Campus politics prove conservative among students worldwide
Editorial notes in Daedalus find students generally apolitical or conservative. Across regions from Latin America to Eastern Europe and Japan, activists remain a minority while campus concerns drive most student focus. The piece questions if this trend is good for mankind.
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Daedalus
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Latin America
Europe
Communist Party
United States
Japan
Eisenhower
Journal
Fannie Hurst remembered amid Manchester trial uproar
Impressions of Inez women writers praised Fannie Hurst as a glamour figure in the Manchester euthanasia murder trial coverage. The piece recalls her striking appearance, the courtroom drama, and how she and the author faced local hostility yet found friendship. The obituary notes her fiction aging, but her friendship endures.
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Fannie Hurst
Fannie
Fannie and I
Hermann Sanders
Manchester
N.H
New Hampshire
Theda Bara
New England
Red Cross
Stay-In Habits Challenge Drop-Out Picture
Parents quit worried about the school drop-out problem as students linger on campus. Many scholars stay in college proving they are smarter than working parents who fund them. A perennial postgraduate uses his father’s money by degrees. Some seniors stay to protest world conditions. A staff member compares to a mountain stream babble. A neighbor with an unabridged dictionary has a two year old and no high chair. The conceited fellow sees one to one with himself on everything.
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Mobile
Ala
Pleiku Defenses Hold After Viet Cong Attack Warning
Washington reporter Jack Anderson details a Pleiku patrol as Col. Barnes orders alert amid Viet Cong activity. The night event shows U.S. and ARVN cooperation, with near misses on Pleiku and Holloway airfields, NRCs, and a hospital. ARVN troops are praised for stout defense.
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Jack Anderson
Pleiku
Saigon
John W. Barnes
Washington, D.C
Johnson
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Annaminique
Pleiku Field
Don Henry
Holloway
U.S
Col. Barnes
Arvn Army
Republic of Vietnam
RFPF
Kennedy Johnson revelations prompt memoirs rush
In Evelyn Lincoln's latest Kennedy Johnson book notes surface about Johnson supposedly seeking to dump JFK from the ticket in 1963. The column notes counterclaims by Bobby Kennedy and hints at further revelations in forthcoming Kennedy Johnson installments. It also riffs on Rusk Pueblo timing and 1968 running mate rumors involving Hubert Humphrey and Lyndon Johnson.
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Lyndon Johnson
Jfk
Kennedy
Hubert Humphrey
Washington News: Viet Cong Attacks Tighten Vietnam Army Resolve
NEA Washington correspondent reports Viet Cong attacks may rise and notes South Vietnam's leadership shakeup. Thieu granted Ky authority to run emergency urban defense. Tang, once a top administrator, resigned over corruption but rejoined on Ky’s committee. Observers see Vietnamese troops rallying, with signs of renewed discipline and courage improving civilian relations, a potential setback for the Communists.
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Ray Cromley
NEA
Washington
South Vietnam
Thieu An
Thieu
Saigon
Tang
Vietnam
Oxygen, pollution, and the future of Earth
Professor LaMont C. Cole of Cornell warns the world could run out of oxygen if fossil fuels and land development continue. Diatoms in oceans supply 70 percent of oxygen, but pollutants threaten marine ecosystems and future oxygen production. Calls for urgent environmental research and precise data to guide policy.
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Polly Bradley
LaMont C. Cole
Cornell University
American Association For the Advancement of Science
United States
Japan
Dr. Cole
Amazon Basin
United States Food and Drug Administration
Cole
Three Minutes A Day Wristwatch Found In Oyster Fisherman Tale
A Mobile Alabama oyster fisherman salvaged a wristwatch from the sea covered in barnacles. After cleaning, it ran perfectly, prompting reflections on human spirit and spiritual renewal. The piece urges serving the Lord with all heart and avoiding vanity, citing 1 Samuel 12 20.
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Kennedy - Johnson
Dean Rusk
Pueblo
Richard Nixon
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