Privatism and Individuality in the Industrial Era
The piece surveys how the scientific industrial revolution pressures individuality into a mold of organization and impersonal life. It notes privatism as a inward trend toward family and private leisure, warns it fosters public indifference and selfishness, and urges a broader public expression of individuality.
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David Reisman
Kenneth Keniston
Yale Medical School
American Scholar Quarterly
Kenston
America
Kennedy Transportation Message Seeks Fair Competition for Carriers
In early 1962 Congress faced President Kennedy's transportation message urging fair competition among carriers to leverage their strengths and curb obsolete regulation. Despite broad public and press support, action stalled as Congress talked, with Under Secretary Martin signaling the White House will push the unchanged 1962 program in 1963. This crucial domestic issue also affects national defense and economic well being.
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Kennedy
Congress
Martin
White House
Post Office seeks bigger parcel limits ICC rejects briefly
The Interstate Commerce Commission refused enlarging parcel post size and weight but left room for a new rate increase request. The piece notes parcel post runs deficits and could push costs onto private carriers. advocates break-even rates while preserving current limits. The column ends with a string of light quips about work, luck, and chores.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
ADA Leader Roche Pushes Liberal Agenda in ADA Message
Washington ADA chairman Dr. John P. Roche outlines ADA aims in a yearly letter to President Kennedy. He notes ADA has about 50 000 members with several senators and a representative on its board. Roche argues for civil rights legislation tax cuts urban affairs department medical care for the aged school funding unemployment fight and House Senate rule changes. He says Kennedy’s alignment differs from ADA and warns of leadership needs to advance their program.
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Washington
Enterprise Assn
John P. Roche
National
Americans For Democratic Action
National Review
Ada
William F. Buckley Jr
Kennedy
Roche
Sage
Brooklyn
Hofsta
Cornell
Fulbright
Clark
Pennsylvania
Humphrey
McCarthy
Minnesota
Morse
Neuberger
Oregon
Jimmy Roosevelt
California
Congress
House
Dr. Roche
Hubert Humphrey
West Virginia
Barry Goldwater
John Tower
Department of Urban Affairs
Senate
Jumping to conclusions in Boyle’s light column
HAL BOYLE jokes about presidential life and marriage in a playful column. He riffs on health of presidents spouses wealth tastes sleep and social quirks with witty one liners and social observations.
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Hal Boyle
New York
U.S
White House
America
Kazan Reflects On Writing America America Love Letter
Hollywood director Elia Kazan explains he wrote his first screen script from family material and filmed much of America America in Greece and Turkey. He praises American freedom while criticizing misused terms like peace and liberty amid immigrant memories and gratitude.
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Hollywood
Elia Kazan
America
Kazan
Greece
Turkey
Warner Bros. Studio
Burbank
Istanbul
Constantinople
Rightwingers
Adams Street Biddeford Daily Journal Preview
Bideford Saco Journal outlines Adams Street publication daily except Sunday in Biddeford Maine with staff contacts and subscription rates. The long excerpt includes a Booker style reflection on American dreams and a note about Kazan's uncle a Greek seeking the New World.
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Adams Street
Biddeford
Maine
Paul Casavant
T. J. Mahoney
Associated Press
TV And Radio Teleplay Wrap-up Seen Weak
AP notes Windfall on NBC had an intriguing premise a married couple find 139000 then burn 40000 in the end critics say the writer padded a tidy plot into a long hour show The piece cites similar overlong teleplays like Sam Benedict and Ida Lupino wandering a site wasting broadcast time The column lists Tonight picks The Losers NBC 930 1030 and Caesar sees it ABC 930 1030
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New York
NBC
Ncmes
Sam Benedict
Ida Lupino
Marvin
Rosemary Clooney
Keenan Wynn
Dick Powell
Ag Caesar
ABC
Sid Caesar
Seek a man for the house in old fashioned marriage study
Ruth Millett urges girls to seek a husband who will be head of the family. A McGill study from 1955 suggests the ideal of partnership is faulty and that happiness comes from a man who intends to be the head, with the wife more dependent.
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McGill University
Amish Exodus From Iowa Over School Rules
Paul Harvey laments a quiet Amish exodus from Iowa over state demands to send children to certified schools. He notes hundreds moving to Canada, with older Amish beginning emigration paperwork and no public protests or legal battles. The piece frames religious liberty and strict Amish schooling as the core conflict.
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Iowa
Buchanan County
Canada
State Capitol
General Features Corp
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Boyle
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Pre
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New World
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Missouri
Donald Ridings
Route 1
Painton
Missouri Farmers Assn
Little Brook
Nice
Rome
Balder
Ruth Millett
Paul Harvey News
Paul Harvey
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