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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1965
Page
4
Adults fret over the Frug the Jerk the Swim and other suggestive dances as teens seek fun athletic display and popularity. A researcher links modern gyrations to fertility rites while noting teens remain focused on social standing and enjoyment rather than moral decline.
Enrollment in higher education reaches 4,686,057, up 10 percent with full-time students at 3,392,539, up 12.7 percent and part-time at 1,393,518. Dr. Garland G. Parker cites social, economic pressures, financial aid and branch campuses as factors. The Viet Nam war affects full versus part-time trends. Freshmen rise 17.3 percent for the second year in a row.
The piece urges readers to use zip codes on all mail to aid automatic sorting and faster delivery. It notes many still skip codes, driving slow mail and lost items, and calls for personal responsibility before blaming the postal system or Postmaster General Lawrence F. O'Brien.
The Americans For Reappraisal of Far Eastern Policy, led by Yale professors and students, calls for a nationwide review beginning with Red China’s UN seat. The letter argues for conditions on Taiwan and UN reform, warns against arm twisting, and links policy shifts to Vietnam and Korea without conceding U S concessions to Mao or Ho Chi Minh.
A collage of humorous and grumpy Christmas lines from Hal Boyle reflecting family purchases, party aftermath, and gift giving quirks. Remarks include returning gifts, noisy toys, perfume, self carving turkey wishes, and festive mood swings across households.
The piece portrays Rev. James Bevel expanding SCLC influence in Chicago's West Side, organizing new voters and welfare recipients into pressure groups. It notes King’s cautious stance on northern expansion, Daley's machine politics, and the potential 1966–67 political clash as Bevel builds a bread‑and‑butter protest movement.
A reader asks why men resist wife shopping for clothes while Abby says visit a first class menswear store for guidance. In a second letter a girl seeks help winning a boy who favors a popular classmate, Abby advises focusing on being likable and not cutting others down.
A private instruction advises on behavior to earn a boy’s respect in Corona California. It urges modest conduct so the boy, when told he resembles his father, will carry himself with pride rather than respond rudely. The message reflects social expectations and parental comparisons.
On this date in history notable events include the 1803 transfer of New Orleans to the United States under the Louisiana Purchase, the 1790 opening of America’s first successful cotton mill in Pawtucket, the 1860 secession of South Carolina, and other milestones through 1943 and beyond.
AP reports that rate increases touch savers and borrowers as banks raise competition for deposits. The Fed keeps 4 percent ceiling on regular savings while boosting time deposit rates to 4 1/2 percent, changing access for individuals seeking smaller denomination CDs with strict terms.
In Belgrade Yugoslavia a generation educated under communism rebels with beatnik style and thrill thefts. Teens imitate Western rock and neglect socialist ideals as parents and authorities crack down. Lawmakers now punish car theft as a crime with up to six months in prison.
An Italian researcher in The Insider's Newsletter claims babies conceived in summer have lower IQs than those conceived in cooler seasons. Dr E J Mita theorizes summer diets lower in protein and higher in carbs may, during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, cause permanent brain and nervous system damage.
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