Kennedy advisory council on the arts sparks debate
President Kennedy announced a national Advisory Council on the Arts, pairing thirty private citizens with13 federal heads to guide national culture. The piece weighs state patronage against democratic artistic rebellion and notes historic examples from Burbon France to Dr. Barnes in America, ending by watching the council’s performance with cautious hope.
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Kennedy
Advisory Council On the Arts
Lincoln Center
New York
National Academy of Arts and Letters
Jig
Emerson
Hawthorne
Thoreau
Hawthrone
England
Franklin Pierce
France
Renoir
Ezanne
Gauguin
Dr. Barnes
Merion
Henry Hart
America
Albert Barnes
John Dewey
Bertrand Russell
Washington
Barnes
Chase Manhattan Bank
Chase Manhattan
Guggenheim
Whitney Museum
Babylonian Wise Men and Calm in Adversity
A biblical warning shows the king ordering the destruction of Babylonian wise men for a failed dream interpretation. A quote urges serenity and slow judgment in facing major questions.
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Babylon
Daniel
Youth Unemployment Sparks Debate Over Youth Conservation Corps
The piece contrasts 18 percent youth unemployment in May with a proposal for a Youth Conservation Corps to place teens in forestry work. Critics say the plan is costly and akin to the old CCC, while GOP lawmakers push a five point program focusing on apprenticeship, reformed draft rules, training acts, and expanded vocational education to equip teens for real jobs.
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U. S
Labor Department
Kennedy
Youth Conservation Corps
Civilian Conservation Corps
FDR
Congress
House Education and Labor Committee
GOP
Poll shifts ladies views on Kennedy in Good Housekeeping
Good Housekeeping finds 35 percent of women voted for Kennedy in 1960 but only 28 percent would now. Only 39 percent feel he is truly interested in people like them and 27 percent approve his handling of government posts. The magazine calls the unease a straw in the wind.
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President Kennedy
Good Housekeeping Magazine
Mr. Kennedy
Russia
Ching
World Food Congress in Washington Faces Hunger and Unity
One thousand delegates from a hundred countries meet in Washington for the World Food Congress. A common luncheon of chicken and vegetables is planned to accommodate diverse religious diets. Private funding pays travel expenses, highlighting people-to-people aid and cultural exchange.
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Washington
World Food Congress
State Department
Sheratton Park
Freedom From Hunger Foundation
Louisiana
Allen Ellender
Otto Passman
Jane Freeman
United States
Adolfo Lopez Mateos
Mexico
Potomac
Mme. Lopez Mateos
Global delegates in Washington discuss feeding the world
A collection of notes from five decades and world figures recalls past visits and prominent women. Delegates gathered in Washington to debate feeding the other half of the world with emphasis on birth control and development initiatives.
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Mme
Kamsiah Ibrahim
Women’s Institute
State Department
United States
Souvanna Phouma
Paris
Rama Rau
Kashmir
International
Planned Parenthood Federation
Arnold Toynbee
Washington
Ruark Commentary On British Conservatism And Sordid Tales
A columnist critiques British press sensationalism, citing the Profumo scandal and Argyll divorce as examples of a lively if racy national discourse. He notes tabloid bravado, sex scandals, and cultural shifts including Jamaica influx and Teddy boys, ending with a Brit quip about being “colorful.”
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TUES
Ruark
Cummings
London Daily Express
Brittania
Papa
Mama
Visitez Angleterre
Secret Service
John Profumo
Valerie Hobson
Calypso Music
Snony
Spain
Profumo
Christine Keeler
Macmillan
Scotland
Mary Astor
Milord Justice
Place Pigalle
Richard
Liz
Britain
Jack the Ripper
Mr. Christie
Piccadily Circus
Little Isle
The Cottonwoods and Trees in Evening Time
Poem fragment describes heavy cottonwoods and poplars along a lane in late afternoon light. The speaker witnesses wind bending trees, time as a green cool face, and grasshoppers whirring signaling an approaching end. Fragrance of alfalfa and hay fills the air as memory and mind wander.
Kennedy Shifts Tax Reform Pace With Slower Cut Outlook
Kennedy pivots to reforms as tax cuts face delay until 1964. House Ways and Means negotiates reforms with Mills while filibuster risks and recession fears fade. IRS must prepare new withholding tables, delaying any full cuts this year.
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Washington
Congress
Kennedy
House
Ways and Means Committee
Wilbur Mills
D., Ark
Millses
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
White House
Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Representative Mills
Our Voice Must Roar Against Global Racial Injustice
Barry Goldwater discusses Dean Rusk and U S policy arguing it mutes Americas image abroad due to racial tensions at home. He urges stronger international condemnation of communist and totalitarian abuses and rejects appeasement with Hungary and the Soviet Union. He calls for a louder, principled American stance worldwide.
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Dean Rusk
United States
Rusk
Simon Pure
Khrushchev
State Department
Bierhower
Europe
Soviet Union
Hungary
Siberia
Red China Worries Over Romance And Work Balance
The piece lampoons Red China for fretting over youth romance and dancing while urging work discipline. It contrasts a lighthearted love letter with official warnings about delaying the Great Leap Forward and notes Pope John XXIII’s humble early life and global appeal.
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China Boy
China
Red China
Cattlemen's League President Critiques Soviet Bull Purchases
World Echoes Theophile Lader of Creuse's Cattlemen's League doubts the Soviet committee's judgment on bulls. He recalls their first visit where bulls at St. Amand were dismissed, but after a second showing at Moulins they bought them all.
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Theophile Lader
Cattlemen's League
Creuse
St. Amand
Moulins
Paris Presse
Paris
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Hugh Shott
John Chamberlain
National Arts Council
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Bluefield
Princeton
Drew Pearson
World Hungry
Congo
Mme. Adoula
The
Daily Telegraph
FE. L. Greever of
Tazewell
Max Tombs
North Carolina
Sallie M. Bivens
Yangsze River
Supreme Court
Douglas
Ethel and
Julius Rosenberg
Robert Ruark
Andrew Tully
Barry Goldwater
H. J. Phillips
Red
Pope John
John XXIII
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