Alameda County board term limit policy labeled a blunder
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors approved a two term limit for members of boards and commissions, a move critics call disastrous. The policy risks losing expertise as staff and elected officials ignore or stall projects when terms end, and it may deter citizen service by reducing continuity. Two supervisors opposed the measure, urged public scrutiny of its broader impact on county governance.
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Board of Supervisors
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Alameda County Board of Supervisors
Countdown Prince Charles backs student protests
The article notes Prince Charles endorsing student demonstrations while readers urge common sense. It also mentions Israel selecting Golda Meir, a former Milwaukee schoolteacher, as its new prime minister, praising Milwaukee for producing sharp minds.
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Prince Charles
Israel
Golda Meir
Milwaukee
Freedom For Women Drawbacks In New Jersey Wrestling
PAUL HARVEY discusses the shift allowing women to wrestle in New Jersey and quotes Joseph Walker on non-discrimination. The piece reflects Clare Boothe Luce’s views on modern womanhood, career versus family, and the perceived psyche shifts tied to the contraception era, divorce rates, and social roles.
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New Jersey
Joseph Walker
Clare Boothe Luce
Congress
Diplomatic Corps
Establishmentarians In Happy Miasmapolis
A humorous portrait of the city of Miasmapolis and a quirky group named Establishmentarians aged over 30. The piece describes their rituals Paying Bills and Paying Taxes, focus on work, affluence, property, auto cars, and family life, noting opposition by an aspiring anti Establishmentarian faction.
Maclean on Psychic World Around Us book and Nebel show
DON MacLEAN reviews Long John Nebel’s The Psychic World Around Us from Hawthorn. The book distills interviews with Jeane Dixon, Bishop James Pike, Hugh Lynn Cayce and others, plus odd events like a man walking on an unseen psychic leg and plant lie detectors. Nebel’s research spans Library of Congress work and the International Institute of Psychic Experiences in Sunspots, California.
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Long John Nebel
Hawthorn
WNBC
Nebel
Jeane Dixon
Bishop James Pike
Hugh Lynn Cayce
Arthur Ford
Frank Edwards
John
Nehel
Cleve Backster
Valentino
Library of Congress
International Institute of Psychic Experiences
Sunspots
Calif
Fulbright misjudgments on Cuba and world affairs labeled
The piece attacks Senate Foreign Relations Chairman J William Fulbright for repeatedly misjudging U S policy from Cuba to Berlin NATO and Vietnam. It cites his opposition to unilateral action in Cuba and his later criticisms of U S strategy while highlighting a pattern of incorrect predictions and political posturing.
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Latin America
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Bay of Pigs
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Fulbright
Berlin
Johnson
North Vietnam
Sumner
Wand
Senate
China
United Nations
J. William Fulbright
Notable 18th to 20th Century History Snapshots
In 1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the first U S secretary of state under President Washington. In World War I the Battle of the Somme features American and German troops. In 1945 Allied air forces drop over 12 000 tons of bombs on Germany in the Jewish area. Nikala Krosekoy pledges Russian cooperation with the United States in peaceful space exploration.
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Virginia
George Washington
Germany
Nikala Krosekoy
Russia
America
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