Dropouts and hold power in city high schools
The piece analyzes wide dropout rates in city high schools with 2400 students failing to stay to graduation and notes vocational schools cut losses to 562, while demand for vocational spaces rises. It argues for combining vocational and academic tracks, expanding relevant programs, and engaging leadership to curb attrition and prepare students for modern society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hallwa
Rom Thers
Dunbar High School
Somethi
Ional
Dunbar
Washington
Yale Basketball Star Jack Langer Amid NCAA AAU Feud
Yale forward Jack Langer drew national attention as the Yale team faced NCAA AAU tensions over amateur status after he played in the Maccabiah Games for the United States. NCAA probation for Yale and possible ECAC action highlighted a longer battle between governing bodies over athlete eligibility and the Ivy League stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yale
Jack Langer
United States
Langer
Israel
Amateur Athletic Union
U.S
National Collegiate Athletic Association
NCAA
Eastern College Athletic Conference
Countdown VOLA and the long lines for class registration
A report notes that a system designed to cut student registration lines only made them longer with delays. It imagines a future where computers queue to be served by other computers. A survey claims many police departments stock outdated dum-dun bullets used in warfare for decades, criticized as a foolish policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
VOLA
Paul Harvey Prefab Homes Offer In Michigan
A buyer’s offer in Michigan promises a complete prefabricated home including the lot for under 15000 dollars. Unions shift to mass production to lower costs and speed up erection with factory sections and on site assembly. A wage pact limits top pay at four forty per hour for prefab work, while site labor remains unionized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Ford
Chevrolet
Federal judges fan fire over private school tax exemptions
Federal judges on a Washington panel ordered the IRS to halt tax exemptions for all white private schools in Mississippi amid NAACP and HEW inquiries. The piece argues such meddling threatens private education, citing Catholic, Jewish, Protestant and Episcopal schools, and questions racial busing and parental consent in Ann Arbor. It questions who benefits and warns of violence and disruption from forced integration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Mississippi
Washington
Internal Revenue Service
NAACP
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
PEW Catholic
Lutheran Ecen
Iscopalian
Ann Arbor
Mich
Patrica Carrigan
Ann Report
Carrigan
Russia’s Nigeria role marks a low profile policy lesson
Richard Wilson argues the Soviet Union’s quiet influence in Africa, notably Nigeria, contrasts with U.S. indecisiveness since Congo. The piece contends Russia uses no public justification, extends sway in Africa and the Mediterranean, and eclipses the United States in Egypt and other regions as Nixon-era policy wanes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Russia
Congo
Nigeria
Bishan
Soviet Union
Moscow
Bratons
Smith Hemp- Stone
Washington Star
Katanga
United Nations
Africa
United States
Mediterranean
Central
Mediterranean Sea
Nixon
Nixon Alsell
China
Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah
Nkrumah
Nasser
Egypt
Israel
Aswan
William P. Rogers
Central Africa
Kennedy
G. Mennen Williams
Michigan
Portugal moves toward democracy under Caetano regime
The Lisbon government signals cautious reform under Premier Caetano as Portugal widens civil liberties, downgrades the secret police, and loosens press controls, while the National Union dominates elections amid voter apathy and a guarded public attitude toward reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caetano
Ane
Salazar
Pide
Iis
Interior Department
Portugal
National Union
National Assembly
Lisbon
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Washington Post
Christian Science Monitor
Line Timore Fel Fousta
Rolph Fairchild Sditer
Paul Harvey
Woody’s
Madge
Russell Kirk
Mee
Ann Arbour
Florida
Faye
Richard Wilson
Hermes Alexander
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
Marcello Caetano
NATO
Bis
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!