visit Damascus shortly to inject Soviet presence into the next phase of Middle East peace strategy. Gromyko pledged cooperation in talks with Kissinger in Geneva Sunday and Monday —but the Syrian line remained tough. |
| Rally Shooter Had Photos Of Trump Biden Other Us Officials On Phone | Shots Fired After Rally For Wallace |
| Alanna Durkin Richer, Eric Tucker for the Associated Press | News Wire Article published in the Cedar Rapids Gazette |
| July 19, 2024 | October 5, 1968 |
| WASHINGTON (AP) — The 20-year-old Pennsylvania man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump had photos on his phone of the former Republican president President Joe Biden and other officials including Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray according to two people familiar with the matter. Investigators searching Thomas Matthew Crooks’ devices have also found that the shooter looked up the dates for the Democratic National Convention as well as Trump’s appearances. … Read the full article here. |
BUFFALO N.Y. (AP) — Eight business places in the Main street area were hit by gunfire from a passing car police say after a rally for George Wallace as a group of anti-Wallace demonstrators was walking along the street toward his hotel. No one was hurt. UPI said Richard Giff 20 was critically wounded in the back. It said his brother was among four anti-Wallace demonstrators arrested after the rally on charges of assaulting a man outside the site of the candidate’s speech. Wallace was safe in a hotel room conferring with aides. About a half-hour earlier Friday night while the third-party presidential candidate was speaking to an estimated 8500 people in Memorial auditorium about 500 anti-Wallace demonstrators — most of them white and teenagers or in their early 20s—left the arena. They milled around for some time then marched north on Main street and had gone about five blocks police said when the car carrying four men drove by. Police said shots fired from the car pierced a front door window of the Buffalo Courier Express — narrowly missing a guard — and windows of seven other businesses. |
| With Ai Jets Police Squadrons Paris Securing Olympics – And Worrying Critics | Olympics Opened By Curtis; 105000 Present For Event |
| John Leicester for the Associated Press | News Wire Article published in the Marysville Evening Tribune |
| July 21, 2024 | July 30, 1932 |
| PARIS (AP) — A year ago the head of the Paris Olympics boldly declared that France’s capital would be “ the safest place in the world when the Games open this Friday. Tony Estanguet’s confident forecast looks less far-fetched now with squadrons of police patrolling Paris’ streets fighter jets and soldiers primed to scramble and imposing metal-fence security barriers erected like an iron curtain on both sides of the River Seine that will star in the opening show. France’s vast police and mi … Read the full article here. |
Los Angeles July 30: Varicolored costumes unique to their 39 nations formed in line today to become the parade which will be the spectacular part of the Olympic games opening ceremony. Brought here for the 10th modern renewal of the international contests which began with a simple footrace on the slopes of Mt. Olympus in Greece in the days before Christ these athletes of both sexes will stand at rigid attention while Vice-President Curtis makes his set speech of 17 words officially opening the games. They will be seen by a capacity crowd of 105000. The spectators will include part of the more than 200000 persons attracted to Los Angeles for the newest version of the historic tests of athletic skill. 135 Events Scheduled. Within the next 16 days this group of the world’s greatest stars of track and field as well as of rowing equestrianism boxing wrestling fencing swimming and kindred sports will have competed in a program of 135 individual events. Only one sport was represented in today’s agenda this was weightlifting preliminary tests of which will be conducted tonight in Olympic auditorium. Thus the show centered today upon the spectacular parade of nations on which the organization committee of Los Angeles has been laboring for more than four years. The program really starts at 2:20 (P.S.T.) when the international organization committee and the Los Angeles committee form at the peristyle entrance to receive Mr. Curtis. Then will come the speech of Count Henri Billet Latour of Belgium president of the International Olympic Committee and of William May Garland head of the Los Angeles organization. A band will play the national anthem. A choir of 1000 voices will sing the second stanza. The parade will start. Finally Vice President Curtis will make his speech. Here it is: I proclaim open the Olympic games of Los Angeles celebrating the tenth Olympiad of the modern era. There will be a fanfare of trumpets to herald the opening. Ten cannons will sound in salute. The Olympic torch atop the peristyle a continuation of the large arch in the stadium entrance gates will be ignited. The choir will sing this time the Olympic anthem. As the last note is heard 2000 pigeons will be released. |
| Hundreds Of Migrants Leave Mexico In New Caravan Headed For Us Border | Hungarian Refugees Crossing Austrian Border To Escape Reds |
| Edgar H. Clemente for the Associated Press | News Wire Article published in the Great Bend Daily Tribune |
| July 22, 2024 | November 5, 1956 |
| CIUDAD HIDALGO México (AP) — Hundreds of migrants from around a dozen countries left from Mexico’s southern border on foot Sunday as they attempt to make it to the U.S. border. Some of the members of the group said they hoped to make it to the U.S. border before elections are held in November because they fear that if Donald Trump wins he will follow through on a promise to close the border to asylum-seekers. “We are running the risk that permits (to cross the border) might be blocked” … Read the full article here. |
VIENNA - Austrias 160-mile-long border with Hungary is alive with refugees. The heroic heartbroken freedom fighters and their loved ones fleeing the renewed Communist-Soviet oppression of their homeland crossed into this country and to freedom by the thousands. They were very welcome here - all of them. Standing at the border point at Schattendorf Burgenland (about 45 miles southeast of Vienna) I waited last night with three Austrian border police for darkness to fall. Suddenly out of a drizzle which sometimes turned to snow the tragic stream of humanity came stumbling into our midst. Austria? the fugitives panted when the police shone electric torches into their drawn terror-stricken faces. Yes yes you are in Austria answered the gray-clad police again and again. Men women and children wept with emotion. Some knelt to kiss the wet earth. Some hugged and embraced the police who gently motioned them on to waiting buses in the background. Throughout Sunday at numerous border villages the swelling tide flowed into Austria. It quickened as the news spread that the Soviets were moving in from east north and south to cut off the fleeing masses - the people whose world but whose burning sunken eyes and parched lips now were accusing this same free world of having deserted them in the hour of most desperate need. |
| Peak Global Population Is Approaching Thanks To Lower Fertility Rates: Graphics Explain | Population Impact Study Released Growth Rates Show Population May Reach 12 Billion In 54 Years |
| Sara Chernikoff, Usa Today for the Usa Today | News Wire Article published in the Bryan Eagle |
| July 21, 2024 | March 21, 1976 |
| A new report from United Nations shows the estimated global population will peak at 10.3 billion people in the mid-2080s - a significantly earlier timeline than what was predicted a few years prior. Although the population is continuing to grow the report found that such growth is slowing down. One indicator of this slow down is the drop in global fertility rates. Fertility rate is the number of live births per woman at reproductive age. Globally the rate is 2.25 births per woman. … Read the full article here. |
NEW YORK (AP) — The world’s population explosion is having a significant impact on at least 22 other dimensions of human society including jobs inflation food supply climate and forests a new study warns. Critical issues are arising from pressures of a world population of 4 billion which at present growth rates would reach 12 billion in 2030 just 54 years from now says Worldwatch Institute of Washington D.C. The population problem concerns us but it will concern our children and grandchildren even more. How we respond to the population threat may do more to shape the world in which they will live than anything else we do the institute says in a paper titled Twenty Two Dimensions of the Population Problem. Worldwatch Institute is an independent nonprofit research organization founded to identify and focus attention on global problems. Its new paper issued in cooperation with the Population Institute of New York was written by Lester Brown Worldwatch president and Patricia McGrath and Bruce Stokes institute researchers. The paper comments that world population is not likely to double over the next generation because of intolerable conditions that would have been generated beforehand. Current population growth rates cannot continue for much longer. Birth rates will come down death rates will go up or more likely both will occur. Increasing nutritional stress environmentally induced illnesses and social disintegration can all contribute to rising death rates and falling birth rates. As indicators of population pressure problems the report says: Almost a billion new jobs will be required in developing countries between now and the year 2000. But few such countries have the necessary investment capital. Illiteracy is increasing from 700 million adult illiterates in 1950 to 800 million now. The world receives 200000 new consumers babies who will have needs each day. Farmers cannot expand the supply of cereals enough to meet world demand. World grain stocks have been drawn down to scarcely 30 days of world consumption. Wheat prices have more than doubled. Malnutrition is rising and each year 15 million children under age 5 die of combined effects of malnutrition and infection. National parks are under increasing pressure by ever expanding use and abuse and in Africa parks and game preserves have been sacrificed to the fierce demand for farm land which is needed to feed burgeoning populations. |
| Giants Legend Lawrence Taylor Arrested In Florida | Football Star Jim Brown Arrested On Assault And Accident Charges |
| Dan Benton for the Usa Today | News Wire Article published in the Amarillo Globe Times |
| July 19, 2024 | August 6, 1969 |
| Retired New York Giants legend and Pro Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor was arrested this week in Florida TMZ reports. Taylor turned himself in at the Broward County Jail on an outstanding felony warrant related to failing to report his status as a registered sex offender. Lawrence Taylor was arrested again in Florida this week. … Read the full article here. |
