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WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 -- A high Government official said tonight that the Administration would ask Congress early next year to vote a series of sweeping proposals designed to tighten the nation's espionage laws.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y., Aug. 14 -- Despite a swerve early in the stretch that carried him out to the middle of the track as the crowd let loose with a collective gasp, the Maine Chance Farm's Ace Admiral continued to a runaway victory in the seventy-ninth edition of the Travers Stakes at Saratoga today.
Out of Washington's "Communist spy ease" there emerged last week one inescapable conclusion: Someone was lying. The question was: Who?
official USSR pubs on internatl law seen refuting USSR claims of consular diplomatic immunity
1948Patsy Gallant, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress[†]
Patricia Gallant is a Canadian pop singer and musical theatre actress. Of Acadian ancestry, she has recorded and performed in both English and French.
1948Tom Johnston, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Charles Thomas Johnston is an American musician. He is a guitarist and vocalist, known principally as a founder, guitarist, lead vocalist and songwriter for the rock group the Doobie Brothers, as well as for his own solo career. He has played off and on with the Doobie Brothers for 50 years, in several styles.
1948The First Republic of Korea (South Korea) is established in the southern half of the peninsula.[†]
The First Republic of Korea was the government of South Korea from August 1948 to June 1960. The First Republic was founded on 15 August 1948, and it became the first independent republican government in Korea. Syngman Rhee was the first president of South Korea. The National Assembly was created following the May 1948 general election, and the National Assembly in Seoul promulgated South Korea's first constitution in July, establishing a presidential system of government.