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Above, efforts fail to heal a rift between President Eisenhower and former President Truman, who declined an invitation to the White House to dine with former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Assemblyman William B. Rumford (D- Berkeley) calls upon officials to treat smog with quarantines, just as the state reacts to rabies. Once an area was found to have hazardous smog, autos would be required to have emission control devices.
At left, bandleader Harold "Hal" McIntyre is near death after being badly burned when he fell asleep while smoking in the apartment of band vocalist Jeanne McManus. McIntyre, who played with the Glenn Miller band, died the next day.
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Above, it might seem unimaginable today, but Sen. John F. Kennedy's Catholic faith was heavily analyzed as a campaign issue before the 1960 presidential election.
At right, Frank Lloyd Wright drew up plans for improvements at Barnsdall Park shortly before his death.
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The reason arrests for drunkenness rose 15% in 1958? A New York police official blames it on the Dodgers. "That team would drive anybody to drink" he says. |
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What are Nancy and Sluggo up to today?
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Sugar Ray Robinson is stripped of his middleweight championship for delaying too long in defending his title.
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