Muscles and movement beat the sedentary myth
John Chamberlain argues against the idea of a sedentary America citing large participation in softball volleyball boating and golf. He notes millions are active and criticizes parents and cultural norms that discourage aging bodies from movement while urging society to embrace athletic activity and avoid reliance on sedatives.
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Willie Mays
Mickey Mantle
Ernie Davis
America
National Recreational Association
American Camping Association
National Golf Foundation
White House
New York
Madison Square Garden
Star-stuff at Savannah River fuels new H-bomb promise
Armchair science narrative describes heavy water and neutron bridle at Savannah River and Dana plants as key to H-bomb viability. It cites Gordo Cooper speed, neutron velocities, and star-stuff physics to claim a potential 100 megaton yield with reduced nuclear material.
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Savannah River
South Carolina
Maj
Gordon Cooper
Cooper
New York
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Earth
Harold G. Urey
Pentagon
Dana
Ind
United States
Khrushchev
Geneva
Novaya Zemla
America
Hans Bethe
Ralph E. Lapp
Graceful Aging Quoted Across Sacred Texts
A Bible verse and a classical maxim extol a peaceful old age as a harvest ripe with virtue. The Job line urges a grave in ripe years while the Pindar quote links aged wisdom with immortality.
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Pindar
Bluefield State Booklet Praises Progress Amid Gazette Attacks
A Bluefield State College booklet defends the school's growth from academy to multi purpose college and argues it serves all qualified students regardless of race or religion. It notes enrollment near 650 with 40 percent white, 10 of 35 staff white, and rising evening classes. The piece cites a new technical division and urges local support to ensure wider acceptance and cooperation.
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Bluefield State College
Charleston Gazette
Bluefield
Bluefield State
Gazette
Normal Institute
Teachers College
Polytechnical
Kennedy appointee Granan admits she cannot balance checkbook
The Treasury official Katherine O Hay Granahan, who signs all U S money, acknowledges difficulty balancing her own checkbook. The piece condemns fiscal mismanagement by a political party blamed for debt and inflation, urging taxpayers to demand accountability.
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Kennedy
United States
Katherine O’hay Granahan
Charm and politics tangle Savannah ship contract woes
Washington reports detail the Savannah’s troubled launch from cost to charm courses for AEC crew. The ship faced engineers strikes and contract cancellations, while the operating bid process favored GOP-backed States Marine Lines over expert recommendations, implicating John McCone and partisan influence.
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the States Marine Lines
Savannah
Hodges
Roosevelt
Kennedy
John McCone
Central Intelligence
America
American Presidents Line
Democratic National Committee
Sinclair Weeks
Maritime Board
GOP
States Marine Lines
Historic Clippings Show Regional Events Across Decades
A set of brief notes recalls a 50 year business visit by R A Snodgrass of Lynchburg Va a 40 year inter-society debate at Bluefield College won by John Marshall Literary Society over Virginia Literary Society a 30 year sale of The Washington Post at public auction for 825000 a 20 year tally of U S submarine actions sinking seven Japanese vessels and a 10 year report on a mutual defense pact linked to the Korean truce negotiations.
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John Marshall Literary Society
Virginia Literary Society
Bluefield College
Poems on Sleep and Absence by Norma Farber
The fragments explore sleep as shelter and collapse as meaning dissolves into shadow. A meditation on endings where all presence yields to total withdrawal, with imagery of sinking lids, sand, and a groundless void.
Einstein’s Mischievous Boy Quip on Time and Space
A child offers a playful take on Einstein explaining time and space. He notes first that they aren’t what they seem and then adds a sharper jab that they aren’t even what they are.
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Einstein
Andersons Ambassador Post Seen as Sensible Choice
Washington notes President Kennedy appointed Admiral George W. Anderson as Ambassador to Portugal after his resignation as Chief of Naval Operations. The piece argues civilian control over the military is supreme and praises Anderson for resisting public spats and upholding civilian rule while McNamara’s leadership modernizes the Pentagon.
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Washington
George W. Anderson
Naval Operations
Defense
Robert McNamara
Pentagon
Anderson
Kennedy
Portugal
McNamara
Congress
Tives
United States
U. S
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Secretaries of War
Navy
Army
Air Force
Joint Chiefs
Secretary of Defense
Bob McNamara
Ford Motor
Univac
Washington Post
Constantines From War to Cold War Chronicle
A Rome visitor interprets the 47 year old Soviet led revolution as a shift from capitalism to socialism. The essay traces global upheavals from 1917 through Cold War tensions, notes failed appeasement, and cites Truman and Khrushchev on peace coexistence as strategic steps in a long communist strategy.
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Rome
Paris
New York Times
Turkey
Cuba
Syria
Haiti
Alabama
Mississippi
Russia
Italy
Laos
South
Viet Nam
Latin American
Truman
United Nations
Free Nations
Latin America
Europe
Soviet Union
Geneva
Khrushchev
Mercer School Year Length Debate and Local Rebuttals
Readers critique the Mercer County school calendar arguing for a fixed 180 day year with added days for meetings and holidays. The letter notes possible January return timing and wage concerns for teachers, while other counties already align to the 180 day standard.
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Cook
Mercer County
West Virginia
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Hugh Ike Shott
John Chamberlain
Young
Libertine
Brothers Kennedy
H. J. Taylor
Progress of
the Gazette
Princeton
Drew Pearson
Atomic Energy Commission
Molesworth Associates
New York City
Sam
U.S.A
Luther Hodges
Eisenhower
Franklin Roosevelt, Jr
Clarence Morse
Isbrandtsen
Farrell
Moore- McCormack
Pacific Far East
States Marine
U.S Lines
Daily Telegraph
R. A. Snodgrass
Lynchburg, Va
Pacific
Norma Farber
The
Chicago Tribune
Andrew Tully
Constantine Brown
Mercer
Cooke
Julius Heinis
Athens
W. Va
Heinis
Hurley High School
Rita Davis
Hurley
Rita
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