Gold from Canada An act of friendship
Canada has helped stabilize the dollar by selling gold stocks to the United States, providing $200 million last year and recurring transfers this year. Ottawa’s actions, including $100 million recently, display neighborliness and sacrifice, reinforcing confidence in the dollar despite Britain's pound devaluation losses.
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New Year Predictions and Resolutions for 1968
A New Year brings predictions and resolutions, with some aims likely to be achieved and others broken. The 1968 year is framed as especially challenging, driven by talent, determination, and luck, and many events will be either good or bad, often caused or preventable by human actions.
Critics' Obsession With Politics Undermines Film Honors
Paul Harvey argues that cinema praise should hinge on artistry not politics. He lauds Richard Harris's Camelot performance as transcendent, criticizes pressure from city critics to favor Spencer Tracy and to bias Oscar votes, and calls for critics to separate personal politics from merit. He urges public-leaning viewers to ignore Hollywood hype and celebrate true acting excellence.
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Camelot
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Robert Goulet
Richard Burton
Spencer Tracy
Asca
Tracy
Josh Logan
Richard
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Broadway
Beebe
Wolcott
Johnson fatigue on world trip during Christmas tour
Washington Merry-Go-Round reports President Johnson pushed through a four day global tour despite severe fatigue. He rested little aboard Air Force One, conferred with officials in Melbourne Bangkok and Canberra, and noted in Korat that he had never been so tired. The piece also covers a correction about NBC interviews linked to Detroit riot coverage.
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Sisouk
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Korea
Thanom Kittikachorn
Lee Kuan Yeu
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Tunku Abdul Rahman
Malaysia
Malik
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Thieu
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Philippines
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Officers Club
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Detroit
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NBC
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Detroit News
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Anaheim
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Marie Smith
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Washington Post
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Lincoln
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Lyndon Johnson Answering Reporters In TV Interview
Don Maclean notes LBJ seeks input from journalists in a TV session where Frank Reynolds pressed about poverty and solutions. The piece jests at press dynamics, mocks McCarthy, and imagines exchanges with Lippmann and others, noting aging teeth and a Santa Claus analogy. The tone is survey-like and critical of administrative responsiveness.
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Frank Reynolds
Reynolds
The Needle Looks Like 1968 Will Be A Good Year
The piece imagines 1968 as better than 1967 with concerns about Vietnam inflation riots taxes and gold while optimism grows about moon escape and bigger Social Security checks as an election year looms and politicians campaign leaving the Supreme Court’s potential rulings aside.
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Supreme Court
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Space data to upgrade US missiles warned by Cromley
Washington must use space data to improve missiles. US and Soviet space tests show guidance changes and unmanned satellites enabling nonballistic maneuvering. Analysts say US leads in research but new tech may extend deployment timelines, provoking debate on delaying advance.
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Ray Cromley
NEA
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Earth
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To The Point Prophecies for 1968 by Russell Kirk
The columnist offers twenty predictions for 1968 covering Vietnam, Nixon’s nomination, Wallace’s challenge, Kennedy’s political limbo, de Gaulle’s moves, Britain’s Labour, China’s waning menace, King’s Washington stunt, the Great Society, church attendance, morality backlash, hippie coverage fatigue, riot firmness, defections from liberal Democrats, Gold berg Hershey Clark names, Israel’s territorial occupation, inflation and wage controls, college closures, Goldwater’s Senate return, birth and crime rates, wandering in Communist lands, and a surge of UFO portent with little punishment forthcoming.
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Richard Nixon
George Wallace
South
Robert Kennedy
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Charles de Gaulle
Arthur Goldberg
William Hershey
Ramsey Clark
Congress
Dean Rusk
Israel
Washington
Barry Goldwater
Senate
Train in Bombay Runs Unstoppably for Three Minutes
A crowded Bombay electric train disregarded four stops, driven by an engineer who vanished from his cab and had his toolbox wedged on the accelerator. The emergency brakes halted the train, leaving the engineer unconscious beside the track and later dead. A search followed.
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