BEVERLY HILLS Calif. — Sheriffs deputies arrested football star-turned-actor Jim Brown today on a warrant charging felony assault and misdemeanor counts of battery and leaving the scene of a traffic accident. Brown 33-year-old former Cleveland Browns fullback surrendered quietly when deputies spotted him by chance sitting inside a new car with a young woman identified as Candy Kesner 18 Golden Colo. Brown’s attorney Richard Covey earlier had promised the actor would turn himself in later today. Brown was booked at the West Hollywood sheriffs substation. He was due for arraignment in Beverly Hills Municipal Court today unless he posted $3250 bail and requested another court date deputies said. A police report said Brown’s car struck an auto from behind last Friday. The driver Arthur Charles Brush 52 said he stopped and showed Brown his identification. The report said Brown refused to show his identification and began driving away. Brush stood in front of Brown’s car to stop him was struck in the stomach and thrown onto the hood. Then Brown got out of the car threw Brush off the hood and left. Brush said he took down the license number and recognized Brown from his pictures. Deputies said they had not been searching for Brown but that two officers who recognized him took him into custody. One of the arresting deputies was John Texeira 27 who Brown was charged with assaulting last year. Brown pleaded no contest to the assault charge which deputies said occurred during an investigation in which model Eva Marie Bahn-Chin was found severely injured. |
| Day Of Chaos: How Crowdstrike Outage Disrupted 911 Dispatches Hospitals Flights | Power Failures Hit New York |
| N’Dea Yancey-Bragg, Usa Today for the Usa Today | News Wire Article published in the Fairborn Daily Herald |
| July 19, 2024 | February 8, 1971 |
| The first hints of imminent global chaos came in the dead of night. A U.S cybersecurity firm that serves hundreds of Fortune 500 companies alerted clients a software glitch was causing computer users worst nightmare: the “Blue Screen of Death.” CrowdStrike blamed a botched update to its “falcon Sensor software” in the 1:30am ET alert saying it was causing Microsoft Windows to crash. When Ty McKinnie arrived in the early morning hours at New York’s LaGuardia Airport he was unaware of the bre … Read the full article here. |
Midtown Manhattan went dark last night when electric power failures blacked out blocks of office buildings disrupted radio and television broadcasts and affected subway and train service. The power system was crippled from 7:12 p.m. EST until 11:42 p.m. when the last of the blacked-out area was restored to service. New Yorkers compared their difficulties favorably with those caused by the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965. Impromptu festivities mostly candlelit sprang up in bars and other spots where people were stranded. There were no injuries attributed to yesterdays blackout reported. The Consolidated Edison co. which provides electricity to all of the city and some suburbs said the situation was caused by a massive short-circuit in a 138000-volt transformer at its waterside generating station located on the East river just south of the UN. The short-circuit enacted automatic switching equipment that immediately cut off power to two grids distributing electricity to the Times Square area and Greeley Square. The Empire State buildings power went out and 40 tourists who were looking out over the city from the 86th-floor observation deck were stranded. The tourists although astonished at the climbers’ arrival said they were not worried about their plight. An elderly woman from Ireland gave her opinion on the cause of the blackout — If people wouldn’t make toast thered be no power trouble. But the problems in midtown Manhattan were severe. Office buildings went dark and those traffic lights that stayed lit were few snarling the traffic and restricting the travel of emergency vehicles. Elevators were inoperative and a section of the subway system was shut down. Grand Central terminal was darkened. The first two areas blacked out were put back in service between 9:12 and 9:34 but the power supply in Manhattan remained critically short. Lights in many parts of the borough which flickered when the transformer failed had remained dim so Con Edison engineers decided they had to shut down the remaining two grids manually. That cutoff killed the presses of the Daily News the nation’s largest-circulation newspaper and interrupted news on the wires of United Press International until emergency operations were begun. Engineers at the utility company worked through the evening to establish bypass circuits to distribute power in Manhattan. |
| Nfl Is Liable For $4707259944 In Sunday Ticket Case | National League To Appeal Roller Ruling |
| Joe Reedy for the Associated Press | News Wire Article published in the Waukesha Freeman |
| July 5, 2024 | April 14, 1966 |
| LOS ANGELES (AP) — The damages a federal jury has ordered the NFL to pay for violating antitrust laws in distributing out-of-market Sunday afternoon games on a premium subscription service is $4707259944.64. The figures from the June 27 judgment against the NFL were listed on the verdict form which was posted on the case docket Tuesday. The lawsuit covered 2.4 million residential subscribers and 48000 businesses in the United States who paid for the package on DirecTV of out-of-market games. … Read the full article here. |
CINCINNATI — National League President Warren Giles said today the league will file an immediate appeal from a Wisconsin court decision which ordered the Atlanta Braves to play all their home games in Milwaukee unless the city is given a franchise for 1967. Giles pointed out that a Fulton County Georgia court already has enjoined the league and the Braves from playing home games anywhere but in Atlanta. He also said a federal court in Houston Texas has ordered the league not to change its 1966 schedule which calls for Braves’ home games to be played in Atlanta. The league expects the appeal to establish that the Milwaukee court which issued yesterday’s decision has no jurisdiction or power to force the league and the Braves to return to Milwaukee or to provide an expansion team to play in a state which charges that the National league is violating its antitrust laws Giles’ statement said. He said that although the order of the Milwaukee court ignores the Georgia and Texas orders the National league cannot legally and properly do so. The league expects the appeal to establish that the defense was denied a fair trial. |
| France Votes… Developing…:The New Government: Unknowns And Options | Rabin Resigns; Stage Set For Election Showdown |
| Associated Press | By Marcus Eliason Associated Press Writer published in the Mount Pleasant News |
| July 7, 2024 | December 21, 1976 |
| People gather on the Republique plaza following the second round of the legislative elections Sunday July 7 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard) “Our country is facing an unprecedented political situation and is preparing to welcome the world in a few weeks.” That’s from Prime Minister Gabriel Attal who plans to offer his resignation on Monday. The weakened Macron could seek a deal with the moderate left to create a joint government but Fr … Read the full article here. |
JERUSALEM (AP)- Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabins resignation has set the stage for an election showdown between Israels doves and hawks over future moves toward peace with the Arabs. Rabins resignation Monday night was a tactical maneuver designed to undercut rivals within his ruling Labor party and take Israel to the polls before an embryonic centrist movement could get strong enough to challenge him. The government was preparing a bill dissolving the Knesset and calling an election for a new parliament. There must be at least 143 days between the resignation of the cabinet and the balloting and an election in late May was expected. This would be five months before the Knesset’s term would have ended. Meanwhile Rabin and his cabinet remain in office as a caretaker government. Rabins chief opponents in the election will be the right-wing Likud bloc which advocates annexation of all Arab territory Israel occupied in the 1967 war. It won 39 of the 120 Knesset seats to the Laborites’ 51 in the 1973 election. Rabin advocates retention of some of the occupied territory including the Golan Heights East Jerusalem and the east coast of the Sinai peninsula overlooking the approach to Elat Israels southern port. But he proposes to trade most of the West Bank of the Jordan river the Gaza Strip and the rest of the occupied Sinai for peace with the Arabs. There is no chance of the Arabs agreeing to either position. Rabin used a dispute with the National Religious party (NRP) over a government ceremony that lasted until after the start of the Jewish Sabbath as the pretext for the government upheaval. The NRP was the second largest member of the government coalition. A former army chief of staff and ambassador to Washington Rabin succeeded Prime Minister Golda Meir in 1972. |
| Vp Search Comes Down To Its Last Days | Nominees Set Final Sights |
| Jill Colvin for the Associated Press | News Wire Article published in the Hutchinson News |
| July 8, 2024 | October 31, 1960 |
| NEW YORK (AP) — The future Republican vice presidential candidate’s plane is currently parked in an undisclosed hangar an empty spot on its fuselage where a decal featuring his or her name will soon be placed. Fundraisers have been planned. All that’s left: an announcement from former President Donald Trump unveiling his pick. Senior advisers and longtime allies insist they still don’t know whom the presumptive GOP nominee will choose to join him on the ticket — with many believing the name … Read the full article here. |
The 1960 presidential campaign entered its final full week Sunday with a promise from Sen. John F. Kennedy that he would continue supporting separation of church and state even if 99 per cent of Americas population were Catholic. The Constitution and my conscience happen to be in very close harmony Kennedy declared. Kennedy reaffirmed his position in the continuing debate over his Roman Catholic faith in a TV-radio interview—CBS Face the Nation—after a fifth day of campaigning in vote-rich Pennsylvania. Kennedy’s rival Vice President Richard M. Nixon the Republican presidential nominee took a sabbath breather from campaigning to rest at his Washington D.C. home with his wife and family. Nixon after a week of whistle-stopping in the Midwest was pictured as feeling that five big states which hold the key to the election still are up for grabs. The five states were said to be New York Pennsylvania Ohio Michigan and Illinois. Nixon rated all five as about 50-50 with the election nine days away. In two other big states Texas and his native California Nixon believes he has mounting strength but is not claiming either as a clinch right now. Kennedy in his TV interview agreed as he put it that the race is very close and will go right down to the wire. However he refused to concede any of the big states to Nixon. He declared that there is no conflict between his faith and his duties as a public servant and that nothing could prevent him from carrying out those duties. Earlier in a talk to a campaign rally at Levittown north of Philadelphia Kennedy set a national goal of 82 million jobs and full employment by 1968. I pledge myself and my party to seeking 82 million jobs by 1968 he said. Nixon also expanded his views on one of the nations increasingly acute problems—the role of the elderly. In a long statement one of a series of position papers in which Nixon has been supplementing his speeches the vice president said: We must encourage more flexible retirement policies and provide more job opportunities for older people who can and want to work. He advocated a nine-point program ranging from increased investment in plans for rehabilitation of the physically and mentally handicapped to further steps to provide more senior citizens with housing. |
| How A Drunk Mary Todd Lincoln Made It To Broadway | Dietrich Puts On Thin Gown To Pull ‘Oh’S’ |
