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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1963
Page
4
A concise editorial card notes a rhetorical theme linked to Samuel Butler. The item cites a quip about not opening his mouth and a rope seemingly flying from it, reflecting on speech and restraint in public discourse.
Dr. Glenn Seaborg argues scientists and engineers should play a key role in government decision making. He urges a double mastery linking political and scientific questions, cautioning against domination while promoting responsibility in higher levels of executive and legislative policy.
A style story muses on wider lapels returning yet notes how postwar screen romances relied on broad lapels for dramatic effect. It recalls Milton Sills Norma Talmadge and Gish era melodrama where heroines clung to wide lapels, while modern sentiment is subtle and restrained.
The piece argues Washington faces indecision over the Viet Nam war’s nature and leadership. It warns that Ambassador Lodge needs full authority to affect policy and notes defense leaders on site may spur clearer decisions. It ends with a cautionary quip on media fatigue and a light observation about chores.
Washington the long awaited report of President Kennedy s Consumers Advisory Council may be released in early October during a two day Washington session. The CAC has done little beyond sorting problems in its first year. The report covers consumer government relations since the New Deal and reviews Kennedy era efforts. It notes registrations of agencies protecting consumer interests and ongoing debates over Truth in Lending and Truth in Packaging. The council seeks a full time executive director and staff, while government role in consumer protection remains unclear.
In a Boyle column HAL BOYLE profiles Sidney Poitier, 99, praising him as a leading Negro actor and activist. Poitier recounts a life of poverty and isolation, self education, and work as a janitor while studying acting. He discusses fighting segregation, seeking social order through integration, and his choice of uplifting film roles such as Lilies of the Field.
AP News analyst SAM DAWSON notes that while inflation remains a creeping trend driven by rising costs in production and distribution, a broad surge is unlikely. He cites competitive retailers, idle capacity, and consumer focus on finished goods as factors limiting sharp price hikes, with some gains noted in auto models and individual commodities.
AP reports 17 year old Liza Minelli daughter of Judy Garland aims to be a star if it brings profession acceptance, while seeking privacy. Her off Broadway debut hinted at star potential and she may appear on Judy Garland's CBS show in December. Liza recounts seven school moves, a seven year Holmby Hills home, and a Paris Sorbonne stint shaping her outlook on fame.
Irving Wallace returns with a provocative tale set on a remote South Pacific isle where a mixed English and Polynesian colony challenges modern and primitive attitudes toward sex and love. A team of social anthropologists led by Maud Hayden studies the islanders while their own personal problems unfold.
The Biddeford Saco Journal publishes daily except Sunday from 11 Adams Street Biddeford Maine. W Paul Casavant is president and E P Ingalls managing editor. Telephone numbers list business and editorial desks. Subscription rates in advance: one month 1.85 six months 10.50 one year 21.00. Member of the Associated Press. The AP holds exclusive rights to local and AP news. Entered as second class postage paid at Biddeford Maine.
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Paul Harvey critiques Webster's Third Dictionary for endorsing ain't and slang, arguing it erodes standards of English. He warns that linguistic liberalism parallels assaults on the King James Bible and threatens formal education, taxation, welfare, and constitutional reading. He fears editors confuse progress with retrogression and question Webster as a standard.
Will Durant and Arie Durant deliver the eighth volume in their Civilization series focusing on Louis XIV. The book weaves in Oliver Cromwell, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Peter the Great, Isaac Newton and Spinoza while tracing Western history mainly through Europe from the Reformation to the French Revolution. The Durants balance single volume unity with a broad roster of influential figures as they set up The Age of Voltaire for 1965.
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