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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1963
Page
5
Editorial page quotes William Ellery Channing on government offering opportunity rather than happiness, urging readers to pursue self fashioned well being through work and civic action. The piece frames governance as enabling individual effort and responsibility.
An analysis argues that manpower retraining, even in Philadelphia’s selective plan, cannot reach more than a fair share of the jobless. Many unemployed lack education or social skills, rendering them untrainable for today’s economy. Officials suggest welfare, public works, and cushions, but these offer only relief, not full solutions, as Kennedy-era hopes for a broad poverty and joblessness assault loom.
The article reports a sharp turn to military losses in South Viet Nam after the November coup that killed President Diem and his brother. U.S. authorities cite dislocation and momentum loss as key factors, with 2,800 Vietnamese soldiers dead or wounded in November and weapon losses threatening five guerilla battalions. Cambodia sides with China raise wider regional concerns. the coming months are seen as crucial for the free world in Southeast Asia.
Maryland researchers test a home collection method for cervical cancer screening. Women aged 30 to 45 mail in collected cells to Johns Hopkins labs, showing high return rates and potential for broad cancer detection uses beyond cervical cancer.
Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith urges selecting the 100 lowest income counties to create special educational zones with top schools, recreation, and transport. A Peace Corps style corps of young teachers would staff them, funded as direct anti poverty action rather than federal aid. The plan contrasts earlier proposals discussed at a Washington conference led by the Farmers Educational Fund. Abject poverty now affects about 20 million people, or 11 percent of the U.S. population, with Social Security cited as a key factor in poverty reduction over 27 years.
Bernard Taper’s Bookshelf Life profiles Georgi Balanchivadze known as Balanchine, tracing his 20th century Ballet path from St Petersburg to New York. The 313 page Harper & Row work covers his Moscow roots, Diaghilev primacy, emigration, the NYC Ballet, Stravinsky collaborations and enduring influence.
AP reports CBS midseason replacement Tell It to The Camera debuts as a talking head comedy device. Allen Funt invites crowds in New York and Washington to share pet peeves and self-image on camera, with mixed reception and rare humorous moments. NBC bows Lucia di Lammermoor in English context, while Donizetti’s work carries Italian title for English audience. Tonight’s picks include The Name of The Game at 10, As Caesar Sees It at 10:30 on ABC.
The Biddeford Saco Journal lists address at 11 Adams Street Biddeford Maine with W Paul Casavant president and E P Ingalls managing editor. It includes contact numbers for business and circulation and subscription rates in advance 1 month 185 six months 1050 and one year 2100.
Ruth Millett argues a well dressed wife signals status for her husband who can neglect his own attire. If the wife adopts a plain look, the husband may resist dressing well, but a truly indifferent wife would unsettle him. The piece suggests money and taste shape domestic fashion roles.
A compilation of Cason J. Callaway's four prerequisites for executives: integrity, willingness and ability to work, objectivity, and leadership. The list expands into twenty four traits including courage, imagination, delegation with accountability, time management, prioritizing important work, avoiding favoritism, recognizing weaknesses, sharing credit and blame, listening, humility, perseverance, keeping promises, informed statements, encouraging disagreement, concise reasoning, controlled temperament, handling the unusual, resisting flattery, balancing research with decisiveness, liking people, humor, and guarding health for sustained leadership. The piece ends with Antarctic glacier travel imagery as a contrast to organized leadership.
A reader letter from Charles Parsons urges Congress to honor General Douglas MacArthur as the greatest general this or any country has produced. The piece quotes praise from British Field Marshal Alan Brooke and notes Truman’s recall of MacArthur over policy aims in Korea.
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