Kennedy Fights to Restore Foreign Aid Cut by House Panel
President Kennedy returned from Rhode Island to lead a counter-offensive after the House Appropriations Committee slashed 1.124 billion from a 4.752 billion foreign aid bill. He warned that cutting aid undermines national security and allied efforts, contrasting U.S. policy with Soviet reach and urging restoration of funding.
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House
Kennedy
Rhode Island
Latin America
Asia
Europe
Alliance For Progress
Peace Corps
United States
House Appropriations Committee
India
United Nations
Poland
Leap That Failed Communism Hits China Hard
An article in Hung Chi argues the Great Leap Forward collapsed China’s industrial base in 1960. It claims 20 million factory workers shifted to farming, widespread factory closures, and a push to boost agriculture due to machinery and material shortages. It warns emerging nations to plan slowly and suggests the U.S. should avoid costly industrialization bets.
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China
Central Committee
Chinese Communist Party
Hung Chi
United States
The United States and the shifting balance of world power
A critical essay argues the postwar policy favoring neutrals over allies, tracing the shift to equality of nations and self determination. It links decolonization, the Common Market rise, and Afro Asian influence to a future world order, also debating race in U S policy and federal versus states rights tensions.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
India
Laos
Cambodia
Dutch East Indies
Indonesia
Sukarno
France
Algeria
Congo
Soviet Russia
Germany
Japan
Great Britain
Holland
Russia
Asia
Europe
Caribbean
United States
Cuba
Kennedy
State Department
Soviet
Africa
West Germany
South
Wes
Seanee Wilen
Con Ilson
Roosevelt
Truman
Eisenhower
Dear Abby column letters on infidelity parenting and marriage
A reader asks how to handle a wife with a cheating husband and whether to warn the husband. A teen son avoids chores despite paid work and attention is advised with affection and praise. A mother pursues a romance with an older man, and Abby cautions the daughter about urging her mother to change.
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Abby
Khrushchev
Pete
Mr. Cyzinocki
Mary X Case Shows Recurrent Mental Health Struggles
The narrative follows Mary X a 20 year old college student from the Midwest whose grades declined she grew aloof and regressed to infancy. After hospital stays shock treatments cured surface symptoms but did not cure the underlying illness and relapses followed guiding her family to seek further care.
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Mary
Mary X
Midwest
Athens County Land Transfers Aggregate
Donald W. Cross of Columbus transfers a Nelsonville lot to Charles W. Corrigan. Willis Whited of Athens County transfers an Athens Town ship lot to Paul S. Keever. James E. Karns transfers an Athens lot to Norman Dupler. Lawrence I. Goldberg transfers outlot 175 in Athens to Victor Goedicke.
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Donald W. Cross
Columbus
Charles W. Corrigan
Nelsonville
Willis Whited
Athens County
Paul S. Keever
Athens
Athens Township
James E. Karns
Norman Dupler
Lawrence I. Goldberg
Victor Goedicke
Woes Of A Newspaperman
HAL BOYLE humor column mocks newsroom life through reader quotes about printing secrecy, front pages, ego, and the obsession with breaking stories. The piece riffs on misunderstandings and the public’s misconceptions of journalism and press access.
Health And Happiness Teach Spelling And Homonyms
The piece discusses helping young children avoid confusing letters like b and d by practicing separately and fixing one letter in memory. It notes that homonyms such as too to two or pair pear pare should be studied separately, and that emphasizing correct usage in sentences benefits older students. It also warns against overemphasizing exceptions and urges memorization for irregular spellings later.
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Communist Bloc
Yugoslavia
Ghana
United States
Thailand
Laos
Cambodia
Soviet Union
Cuba
Egypt
India
Today in History highlights and notable events
On September 26 history marks Cervantes captured by Barbary pirates and later ransomed, Cornwallis's 1780 Charlotte action, Sioux captivity release in 1862, Columbus remains exhumation in 1898, the 1918 Tampa torpedoing, and the 1953 Spain United States base agreement for Western Europe defense.
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Associated Press
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Algiers
Cornwallis
Charlotte
North Carolina
Col. Sibley
Chippewa River
Minnesota
Christopher Columbus
Cuba
Spain
U.S
Tampa
England
United States
Europe
Dog-lover seeks owner of brindle Boxer puppy in Columbus
A Columbus reader asks the public to identify a six month old brindle female Boxer found with an ornate studded collar bearing Louis 0 U. She suspects the dog may have jumped from a car in the area and provides contact details for Mrs Mildred Sullivan and Mrs J W Hoffman at 372 N Virginia Lee Rd W Apt 3 Columbus Ohio or Belmont 52921.
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Columbus
Mildred Sullivan
J. W. Hoffman
Virginia Lee Rd
W. Apt
Ohio
Belmont
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Dear Abby
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George W. Crane
Hal Boyle
Wekcs
Smith
Cyzinockineics
Garry C. Myers
Athens Messenger
Messenger
Aif
Fiy Sun D
Boar
Senger Publishing
Cent &T
Athena
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