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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1969
Page
7
A historic Massachusetts newspaper notes its adoption of the Bar-Press Guide formed in 1963 to preserve freedom of the press, protect individual rights, and sustain the presumption of innocence.
The editorial argues the Alliance for Progress has failed after eight years and $8 billion, noting military coups across Latin America and rising anti American sentiment. It endorses Senator Frank Church and calls for ending U.S. military aid and missions, with debate over bilateral economic assistance and a wider policy revision under study.
Look magazine devotes five pages to the charge that San Francisco Mayor Joseph J. Alioto is tied to La Cosa Nostra leaders. Alioto sues for 12.5 million dollars even before the issue hits stands. The piece cites Mafia rumors and past political ties, while Alioto calls the Look article an ethnic slur and defends his record.
In Brief notes the Planning Board broadens and upgrades apartment zoning to reduce partisan emotion, with Planning Director Stahim explaining the professional rationale. The item mentions Windsor Mountain School exceeding enrollment projections, tax associations urged to avoid reactionary images, and a Rice School teacher aide pilot program training aides to educate rather than perform clerical tasks.
A collection of letters to the editor from Massachusetts readers discussing Mafia rumors about San Francisco Mayor Alioto, Leyden prayer agendas, praise for Afro American Society’s Mirrors Black, criticism of anti cigarette and prohibition sentiment, and frustration with lingering politicians.
The Boston legislature blocks broad liquor law reform while approving special bills to add package stores and club licenses in New Bedford and Fairhaven. Proposals expose a system prioritizing local interests and political favors over modernizing outdated quotas. The piece argues for caps moving from one store per 5,000 people to 2,000 or 3,000, citing public benefit and reduced patronage.
Oettinger argues that hardware like computers and teaching machines offer limited benefits in education and warns against overhyping technology. The review surveys claims from librarians and educators, critiques language labs, and labels a proposed pluralistic, franchise-based system as impractical bureaucratic overreach.
New York based James A Pike, once a Jesuit hopeful and later an Episcopal bishop, led a career marked by doctrinal doubt and public controversy. He renounced church life amid charges of orthodoxy and pursued radical questions about God, scripture, and the afterlife, while his family faced tragedy including his son’s death. He and his wife were researching origins of Christianity in the Holy Land when he died at 56, leaving a legacy of provocative theology and lifelong search for meaning.
A Keene New Hampshire Sentinel quip questions modernizing Jesus. A devout family reproached their son for smoking asking if Jesus would smoke or brush teeth. The youth replies no to smoking and imagines him with a toothbrush.
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