We Can Hardly Blame By for Independence
A columnist argues that U S involvement in Vietnam has produced blame shifting to South Vietnam’s Ky while warning against overestimating his role. The piece notes South Vietnam’s weak democracy, historical fragility, and long American complicity. It urges recognizing corruption and reform needs from the start rather than blaming Ky alone.
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Vietnam
Paris
George McGovern
South Dakota
Defense
Clark Clifford
United States
North Vietnam
Harvard
Henry Kissinger
Nixon
Adolph Hitler
South Vietnam
Pollution crackdown in USSR targets Caspian Sea
The Soviet Union pledges a seven year pollution abatement campaign with stricter rules for oil operators, shipping, fishing, and sewers. Public ridicule follows past ignoring directives as new measures aim to curb widespread pollution.
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Russia
U.S.S.R
Trueblood says Negro the most truly American race in U S
Quaker theologian D Elton Trueblood argues against white Americans who resent Negroes or seek African dress. He says the Negro, shaped by slavery, is most purely American in mentality, with America or nothing for displaced Africans, while noting cultural ties and realities. The piece portrays both failures and victories in American identity.
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America
D. Elton Trueblood
United States
Africa
Trueblood
Opinion on Merit Pay for Minnesota Teachers
The Minnesota School Board Association backs merit pay while a state law change would be needed. The teachers lobby likely can block any political move, as the two year contract debate stalls amid the merit pay flap.
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Minnesota School Board Association
Quotation Pieces and Opinion Pieces from the Times
A collection of quotes and editorial notes from the Red Wing Republican Eagle and St. Cloud Times discuss opinions on charity, long term teacher contracts, pay scales, and discrimination in medicine. The pieces praise moves against discrimination and critique one year contract norms while urging two year salary talks in schools.
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Ae One Oere Sena
RED Wing Republican Eagle
Christmas Holiday Reflections and News Notes
A compact survey of the season recounts heavy shopping, record late-night buys, and travel disruptions due to snow. It notes the pandemic and flu impacts, plus cautious expectations for New Year plans. The piece also highlights new sports bylines among women and a cultured Los Angeles Times feature on Mickey Mouse birthday merchandising.
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Sheila Moran
Associated Press
New York
U.S
Connolly
Sheila
Newark Star - Ledger
Hollywood Sun-Tatler
Sports Illustrated
West
Los Angeles Times
Mickie Mouse
Mickey
Walt Disney
Well Illustrated
Krazy Kat
Tom Swift
Little Orphan Annie
Blondie
Pluto
Dick Tracy
Li'l Abner
Charlie Brown
Latin Gloves Fight Inside Us Boxers No Rocks or Knives
Reporter Victor Riesel profiles Kid Gavilan once welterweight champion and Sandy Saddler as they back a program in Guantes Latinos. The effort trains 2,400 youths in rings, with eye surgery arranged and support from a clothing maker, offering constructive boxing over street violence.
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New York
Gerardo Gonzalez
Kid Gavilan
Fidel Castro
States
Guantes
Kid Gaviian
Sandy Saddler
Stanley Ross
el Tiempo
Stanley
Marty
Guantes Latinos boxing program expands in NYC
Marty Cohen and Stanley Ross launch Guantes Latinos in the NMU hall on Seventh Avenue to train street youths as boxers. The center seats 3,000, hires 1,000 sailors daily, and aims to train 3,500 kids with visits from Kid Gavilan and Sandy Saddler. Local champions will face boxers from Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic as tours begin March 27.
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12Th
13Th Street
Puerto Rico
Stanley Ross
Marty Cohen
Guantes
Cohen
Ross
Kid Gavilan
Sandy Saddler
Venezuela
Columbia
Dominican Republic
U.S.A
Farce Is Developed From Tax Evasions
A satirical farce by Patrick Dennis features John Wesley Smith hired as director of projects for the Fennesey Foundation. The foundation hides a tax dodge while planning an art film to impress the IRS. Family theatrics and a disastrous movie provide the comic heart of the story.
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John Wesley Smith
Fennesey Foundation
John
Fennessey
Justin Fennessey
Foundation
Internal Revenue Service
Fennessey’s
Justin
Lydia
Lena
Aurtie Mame
Dennis
Miles A. Smith
Effect Muddled in Novel by Auchincloss A World of Profit
Louis Auchincloss presents a tale of the Shallcross family and an upstart real estate financier Jay Livingston who stalks wealth and status. The critique notes muddled moral focus and prose echoing Henry James and Edith Wharton.
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Auchincloss
Louis Auchincloss
Houghton, Mifflin
Shallcross
Eben
Jay
Sophie
Elly
Henry James
Edith Wharton
Justin
Miles A. Smith
This Day in History December 27 1968
On December 27 1949 Queen Juliana signed a sovereignty deed for Indonesia after centuries of Dutch rule. Other items note Louis Pasteur born 1822, Carrie Nation’s 1900 saloon raid, Show Boat opening 1927, Radio City Music Hall opening 1932, Manila attack 1941, Bastogne relief 1944, and comments on Kennedys killing and gun control debates.
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Associated Press
Juliana
Netherlands
Indonesia
Louis Pasteur
Carrie Nation
Carey Hotel
Wichita
Kan
Cleopatra
New York
Radio City Music Hall
Brain life and death as medical turning point
Dr. Clarence Crafoord of Stockholm told an International College of Surgeons session in Honolulu that the brain’s life or death determines whether a person is living. He warned against continuing extraordinary devices when brain damage is irreversible, noting a dying patient remains so while any brain activity exists and becomes a corpse when activity ends.
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Honolulu
Clarence Crafoord
Stockholm
Sweden
International College of Surgeons
Crafoord
Einstein’s Relativity Pioneered at Age Twenty Six
The item notes that Albert Einstein first advanced his theory of relativity in 1905 at the age of 26, marking a pivotal moment in modern physics and his scientific career.
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Albert Einstein
Dreamer Liberals Bode III for Country Coming Days
Bruce Biossat surveys the doctrinaire liberals in 1969, noting their shifting views on McCarthy Humphrey and Kennedy, their preference for dramatic posturing over practical policy, and their hostility to radical left violence. He predicts little happiness for these liberals in 1969.
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Bode III
Washington
NEA
Richard Nixon
Sen
Eugene McCarthy
Minnesota
White House
New Hampshire
McCarthy
Northeast
Humphrey
Johnson
Robert F. Kennedy
New York
Kennedy
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Austin Daily Herald
A. Richard Gross
By Don Oakley
Will Rogers
Jean Paul Richter
Austin Daily Herald -Thomson Newspapers, Inc
Austin
Richard Gross
Minn
A.P.O
F.P.O
Cura Uew
American Medical Association
AMA
Judicial Council
St, Cloud Times
Hong Kong
Kinfold
Austin Area
By Victor Riesel
Gothams
Knicks
Guantes Hispanos
Ladies’ Garment Workers
National Presient
Lou Stulberg
Joe Curran
National Maritime Union
NMU
Seventh Ave
Big Joe
Frank Lloyd Wright
Publishers Hall Syndicate
Patrick Dennis
Morrow
Book Review
Belgium
Bastogne
France
Committee On Equal Opportunity
Thailand
Laos
Robert Kennedy
Sirhan Sirhan
Edison Trickett
Stanford University
Bruce Biossat
McCar
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