National Library Week Focuses on Weaknesses
In Our Opinion the piece notes 34370 schools lack libraries and a librarian for every 1606 students. It cites low two and four year college volumes and per capita library spending of 2 dollars while urging improved federal and operating funding to meet national standards. The National Book Committee sponsors NSW with themes Explore Inner Space Read and Reading Is What's Happening.
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America
American Library Association
Nsw
U.S. Office of Education
National Book Committee
Educational Association of
Humans Lose Fear as Computers Grow More Humanlike
A Datamation study based on 3,000 interviews finds many wrongly view computers as infallible superbrains that think like humans and offer instant solutions to complex problems. The article predicts familiarity will reduce this myth and reveal that machines think no more than people, improving understanding of computing capacity.
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Datamation
Paul Harvey calls for local action against smog and industry
Paul Harvey argues Americans must reject new industry that disregards air quality. He cites New York smog alerts from Thanksgiving weekend, cites sulfur dioxide concerns, and urges local control of pollution sources from cars to power plants.
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Paul Harvey
Haiti absent from Punta del Este talks amid Caribbean turmoil
Washington notes Haiti and Bolivia miss the Uruguay summit as Duvalier tightens grip at home and the OAS stumbles. Ex president Galo Plaza is pressed to head off crises, while Haiti’s blood‑streak risks flare if Duvalier dies.
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Drew Pearson
Washington
Uruguay
Key
Bolivia
South America
Punta del Este
Haiti
Caribbean
Francois Duvalier
USA
Haili
Dominican Republic
State Department
Duvalier
University of Michigan Medical School
United States
Congo
U.S.S
Organization of the American States
Ecuador
Galo Plaza
Quito
Plaza
United Nations
Lebanon
Eisenhower
Cyprus
U.N
Greece
Turkey
Boxer
Johnson
Curtis Candy Company
Illinois
Puerto Rico
Earl Warren
Gale
New York
University of California
University of Maryland
Grayview
Chris Crown
O.A.S
Latin America
Lieras Camargo
Colombia
Romulo Betancourt
Venezuela
Apollo costly lesson and political musings
New York column surveys the Apollo review board findings and the high stakes in NASA hardware. It questions lessons learned, then shifts to politics with Romney, Johnson, and Nixon era polling. The piece ends with Daytona Beach tourism noting summer crowds for speed tests on a 23 mile sand strip.
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New York
Review Board
Grissom
White
Chaffee
NASA
Daytona Beach
Florida
Dogs and Children Debate Spills From Journal Forum
In a lengthy readers forum, Mrs. Sylvestre questions dog law enforcement while B P D Defender argues over dog ownership and public safety. Micheline C Denger of West Kennebunk adds caution on leash laws and police enforcement. Boston note recalls 1630 naming.
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People’s Forum
Police Department
B.P.D
State of Maine
Journal
Defender
Sheebah
Micheline C. Denger
West Kennebunk
Fidel Castros whip hand the concentration camp
Washington correspondent recounts Jose Ortega a Cuban engineer who was seized for three years military service. He describes a transport to a prison camp near a barbed wire enclosure, forced labor in cane fields, indoctrination in communism, and meager pay of 23 cents a day.
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Ray Cromley
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Washington
Cuba
Jose Ortega
United States
Ortega
Santiago
War on crime and unions fuels mass graves in 1967
Journalist Russell Kirk argues crime syndicates infiltrate unions like the Teamsters and ILWU, naming Hoffa and other figures. He contends government action may lag amid Vietnam concerns, citing Flint arson cases and broader organized crime influence over labor. He warns without strong action more secret graves may appear.
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Russell Kirk
Henry E. Petersen
Organized Crime
Department of Justice
Washington
Teamsters Union
International Longshoremen’s Union
Cosa Nostra
Mafia
United States of America
Jimmy Hoffa
New York
Miy Columnar
Victor Riesel
Hoffa
Walter Reuther
Labor
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Landrum-Griffin
National Labor Relations Board
Congress
Vietnam
Flint
Michigan
Teamsters
Johnson
Barry Goldwater
Three Minutes A Day a 14YearOld Woman Seeks Education
A frail grandmother in Texas enrolls in adult education after aging out of school due to poverty and long work hours. She is determined to learn to read and write and will not let anyone stop her education. The piece urges lifelong learning for all ages and quotes Proverbs 8 11.
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Texas
Mao Quotations and College Confusion
A satirical piece mocks college papers and Mao Zedong references. It toys with marijuana and LSD imagery, labeling Mao a dope and calling Confucius quotes confusionisms in a tongue in cheek critique of modern political rhetoric.
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Arkc
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Ala
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Lace Journal
Adams Street
Maine
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E. P. Ingalls
Telephone Business
Associated Press
Jose Mora
Mora
France
Sen. Fulbright
Apollo
By Bob Considine
Old Doe Gallup
George Romney
Nelson Rockefeller
Romney
Harold Stassen
LBJ
Goldwater
Mencken
Niagara
Gene Tunney
Bernard Gimbel
Bern
Ard
Biltmore
Sovta America
Boston
Mass
Lincolnshire
England
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Washington News
Fidel Castro
James Keller
Harold Coffin
Mao Tse-tung
Mao
Red Chairman
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