Editorial Cuba Under Castro Faces a Critical Moment
The piece surveys Fidel Castro's 10 years in power since 1959 outlining Cuba's social gains like free education and healthcare while highlighting economic stagnation, rationing, and lack of elections. It notes Soviet aid, Che Guevara’s Latin American activities, and urges a firmer U.S. stance with the new Washington administration.
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Cuba
Fidel Castro
Moncado
Santiago de Cuba
Castro
Fungencio Batista
United States
Organization of American States
Soviet Union
Latin America
Ernesto Che Guevara
Mexico
Guevara
Communist Parties
Washington
Resurrection City damages and costs tied to encampment
Damages from the Resurrection City encampment along the Lincoln Memorial include 12 acres of grass loss, 102 trees damaged or killed, 1726 in shrub loss, 3000 feet of snow fence, 400 feet of sidewalk, and defacement of the District of Columbia War Memorial. Restorations at West Potomac Park estimated at 61436, plus 159774 for extra police, engineering, and cleanup.
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Resurrection City
Lincoln Memorial
Columbia War Memorial
West Potomac Park
Johnson- Humphrey
ADR Listed Foreign Stocks: Advice for Investors
An elderly couple asks about ADRs and non listed securities. Expert notes ADRs trade like American stocks, created when foreign stock is deposited in a New York bank, and cautions seniors to favor regularly listed securities for easier tracking. He clarifies inherited stock tax basis tied to estate values and explains gift tax basis rules. Roger Spear offers a 4 page guide for $1.
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ADR
New York
F.W
Roger Spear
Roger E. Spear
Anderson Herald
Grand Central Station
N. Y
Fea, Corp
False Prophets And The Predictive Ponce De Leon
Oregon's Wayne Morse warned of a world war if bombing North Vietnam began. He spoke at Fairleigh Dickinson University on April 28, 1966. The piece mocks confident forecasts by economists and leaders, noting repeated misses and overstatements across decades.
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Oregon
Wayne Morse
North Vietnam
Sensing The News SENSING VALUES IN DISARRAY
Opinion piece decries political bias in Olympic bans and Western liberal reactions. Names South Africa Rhodesia Congo Guinea and Ethiopia as examples, contrasts police action at Columbia with campus dissent, warns of a new Dark Age eroding civilization.
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Mexico City
South Africa
Soviet Union
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Liberia
Guinea
Congo
Brazzaville
Republic of the Congo
Kinshasa
Ethiopia
Fone
sub-Saharan Africa
Rhodesia
Africa
New York
Columbia University
John Lindsay
Columbia
Lenin
Fidel
Lindsay
Europe
Mind Over Body Vows Cure and Draft Evasion Tale
A sensational claim promotes mind over medicine and faith as potent cures. It cites Jake D a 19 year old who avoided the draft by controlling his pulse and fear responses, plus a newspaper executive in Illinois whose night sweats supposedly vanished via subconscious influence. The piece urges readers to request a booklet and psychological charts, praising mental control and spiritual belief in modern medicine.
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Russia
Glenn Seaborg
Omic “Energy Commission
Chai
China
Defense
Robert McNamara
Johnson
Newsweek Magazine
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
London Times
United States
Florida
Sen. Smathers
Castro
Hoolosopher
Bertrand Russell
Tennessee Williams
Gen
Fea. Corp
Vietnam
Jake D
Jake
Ilinois
Folklore by William Wade on editors and grammar
An editor vents over delinquent subscribers and bread demands as Wisconsin winter bites. A clipped item mocks bad grammar and writing pitfalls from an Indiana Capitol notice, humorously advising on pronoun agreement double negatives and punctuation.
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Wisconsin
Garden of Eden
Indiana State Capitol
Call it CRI how to avoid catching respiratory infection
Old time health column urges recognizing contagious respiratory illness as infectious. Dr Brady explains droplets from coughing sneezing talking and laughing spread germs and that masks are needed to prevent spread. Readers can obtain a booklet titled Call it CRI by sending 35 cents and a self addressed stamped envelope.
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Brady
William Brady
el Camino
Beverly Hills
California
Record of mutiny era sea feats compared via Bligh and Dixons survival
Reader recounts Captain Bligh's swift voyage and contrasts with Dixon and two crew in a rubber raft. Mentions lengths, days, supplies, and peril, praising Dixon's survival ingenuity. Recommends The Raft by Robert Trumbull as a related read.
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Bligh
Tom
Dixon
Eta
Nile
Carier
Robert Trumbull
Henry Holt and Company
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