Human aid in Yugoslavia from private medical teams
An essay highlights private international medical aid as a form of human aid rather than government relief. Yugoslav doctors report a lethal kidney disease in the Sava valley. Metropolitan General Hospital and Western Reserve University physicians investigated, collecting samples and a frozen kidney. The effort aims to test a fertilizer toxin theory and to send researchers back, illustrating a citizen-driven model of foreign aid beyond government spending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yugoslavia
Metropolitan General Hospital
Western Reserve University
Cleveland
Ohio
Charles H. Rammelkamp
Reserve
Sava
Metropolitan
Rommelkamp
Richard Krause
Rockefeller Institute
Congress
Kennedy selling alliance for progress in Latin America
President Kennedy travels to Colombia and Venezuela to push the Alliance for Progress, noting both nations already pursue self help programs. He cites aid totals since 1945, discusses land reform in Colombia and Betancourt’s reforms in Venezuela, and faces resistance from elites. The program moves slowly with $800 million of the first year pledged but little spent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Edson
Washington
Enterprise Assn
Kennedy
Alliance For Progress
Colombia
Venezuela
Latin America
Cuntry
U.S
Columbia
Alberto Lleras Camargo
Romulo Betancourt
United States
Punta del Este
Uruguay
Taxed power vs private electric growth debate heats up
The article argues that investor owned utilities power 80 percent of US needs with private funds, not taxpayers. It notes $46 billion invested to date, $2 billion annual taxes, and forecasts $168 billion in investment by 1980 with half from within companies and half from market sales. It cites 4 million stockholders and criticizes socialized power as a tax drain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Soviet Union
Wide open field for retail careers and rewards noted
An article highlights hospitality in retailing with average supermarket managers earning 6500 to 15000 annually, overseeing 60 to 70 employees in a million dollar store. It cites high school completion, mixed college chances, and moves into administrative roles, praising retailing as a wide open career with strong local prestige and solid pay. It also mentions miscellaneous short items about a thief in Nevada, a quilted cravat claim, and a prank involving a bridegroom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Association of Food Chains
Boyle's Christmas Gift Book List From 1961 Figures
HAL Boyle offers a playful catalog of book gifts linked to notable figures who made news in 1961. The list pairs titles with famous names such as Nehru, Kennedy, Khrushchev, Churchill, Truman, and Eisenhower, suggesting humorous or pointed readings for each person.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Boyle
New York
Nehru
David Susskind
James R. Hoffa
Split Over Labor and Management Issues Rising
AP analyzes a growing split in thinking between workers and employers as administration policy looms. Fears of higher wages and prices, automation, productivity gains, and unemployment shape debates about profits, growth, and global competition with Europe and Japan.
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AP Business News
NEW York
Japan
Washington
Kennedy
United States
U.S
Biddeford Race Journal Local Notice and Editorial Snippet
The Biddeford Race Journal presents a compact item from Biddeford Maine noting editorial and business staff and subscription rates. It reflects a humorous aside about competition and prices amid a labor management wage dispute and inflation concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams Street
Biddeford
Maine
Paw Casavant
T J Mahoney
Associated Press
AP News
Daily Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues
Crossword puzzle clues list with numerous typographical errors and broken words across and down entries including types of beam irritants latinate phrases and misc references, likely a printed page scan with garbled spacing and missing letters.
Hollywood News Picks Bright Holiday Films and Courtship Views
Ruth Millett contrasts modern courtship with shopping for clothes, noting teens marry young for security or peer pressure rather than romance. Bob Thomas reviews five new films El Cid, A Majority of One, Babes in Toyland, Flower Drum Song, and Lover Come Back, praising entertainment value and performances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Millett Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Bob Thomas
Hollywood
Charlton Heston
Cid
San Francisco
Chinatown
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Nancy Kwan
Doris Day
Rock Hudson
Tony Randall
Slow-American service hits shoppers and travelers
Paul Harvey laments slipping customer care in 1961, citing mishandled garments, wrinkled suits, missed reservations, and indifferent clerks. He notes examples from Dallas mink thefts to New York and Philadelphia service lapses, urging better knowledge in shops and respectful, prompt treatment of customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
New York City
Wall Street Journal
New York
Washington
Civil Service
Houston
Garrett
Philadelphia
Sporting Pot
R. Bradley Stokes
The
Switchboard
General Features Corp
Candlelight Magic Poem by C. Smith
The poem describes a candlelight scene that conjures distant castles and knights. A narrator envisions grand ladies and past heroes, each bearing the speaker's face as the night unfolds into dawn. The verse ends with the dawn erasing the magic and the ongoing game ending at sunrise.
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C. Smith
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China
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Nikita Khrushchev
Sir Winston Churchill
Bernard Baruch
Almanac
Allen Dulles
Harry S. Truman
Brigitte Bardot
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Lieb
Ike
Mamie Eisenhower
Eleanor Roosevelt
Elsa Maxwell
Business Mirror
Beddeford
Race Journal
Labor
Madison Aven
Zagreb
Fraulein
Novelist Seton
Colleq
Korsakov
Om Bell
Yahoo
Greece
Ruth Willett
Rosalind
Rosalind Russell
Gertrude Berg
Alec Guinness
Walt Disney
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Paul Harvey
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