Week of April 23, 1955

“sovereign right for liberate” Formosa even though it wants

direct negotiations with the United States to ease tension in

the area.

President Eisenhower unveils plans to send a new atomic-

powered merchant ship around the globe in a dramatic

demonstration of America’s determination to win “a just and

lasting peace.” The new vessel, the President said, will travel

thousands of miles without refueling and “will demonstrate to people everywhere

this peacetime use of atomic energy, harnessed for the improvement of human

living.”

The Department of Justice files an antitrust suit to break up the merger of the

Hilton and Statler Hotels.

President Eisenhower plainly states that the United states will gladly talk with

Red China about “anything that doesn’t affect the Chinese Nationalists” in order

to ease world tensions.

At the White House - Dr. Jonas Salk (40), discoverer of the polio vaccine, meets

President Eisenhower but it was the President who thanked him. “When I think of

the thousands and thousands of parents, and grandparents who are hereafter to

be spared so much anxiety and grief, I have no words to express adequately my

thanks,” said the President to Dr. Salk.

Fashion arbiter - American soldiers in Frankfurt follow Col. John Dilley’s order to

wear neckties in town with a vengeance. He told GI’s to shed their sport shirts

and put on ties after 6pm when visiting town in civilian clothes. The GI’s took the

fashion to the extreme; some wore

luminous knit jobs that glowed in the dark.

Many of the ensembles were set off by

bright green or red baseball jackets -

turning heads.

American women away from foreign

influence is unveiled at the International

Congress of Beauty. The new fashion,

tabbed the American girl hair style, was