North Viet Nam leaders push for resolve despite war weariness
The North Vietnamese leadership convened an emergency meeting under Article 67 as Ho Chi Minh urged a crackdown on bureaucratic waste and corruption to renew wartime effort. U.S. officials report internal friction, warnings of sabotage, and a push to tighten security while rice output lags and daily life sours.
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Ray Cromley
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Washington
NEA
Red
Ho Chi Minh
North Viet Nam
U.S
South
Automation seed spells but a doleful future
The Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution warns automation could sever the income-job link, urging a guaranteed lifetime income from birth for the displaced. They fear widespread unemployment, reeducation limits, and a future with nonworking generations supported from birth to death, transforming society toward leisure if not utopia.
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Everbody
Freedom versus censorship in university speech debate
A Ports mouth Herald letter argues against over protection of liberty and warns that censorship by self styled guardians harms democracy. It defends free speech, condemns pressure on the University of New Hampshire to block a Communist speaker, and criticizes appeasement that undermines academic freedom.
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Birchers
University of New Hampshire
Communist Party
Portsmouth Herald
Pentagon lights out policy prompts cost save image push
Pentagon staff instructed to stay in offices after hours with lights off and blinds drawn to conserve heat and reduce costs. Secretary McNamara frames it as savings and a display of fiscal seriousness for President Johnson. The move reflects broader federal cost-cutting efforts and public image concerns.
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Pentagon
Defense McNamara
Johnson
Save on those lights says Ruth Millett
Ruth Millett notes President Johnson’s order to turn off unused White House lights as a symbolic economy gesture. She argues men overemphasize small cutbacks while neglecting major spending, portraying the president as typical in reacting to expense. The piece mocks the insistence on lights as economic virtue and foresees the gesture fading.
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Ruth Millett
Enterprise Assa
Johnson
Ite
White House
Social Security rules for widows and veterans questions
The article explains how widows on benefits can earn some income before benefits are reduced, details earnings thresholds and dollar-for-dollar cuts, and notes veterans affairs rules on pensions and the protection of GI insurance from creditors. It covers widow benefits, VA income reporting, and the exempt status of GI life insurance from garnishment.
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Martine, Segal
Retirement Advisors, Inc
W.H
A.M
Veterans Administration
T.T
Mr. T
Mrs. G
Bookshelf Pilot stirs orbit peril in space fiction
In a hair-raising review, the reader learns Martin Caidin’s The Bookshelf Pilot depicts an astronaut’s life-or-death struggle when a Mercury Seven mission loses retrorocket control. A rival Vostok IX joins the orbit, while technicians rush a Gemini capsule to rescue.
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Martin Caidin
Dutton
Caitlin
Air Force
Richard J. Pruett
Pruett
Earth
Jim Dougherty
Andrie Yakovlev
Caidin
Ito
Boyle's Column Misunderstanding has virtues
New York, AP. HAL BOYLE offers a lighthearted roundup of quirky maxims and trivia from lore, humor, and oddities. He notes Cleopatra fed crushed pearls in wine as a love charm, Nero favored emeralds against eye ailments, and clever animals outwit others while some humans struggle to be understood.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Cleopatra
Nero
Investors Forum on war against poverty by Harry C France
The United States Government will battle poverty, seeking to raise living standards and strengthen the nation. The speaker argues poverty has many forms tied to indolence and extravagance, warns against overreach, and cites examples of individuals who rose from modest means to great success through hard work, thrift, and smart investment. He questions the effectiveness of a broad war on poverty and notes youths from poverty can achieve substantial success through discipline and education. The piece ends with a forum question about investing $40,000 at age 72.
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Harry C
France
United States
Idaho
University of Washington
Columbia University of Law
Ohio
Columbia University
America
New York City
Daily Crossword Puzzle Clue Set
A compact crossword puzzle list with numbered clues covering across and down terms. Entries include biology, art, music, architecture, and geography themed hints such as convex moldings, unfatigued, buddy, Dutch coins, young salmon, architectural curve, courage, Melpomene's sister, tropical fruit, celestial, large fish, evidence, repeating, rosa, documents, propelled in a certain way, famous Austrian physicist, Melville book, stir up, equivalent, imitatives, modulation, nervous, and agree.
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Melpomene
Biddeford Saco Journal Publisher Info and Rates
Biddeford Saco Journal lists address at 11 Adams Street Biddeford Maine with W Paul Casavant publisher and E P Ingalls managing editor. It notes subscription rates payable in advance one month 1.85 six months 10.50 and one year 21.00 and states AP news rights and mailing details.
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Adams Street
Biddeford
Maine
W. Paul Casavant
E. P. Ingalls
Associated Press
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