Week of March 1, 1956
A Gallup Poll finds President Eisenhower with a 76% approval rating.
President Eisenhower
says he will run again
and assures the nation he is fit enough to do
the job. “So far as my own personal sense of
well-being is concerned, I am as well as before
the (heart) attack occurred.” The President
said. “As of this moment there is not the
slightest doubt that I can perform as well as I
ever have all of the important duties of the
presidency.” His first formal act as a candidate
for re-election was to approve a united
California Republican delegation.
U.S. Camera-carrying balloons over Russia -
The Kremlin protested, now the United States
tells the Kremlin that Russian balloons have
flown over U.S. territory (Alaska) too. A note to
the Kremlin asked, “What are you complaining
about?” Both sides are guilty of doing the same
thing.
Birmingham -
Ms. Autherine Lucy
, the first Negro student
in the history of the University of Alabama and who was
expelled February 29, is herself being sued along with the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People by four men who charge they had been falsely
accused of participation in mob action. The suits were based
on a petition filed Feb. 9 by Ms. Lucy. Ms. Lucy was
expelled as a disciplinary measure by the university board of
trustees. They said the coed had made the outrageous
charges that school officials conspired with the mob in order
to get her out of school. In her petition, she named these four men and others.
Adm. Richard Byrd expedition - The current United States Antarctic expedition
has discovered a vast trough of ice, thousands of square miles in extent, in which
the vilest weather in the world is spawned.