| Washington Post for The Washington Post | Ry Ror Thomas published in the Miami Daily News Record |
| July 7, 2024 | December 16, 1953 |
| NEW YORK — “I am the stupidest person here” Cole Escola said in a speech last month. “And I mean that as an insult to all of you.” They had just won a special Drama Desk Award for “Oh Mary!” their off-Broadway play that was extended twice before it was cleared for a Broadway run. The show also earned them the almost-serious “Cate Blanchett Award for Good Acting” from the hosts of the “Las Culturistas” podcast and the actually serious Outer Critics Circle Award for best lead actor in an off-Br … Read the full article here. |
LAS VEGAS Nev. Dec. 16— Marlene Dietrich made her nightclub debut last night in the most revealing gown that show business veterans could remember. The veteran glamour girl opened at the Sahara and her first appearance drew a gasp from the capacity audience. She sauntered on stage in a gown of transparent black net and little else. The gown a clinging number designed by Jean Louis for a reported $6000 revealed more than it concealed. Joe Shoenfeld entertainment veteran and editor of Daily Variety said: “It’s the most daring gown I’ve ever seen on a stage and I covered New York burlesque in the old days.” A consensus of other reviewers drew similar comments. I asked one what he thought of the gown. “What gown?” he replied. “I think she was smart to wear it” said another. “People expect sex from Dietrich. They got it.” After the show the glamorous grandmother served champagne for the press in her suite. She was dressed in a circus ringmaster outfit that exposed her famous legs. She was asked why she chose such a daring costume. “That is Las Vegas” she replied. “If you can’t wear it here you can’t wear it anywhere.” She was asked if her type of sex appeal hadn’t disappeared from Hollywood. “Are you kidding?” she replied. “Youve got Marilyn Monroe you should have it so good.” How does she keep her fabulous figure? “I have no system. I eat whatever I want. I don’t exercise but I keep active.” Will she do any more nightclubs? “Only if others meet my salary here Im drawing $90000 for the weeks.” Chances are shell play nowhere else. No other place can afford such a salary. Miss Dietrich came on stage with billing “the most glamorous star in the world—the woman and the legend.” With her strawberry blond hair in a short cut she was attired in the startling gown plus a 10-foot double train of black fox. She sang nine songs. Her voice can best be described as a foggy and slightly off key baritone But the patrons of the Las Vegas gambling establishment. |
| How Criminals Are Exploiting Personal Information To Target Vulnerable Seniors In Elder Fraud | 71-Yr.-Old Typist Spots Con Game Saves Savings |
| Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report for the Fox News | News Wire Article published in the Dubois Courier Express |
| July 3, 2024 | September 7, 1957 |
| Scammers are using leaked personal information to rob older Americans of their hard-earned money. In 2023 people over 60 lost a whopping $3.4 billion to scams a 10.6% increase from 2022 according to the FBIs IC3 reports. Tech support scams are the most common affecting the most people and causing the biggest financial losses. Other common scams include investment fraud romance fraud and identity theft. … Read the full article here. |
NEW YORK - A 71-year-old Brooklyn typist still has her life savings—$900—because she can spot a con game. Miss Margaret Smith whose wits are as spry as her fingers says years of reading detective story magazines helped her turn the tables yesterday on two women who apparently picked her for an easy mark. Miss Smith told police she was approached by a woman while shopping in the Brooklyn business district. The woman told her that a friend had just found $3800 in a man’s wallet and did not know what to do with it. A few blocks away they met the friend. Miss Smith told them to take the money to the police. First the ‘friend’ said she would ask her boss. She entered a nearby building and later emerged to say the employer had advised splitting the find three ways—‘since three people knew about it.” Miss Smith was asked to put up her life savings as evidence of ‘good faith.” With the others traipsing along Miss Smith went to her apartment got her bankbook with which to withdraw the $900. There she prepared a note: “I am the victim of a confidence game. Call the police.” At the Williamsburg Savings Bank she passed the note instead of a withdrawal slip to a teller. Two detectives arrived at the bank and Miss Smith led them outside where they arrested Shirley Shay 27 and Orvilla Jenkins both of Manhattan. They were charged with attempted grand larceny. “That old con games so old I recognized it immediately” snorted Miss Smith. |
| 20 Tech Tricks To Make Life Better Safer Or Easier | Built-In Mania Is Great Curse Of Modern Age |
| Kim Komando for the Fox News | By Hal Boyle published in the Salamanca Republican Press |
| July 3, 2024 | July 23, 1949 |
| Our everyday devices get new updates and features all the time. It’s tough to keep up but that’s why you have me. Below you’ll find 20 sweet shortcuts — some new some hidden gems that have been there all along. Election deepfakes are everywhere: Before you hit share on any image or video try a reverse image search. Open Google and click Images at the top. You can drag and drop or upload a photo. … Read the full article here. |
This is the bustling age. Nobody any longer wants anything unless it is also guaranteed to have at least a couple of other features built into it. This goes for practically everything from brassieres to bookcases from three-color ice cream to cigarette boxes that play Yankee Doodle when opened. If it doesnt have that built-in something extra it’s strictly twenty-three skiddoo. Even the pigeons turn up their beaks at popcorn today unless it contains three kinds of built-in vitamins. Think Im kidding? Well over in Glasgow theyve just developed a blouse with built-in perfume. Makes a girl smell sweet in any flavor she wants for months and months. But this international craze to build something into something else probably has reached its true flower in the motor car and household gadget industries. An automobile used to be a vehicle to get you from here to there. But now cars are gradually taking the place of the old fashioned home. You can shave in them listen to a concert smoke carry on a long distance telephone conversation with Paris or push a button and slice your mother-in-law in half with an automatic sliding window. About the only thing you cant do in them is play a tuba. Take what happened to the simple broom. It used to be a straightforward instrument for gathering dust out of odd corners. Then they turned it into a carpet sweeper. Then it developed into the vacuum cleaner. And what wont it do now? It can paint walls wax floors dry the baby manicure the furniture and shampoo your rug or your dog or your wife. In another year itll serve meals fight peddlers attack poisonous snakes and play you gin rummy for keeps. Furniture has become so complicated by built-in gadgets that you cant even tell its function from an outside look. Soon we’ll have to hang an index on each piece to know all it is capable of. Youll have to approach it by radar. As it is now I always have a moment of fear when a host asks me to pull open or stop at a new cabinet in a living room. I never know whether the thing will dump a sack of laundry on the floor spray me with martinis or just show another television wrestling match from Chicago. Yes its all confused. You dial a telephone and someone complains youre turning off the air-conditioning unit. Are we living at peace in the built-in war or dwelling at war in a built-in peace? Call a sociopolitical adviser. The plane away. This corner saloon no longer offers any escape. I met a friend emerging from one the other day and he said with a dazed look What a few slot machine they got in there! I put in a nickel. And what happened? Why the darn thing rang up a 1000000 score shot out three Roman candles weighed me shined my shoes told my fortune played a Bing Crosby record and reached into my pocket for another nickel. Don’t go in there pal. I bet if Id put in a quarter the thing would probably have married me moved into my apartment and set up housekeeping. There is only one way to beat the built-in wave. Thats to stave off the race with some built-in common sense. Who really wants a fountain pen that will write letters brush his teeth take his passport photo and — for fifty cents extra — have three knife blades and a bottle opener at one end? |
| Biden Campaign Raises $127 Million In June Including $38 Million Since Disastrous Debate | Nixon Coffers Are Swelled By Donations |
| Joey Garrison, Usa Today for the Usa Today | News Wire Article published in the Xenia Daily Gazette |
| July 2, 2024 | July 7, 1972 |
| WASHINGTON — President Joe Bidens reelection campaign said Tuesday it raised $127 million in June including $38 million in the last four days of the month as the campaign sought to project strength amid the fallout from Bidens disastrous debate performance last week. June marked the campaigns single largest monthly haul of the 2024 race and was boosted by a Hollywood fundraiser hosted by former President Barack Obama and a several A-list celebrities that brought in $30 million. … Read the full article here. |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Campaign contributors tossed another $2.45 million into President Nixon’s re-election fund during June and July newly filed public records show. Key Republican campaign committees complying with a new law said Monday contributors ranged from wealthy past donors and government employees to thousands of small contributors. Topping the list for the two-month period were three members of the Pew family of Philadelphia who contributed $36000 in all. The family is associated with Sun Oil Co. W. Clement Stone a Chicago insurance executive who was the biggest single Nixon donor in 1968 sent along $23000. The same amount also came from Edward J. Hand of Buffalo vice president of Ryder Systems and his wife. Not all the money came from large donors however. The records said some $1.1 million came in amounts of less than $100 per contributor The Finance Committee to Re-Elect the President said it received more than 55000 individual donations during the two months. The finance committee and three key affiliates reported they raised about $10 million prior to April 7 the effective date of the new federal campaign finance reporting law. Donors of funds between April 7 and May 31 were reported during June in the first filing required under the new law. The latest filing Monday was required under a provision calling for reports 15 days before a national convention. The Republican National Convention is Aug. 21-23. No reports for Democratic committees were required at this time. |
| Coup Attempt Feared In Bolivia As Troops Pour Into Streets | Brazilian Army Seizes Nation; Navy Revolts |
| Paola Flores for the Associated Press | News Wire Article published in the Rushville Evening Daily Republican |
| June 26, 2024 | November 11, 1955 |
| LA PAZ Bolivia (AP) — Led by a top general vowing to “restore democracy” armored vehicles rammed the doors of Bolivia’s government palace Wednesday in what the president called a coup attempt then quickly retreated — the latest crisis in the South American country facing a political battle and an economic crisis. Within hours the nation of 12 million people saw a rapidly moving scenario in which the troops seemed to take control of the government of President Luis Arce. He vowed to stand fi … Read the full article here. |
RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil - The Brazilian army led by Gen. Henrique Teixeira Lott ousted provisional President Carlos Coimbra Da Luz and took over the government early today. The navy and air force refused to support the army coup and issued a joint statement pledging loyalty to Luz. A few hours later the fashionable Copacabana beach section was rocked by cannon fire from Copacabana fort. Witnesses said the forts big guns were fired across the bow of a warship heading out of the harbor and that the ship turned back. Army units commanded by generals took over central police headquarters and the office of the mayor in the capital and issued an order closing all stores at noon. Other units surrounded government buildings the radio station the post office and several newspaper buildings. Lott issued a communique claiming support of the president of the supreme court the presidents of both houses of Congress and most army officers in Rio De Janeiro and the interior. Luz was rumored to have taken refuge aboard the navy cruiser Barrosa but other reports said he and several Cabinet ministers had been arrested. The navy ministry was surrounded by armed marines with field pieces spotted strategically nearby. A heavy rain fell on the capital and the center of the city was quiet although tension was apparent. Much of the fleet was caught in the harbor when the navy announced its opposition to the coup by the army and several ships began maneuvering toward the exits of Guanabara Bay. Only one it was reported succeeded in slipping out. The others were under the guns of Copacabana fort at the south end of the famous beach and Leme fort at the north. Army and navy leaders met in hurried conferences with Navy Minister Amorim Do Valle. The minister was believed trying to reconcile the two branches of the armed forces. The House of Deputies lower house of the Brazilian Congress met late in the morning in special session to decide legally the fate of the Luz government. It was clear most of the deputies support Lott but his opponents were allowed to speak freely. The first speaker was Joao Agripino of the National Democratic Union party who assailed Lott’s seizure of the government in violent terms. But he was followed by other speakers who defended Lott as a true supporter of constitutional government. |
| Supreme Court Limits Federal Obstruction Law | Rights Pickets Hauled Off In White House Lawn Fray |
| Mark Sherman for the Associated Press | News Wire Article published in the Florence Morning News |
| June 28, 2024 | March 13, 1965 |
| WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday limited a federal obstruction law that has been used to charge hundreds of Capitol riot defendants as well as former President Donald Trump. The justices ruled 6-3 that the charge of obstructing an official proceeding enacted in 2002 in response to the financial scandal that brought down Enron Corp. must include proof that defendants tried to tamper with or destroy documents. Only some of the people who violently attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 2021 were charged under this law. … Read the full article here. |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Civil rights pickets swarmed onto Pennsylvania Avenue on Friday and sprawled on the pavement in front of the White House. They sang and struggled as police carried them away. It was the second time in two days that the Southern civil rights tactic of civil disobedience had been aimed at the White House by demonstrators demanding that President Johnson send federal forces to Selma Ala. Johnson was quoted as declaring he would not be blackjacked by pickets into any hasty action in the racially torn Southern city. The President a clergyman said promised to do what he regards as right. Hundreds of civil rights pickets circled all day on the broad sidewalk in front of the White House. And some 4000 churchmen from all over the nation rallied near the Capital to underscore their demand for legislation to guarantee Negro voting rights and for measures to protect civil rights demonstrators in Selma. Johnson scheduled a news conference for Saturday afternoon with the voting rights measure expected to be his major topic. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach said he hopes to have a suggested message to Congress on voting rights ready for the President by Saturday afternoon. He said the message might go to Congress early next week But Katzenbach indicated there is no plan now to send new federal manpower to Selma. He said more than 75 government lawyers and FBI agents are there already. “We would hope that the presence there would be adequate” he said. It was a day of tension and a clergyman who saw Johnson said the President seemed to be feeling the pressure. A band of youthful demonstrators walked into the White House as tourists Thursday sat down on the floor and demanded a talk with Johnson. Police broke up that demonstration after almost seven hours. Ten demonstrators were arrested. A short-lived sit-down demonstration that blocked a main entrance driveway at the White House prefaced the action on Pennsylvania Avenue. The trouble came at the height of the evening traffic rush. |
| 6 Years After Wildfire Destroyed Paradise Calif. New Blaze Flares Nearby | Firemen Battle New Blazes In California 15 Homes Destroyed Near Santa Barbara |
| Jeanine Santucci, Usa Today for the Usa Today | News Wire Article published in the Cumberland News |
| June 26, 2024 | September 24, 1964 |
| Editors Note: This page is a summary of news on fires burning in California Oregon and New Mexico on Wednesday June 26. For the latest news on the fires view our file for Thursday June 27. Firefighters were working Wednesday to contain a blaze that prompted evacuations in a rural Northern California town near the area decimated by the states deadliest wildfire six years ago. The fire dubbed the Apache Fire started on Monday burned 691 acres and was 47% contained by Wednesday morning. … Read the full article here. |
SANTA BARBARA Calif. (AP) — Firemen fought Wednesday in hills rimming this picturesque seaside community to check a fire that has destroyed an estimated 15 homes and could imperil estates in the wealthy suburb of Montecito. The blaze was the newest in a rash of forest and brush fires that have run wild in California since Sunday night. In Northern California where others are located the situation looked better. Major fires in the wine country around Calistoga and Sonoma were reported controlled but an extension of the Sonoma fire flared up near Napa and a new brush fire was reported 200 miles farther north in the Eureka area. In the Santa Barbara area 1000 firefighters fought to keep the 2100-acre blaze from lush canyons with mansions on the slopes of the Santa Ynez Mountains north of Montecito. Winds up to 45 miles an hour whipped the fire after it started from an undetermined cause Tuesday. Thirteen persons reportedly suffered injuries including four firemen one of whom was hospitalized with burns on his face and hands. The four vainly battled to keep the fire from jumping Mountain Drive minutes after it started. Most of the destroyed homes were on Mountain Drive. Santa Barbara a coastal community of some 60000 persons was not in danger but officials kept their fingers crossed that the wind would not change. Also escaping the fire was Westmont College from which 600 students were evacuated Tuesday night. Gov. Edmund G. Brown flew to Northern California Tuesday to inspect the fires there saw the Santa Barbara fire on his way back to Los Angeles and termed it ‘a terrible sight’. The fires north of San Francisco blackened more than 62400 acres of watershed. Fifty homes and 7000 acres were burned Monday in Calistoga. That fire was reported controlled. More than 100 homes and other buildings have been destroyed in Northern California fires including about 20 homes in the Sonoma fire also reported controlled. |
| Aoc Defeats Moderate Challenger In Democratic Primary | Determined Woman Wins. Rep. Coya Knutson Is Nominated |
| Jeremy Yurow, Usa Today for the Usa Today | News Wire Article published in the Joplin Globe |
| June 26, 2024 | September 11, 1958 |
| In a closely watched primary Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez D-New York has emerged victorious securing her position as the Democratic candidate for New York’s 14th Congressional District. The 34-year-old progressive known as AOC overcame a challenge from 66-year-old investment banker Marty Dolan who positioned himself as a moderate alternative. Dolan criticized Ocasio-Cortez during the campaign. … Read the full article here. |
In face of husbands opposition Minneapolis (AP) — Rep. Coya Knutson (D-Minn) won nomination for a third term Wednesday in the face of her husbands campaign to keep her out of politics. Her victory came amid a tide of Democratic votes that appeared headed for a record party high in the Minnesota primary. The 45-year-old congresswoman was running about 4000 votes ahead of businessman Marvin Evenson of Moorhead with returns in from all but a handful of the 9th District’s 641 precincts. Informed of his wifes triumph Andrew Knutson a hotel operator in Oklee Minn. hinted he might relent and support her in the general election against farmer-legislator Odin Langen. Knutson allied himself with his wife’s opponents inside the Democratic party this summer after she refused his pleas to quit Washington and return home. Mrs. Knutson’s victory was the narrowest for a party organization that brought out a vote which promised to top the previous Democratic mark of 351000 in 1954. All Democratic endorsees and all but one or two Republican-backed candidates were nominated by their parties in Tuesdays primary. But in nearly every race Democrats who now control five of nine congressional seats one Senate seat and most state offices far outdistanced Republican candidates. Despite opposition from former Gov. Hjalmar Petersen 42-year-old Rep. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn) was nearly 40000 votes ahead of Republican Sen. Edward Thye whose seat he will seek in November with returns in from 3218 of 3755 precincts. Democratic Gov. Orville Freeman seeking a third term was running 100000 votes ahead of the Republican nominee George MacKinnon former U.S. district attorney. Seven incumbent House members won renomination — Mrs. Knutson John Blatnik Fred Marshall and Roy Wier for the Democrats and Walter Judd H. Carl Andersen and Albert Quie for the Republicans. |
| Julian Assange Will Plead Guilty In Deal With Us And Be Freed From Prison | Rays Plea Frustrates Justice Department |
| Alanna Durkin Richer, Eric Tucker for the Associated Press | Ry Accociated Prece published in the St Joseph Herald Press |
| June 24, 2024 | March 13, 1969 |
| WASHINGTON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will allow him to walk free and resolve a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centered on the publication of a trove of classified documents. Assange left a British prison on Monday and will appear later this week in the U.S. federal court in the Northern Mariana Islands … Read the full article here. |
