In Our Opinion Automatic Increase For Social Security
The piece notes 14 million recipients rely on checks and discusses automatic cost of living adjustments. It cites Towers Perrin survey data on index linked schemes in 22 of 100 countries and presents arguments for and against automatic increases. It questions funding, political entanglement, and future prospects in Congress.
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International Consulting
of Towers, Perrin, Forster and Crosby
Congress
Impressions of Inez Women Joining Men on Bench
Inez Rob argues television damsels shift from foolish wives to nagging bitches in Madison Avenue ads. The piece laments the male fool on screen and condemns the rise of women as sex symbols and nagging home rulers shaping ad images.
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Teevee
Madison Avenue
Shevlon
Marilyn Monroe
Simon
Aime Semple McPherson
Mary McCarthy
Morners
The Needle: Students and Draft Reflections
The piece notes the draft pushing youths toward college while prompting worry for fathers about college costs. It uses humor about beards and barring barbers as symbols of wartime culture and reports student belligerence through enlistment and protests.
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Ho Chi Minh
Oil tax loopholes roil funds and political ties
Washington column exposes alleged $6 billion oil tax loophole drain while alleging improper influence on GAO findings about Vietnam era oil shipments. It also details Florida Governor Claude Kirk’s finances and alleged liquor-store connections, plus public health warnings and pilot remarks on Viet Nam policy.
Ike eyes Vietnam trip despite policy clash with Johnson
Former President Eisenhower says he would go to Vietnam as an emissary for Lyndon Johnson if his doctors allow it. He notes he disagrees with Johnson on domestic policy but supports the Vietnam effort, reflecting on past Korea involvement and broad bipartisan support for the Vietnam course.
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New York
Eisenhower
Vietnam
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
Ike
Brown Palace
Denver
Korea
U.S
38Th Parallel
Shima
Nagasaki
Ho Chi Minh
United States
Lyndon Johnson
Romney
Leonard Hall
Frontiersman Judge and Juror Pressures in Deliberations
A historical note explains that speedy verdicts can be valid when evidence clearly supports guilt, while coercion by judges to hurry verdicts can invalidate trials. It cites eight minutes for drunken driving and one hour for tax fraud as proper delibrations, and warns that coercion in a murder case led to an appellate reversal.
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Ohio
American Bar Association Public Service
Will Bernard
California Lieutenant Governor Finch Even as Creative Society Vision
Washington notes from Pepperdine College forum where Robert Finch argues against the welfare state and champions the voluntary sector. He cites California's large Republican majority and warns against central federal control, urging diverse local initiative to sustain a creative society.
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Pepperdine College
Robert Finch
California
Finch
United States
Emerson
Washington
Romney campaign builds momentum with seedling committees
Washington correspondents describe Romney aides launching regional committees to drum up support for a 1968 campaign. The plan envisions staged events with governors and a broader southern outreach, amid bets on key primaries and a growing, younger staff to sustain momentum.
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Bruce Biossat
Washington
Enterprise Assn
Romney
Mountain
Wisconsin
Wilbur Renk
GOP
U.S. Senate
Lansing
Michigan
Department of
Jackson Hole
Woo
Virgin Islands
New Hampshire
Nebraska
Oregon
Richard M. Nixon
Three Minutes A Day From Rev James Keller
A Wichita Falls Texas fire reporting system uses ninety eight alarm boxes linked to a central operator. Callers must answer questions, reducing false alarms from ninety five percent of old signals. The system aims to prompt truthfulness and civic virtue while reinforcing moral reflection.
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James Keller
Wichita Falls
Tex
Fire Department
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Harold Coffin
People’s Forum
Jack Anderson
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Tallahassee
Florida
Claude Kirk
Kirk
Statehouse
Ash Verlander
Verlander
American Heritage Insurance Company
Leon Liquors
Howard Snow
S&s
Chivas Regal
The
Public Health Service
Airlines
Navy
Charles Wilson
D-Calif
Detroit
Journal
United States of America
Ue East
Ispaeli
Hiro
Jim Bishop
President Johnson
Random House
Johannesburg
South Africa
Down Town
Zios
America
Washington News
Washington National
Old South
Robert Snodgrass
Georgia
Atlanta
Barry Goldwater
Robert A. Taft
Romeny
Biddeford -Saco Journal
Adams Street
Biddeford
Maine
W. Paul Casavant
FE. P. Ingalls
Telephone Business
Associated Press
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