Editorial overview of Goldwater friendly Republican platform
The piece notes Barry Goldwater’s influence on a long platform marked by vague promises and rubbery phrasing. It highlights key planks on foreign policy, social security, minimum wage, and civil rights, including a controversial Civil Rights Act pledge and calls for limited government authority. The article also mentions a looming floor fight over its provisions.
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Sen
Barry Goldwater
Republican Platform Committee
Pennsylvania
William W. Scraton
Goldwater
Scranton
Europe
Asia
Latin America
John Foster Dulles
Eisenhower
Dulles
Senate
Federal Trade Commission
Food and Drug Power
National Labor Relations Board
Administration
Supreme Court
ICC OKs Merger Of 3 Railroads
The Interstate Commerce Commission approved the consolidation of Norfolk & Western Nickel Plate and Wabash into a 7450 mile system. Pennsylvania Railroad must divest all financial interests in N and W and Wabash within 10 years. The unified route would run from Hampton Roads Virginia to the Great Lakes and Midwest. The order was adopted June 21 and divestiture must begin by September 16.
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Hampton Roads
Great Lakes
Midwest
ICC
Pennsylvania
Commission
TCC
Baytown Sun Masthead and Dispatch Rights Notice
The Baytown Sun is published afternoons by The Baytown Sun Inc in Baytown Texas with editors and managers listed. It notes postal registration at Baytown Texas and annual subscriptions, and includes a statement about republication rights and Associated Press affiliation.
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Baytown, Texas
Congress
Baytown Sun, Inc
Pearce and Ashbel
Baytown
Texas
Texas Newspapers Representatives, Inc
Associated Fresso
Associated Fresco
Orner
Beater
Texas Daily Newspaper
Scranton Urges GOP to Declare Civil Rights Act Constitutional
Gov. William Scranton proposes the Republican platform committee declare the Civil Rights Act constitutional. He challenges Goldwater supporters and critics, mocks indirection, and pits party unity against his own political maneuvering, risking alienation of delegates and boosting Goldwater loyalists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Buckley
William Scranton
Republican Platform Committee
Indiana
Platform
Congress
Platform Committee
Sen. Goldwater
Goldwater
Tarzan
Scranton
Milton Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower
Irving
White House
Milton
Today’s Grab Bag of Arts and Facts
A compact trivia page notes The Sower painter, a famous flutist ruler, and common flower names. It asks where oil painting began and in which century. Also lists a birth date trivia, a mold term origin, and a spot about New York hotel riches, with a vivid luxury example of the Bowery’s deluxe hotel.
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Quicki L
Ishmael
New York City
Bowery
Asherica
Luxurious hotel hosts stars diplomats and presidents alike
Central Press piece notes a famous hotel with twin chrome topped towers nightly hosting a star, diplomats, a king, a former U S president, and millions of former guests. It serves 3000 diners in a half hour lunch, has starred in a movie, and housed foreign minister sessions.
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State Department
United States
Council of Foreign Ministers
Fulton Lewis Speaks Pickets Taunt At GOP Convention
Outside the Sea Palace in San Francisco iron-lunged pickets taunt the GOP convention. They chant anti imperialism slogans and demand U S troops withdraw from South Vietnam while distributing leaflets calling for CIA abolition.
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GOP
N Francisco
Sea Palace
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
U. S
South Vietnam
Thousands Pay Homage To Dead Communist Leader
AP report details thousands filing past the coffin of Maurice Thorez at Varna and Paris as his body arrives from a Soviet voyage. The French Communist leader, who directed the party for decades, died aboard a Soviet ship en route to Yalta for treatment. Thorez’s widow, sons, and party figures attend wake events in Ivry-sur-Seine and Paris. Khrushchev offered remarks praising Thorez, who had a long career from founding the party to government posts and wartime exile. The piece also covers related youth group activity and civil rights protests with Communist links in San Francisco, including figures connected to the movement and opposition hearings.
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Rodney Angove Pais
Maurice Thorz
Thorez
Black Sea
Yalta
Varnia
Bulgaria
Jeanette Ver~meersch
Paris
Ivry-sur-Seine
National Assembly
Khrushchev
Vna
Workers’ Movement
Soviet Union
French Communist Party
Popular’ Front
Charles de Gaulle
Castro
Cuba
Eak
A. S
W.E.B. Dubois
America
San Francisco
Communist Party
Gus. Hall
Hall
Chicago
Windy City
Chelago
Milton Galamison
New York
Galamison
Alva Buxembaum
Red Squad
Mickey
Lima
Joe North
Herbert Aptheker
Louis Goldblatt
William Mandel
Mite Gold
Joseph Starobin
Frank Wilkinson
Albert Kahn
Average Baytonian Income Tops Nearby Cities in Study
In Baytown a survey of 7,465 families finds median income 6937 dollars per year, higher than similar cities. The report, part of Bernard Johnson Engineers’ Baytown Comprehensive Plan, maps area boundaries, 26 manufacturers, and projected growth to 1990 with 1.3 million county laborers, 67,400 statewide jobs, and 531 million in future purchasing power.
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Editon
Bernard Johnson Engineers, Inc
Baytown
U.S. Census Bureau
Wallisville Road
T& Railroad
Chamber County
Galveston Baytown
Houston Ship Channel
San Jacinto River
Humble Oil and Refining Co
J. J. Huber Corporation
Gulf, Oil Corporation
United Carbon Co
Harris County
Harris
Bay
Know Your Bridge Draws Decisive US Win Over Britain
In the World Bridge Olympiad in New York the United States defeated Great Britain 73 to 35 on day three. South dealer Stayman and Mitchell led 3NT after spade openings, while Jordan and Robinson for Britain faced tough choices. Jordan’s bold three spades at the first table produced four notrump for 630 points, while Stayman’s side went down four, costing 200. The US gained 430 points on that deal and 10 IMPs overall, with Jordan judged correct in the decisive plays.
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South West North East
United States
Great Britain
New York
U.S
Robert Jordan
Arthur Robinson
West
North
Jie
South
Jordan
Samuel Stayman
Victor Mitchell
Boris Schapiro
Terence Reese
Snally
Stayman
Easts
Daily Crossword Puzzle King Feature Clues
Crossword hints list yesterday’s entry Anowee for 32 and Flower for 35. Medieval tale 36. Peel 33. Domestic animal 39. Poem 420. Among.
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Flower
Peel
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James H. Hale
Reston Pendergrass
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Corrie Laughlin
Joe Texas
the Promised Land
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John F. Kennedy
Robert Welch
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Hak Scranton
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Ken Sturray
Bastillé Prison
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Melville
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Fulton Lewis JR
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Philip Chapin Davis
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