James Earl Ray quoted as wishing now he had elected to stand trial for the Martin Luther King assassination was joined in his regrets today by the U.S. Justice Department. A source in the department said the feeling there over Ray’s abrupt guilty plea is one of frustration. The reason: a full-fledged trial had one been held might have shed light on questions which have led to widespread suspicion around the country that Ray was only one figure in a conspiracy. In Nashville the Nashville Tennessean said in a copyright story that Ray disclosed second thoughts about the guilty plea within hours of his sentencing in Memphis to an agreed 99 years in prison. Ray also has inquired about how he could hire a new attorney. The story said unidentified official sources quoted Ray as saying: When I went to court Monday I was convinced if I didn’t plead guilty I was going to the electric chair. I wish the hell I hadnt now because with what they had on me I believe the worst I’d gotten would have been life. Under Tennessee law a life prisoner could be eligible for parole after 13 years 7 months or even earlier if he earned maximum good behavior time. Under a 99-year sentence a prisoner must serve at least 30 years. The Tennessean said a prison source further quoted Ray: My attorney and my brother told me about six weeks ago that the best thing for me to do was to plead guilty if we could work out a deal to keep me out of the chair. They told me they thought this could be done. I was thinking about it and every day they thought I would plead guilty. Last week I just told them if they thought this was best and what I ought to do then I would plead guilty. |
| Boeing Ceo Apologizes To Relatives Of 737 Max Crash Victims | Congress Turns Attention Today To Plane Crashes Senate Hearing Set To Seek Cause Of Recent Air Tragedies |
| David Koenig for the Associated Press | News Wire Article published in the Dothan Eagle |
| June 18, 2024 | January 14, 1947 |
| Boeing CEO David Calhoun defended the company’s safety record during a contentious Senate hearing Tuesday while lawmakers accused him of placing profits over safety failing to protect whistleblowers and even getting paid too much. Relatives of people who died in two crashes of Boeing 737 Max jetliners were in the room some holding photos of their loved ones to remind the CEO of the stakes. Calhoun began his remarks by standing turning to face the families and apologizing “for the grief t … Read the full article here. |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Commercial aviation today came under scrutiny of a congressional committee concerned lest recent plane crashes shake public confidence in flying. We have got to see if we can find out what the difficulty is said Chairman Brewster (R-Me) of the Senate commerce committee in announcing he has summoned the Civil Aeronautics Board to a committee hearing today. Both Brewster and Senator Capehart (R-Ind) committee member said a government air safety board might be proposed to take over crash investigation work now done by CAB. Committee work was all that was on todays schedule for the Senate which is in recess until Wednesday under its program of three sessions weekly. The House was to ratify formally Republican committee assignments okayed by GOP members in caucus yesterday. Democrats expect to finish their assignments Wednesday thus completing House organization. Republicans are taking 280 places on the 19 committees leaving 205 for Democrats. The Republican caucus formally approved the appointment of Rep. Arends of Illinois as whip. The nomination of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt to the United Nations’ Human Rights Commission is among diplomatic appointments of President Truman up for consideration today by the Senate foreign relations committee. Senator Morse (R-Ore) differed sharply with his partys proposed labor policy asserting that perfecting the Wagner Act should come first. In a radio talk last night he asserted: If the Republicans continue their anti-labor policy and their fiscal policies which will lead to fiscal isolation they will lose both Congress and the White House in 1948—and they will give us the worst era of labor unrest in our country. |
| Amazon Fined $5.9M For Breaking Labor Law In California | Courts To Punish Nra Violators Says A.F.L. President |
| Caroline O’Donovan for The Washington Post | News Wire Article published in the Havre Daily News |
| June 18, 2024 | September 6, 1933 |
| OSHA can pursue a corporate-wide settlement with employers that are repeat offenders as it did with Dollar Tree and Family Dollar in 2023 a deal that cost the company $1.35 million and followed six years of investigation and more than $15 million in fines. But it’s unclear whether the agency is pursuing that strategy with Amazon. The California law known as AB 701 was sponsored by Lorena Gonzalez (D) who was a union official before becoming a State Assembly member and has since returned to … Read the full article here. |
AKRON Ohio Sept. 5. (AP)— A resort to the courts for punishment of employers violating collective bargaining provisions of industrial codes today was promised workers by William Green president of the American Federation of Labor. In a Labor day appeal for support of the Roosevelt recovery program the federation leader said he was ‘‘confident that more than a million new members have joined us.” He described the NRA as opening “the door of opportunity for industry and labor.” Green spoke under the auspices of the Akron Central Labor union. He said “a new deal has been ‘accorded industry and labor.” “In all fairness” he said “‘industry could not expect to appropriate to itself the benefits of the national recovery act and deny to labor the benefits which were accorded it. If industry is permitted to organize and control business labor likewise must be permitted to organize for mutual helpfulness and protection. And labor that very thing. * * * “If an employer discriminates against employees who organize or discharges them because they organize he is guilty of violation of the code and is subject when convicted to the imposition of penalties provided for in the national recovery act. “It is the purpose and intent of the American Federation of Labor to protect workers in the exercise of their rights to organize and to invoke punishment through proper court procedure upon these employers who are charged with and found guilty of violating the law. |
| Could Microsofts Creepy Recall Ai Feature Become Potent Spy Tool For Crooks? | Computers Tell Human Behavior |
| Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report for the Fox News | Ry Crank Carey published in the Hope Star |
| June 18, 2024 | May 12, 1966 |
| Microsoft has announced a change in the rollout plan for the Recall preview feature on Copilot+ PCs. Instead of a broad preview release on June 18 2024 as initially planned Recall will first be made available to the Windows Insider Program in the coming weeks. By gathering feedback from Insiders Microsoft aims to refine the feature further before making it available to all Copilot+ PC users. Microsoft recently announced the Recall feature for Copilot+ PCs an AI tool capable of recording … Read the full article here. |
ATLANTIC CITY N.J. (AP) — Development appears feasible for electronic computers that would predict human behavior — including how people would vote in an election — a psychiatrist said today. The trick could be done if enough brain power — and money —were put into a “crash program designed to perfect data-feeding and other techniques needed to activate such robots declared Dr. Daniel Cappon of the University of Toronto. Such an achievement could advance psychiatry by half a century he said in a report to the 122nd annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. Cappon said he is convinced the goal is feasible on the basis of his own use of a computer for the past five years as an aid in psychiatric research. He said he has used it on such things as rapid calculation of experimental results and as a means of information storage and retrieval. And most recently in promising experiments aimed at translating entire psychiatric histories into a relatively simple “computer language.’ “There is no reason why he said ‘once data incorporating the life experience and mental state of persons — such as patients and controls — is put into computers this could not be subsequently tapped to answer questions about how people might behave under certain circumstances for example under conditions of stress of treatment or in casting a vote “If enough information is stored — and if the computer yields sufficient criteria to be subsequently reprogrammed it should be possible to ask computers on behalf of the population they represent to make decisions between alternate futures and thus enhance the predictability of human behavior. |
| This $112K Luxury Ev From China Can Shake And Jiggle Off Snow | Giant Automaker Working On Battery-Powered Cars |
| Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report for the Fox News | News Wire Article published in the Muscatine Journal |
| June 19, 2024 | September 17, 1966 |
| The electric vehicle (EV) market is heating up and Nio’s latest offering the ET9 is part of a growing trend of premium EVs. With a $112000 price tag it’s poised to take on the likes of Porsche and other luxury brands. But what makes the ET9 stand out in a crowded field? One of the ET9’s most talked-about features is its ability to shake off snow. This is thanks to an intelligent … Read the full article here. |
ANN ARBOR Mich - The president of Ford Motor Co. says the firm is developing a battery-powered system for automobiles that could eliminate the problem of air pollution from car exhausts. General Motors Corp. Chrysler Corp. and American Motors Corp. also are known to be working toward an electric power system or other means of propulsion. Fords Arjay R. Miller made his disclosure in a speech Thursday at the University of Michigan while discussing air pollution and its relation to todays gasoline-powered cars. Speaking of automobiles and their exhaust pollution Miller said at one point: The ideal answer to this problem would be development of a vehicle powered by a source that would not produce any emissions. The most promising candidate at present appears to be a battery-powered electric car. We now have in the early stages of development a new battery power system that we expect could offer tremendous improvements in range performance and cost. Eventually we hope it will lead to a practical emission-free vehicle for local transportation needs. Miller was unavailable to newsmen today but a Ford spokesman said it was safe to assume local transportation needs precluded use of battery power for long-distance trips in the next few years at least. The industry has been experimenting for years with electric power as an energy source for automobiles but power-to-weight ratio has proved a major handicap especially in development of a battery to provide quick acceleration. |
| Nhra Legend John Force Taken To Hospital After Funny Car Engine Explodes | Bad Boy Of Racing Dies In Flaming Wreck Of Car |
| Steve Gardner, Usa Today for the Usa Today | News Wire Article published in the Fergus Falls Daily Journal |
| June 23, 2024 | August 31, 1959 |
| Funny car legend John Force was hospitalized Sunday after a fiery high-speed crash during the first round of eliminations at the NHRA Virginia Nationals. Force 75 had just won his heat with a 302 mph run at Virginia Motorsports Park when his engine exploded in a massive fireball. The car veered left into the opposite wall crashing and then careening back across the track into the right wall. Force was able to escape the flames and climb to safety before getting in an ambulance. … Read the full article here. |
