Inflation Pressure Rising Amid Economic Policy Debate
Editorial argues inflationary pressures remain likely despite tax cuts and spending restraint. Arthur M. Okun warns a slowdown may occur next year due to a 10 percent surtax and $6 billion in federal cuts, while noting recent measures have only restrained growth. Prices may climb in late year as wage and price pressures persist amid looming labor negotiations and possible strikes.
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Arthur M. Okun
Presidents Council of Economic Advisers
Mr. Okun
Huge US deficit fuels rising debt and inflation
The federal government's 12 month deficit reaches 25.4 billion dollars, prompting little public reaction as deficits grow. The decade long debt will add over a billion annually to interest costs and push inflation higher. Prospects for a deficit reduction this year look dim as expenses rise and tax gains seem unlikely.
Promise Kept: Hilary Milton's Century of Church Attendance
A hospital boy vows to attend church every Sunday if he recovers. Hilary Milton keeps the pledge from 1927 through 1967 and beyond, weathering storms, relocations, and a 2,000 plus Sundays, linking through wartime and NASA service to the Church of The Good Shepherd in Vienna.
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Bessemer
Ala
Valley of the Shadow
Hilary Milton
Hilary
San Antonio
University of Alabama
Washington, D.C
NASA
National Aeronautics On Space Administration
Wacungten
D.C
C&p Telephone Co
Oakton
Vienna
Church of the Good Shepherd
Futuristic oil islands off Long Beach spark a bold compromise
Five companies unite in a $1 million project to camouflage and quiet 1000 offshore oil rigs near Long Beach California. The plan aims to extract 225000 gallons daily while hiding unsightly effects and muffling noise on newly built artificial islands featuring tall towers lush shrubbery palm trees and floodlit waterfalls. The editorial tone urges peacemaking and legitimate compromise to advance workable agreements amid competing interests.
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Long Beach
Calif
Christ
Peter
Nixon Aides Orchestrate Delegates At Miami GOP Meet
Washington merry go round reports Nixon confident to win as aides direct every move from New York. Delegates greeted by two Nixon handlers with lists of attendees while Rockefeller strategists rely on past party money power, yet Rockefeller bankers stay on the sidelines.
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Drew Pearson
Jack Anderson
Miami Beach
Richard Nixon
Miami
Nixon
Tennessee
Hilton Plaza Hotel
New York
Manhattan
California
Eisenhower
Rockefeller
Wendell Willkie
Barefoot Boy
Wall Street
Rockefellers
Chase Bank
GOP
Willkie
Taft
Ike
Pennsylvania
Chica
V. John Fine
Ben Fairless
U.S. Steel
Nelson
Chase Manhattan Bank
Standard Oil
N.J
Eagles test fight security at Miami Beach convention
The Republican convention at Miami Beach is described as tightly guarded with coded tickets and daily serial numbers. An expanded Secret Service and FBI presence monitors hotels, transit, Cuban exile activity, and potential insurrection arming. Closed options include private home sleep for candidates and heightened security around Sen. Charles Percy. The piece casts doubts on the event, noting past Kennedy era shadows and a grim outlook.
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Miami Beach
Secret Service
FBI
Miami
Cuba
Mexico
Pinar del Rio
Fidel Castro School of
Hilton Plaza
Americana
Rocky
Deauville
Ronald Reagan
Charles Percy
Wandering Dispatch on Travel and Culture
A humorous column surveys travel, aviation, and society notes. It touches hijack fears, airline meals, stewardess jokes, the Poor People’s camp, and a quip about Geraldo Abernathy’s welding kin, plus snippets on postage, telephony, fashion pamphlets, and research budgets.
Community Letters on Free Expression and Birth Control
A reader column discusses free expression, a Saco accident, and a national group urging police to drop high speed chases due to deaths and injuries. It notes city leaders in Minneapolis declaring citizens of the world and calls out World Government ideas. The piece also critiques birth control debates, morality, marriage, and religious views, urging readers to study and consider God’s views.
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National League of Cities
Saco
Wallace
Minneapolis
Minnesota Supreme Court
Interlaken
Switzerland
U.S.A
Robert C. Schwab Ellsworth
Journal
The Needle Sunday drivers clutter highways except church road
In a Sunday column the piece mocks the clutter of drivers on Sundays except those who go to church, noting some attend church ecumenically, while others attend Easter services at different churches. It jokes about prayers to Santa Claus, and a note about gun policy and a new government booklet on machine guns.
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Santa Claus
God
Otis Pike
N.Y
Melvin Laird
Mich
U.S
Lack of foreign language study bemoaned by Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk laments declining foreign language study in American colleges and high schools as vocational aims, costs to medicine, and reduced cross cultural understanding rise. He cites Nebraska as an example where language requirements vanish and urges genuine linguistic foundation for better medical reading and international dialogue.
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United States
Nebraska
University of Nebraska College of Medicine
M Embarrass
Nixon Faces Threat to Southern Political Base in 1968 Race
Washington analysis notes Nixon built a strong southern base by 1967 with key GOP leaders and delegates. Ronald Reagan expands effort in North Carolina and the South, challenging Nixon’s grip as delegates assemble. If Reagan weakens Nixon’s southern support, the base could crumble, risking a disastrous shift in the nomination race.
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Bruce Biossat
NEA
Washington
Miami Beach
Supreme Irony
Richard Nixon
South
California
Ronald Reagan
North Carolina
Nixon
Reagan
Barry Goldwater
George Romney
Nelson Rockefeller
New Orleans
New Yorker
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
K. Hess
Ralph Abernathy
Karl Hess
San Francisco
S.F
N.Y.C
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Telephone Company
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Tokyo
National Association of ‘Manufacturers
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