Editorial Page In Our Opinion McCarthy as Straw in the Wind
Eugene McCarthy announces intent to enter primaries as a peace candidate to spark debate, rally dissenters, and push de escalation. Johnson remains likely to win the nomination, while Republicans watch whether McCarthy shifts the race toward peace sentiment or dissolves. The piece weighs Vietnam as a defining issue for both parties in the coming campaign.
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Eugene McCarthy
Minnesota
Johnson
McCarthy
White House
Vietnam
Faceless man’s weeks of hope in Cali post tragedy
A Colombian, once a beggar after an acid attack, receives months of surgery funded by public donations and aid from surgeons, hospitals, Red Cross, and KLM. He vows to avoid begging, aiming to work as a typist or with the blind, while donors praise cooperative healing.
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Cali
Colombia
Red Cross
St. Luke's Hospital
New York
KLM Airlines
Mississippi Negroes Face Bond Hurdles to Take Office
The piece reveals how Mississippi’s 1960 election victory for 22 local offices by Black voters is imperiled by Northern insurance firms demanding onerous bond terms. Officials like Sylvester Gaines and Willie Thompson face bonds up to 18 000 dollars while others are拒ed or delayed. Firms including Insurance Company of North America and Fidelity and Casualty of New York have refused or stalled bonds, despite public rights actions and protests by civil rights groups.
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Drew Pearson
Jack Anderson
Washington
Mississippi
Justice Department
Insurance Company of North America
Philadelphia
Jackson
Miss
Paul Pullen
Nugent and Pullen
Sylvester Gaines
Jefferson County
Earlie Lot
Willie Thompson
Leander Monroe
Claiborne County
Martha Lee
Pulen
Robert Fitzpatrick
Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights Under Law
Pullen
Claiborne
Jefferson
Fitzpatrick
W. Richard Heilman
Heilman
Lee
U.S. Fidelity and Guaranty Company of
Baltimore
Charles Jones
Coahoma County
Matthew Walter
Issaquena County
Melvin Smith
James Jolliff
Wilkinson County
U.S Fidelity and Guaranty
Williford Gragg
Hartford
Fidelity and Deposit
Julian S. Neal
Fidelity and Casualty of
New York
Griffin McLaurin
Holmes County
Fox-Everett
Fidelity and Casualty
John Victor Herd
American Telephone and Telegraph
Beekman Downtown Hospital
Brooklyn Hospital
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
New York University
Adelphi University
Salvation Army Advisory Board
Herd
Mac's World Summer capital in Maine
Comedy column by DON MACLEAN with satire on political predictions for the coming year. It envisions governors Romney and Rockefeller, network cancellations for summer riots, a possible Maine capital talk, and other far fetched forecasts.
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Don Maclean
Washington
Michigan
George Romney
G.O
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
G.O.P
Congress
Martin Luther King
U.S
Maine
Seeress Jeanne Dixon
Drew Pearson
Robert Lowell
Democratic Party
Dr. Spock
Patrick Nugent
Supreme Court
Film drew fire over York County planning film in Biddeford
A Letter to the Journal challenges a federally funded regional planning film shown in Biddeford. The writer criticizes the film for bias against Biddeford, questions editing rights, and argues the depiction harms local industry and wages while ignoring local improvements and progress.
Toothpaste flavors spark mock ads and jokes
The piece mocks toothpaste marketing with two flavors yummy and phooey and jokes about built in obsolescence. It notes global testing and a dig at Russia’s business image in MI6 terms. It ends with a joke about police arresting Santa as a bearded beatnik.
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Hollywood
Santa
Beatnik
Washington News Students solid citizens survey
A four year survey of 1 000 Stanford and University of California seniors reveals beliefs centered on family life love and personal growth. Most women favor husbands' decision priority while many men favor wives' input. Prayers common among a minority, but overall conservative values emerge.
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Ray Cromley
NEA
Washington
Stanford University
University of California
Stanford
California
Chicago’s six vast educational parks face public outcry
Russell Kirk condemns Chicago’s plan for cradle to grave education with 18 000 pupils per park costing over 63 million dollars each He warns of total educationism turning schools into massive mass-society complexes that erode individuality and community values and risk ungovernable mobs.
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Russell Kirk
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Donald J. Leu
Michigan State University
Chicago Board of Education
Total Educationism
Leu
Brooklyn
Berkeley
Garheres
Image of tranquility among morticians at convention
Paul Harvey describes a National Funeral Directors convention in Chicago marking a golden anniversary. He notes morticians project composure and happiness, driven by faith, family business, and daily support for the bereaved, viewing death with calm stewardship.
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Paul Harvey
Chicago
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The
Presbyterian Eye, Ear and Throat, Hospital
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Mac's
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Waterloo
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Grosse Point
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Greece
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