MILWAUKEE Wis. — Speedway bad boy Ed Elisian suspended last year as the trigger man in a 16-car fatal crash at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway died screaming Sunday in the flames of his green racing car. Elisian 32 from Oakland Cal returned to the tracks only last June 7 making his first start in a 100-mile big car race at the Wisconsin fair grounds scene of Sundays wreck. Elisian’s car traveling at an estimated 130 miles an hour skidded on an oil slick crashed into the wall overturned and burst into flames. The car rode the retaining wall 200 feet then flipped upside down on the one-mile paved track. Elisian waved his arms and screamed as he tried to free himself from his burning car. The wreck came on the 28th lap of the 200-mile national championship race won by Rodger Ward of Indianapolis. The race was the feature of the final day of the 1959 Wisconsin State Fair and drew 21856 spectators. Elisian had been racing nine years. A bachelor Elisian raced into controversy in the 1958 500-mile race at Indianapolis after setting a single lap qualifying record for the Memorial Day classic. On the first lap of the race 16 cars were involved in a splintering crash which killed Pat OConnor of North Vernon Ind. Elisian later was set down for one year “for conduct detrimental to racing.” The suspension involved the Indianapolis wreck bad checks and speeding off the tracks |
| Parents Accused Of Leaving Infant Unattended On Shore While Boating In New York | 27-Year-Old Mother Admits Drowning Infant Daughter |
| Saman Shafiq, Usa Today for the Usa Today | News Wire Article published in the Towanda Daily Review |
| June 21, 2024 | August 27, 1954 |
| A man and a woman were arrested in New Yorks Lake George area after police said they left their child unattended while they went boating in the lake. The father age 30 and mother age 28 from Pennsylvania were arrested Tuesday by the State Police of Queensbury for endangering the welfare of a child. State Police in a news release said that troopers responded to reports of an infant left unattended on the beach shortly before 5:50 p.m. Tuesday. A passerby had heard the child present … Read the full article here. |
BRAINERD Minn. Aug. 26 - Im going to stick by her no matter what happens a bewildered young father said today after his wife admitted throwing their six-weeks-old daughter into a lake where the family had gone for picnics. Mrs. Archie Sanders 27 who told authorities late Wednesday a bad man had taken little Janet Purh admitted early today she waded into Pelican Lake near her home and threw the baby as far as I could. The body was found soon after the mother’s confession. Mrs. Sanders a Sunday School worker was under doctor’s care for shock at a hospital here today and could not be questioned further. No charges have been filed. Sanders 28 a carpenter wiped tears from his eyes as he returned to his small rural home around noon. He was greeted at the gate by tail-wagging Penny the Sanders’ mongrel pup. As he stood at the side of the baby’s empty crib and took a fuzzy brown teddy bear from the shelf Sanders said: She has always been such a good mother and wife. She was so kind to the youngsters she didn’t even want to spank them. She always had the house spic and span when I came home at night. She just couldn’t have been in her right mind when she did that to the baby. Just four days ago she told me she was afraid she was going to have a nervous breakdown. She said she just knew something was going to happen. At the hospital this morning she kept asking me Are they going to doctor my mind? |
| Cartels Offering Pricey Vip Package For Migrants Trying To Get Into Us | Aliens Smuggled Into U.S. |
| Steve Fisher And Alfredo Corchado, Usa Today for the Usa Today | News Wire Article published in the Fairfield Ledger |
| June 20, 2024 | June 6, 1970 |
| Steve Fisher and Alfredo Corchado For USA TODAY CIUDAD JUÁREZ Mexico − The tunnel is dark and narrow. Toxic gases rise from the dank water. Insects scurry along the sides rattlesnakes wait coiled. Rodents lurk along the water’s edge. Yet this drainage network that reaches from Ciudad Juárez into El Paso Texas is one of the most sought-after routes for patrons of a VIP migration package offered by Mexican cartels to those with the money to pay for it. The tunnel route costs at least $6 … Read the full article here. |
SAN DIEGO Calif. (AP) — Thousands of Mexican nationals are being smuggled into California in a lucrative and lethal trade that operates despite federal lawmen with electronic eyes and stiff court penalties. The Mexicans lured by better paying jobs are crossing the border illegally by foot car truck plane and boat. The U.S. border patrol arrested 63933 deportable aliens in California last year. At the Chula Vista sector south of here the number of deportable aliens nabbed jumped from 4377 in 1963 to 41597 last year. It can be a deadly experience for the alien. Weve had about a dozen deaths since the first of the year involving illegal aliens U.S. Atty. Harry Steward said. Five Mexicans were killed early Friday when a truck being pursued by Border Patrol officers crashed near Descanso in southeastern San Diego County. Another alien was shot recently when he ran from guards at the Camp Pendleton Marine Base. Others have died of exposure or falls from cliffs while trying to hike over mountains and deserts of southeastern California. I don’t know of any crime killing as many people around San Diego Steward said. And many aliens are found near death from suffocation in trunks of cars. Border patrolmen said a major smuggler may make $1 million a year. We prosecuted a $300000-a-year operation last year said Steward whose district covers the border counties of San Diego and Imperial. They come to get jobs at farms factories restaurants hotels and in homes as domestic workers. Most go back to Mexico after they’ve earned some money. If caught a smuggler faces five years in prison and $5000 fine for each alien involved. |
| North Dakota Voters Just Approved An Age Limit For Congressional Candidates | Congress Approves Lowering Voting Age To 18 |
| Jack Dura for the Associated Press | News Wire Article published in the Panama City News Herald |
| June 15, 2024 | March 24, 1971 |
| BISMARCK N.D. (AP) — People in their late 70s or older can no longer run for Congress in North Dakota under a ballot measure overwhelmingly approved by voters Tuesday and legal scholars said the law could remain on the books indefinitely because no elderly candidate might challenge the restriction they deem likely unconstitutional. Those experts view the constitutional amendment as an effort to revisit a nearly 30-year-old Supreme Court ruling against congressional term limits and could provi … Read the full article here. |
The proposal to lower the minimum voting age to 18 years in all elections—federal state and local—won final congressional approval Tuesday and was sent to the states for ratification. The amendment passed the House 400 to 19 easily meeting the requirement for a two-thirds majority on proposals to amend the Constitution. The Senate passed the measure last month 94 to 0 and no presidential action is required. Before it can become the 26th amendment to the Constitution the measure must be ratified by at least 38 state legislatures. Its supporters hope the required three-fourths of the 50 states will ratify the amendment in time for the 1972 elections. There was some opposition in debate to passage of a constitutional amendment that would remove state powers to set minimum voting ages for state and local balloting. The voting age for federal elections — for president the Senate and the House—was set at 18 by Congress last year. Rep. Emanuel Celler D-N.Y. chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said the amendment was sure to pass. Any effort to stop it would be as useless as a telescope to a blind eye. Youth will be served he said. The amendment would not have been needed had the 1970 Voting Rights Act stood up in court. That law set the voting age of 18 for all elections but the Supreme Court said Congress could establish voting ages by statute only for federal elections. That meant that either the state legislatures would have to lower the voting age or the U.S. Constitution would have to be amended. Because only Alaska Georgia and Kentucky have adopted the 18-year-old voting age and a number of states could not make the change without amending their own constitutions Congress decided to do it all with one measure. The amendment was rushed through Congress so states and locals would not have to provide for costly and confusing dual voting systems—one for federal offices and another for state and local offices. Sponsors of the legislation said it would cost New York City alone 35. |
| Pritzker Prize-Winning Architect Fumihiko Maki Has Died At 95 | Frank Lloyd Wright Dies In Arizona |
| Ap for the Associated Press | News Wire Article published in the Washington Evening Journal |
| June 13, 2024 | April 9, 1959 |
| TOKYO (AP) — Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki who won the prestigious Pritzker Prize for designs praised as smartly and artfully fusing the East with the West has died. He was 95. Maki who taught architecture and urban design at Harvard died June 6 his office Maki & Associates said Wednesday. Japanese media reports attributed the cause of death to old age. The office declined to confirm the reports. The National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto is considered one of his classic designs … Read the full article here. |
PHOENIX Ariz. - World famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright 89 founder of the modern school of building craftsmanship and storm center of artistic controversy most of his life died today in St. Josephs Hospital. The rebellious old gentleman as friends referred to him in his later years succumbed following an emergency operation Monday for treatment of an intestinal tract obstruction. He had responded well to the surgery his doctor said but apparently his age made recovery impossible. Critics often disputed whether Wright was the greatest American architect of the 20th Century but all agreed he certainly was the most famous for his individualistic style—a blending of precision machine-age lines with natures living forms in stone steel wood or glass. Wright maintained a home and school called Taliesin West on the desert near here although he normally spent his summers in Wisconsin where he built a spacious low native-stone rambling house also named Taliesin—Welsh for radiant brow—at Spring Green during his mid-years. He is survived by his widow a noted architect son Frank Lloyd Wright Jr. and a motion picture actress-granddaughter Anne Baxter as well as numerous children grandchildren and great-grandchildren. His doctor said Wright died at 5:45 a.m. est. of complications resulting from the operation. He entered the hospital last Saturday. Both artistically and personally Wrights life was a battle with the contemporary schools of thought. And he captured acclaim abroad long before his own country recognized him as a titanic force in building design through the American |
| Bullet Train-Looking Giant Semitruck To Hit Us Highways | Ickes Yearns To Bump Trucks From Highways |
| Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report for the Fox News | News Wire Article published in the El Paso Herald Post |
| June 11, 2024 | November 16, 1939 |
| Kenworth has unveiled its latest innovation the SuperTruck 2 at the Advanced Clean Transport expo in Las Vegas. This sleek and aerodynamic truck is the result of a six-year collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy aimed at improving freight efficiency without abandoning diesel as the primary energy source. Pushing the boundaries of efficiency The SuperTruck 2 surpassed the company\s expectations … Read the full article here. |
