Univ News: 1952 - Kefauver/Eisenhower / Cuba / England sewing

Summary

1952-03-13 1. EISENHOWER-KEFAUVER WIN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARIES: NEW HAMPSHIRE - Straws in the political wind from the Granite State! After weeks of campaigning and listening, the voters go to the polls on Town Meeting Day. Their choices–Gen. Eisenhower over Taft and other GOP hopefuls, and Senator Kefauver winning a resounding victory over Pres. Truman. 2. REVOLUTION IN CUBA: HAVANA - Revolution comes to Havana, as "Strong Man" Gen. Fulgencio Batista, who overthrew government back in 1933 to set himself in power, stages a lightning coup and ousts the incumbent Pres. Prio Socarras. 3A/B/C. 119 DEAD IN R.R. WRECK: BRAZIL - Gruesome scenes of death on the rails, twenty miles outside Rio. Two cars of one train jump the tracks, into path of speeding suburban electric. Over one hundred head, and hundreds were injured. / SMUGGLING IN BERLIN: BERLIN - West Berlin police are coping with an increasing flood of goods from the Eastern sector. Large hauls of smuggled goods are made at the city's border, and carted away to warehouses. / NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK: LONDON - Sewing Week in England, and a contest to see who can find a needle in a haystack. Some enterprising character brings a magnet along to find the needle, but good old luck wins out, and finder receives a sewing machine.