Bureaucratic Empires and Postal Service Curbs
The piece argues Congress should abolish the Postal Department, urging private delivery via sealed bids. Postmaster General Watson threatens service curtailment if exempted from budget cuts, warning of halted weekend sorting, backlogs, and reduced residential deliveries. It criticizes bureaucratic insularity and calls for efficiency and private enterprise in government.
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Marvin Watson
Congress
Watson
Mr. Watson
Time to Speak For Home Rule on SB 425 in Sacramento
Residents alarmed by state pre emption urge vocal support for Senate Bill 425 stalled in the Assembly Criminal Procedures Committee in Sacramento. The bill would shift authority on curfews morals and prostitution to local control where allowed, with Gov Reagan’s administration backing it. Citizens urged to lobby Assembly members Miller Crown Knox and Vasconcellos, and Merced Republican Murphy, to secure a floor vote.
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Criminal Procedure Committee
Sacramento
Senate
Criminal Procedures Committee
Jesse Unruh
Governmental Organization Committee
San Francisco
North Beach
Worth Beach
Sen. H. L. Richardson
John Miller
Berkeley
Robert Crown
Alameda
John Knox
Richmond
John Vasconcellos
San Jose
Frank Murphy
Merced
Countdown in L A County Orders Soap for Hippie Staff
The L A county board ordered a bar of soap for each hippie employee provoking comment that they will be washed up before they begin. In Paris, double decker buses return for the first time since 1912 as De Gaulle stacks the deck in multiple ways. A Northern California airline screens films in tongues for waiting passengers and offers flights of fancy.
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L.A
Kokoe
Paris
de Gaulle
California
Leading Candidates Bore Washington as Parties Fracture
Washington reporters report Nixon and Humphrey fail to excite the public as conventions loom. Wallace appeals to anti Negro revolution sentiment while McCarthy’s antiwar stance fuels party realignment pressure. Voters grow tired, urging direct debates to clear the field before November.
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Washington
Nixon
Humphrey
Hubert
George Wallace
Wallace
Miami Beach
Chicago
Nelson Rockefeller
McCarthy
Go someplace beautiful a postwar guidance piece
Paul Harvey urges ex servicemen to choose livable beauty over big city crowds. Lance Day built a life around Greenbrier beauty, business ventures, and family, proving a cleaner rural path possible. The piece contrasts crowded Chicago with serene Northeast and Southwest retreats, urging a swift move to a less urban future.
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Day
Greenbrier
Lake Placid
Sarasota
Lance Day
Spp
Chicago
Wisconsin
Michigan
Husband Protective Act mocked by Betty Furness speech
Washington writer quotes Betty Furness at the National Press Club backing a light hearted proposal named the Husband's Protective Act. The satirical piece argues for laws protecting husbands from wives purchases and door-to-door sales, calling for written husband approval of orders and mailings.
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Washington
Betty Furness
National Press Club
Furness
Jesus
Middle East alarm grows for Johnson over Vietnam, Nasser talks
Ralph de Toledano argues Johnson fears a Soviet backed Middle East crisis more than Vietnam. He details Nasser's Moscow talks with Brezhnev, the July 6 arms embargo lift to Israel, and U.S. efforts to isolate Israel through a UN peace plan. He asserts Cairo discussions warned by McCloy and Anderson show Israeli postwar borders and Western support shape policy.
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Johnson
Middle East
Soviet Union
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Kremlin
Leonid 1. Brezhnev
Moscow
U.S
Israel
Nasser
John J. McCloy
Robert B. Anderson
Cairo
MR. McCloy
Mr. Anderson
Vietnam
Notable historical milestones and quotes from 1862 to 1961
A compact history note cites U.S. Medal of Honor authorization in 1862, a 1533 industrial code and wage claim, 191 German advances toward Moscow, a 1961 Czech plane crash in Africa with 73 fatalities, and a Thoreau quote on simple pleasures.
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America
Russia
Moscow
Africa
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