Congressional oversight urged for CIA transparency debate
The piece argues for congressional review of CIA activities and budgets, noting past resistance by the agency to public scrutiny. It cites Senator McCarthy’s plan for January hearings on John A. McCone’s confirmation and compares CIA oversight to oversight of State and Defense, arguing secrecy risks and the need to prevent missteps from Cuba to the U-2 incident.
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Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
McCarthy
Minnesota
Congress
Senate
John A. McCone
Allen Dulles
Select Committee of
Great Cultural Center Adorned by German Gift to New Opera House
West Germany donating 2.5 million dollars to the Metropolitan Opera as part of the 142 million dollar New York Art Center project. By 1962 the glass walled building for the New York Philharmonic opens with theaters for operetta ballet and drama and links to Juilliard. The New York Public Library will house dance theater and music collections as the project expands. World’s Fair visitors of 1964 and 1965 may see final openings of this nation’s greatest artistic complex.
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United States
Metropolitan Opera House
New York City
Bonn
Metropolitan Opera
West Germany
New York
New York Philharmonic
Juilliard School of Music
New York Public Library
New Orleans
Murder for Survival and the Morality of Fallout Shelters
A réflexion on fallout shelters raises moral questions about killing neighbors to enter a private shelter. Critics challenge the idea as a rationalization of survival and clash with the sea ethic of "women and children first." The piece argues that the impulse to live does not justify murder.
Everest Boundary Pact Quietly Settles Peak Ownership
The long dispute between China and Nepal over Mount Everest ends with a boundary arrangement that splits the peak. Previous wartime reports claim a higher summit in West China at over 30,000 feet, but Everest remains the tallest widely recognized height with estimates ranging around 29,000 feet and no decisive new measurement published by authorities.
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China
Nepal
Mt. Everest
Burma
Everest
Humor in slips of tongue across radio era
A humorous collage of famous spoonerisms and misstatements from radio and TV figures. The piece recalls Rev Spooner, Harry von Zell, Andre Baruch, Norman BrKe none, Kermit Schaefer, and others, noting how misheard lines or malapropisms sparked laughter and showbiz charm across eras.
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William A. Spooner
New College
Oxford
England
America
Harry von Zell
United States
Herbert Hoever
Andre Baruch
Dear Abby advice column excerpts from a 1960s paper
A collage of Dear Abby reader questions covers college son entering seminary, chasing girls for marriage, ex wife love letters to a new husband, and four girls asking about shaving legs makeup and car dating. The column closes inviting personal letters to Abby.
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Abby
Patti
Carol
Linda
Joan
Doctor Crane's Personal Cases
Dr. George W. Crane discusses Dr. Albert Schatz a leading scientist co discovering streptomycin and outlines a lecture in Fair Lawn New Jersey. He shares anecdotes on psychology, politics and sales tactics including a shoe-store example and promotes his booklet Modern Sales & Advertising Psychology with a stamped self addressed envelope.
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Fair Lawn
New Jersey
Schatz
Philadelphia
Crane
Crook on Most Wanted List Plans Diamond Heist at Mansion
A high ranking crook from a 20 state police list sneaks through an ornate suburban mansion stairs to a cache of diamonds and pearls but flees after a bedroom voice complains about clothing spending and his partner’s wife. A deli sign proclaims multilingual services reflecting diverse customers.
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Crook
Visitors and relatives call on Downington residents
Recent visitors to Downington include Mr and Mrs Herb Barnhart and family from Bradbury Columbus and Norman Pleasant Valley Emma Tribe and son. Walter Goble and son from West Virginia stay with Rev Ray Rouse and Phyllis Rouse visits West Virginia. Albert Price from Columbus visits family. The Bolens from Columbus visit Shelter Arms Hospital patient. Robert Jewell and Glen Jewell hosts in Rutland Road.
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Don Bolen
Columbus
C. A. Bolen
Bolen
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Ray Rouse
Phyllis
West Virginia
Rouse
Walter Goble
Albert Price
Robert Jewell
Rutland Rd
Mr. Jewell
Glen Jewell
Respecting No early builds safety health and citizenship
A broad discussion argues teaching children to respect the word No by age three or four to foster safety health and good citizenship. Benefits include cautious behavior health routines acceptance of doctor orders for illness and stronger social skills and respect for others and authority. A school tip adds a method for helping a first grader learn ABCs. Ottawa Canada joins an international effort to rescue Nile monuments from floods after the Aswan Dam. Middletown gasoline dealers plan to join a state campaign against trading stamps. The Messenger of Athens Ohio publishes daily except Saturdays with various notices and rates.
Ex Presidents and Ike Dominate a Shifting GOP
George Sokolsky weighs ex Presidents Hoover Truman Eisenhower and Kennedy while party factions realign. The Al Smith Memorial Dinner highlights Ike's enduring influence and signals potential leadership shifts with Rockefeller and Nixon in a divided Republican landscape.
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Herbert Hoover
Harry Truman
United States
Republican Party
Hoover
Barry Goldwater
Nelson Rockefeller
Richard Nixon
Cardinal Spellman
al Smith
City of
New York
State of New York
Wagner
Louis Lefkowitz
Dwright D. Eisenhower
Ike
Eisenhower
Nixon
John F. Kennedy
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