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December 1: Adolfo López Mateos takes office as President of Mexico. - Our Lady of the Angels School Fire: At least ninety students and three nuns are killed in a fire in Chicago.
December 5: Subscriber trunk dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by the Queen, when she dials a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to the Lord Provost. - The Preston bypass, the United Kingdom's first motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. This stretch is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.
December 6: The 3rd launch of a Thor-Able rocket, carrying Pioneer 2, is unsuccessful due to a 3rd stage ignition failure.
December 9: The right-wing John Birch Society is founded in the USA by Robert Welch, a retired candy manufacturer.
December 14: The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first ever to reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility.
December 15: Arthur L. Schawlow and Charles H. Townes of Bell Laboratories publish a paper in Physical Review Letters setting out the principles of the optical laser.
December 16: A fire breaks out in the Vida Department Store in Bogota, Colombia and kills 84 persons.
December 18: The Bell XV-3 Tiltrotor makes the first true mid-air transition from vertical helicopter-type flight to fully level fixed-wing flight.
December 19: President Dwight D. Eisenhower broadcasts a message from a Project SCORE satellite.
December 21: General Charles de Gaulle is elected president of France with 78.5% of the votes.
December 24: A BOAC Bristol Britannia (312 G-AOVD) crashes near Winkton, England during a test flight.
December 25: Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker (the George Balanchine version) is shown on prime-time television in color for the first time, as an episode of the CBS anthology series Playhouse 90.
December 28: The Baltimore Colts beat the New York Giants 23-17 to win the NFL Championship Game, the first to go into sudden death overtime and "The Greatest Game Ever Played".
December 29: Rebel troops under Che Guevara begin to invade Santa Clara, Cuba. Fulgencio Batista resigns two days later, on the night of the 31st.
December 31: Tallies reveal that, for the first time, the total of passengers carried by air this year exceeds the total carried by sea in transatlantic service. (source: Wikipedia)
| Gunsmoke 348 - The Grass Asp | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | When Red Bastion's wife gets shot on the streets of Dodge, Red is sure it was one of the Texas cowboys who had just arrived in town. | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 3 - Ella West | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Paladin travels to Abilene to help his friend Tom Carter make a lady out of Ella West, star of his Wild West Show. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 780 - Tom Dooley | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 349 - Kitty's Injury | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | When Kitty is thrown from her horse and hurt, Marshal Dillon seeks shelter with some very unfriendly Kansans. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on September 19, 1959. | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 4 - The Outlaw | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Manfred Holt, a killer with nine notches on his gun, makes a deal with Paladin to see his son. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 781 - For Old Times Sake | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 350 - Where'd They Go? | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A Christmas story. Clint Dody has been accused of armed robbery. When Dillon and Chester ride out to arrest him, a few chores need to be taken care of first. The script was first used on the program of December 29, 1957. | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 5 - Hanging Cross | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Paladin tries to prevent a battle between Matt Beecher and the Pawnees, caused by a small boy claimed as the son of both Matt Beecher and the Indian Chief. A good Christmas story. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 782 - Out for Christmas | |||||||||||||
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| Hancock's Half Hour s5 21 - Bill & Father Christmas | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | It's a far from festive season when Bill overhears the blabbermouth Lad. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 351 - The Choice | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Andy Hill, an outlaw trying to go straight, gets a job riding shotgun on the stage. The script was used previously on radio on October 30, 1955, and on the Gunsmoke television series on May 9, 1959. | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 6 - No Visitors | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Paladin comes upon a woman and child in the desert, possibly with Typhoid fever. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 783 - The Thirty Second of December | |||||||||||||
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