Session adjournment hurts Unruh image and aims for Sept veto
The acting governor Burns adjourned the 1968 regular session, smudging Speaker Jesse Unruh’s ally image while underscoring limited productive output after seven months. The piece cites strong auto smog laws, new corporate securities law, and water project funding as gains, but critiques tax relief, reform, obscenity controls, and school aid as drawbacks. Miller singles out power struggles with Unruh as a major friction point, and a Sept 9 veto session is proposed to tackle unresolved issues including property tax reform and BART funding.
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Jesse Unruh
Ilugh Burris
Fresca Sy
Burns
San California
Reagan
BART
GOP Platform Seen As Forward Looking Document
The piece lauds the GOP platform built in Miami Beach and anticipates Chicago, praising its forward stance. It highlights calls to end the Vietnam War, a program for peace, and a broad, shared responsibility approach, labeling it a progressive outline for change and progress.
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Vietnam
GOP
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Countdown Air Trainfeams at Major Airports
LEJ's Cabinet Committee on Price Stability urges business and labor leaders to restrain wages in price decisions. It proposes making labor leaders responsible for prices while leaving wages to businessmen to curb inflation.
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LEJ
Nixon Rejects GOP Minority Label Across States
Nixon argues against calling the Republicans a minority party, citing 1966 nationwide results where GOP Senate votes led Democratic totals in most states. He notes California shifts, wins in Kentucky and Florida, and a growing GOP hold on gubernatorial offices, legislatures, and electoral votes. He warns about low voter turnout and registration disparities.
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Nixon
California
Johnson
George L. Murphy
Senate
Ronald Reagan
Arkansas
John L. McClellan
Texas
John B. Connally
G.O.P
Florida
Kentucky
Tiny Tim Awakens Appetite For Corn In America
The writer analyzes Tiny Tim’s appeal amid 1960s cynicism describing his peculiar, nonconventional stage persona and falsetto as a refreshing contrast to cool youth culture. He portrays Tim as a surprising yet rising star, predicting a cultural shift toward earnest, romantic music after the era of rock and ribald lyrics.
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Tiny Tim
United States
Bream
Eddie Cantor
Metric jest sparks defender response from Peace Corpsman
A Washington writer recalls mockery of the metric system and receives a sharply critical letter from a Peace Corps volunteer in Iran. The reader defends the changeover highlighting uniformity and easier calculations while urging responsible discourse and noting overreaction to jokes about national identity.
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Tran
Clean Gene May Claim Sad Legacy
Washington DC report traces Senator Eugene McCarthy’s late surge for the Democratic nomination, praising his pluck but warning his run could leave the party a hollow relic. It notes the Vietnam War focus, Kennedy and Humphrey dynamics, and the fragile fate of the party as McCarthy gains momentum.
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Washington, D. C
Eugene McCarthy
McCarthy
Hanan
Woodrow Wilson
Minnesota
Lyndon Johnson
New Hampshire
White House
Onme
Bob Kennedy
Hubert Humphrey
Humphrey
Johnson
Kennedy
Gene McCarthy
Ted Kennedy
Young Kennedy
Humphrey-Kenedy
Moments in history from 1702 to 1984 and a cryptic quote
Key events include the 1702 establishment of the Order of the Purple Heart by George Washington, the 1947 Kon Tiki voyage ending with a reef landing after a 4000 mile trek, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy's 1983 birth and brief death, and the 1984 Turkish air attacks on Cyprus. A closing thought quotes D H Lawrence on wealth and thinness.
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Order of the Purple Heart
George Washington
Tuamotu Archipelago
Peru
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