By Associated Press WASHINGTON Nov. 16.—Secretary Ickes told the American Automobile Assn. today he longed for the time he can take an armored tanks down a “truck-infested” highway “bumping these pests from the road.” Advising Americans to mend their highway manners so as to attract foreign visitors especially Canadians and Latin-Americans the Interior Department chief cited “a few idiosyncrasies” which might be corrected to make American motor travel more attractive. He said: “In my judgment a minimum speed law is even more justifiable and necessary than a maximum speed law. “There are too many hamlets in the United States that effect a bustling metropolitanism by sticking up a traffic light without which the motorist would hardly know a town existed” |
| Southern Baptists Poised To Ban Churches With Women Pastors | Methodists Approve Women As Pastors |
| Peter Smith for the Associated Press | News Wire Article published in the Thomasville Times Enterprise |
| June 7, 2024 | May 5, 1956 |
| From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons First Baptist Church of Alexandria Virginia bears many of the classic hallmarks of a Southern Baptist church. On a recent Sunday its pastor for women and children Kim Eskridge urged members to invite friends and neighbors to an upcoming vacation Bible school — a perennial Baptist activity — to help “reach families in the community with the gospel.” … Read the full article here. |
After a turbulent see-saw debate the Methodist church has approved women to join the ranks of the official clergy of America’s largest Protestant denomination. This decision marks the climax of years of contention within the church over the fitness of women to serve full-fledged pastoral posts. Dr. Georgia Harkness a theological professor from Berkeley California who had been in the forefront of the struggle for equal clerical status for women commented on the decision. The final approval was a move by Rev. Dr. Zach T. Johnson president of Asbury College Wilmore Kentucky that put women on par with men in filling the church’s 40000 pulpits. The measure that was approved included married women as well. However there was opposition led by Rev. J. Dewey Muir of Jacksonville Illinois who argued that while women make excellent preachers many churches dont want them and putting them on the regular roster of ministers would create a serious problem of administration. |
| Zombies: Ranks Of Worlds Most Debt-Hobbled Companies Soaring. Not All Will Survive… | Debt Huge In London |
| Bernard Condon for the Associated Press | News Wire Article published in the Ogden Standard Examiner |
| June 7, 2024 | May 30, 1975 |
| NEW YORK (AP) — They are called zombies companies so laden with debt that they are just stumbling by on the brink of survival barely able to pay even the interest on their loans and often just a bad business hit away from dying off for good. An Associated Press analysis found their numbers have soared to nearly 7000 publicly traded companies around the world — 2000 in the United States alone — whiplashed by years of piling up cheap debt followed by stubborn inflation that has pushed borrowing … Read the full article here. |
LONDON (AP) — Like New York London is in deep financial trouble. There is talk of bankruptcy but authorities say they are confident it wont happen here. London’s woes are strikingly similar to those now strapping the administration of Mayor Abraham D. Beame in New York. But London has physical assets to fall back on in a pinch and New York doesn’t. Among London’s woes: London’s debt was $4.6 billion at the end of March. It may be difficult to borrow more. An attempt in April to float a $162 million bond issue failed. Underwriters could not place 90 per cent of the bonds. |
| After Fda Setback Psychedelic Drugmakers Distance Themselves From A Pioneer | Doctor Says Lsd May Provide Clue To Cause Of Mental Illness |
| Daniel Gilbert And David Ovalle, (C) 2024 , The Washington Post for The Washington Post | News Wire Article published in the Emporia Gazette |
| June 9, 2024 | November 15, 1967 |
| MAPS and Lykos combined the drug — better known by its street name ecstasy — with psychotherapy adding complexity to the design of an already challenging trial. Investigators didn’t collect certain lab tests or data on the potential for abuse that the FDA specifically requested. And the push has been dogged by a perception that MAPS’s evangelism for psychedelics has seeped into Lykos’s work of scientifically proving the therapy’s benefits along with allegations of misconduct in clinical trial … Read the full article here. |
ST. LOUIS (AP) — LSD the potentially dangerous drug may have accidentally uncovered a cause of considerable mental illness—the inability to express warmth toward one’s fellow man—a Mayo Clinic psychiatrist says. Dr. M. Robert Wilson Jr. said studies of a group of emotionally-ill adolescents who were given the drug during treatment had revealed a common underlying emotional effect. He told a seminar for science writers Tuesday that the common theme was expressed by one of the patients who said that during his LSD “trip” he suddenly “felt free to be compassionate and warm towards my fellow man.” Evidence from the study he said indicates that at least some emotionally-disturbed persons need “freedom to be warm or close” to another person or perhaps even to express suppressed warmth for an experience they are undergoing such as attending college. “I therefore think” said Wilson “that the inability to express one’s warm feelings probably underlies many psychiatric situations.” He said that some of the patients in the study had been drop-outs from college but that after their LSD experience they returned. Wilson spoke at a seminar co-sponsored by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and by Washington University. The doctor stressed that LSD has potential psychological and physiological hazards and he made clear he was not condoning its use by anyone except under controlled medical observation. |
| Crazy-Strong Robotic Dogs Gear Up For Moon Mission | Dog Lovers Protest |
| Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report for the Fox News | News Wire Article published in the Farmington Daily Times |
| June 10, 2024 | November 6, 1957 |
| In the shadow of Oregon’s majestic Mount Hood a team of researchers from a consortium of universities and NASA’s Johnson Space Center have embarked on a groundbreaking project. Their mission? To prepare a dog-like robot named Spirit for the daunting task of navigating the moon’s unpredictable terrain. Spirit’s rigorous training regime During a rigorous five-day testing period in the summer of 2023 Spirit … Read the full article here. |
WASHINGTON (UP)—The Tail-Waggers Foundation of America an organization of dog lovers is demanding that the United Nations condemn the use of a live dog in the space project. |
| Louisiana Law Will Criminalize Approaching Police Under Certain Circumstances | Police Rally Calls For Tougher Laws |
| Sara Cline for the Associated Press | News Wire Article published in the Oneonta Star |
| May 29, 2024 | October 15, 1970 |
| BATON ROUGE La. (AP) — Critics of a new Louisiana law which makes it a crime to approach within 25 feet (7.6 meters) of a police officer under certain circumstances fear that the measure could hinder the public’s ability to film officers — a tool that has increasingly been used to hold police accountable. Under the law anyone who is convicted of “knowingly or intentionally” approaching an officer who is “lawfully engaged in the execution of his official duties” and after being ordered to … Read the full article here. |
WASHINGTON - Thousands of policemen jammed the Capitol Wednesday in a demonstration for stiffer laws against attacks on police. The rally was called by the Fraternal Order of Police to show the people of this country we are fed up John J. Harrington national president told some 3500 officers and Congress members on the Capitol steps. The policemen came here from throughout the country. The thin line between civilization and the jungle—which is us policemen—is being shot to hell and something has to be done about it Harrington said. Harrington on leave from the Philadelphia Police Department said It’s time the people of this country face up to it there is a revolution taking place. He called for passage of legislation making it a federal crime to cross state lines to attack a policeman and providing the death penalty or life imprisonment for killing a policeman or fireman. In his rally speech and in earlier testimony before a House subcommittee Harrington criticized the Justice Department the Supreme Court liberal papers like the Washington Post the New York Times and the St. Louis Dispatch and many of the great TV chains. He also assailed moderate Negro leaders who have been taken in by charges against police. And he criticized Arthur Goldberg Democratic candidate for governor of New York for comments he said Goldberg made in connection with the killing of two Black Panthers last December in a Chicago police raid. If he has any concern for the policemen who are being killed by militants almost every day I have failed to read about it Harrington said. Testifying before the House subcommittee investigating the Black Panthers Harrington said when he wrote Attorney General John N. Mitchell about alleged Panther violations I got a mild reply from somebody down the line saying that an investigation was being held. |
| Violent Polarized Mexico Chooses Between 2 Women For President | Lausche Johnson Out As President Candidates |
| Mark Stevenson, María Verza for the Associated Press | News Wire Article published in the Edwardsville Intelligencer |
| May 30, 2024 | April 19, 1956 |
| MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico goes into Sunday’s election deeply divided: friends and relatives no longer talk politics for fear of worsening unbridgeable divides while drug cartels have split the country into a patchwork quilt of warring fiefdoms. The atmosphere is literally heating up amid a wave of unusual heat drought pollution and political violence. It’s unclear whether Mexico’s next president will be able to rein in the underlying violence and polarization. Clients eat at a street food … Read the full article here. |
