Week of March 8, 1956
President Eisenhower says that he has asked Vice President Nixon “to chart out
his own course” for the future and to “tell me what he would like to do.”
An anti-American mob of French settlers storm the U.S. consulate in Tunis,
ransacking offices and destroying files and then wreck the headquarters of the
U.s. Information Service.
Algerian nationalists carry their revolt against French rule to the streets of Paris
battling helmeted police who halted their march on the National Assembly
President Eisenhower plays a morning round of golf at his home club of Burning
Tree in Maryland, lunches at the club and returns to his office to work on
correspondence.
Party Boss Khrushchev is ailing, according to Premier
Bulganin
. At the same Moscow reception, Bulganin lauds
President Eisenhower, “President Eisenhower opened the
martini road in Geneva. We sometimes drank with him to
friendship and peace in the world. We drank martinis during
intervals. We cannot forget these moments and we hope that
it will always be like that.”
Sen. Kefauver of Tennessee scores a victory in the NH
Primary.
Margaret Truman announces she will marry New York newspaperman Clifton
Daniel in April in the same Independence (Mo.) church where her father and
mother were marred 36 years ago.
Radio news - Radio growing - almost 15 million new
radio sets were sold in 1955 and there are 140 million
radio sets in this country. Several years ago, there was
a belief the industry would diminish in interest
Television news
Breaking a record for a live show - Some 72 speaking
parts in a one-hour drama about the sinking of the
Titanic. The total is way above the number of such
roles in a usual telecast of that length. Look for it on
