Editorial: American elms at vanishing point
The editorial warns Dutch elm disease threatens to wipe out American elms across the United States. It notes the disease spread by bark beetles and underground root grafts, cites Maine as hard hit, and argues complete isolation and spraying are needed while science seeks an antidote. It contrasts US elms with a Holland resistant variety lacking the vase shape.
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Netherlands
United States
East
Midwest
Maine
Holland
Impressions of Inez Humphrey as favored White House bride
Washington press corps favors Mrs Hubert Humphrey for First Lady not for politics but due to family status. They discuss future brides of presidents including Nixon and McGovern, share jokes about timing, media stress, and fears of White House marriages triggering intense public interest.
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Inez Robe
Washington Press Corps
White House
Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Patricia Nixon
Eleanor McGovern
Abigail McCar
Muriel Humphrey
Sory
Nixons
Lynda
Imall
Julie Ixon
David Eisenhower
Julie
Tricia
Aoe
Hubert Hume
Hubert
White ‘House
Polls Replace Conventions in Selecting Presidents
The piece argues polls like Gallup Harris and Roper outdo traditional conventions by offering explanations for predicted defeats. It notes pollsters claim better alibis for outcomes and cites Truman’s 1948 bow to voters over poll predictions, criticizing presidents chosen by polls over newspaper columnists.
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Gallup
Harris
Roper
Humphrey
McCarthy
McGovern
Didate
Harry Truman
Disarray in Washington over Czech invasion details emerge
Washington details reveal Russian requests to continue Vietnam disarmament talks, a communication slip delaying Rusk briefing as the Red Army crossed the Czech border. Ambassador Dobrynin urged continued US Soviet cooperation, while White House State Department tensions surfaced amid Dobrynin's 8 PM visit. Walter Reuther warned Humphrey support may erode to Wallace among blue collars.
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Chicago
Washington
Vietnam
Czechoslovakia
White House
State Department
Rusk
Democratic Platform Committee
U. S
Ciernoa
Alexander Dubcek
U.S
Anatoly Dobrynin
Dobrynin
Walt Rostow
Rostow
Statler Hilton
CBS
McGeorge Bundy
Kennedy
United States
Johnson
Soviet Union
Kosygin
Geneva
Walter Reuther
Auto Workers
Hubert Humphre
Reuther
George Wallace
Humphrey
Afl-Cio
United Auto Workers
Teamsters
Democratic National Committee
Lyndon Johnson
Mac's World Doing it the hard way
Baker Oregon gossip recounts Don Maclean’s chaotic night chasing a film crew assignment in Paint Your Wagon with Senator Wayne Morse. He endures missed flights, long drives, dropped-off car charges, a Baker motel full, and a Paramount room finally found after a 310 mile odyssey.
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Don Maclean Baker
Ore
Sen
Wayne Morse
Inaramount
Alan Jay Lerner
Morse
Baker
Portland
Pendleton
No. 1
No. 2
Walla Walla
Wilds
Oregon
Columbia River Canyon
Paramount
Main Street
McCarthy linked to racism strategy misfires in race cases
Washington debate over McCarthy efforts to attack Humphrey through racist-leaning delegations falters as committee splits and black leaders resist, exposing the plan as flawed, politically costly, and unlikely to trap Humphrey in a racist posture.
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Bruice Biossat
NEA
Washington
Chicago
Eugene
McCarthy
Humphrey
Minnesota
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Mississippi
Credentials
Texas
Georgia
Leroy Johnson
McCarthy Lacks Realism in Cabinet Fantasies Says Kirk
Russell Kirk argues McCarthy cannot win the Democratic nomination and will not form a practical cabinet. He critiques McCarthy's dream selections including Fulbright Cooper Morton Gardner Rockefeller Conyers King and Reuther. Kirk predicts Humphrey and Nixon will fill cabinets after election and dismisses unlikely picks like Jackie Robinson as attorney general.
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Russell Kirk
Eugene Mcarthy
Minnesota
Eugene McCarthy
Adlai Stevenson
McCarthy
William Fulbright
John Sherman Cooper
Thruston Morton
Congress
Morton
Richard Nixon
John Gardner
Housing and Urban Affairs
Nelson Rockefeller
Richard Hughes
Rockefeller
Nixont
Chicago
Hubert Humphrey
White House
Jackie Robinson
Medical center dream by Dr Elsie Giorgi in Los Angeles
The article traces Dr. Elsie Giorgi, daughter of an immigrant, leaving New York after founding a Park Avenue practice to run a Headstart program in Watts. She opens a $1.5 million medical center in October 1967 with 334 staff serving 32,000 patients, and collaborates with a Black physician and veterans.
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Elsie Giorgi
Bronx
N.Y
Giorgi
Park Avenue
Los Angeles
Watts
Washington
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Drew Pearson
Jack Anderson
Mac's
Baker Hotel
Asia
Europe
Washington News
Lester Maddox
Kirk
Conyers Jr
United Nations
Martin Luther King Jr
George Meany
James Keller
George Washington
VFW
The
VFE - Veterans of Foreign Entanglements
Maseru
Lesotho
Leabua Jonathan
Ministry of Justice
Jonathan
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