United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON - Two uncommonly able Democrats who are favorite son presidential candidates in important states may as well be counted out right now. This will not disappoint either of them. They are favorite son candidates technically. Actually what each seeks to do is to control his state’s delegation to the Democratic National Convention. They are Ohio’s Gov. Frank J. Lausche and Texas’ Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson. There never was much chance for Lausche anyway a fact of which that smart politician is fully aware. Lausche is in the dog house of the nation’s union leadership. His five-time record in being elected governor of Ohio suggests the rank and file of labor may feel more kindly than the union leaders toward Lausche. However that may be organized labor could and almost surely would block any effort to nominate Lausche. The men who rule the unions and control their large political funds exercise great power in Democratic national conventions. That should be enough to stop Lausche. Besides he confessed publicly some weeks ago what most political writers long had suspected; Lausche had voted for Sen. Robert A. Taft in 1950 and against the Democratic senatorial candidate Joseph Ferguson. Lausche laid his 1958 presidential candidacy away for good in Cincinnati this week. He told a news questioner that President Eisenhowers veto of the farm bill was right and proper. He would have compromised everything noble he has stood for all his life if he had signed that bill which was a bad bill said Lausche. That did it because the Democratic leadership is depending in very large part on the farm bill veto to win farm state votes for their candidates next November. The other big Democratic issue as of now is Mr. Eisenhowers health. The Democratic organization tabs him as a part-time president almost a play boy who has shucked off to subordinates vital responsibilities which should be his. That may or may not prove to be a controlling issue in this presidential campaign but the Democratic National Committee is pushing it hard. That is where Johnson fades from the 1956 presidential picture. As does Lausche in Ohio so does Johnson in Texas stand as a favorite son Democratic candidate. There is one difference. Lausche is sure of the Ohio delegation to the Democratic National Convention. Johnson is opposed by Gov. Allan Shivers who led the Texas bolt to Mr. Eisenhower in 1952. Johnson probably is aware that he has small chance of being nominated in 1956. Johnson suffered a heart attack last year about two months before Mr. Eisenhower was stricken. The senator is back on the job now as Democratic leader and he is working hard. The issue of Mr. Eisenhowers health however quickly would cease to be an issue if the Democrats nominated Johnson whose manner of living also must be controlled by the circumstances of his health. |
| Attacks On Justice System Could Be Useful To Autocrats Like Putin | Clementis Admits Guilt In Red Purge Trial |
| Emma Burrows for the Associated Press | News Wire Article published in the Butte Montana Standard |
| June 2, 2024 | November 22, 1952 |
| After his historic guilty verdict in his hush money case Donald Trump attacked the U.S. criminal justice system making unfounded claims of a “rigged” trial that echoed remarks from the Kremlin. “If they can do this to me they can do this to anyone” Trump said Friday speaking from his namesake tower in New York on Friday. Thousands of miles away Russian President Vladimir Putin was probably “rubbing his hands with glee” said Fiona Hill a former senior White House national security adviser. … Read the full article here. |
VIENNA Austria - Former Foreign Minister Vlado Clementis confessed in Prague Friday to a long series of sins against Stalin. The Czechoslovak Communist purge trial of 14 alleged renegades from Stalinism turned into a violent attack on world Jewry. The Communist prosecution suddenly produced a long-missing Israeli leftist held in Prague for a year as a witness against one of the chief defendants former Vice Premier and Party Secretary Rudolf Slansky. Slansky recited his own crimes Thursday for more than 3.5 hours in what one Western observer here called a push-button confession. Details of the Czech governments indictment broadcast by Prague quoted Clementis as linking Slansky to John Foster Dulles just named the next U.S. Secretary of State by President-elect Eisenhower. Clementis was said to have reported a conspiracy involving Slansky Dulles and world Jewry against the interests of Red Czechoslovakia. Bedrich Geminder one-time power behind the scenes in Czechoslovak Communism also recited a confession saying he plotted with Zionists and worked with Slansky to overthrow the government of President Klement Gottwald and re-established capitalism. One of the highlights of the days proceedings was the sudden appearance on the witness stand of Mordecai Oren long-missing member of the extreme leftist Mapam Party of Israel. He had gone to Czechoslovakia in 1951 at the invitation of the Communists and was held incommunicado. This was about the time of the arrest of Slansky. Evidently he had been coached as a star witness against the 14 defendants 11 of whom are Jews. Much of the confessions of Geminder Clementis and Slansky has concerned alleged plotting with Jews and Titoists. The 14000-word list of charges against Slansky once a Moscow favorite and the other defendants called Dulles a notorious spy and said he plotted to help wealthy Jewish families smuggle property out of Czechoslovakia. Among others it named the Peetschel family Sudeten bankers who are now in the West. |
| Cyberscammers Use Ai To Manipulate Google Search Results | Crackup Halts Accomplice Treasure Hunt Aides Fired Publicity Man Tells Of Paying For Plugs |
| Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report for the Fox News | News Wire Article published in the Pasadena Independent |
| May 29, 2024 | November 6, 1959 |
| In the digital age where searching online has become second nature even the simplest inquiries can expose you to risks. Advanced artificial intelligence scams are lurking behind innocuous search engine queries leveraging what\s known as search engine optimization to deceive users according to expert advice from GuidePoint Security highlighting how cybercriminals manipulate these systems. How a Google search scam works These schemers purchase ads to position their bogus websites atop y … Read the full article here. |
WASHINGTON president of the N Broadcasting Co revealed yesterday that two employees of the current TV quiz show “Treasure Hunt” have been fired for taking “kickbacks” from contestants they helped get on the program. Network chief Robert E. Kintner made the disclosure to House investigators as he recommended that Congress make it a federal crime to participate knowingly in the rigging of TV contest programs. Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) said later the proposal deserves consideration by the committee. Kintner also announced that NBC planned to create a special investigating unit to police its programs for the purpose of “detecting rooting out and preventing deception.” Kintner’s reference to what he called an apparently illegal “kickback” system on “Treasure Hunt” was the first disclosure of any irregularity on that program which is still on the air. He said NBC’s own agent had uncovered the operation and had turned over evidence on it to the New York District Attorney’s office. Kintner’s testimony brought to a near climax the House Commerce Subcommittees investigation of the TV quiz scandal. It will wind up its hearings today with testimony from Dr. Frank Stanton president of Columbia Broadcasting System. Dan Murray of Jantone Enterprises Inc owner of “Treasure Hunt” said the two discharged employees worked as ‘warm-up men who were supposed to loosen up the audience before “Treasure Hunt” went on the air. Kintner told the congressional group that NBC had “never been a party to quiz show rigging” most of which was carried out by program producing firms. The network he said was just as much a victim as the public. Rep. John B. Bennett (R-Mich.) told Kintner “it appeared to him that NBC was something less than diligent in trying to get to the bottom of these rigged shows particularly ‘21!’ He said NBC now requires contract guarantees from producers as to the honesty of programs they stage for the network. |
| Parents Of Aurora Masters 5-Year-Old Killed In Swing Set Accident Want Her To Be Remembered | Girl 13 Loses Life In Realistic ‘Wild West Drama |
| Ahjané Forbes, Usa Today for the Usa Today | News Wire Article published in the Ludington Daily News |
| May 28, 2024 | September 25, 1945 |
| A 5-year-old Colorado girl Aurora Masters tragically died a few weeks ago after being strangled by a swing set in the backyard of her family\s home. Although this tragedy has gained national attention her parents don\t want the world to remember her by her death but by the way she lived. Born on July 10 2018 in Fort Collins Colorado which is located about 63 miles north of Denver Aurora Masters was full of life and managed to bring a community together through her music performances … Read the full article here. |
CHICAGO—To entertain her young brother Jean Lynch 13 took him into their basement Monday to play “wild west.” Im going to show you how they hanged bad people out west Jean told her brother Jimmy 6 as she got a clothesline and made a noose. She slipped it around her neck and told Jimmy to push up a chair. She climbed upon it tied the rope around a pipe and shouted See! The chair tipped and Jean fell—with her feet just touching the floor. The weight of her body tightened the noose. As she tried to loosen it she lost consciousness. Jimmy ran upstairs got a breadknife and cut the rope. Then he ran outside crying for help and met his mother who was returning home from a store. Police and firemen with an inhalator worked for 45 minutes over the child’s lifeless body. |
| Finish Them!: Nikki Haley Writes Message On Israeli Artillery Shell | Mcgovern Jerks At Us Conscience |
| Savannah Kuchar, Usa Today for the Usa Today | News Wire Article published in the Ottawa Herald |
| May 29, 2024 | September 27, 1972 |
| Nikki Haley – the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations – wrote Finish them! on an Israeli artillery shell during a recent trip to the country. The former South Carolina governor and former Republican presidential candidate was in Israel over the Memorial Day weekend visiting sites of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that killed around 1200 people and led to over 240 being taken hostage. The Gaza Ministry of Health which is controlled by Hamas has said about 36000 Palestinians have been … Read the full article here. |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sen. George McGovern has vowed to force the moral issue of war upon the American conscience and if he wins the White House to end “this murderous bombing” within five minutes of his inauguration. He said he did not expect the normal campaign applause for his account of casualties and of “the most incredible and murderous bombardment in all the history of mankind.” The Democratic presidential nominee invoked the war issue from a platform President Nixon is to occupy tonight. It was a solemn windup to a campaign Tuesday that had featured the whooping politics of Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey bidding for Democratic solidarity at the side of the man who beat him for the presidential nomination. “Im going to do everything within my power between now and Nov. 7 to force the American people to examine the serious moral questions that are confronting us because of this barbaric behavior that has been going on in Indochina” McGovern told about 1000 people at a $250-a-plate fundraising dinner Tuesday night. In the same Century Plaza Hotel ballroom tonight Nixon is to address a $1000-a-ticket Republican campaign dinner. McGovern drew applause with his pledges to end the war and gain freedom for American prisoners. But when one tentative round of applause rippled through the ballroom after he spoke of civilian casualties McGovern said: “I know these things are hard to clap about and I don’t expect applause on descriptions of that kind.” After a 14-hour day of vote-hunting in California the state he said is his top-priority target in the presidential campaign McGovern spent the night flying back to Washington ending an 11-state campaign swing. His final speech was in stark contrast to the exuberance of his rallies with Humphrey at his side. Humphrey told a labor rally: “What this campaign needs is a good dose of believing of emotion of enthusiasm of spirit of optimism Were never going to win anything if we go around with a hang-dog look |