Editorials Criticism Too Late On House Office Building Cost
The article notes the House Office Building nears completion with cost estimates ranging up to 131 million and cites architect John Harbeson who argues 5 million could have been saved if architects supervised the work and Congress reviewed changes. He says congressmen-driven changes added at least 31 million. He adds these criticisms come too late to influence future projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Harbeson
Philadelphia
de Harbeson
Harbeson
Capitol
Remember This Name Remember This Name
John W. Macy moves into Johnson White House role after serving as chairman of the U S Civil Service Commission. He will funnel recommendations on department vacancies to Johnson and is expected to remain on the White House staff in an influential capacity. Macy’s knowledge of the government career corps and Johnson’s trust position him to help overhaul and modernize the federal establishment.
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White House
John W. Macy
Macy
U.S. Civil Service Commission
Kennedy
Johnson
Johnson White House
Hoover Commission
James Malone
McDonald
U.S. Naval Academy
Swarthmore
Navy
Geoffrey Mwaungulu
Nyasaland
Rio Grande
George’ Smathers
Florida
Bobby Baker
Dale Miller
Texas
LBI
Mexico City
Diaz Ordaz
Cardinal Cushing
Boston
Jfk
Railroad Strike Threat Dims As Courts Ban Action
A looming railroad strike affecting 33,000 workers was blocked by a federal restraining order with Judge Perry directing a 10 day injunction. Wages remain the core issue as railroads seek pay limits while unions plan next Tuesday’s possible strike amid easing market optimism for 1965 spending and continued industrial output gains.
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Jack
Lefler New York
Chicago
Joseph Sam Perry
Commerce Department
Securities and Exchange Commission
Baytown Sun Staff and Office Details
Baytown Sun publishes afternoons with staff including James H Hale Beulah Mae Jackson and Bill Hartman as General Manager and Managing Editor. Advertising department heads John Wadley Paul Putman Corrie Laughlin. Located at Pearce and Ashbel Baytown Texas with box 308. Subscription rates listed and Associated Press member.
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John Wadley
Corresee Matager
Paul Putman
Sseceeses
Corrie Laughlin
Sterseeseess
Baytown
Texas
Texas Newspaper Representatives, Inc
Associated Preas
Asan
Teas Press
Asessociated Press
Spontaneis
Dodd Criticizes Policy In Fulton Lewis Broadcast
Senator Thomas Dodd assails State Department policy in a Washington speech broadcast by Fulton Lewis Jr. He denounces Soviet expansion across Asia Africa and South America, cites a July 14 1963 Kremlin letter, and argues detente rhetoric ignores factual aggression. McClellan wins Teamsters probe round. Cohen’s 1963 conviction leads to a two year sentence.
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Fulton Lewis JR
Washington
State Department
Connecticut
Thomas Dodd
Miami
Dodd
Kremlin
Deda
Asia
Africa
South America
South Vietnam
Laos
Malaysia
Sukarno
Ghana
Kenya
Beam Bros
Tanganyika- Zanzibar
Tanzania
Central African Republic
Estopher Gbenye
Congo
Moise Tshombe
Bolivia
Brazil
Panama Canal Zone
Venezuela
Speec
Cohen
McClellan
Robert Kennedy
Pennsylvania
Supreme Court
Raymond Cohen
Iwcvear
Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf humorous recollections
A drafted farm boy faces a failed parachute drill. A sergeant’s ten count and rip cords yield nothing as the trainee fears the promised truck will never arrive. In a separate tale Mr. Ritchie punishes three children for pressing wet concrete, defending his stance with a concrete joke.
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Mr. Ritchie
Mermaid Inn town of fame and coastal history clues
A feature column names the Mermaid Inn as the town of fame on Mermaid Street with cobbled lanes and a clocked parish, noting Cinque Port history, Dr Lyn smugglers era, and Romney Marsh ties. It prompts readers to name the town and recalls born today notables and a seaside lore.
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British Isles
Mermaid Street
Mermaid Inn
Dr. Lyn
Romney Marsh
Samoa trip by Kirwan praised for education aid
Washington columnist Drew Pearson defends Rep. Mike Kirwan's Samoa inspection trip funded to aid educational TV. The effort, led by Kirwan and Gov Rex Lee, established classrooms via TV to teach English, with $1.6 million appropriated. Also notes Rep Bray plans a self-funded South America tour for Armed Services duty.
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Drew Pearson
Washington
John F. Flynt
D-Ga
Mike Kirwin
Ohio
Flynt
Far East
House
Appropriations Committee
Ogih
Kirwan
Samoa
South Sea Islands
South Seas
Rex Lee
House Appropriations Committee
Mike Kinnan
National Association of Educational Broadcasters
Mike
New Zealand
Samoa Islands
South Pacific
Mike Kirwan
Leonard Marks
Educational TV
Brokers Hope For Year End Stock Rally
Wall Street eyes a possible year end rally as stock prices drift after November highs. Traders cite December tax related selling and profit taking, plus yearend uncertainties abroad and domestic concerns. Dow Jones slipped from 91.71 to 864.34 with a brief rally, while expectations for 1965 call for slower growth and modest profit gains.
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Sam Dawson
New York
Wall Street
Viet Nam
Russia
de Gaulle
France
Britain
U.S
Know Your Bridge: Fry's remarkable slam in 1954 finals
In the 1954 Summer National Championship final in Washington South player Sam Fry Jr with Harry Fishbein pursued a slam in a spade lead and heart finesse battle. Fry, after a diamond opening, executed a sequence that allowed him to ruff a diamond and draw trumps, then cash hearts to secure seven tricks despite an apparent spade ace held by East. The play involved careful signaling and a controlled trump maneuver to overcome the adverse distribution and an incorrect block.
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Sam Fry, Jr
South
Harry Fishbein
Washington
Fishbein
Fry
Mally
West
Sam Fry
East
Booth
Declarer
Urtimps
Fez Syndicate. Inc
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James J. O'Leary
Life Insurance’ Association
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Che Baytoum San
Fred Hartman
James H. Hale
Preston Pendergrass
Beulah Mae Jackson
Robert KH Gilmore
Bill Hartman
Campaghin
Fulton Lewis
Sen. Dodd
John McClellan
Senate Labor
Arkansan
Teamster Local 107
The
International Union
Philadelphia ‘Teamsters
By Bennett Cerf
Great Britain
Henry David Thoreau
Trench Garden
Alabama
Ruth Ramsey
Central Press
Wiiler
George VI
Paul T
Greece
James Doolittle
Eve Remick
Patty Duke
Harold S.vanderbilt
India
Samuel F. B. Morse
pRylzom “Xeseng
William Bray
R-Ind
Bray
Iiday
Argentina
House Armed Services Committee
Dave McDonald
Dave
James P. Griffin
Youngstown District 26
Griffin
Tabor
Mahoning County
Business Mirror
Jay Decker
North
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Persia
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