Week of April 15, 1959

says his provisional Cuban government “does not want to

stay in power one minute longer than is necessary before

having free elections.” Castro told his TV questioners it

might be four years before Cuba holds free elections. He

had said previously that elections would be held in two

years. He said his lengthy talk with Richard Nixon -

originally scheduled for 15 minutes - had been ‘very

friendly.”

Bolivia but the government said it was quickly crushed with 22 dead and more

than 50 wounded. The rightist Bolivian Socialist Falange, main opposition to the

Nationalist Revolutionary Movement of President Hernan Siles Zuazo, led the

revolt.

Vice President Richard Nixon is tapped by President Eisenhower for a visit to

Russia. He’ll go to Moscow in July to open an American exhibition there.

Defying threats - Cuban Premier Minister Fidel Castro goes on a handshaking

autograph signing stroll through the streets of Washington. He made a

particularly big hit with 43 visiting students from Clayton High, St. Louis, who

surged around him as he left the Cuban embassy. He kept pausing to chat with

them and sign autographs.

President Eisenhower formally presents the Robert A. Taft memorial bell tower

on the Capitol grounds to Congress.

Doctors report that recent neck pains developed by Secretary of State Dulles

may be due to a new outbreak of cancer. Some medical authorities said this

virtually ruled out the chance that he would ever return to full direction of the

nation’s foreign policy. Because of the cancer, Dulles resigns the post.

secretary of state.

National guardsmen crush a murderous convict mutiny at

Montana State Prison. The 35-hour rebellion was triggered by

a massive escape attempt.

Week of April 15, 1959

The Dalai Lama declares Red China violated its pledge of self-rule for Tibet,

subjugated the Tibetans and killed or enslaved many Buddhist holy men.

Four of Fidel Castro’s enemies hijack a Cuban domestic airliner and force its pilot

to fly them to Miami in search of political asylum.

stage of his Cuban revolution would be agrarian reform. He

said his government would “expropriate legally’ uncultivated

or badly cultivated land. Only by this means, he said, can

Cuba hope to create an internal market and put to work its

700,000 unemployed.

President Eisenhower, striving to smash a deadlock,

appeals to Soviet Premier Khrushchev for a quick ban on

nuclear weapons tests below 30 miles in the atmosphere.

The FDA announces it will remove some 17 coal tar colors used in lipstick. The

action follows two years of tests that proved seven of the banned colors cause

definite injury when ingested by animals.

Sen. Proxmire (D-Wis.) who has accused Democratic leader Johnson of cutting

other senators out of the picture, admitted today he has been doing the same to

Johnson, Proxmire said he had cropped Johnson out of two photos in recent

newsletters to Wisconsin constituents because he thought the democratic leader

didn’t belong in the pictures.

Teamsters Union president James Hoffa admits that his plans for a combine of

land-sea-air transportation unions would give him “great power.” “I seek the

necessary power to get for working members what they are entitled to

economically. This is not political’ it is big business. The rights of organized labor

must be respected.”

psychiatric treatment although a New York Herald

Tribune article says he has had recent experience

with psychiatry. Grant was quoted in the article as

saying that after he went through psychiatric

treatment, “we found we love each other more

than we’d ever done before.”

Week of April 15, 1959

Lowe’s Hideaway” is heard 3 to 5pm. He’ll be going to WRCA radio.

TV’s “Meet The Press” and CBs-TV’s “Face the Nation.” But the Cuban embassy

said he could only appear on the NBC-TV program due to scheduling.

Week of April 15, 1959

Arthur Godfrey is leaving his TV and radio programs for a while due to a medical

condition. He’ll be off the air for a few months.

Thursday night television -

CBS - Douglas Edwards news, I Love Lucy, December Bride, Yancy Derringer,

Zane Grey theatre, Playhouse 90

NBC - Huntley-Brinkley news, Jefferson Drum Lawless Years, Music Theater,

Laugh Line, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Groucho Marx, Masquerade Party, Jack

Paar

ABC - Leave It To Beaver, Zorro, The Real

McCoys, Pat Boone, Rough Riders, Damon

Runyon Theater, John Daley news

Leave It To Beaver - Beaver believes the

family is moving to another community.

Laugh Line - New comedy panel show with

Elaine May and Mike Nichols featuring

Dorothy Lauden.

Pat Boone - The Ja-Da Quartet and guest Jo

Stafford.

Rough Riders - Lt. Kirby goes to the aid of

three nuns who are about to be swindled out

of charity money.

At the movies -

Heather Sears

Rossano Brazzi, Maurice Chevalier

Anthony Perkins, Lee J. Cobb

Sandra Dee, Dan O’Herlihy, Susan Kohmer,

Robert Alda

Monster on the Campus

Week of April 15, 1959

Week of April 15, 1959

Week of April 15, 1959