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The Bridgeport Post and The Bridgeport Telegram publish day and morning editions with a shared postal and circulation setup. Rates shown include annual and half year plans for Bridgeport area and beyond, with separate Sunday Post and single-copy prices.
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Bridgeport Telegram
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Bridgeport Sunday Post Chamber Audit Bureau of
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Sun Post
Bridgeport
Associated Press
Conn
Free Society Association predicts 1968 Republican rise and Johnson shift
The Free Society Association, founded by Barry Goldwater back from 1964, analyzes the 1968 picture. It sees a Republican resurgence with potential high office, but a tougher path ahead. It forecasts Johnson may move right in the next two years, yet notes no clear conservative turnaround. It calls for fresh policy answers and warns against excess spending despite a projected 140 billion dollar 1968 budget.
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Johnson
New Deal
Deep South
Free Society Association
Barry Goldwater
Republican Party
Cities Across America Face Overcrowding and Slums
Urban planner Constantinos Doxiadis warns American cities are inhumane and headed for unbearable density. Walter Reuther proposes a nonprofit nationwide effort to rehabilitate 30,000 housing units now, and to build 1.5 million new or renovated units over ten years at about 50 billion dollars, plus plans for self contained new cities built far from existing cores to provide open space and starting anew. Both ideas hinge on cost and self sufficiency to avert a future of displaced nomads hiding in buildings.
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Constantinos A. Doxiadis
Senate
Walter Reuther
United Automobile Workers
Doxiadis
Reuther
Moon race tilt favors United States says aviation week
Aviation Week and Space Technology argues the Soviet moon program trails the United States after Voskhod 2. With 20 months since a manned flight and no orbital rendezvous or orbit changes demonstrated, observers worry the Russians may be left behind in the race to land a man on the moon.
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U.S
United States
Aviation Week & Space Technology
Russian space saga nears moon mission tease after walkordeal
The article notes Alexei Leonov’s pioneering space walk and a near-disastrous reentry, contrasting Soviet triumphs with Khrushchev era bragging. It cites Kosygin Brezhnev leadership, shifts to unmanned tech, and hints at a future manned moon approach that could again outpace Apollo.
Bayard Rustin backs $2 guaranteed wage over universal income
Rustin, director of the A Philip Randolph Institute, argues for a $2 minimum wage as the answer for workers while opposing a full guaranteed income. He notes current and planned wage increases, warns small employers bear a heavy burden, and suggests government support to finance the shift.
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Congress
Alarm-Alerter cuts false fire alarms and saves lives
False alarms waste about 30 million dollars yearly as cities face hundreds of thousands of pranks. The Alarm Alerter device, a Freon can and horn in a metal box, reduced Philadelphia and New York false alarms dramatically, with several guilty parties caught. Ohio State researchers report a digital control car concept. Ten Cuban Ballet members seek asylum in France.
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New York City
New York
Chicago
National Fire Protection Association
Philadelphia
Ohio State University
Cuban National Ballet
France
Castro
Your Money's Worth by Sylvia Forter
This column forecasts a sharp rise in the cost of living, projecting a 4 percent year over year inflation by year end and up to 14.6 cents in today’s dollar value by a half century, with impacts on fixed pensions and wage negotiations. It traces housing, health, apparel, food, and transportation price trends since 1946.
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Picayune
Washington
Poland offers aid to rebuild Hanoi school damaged in air raid
PLAN RECONSTRUCTION Warsaw reports PAP offers full assistance toward rebuilding the Polish Vietnamese Friendship School in Tu Ky Hanoi. The school suffered serious damage in a U.S. air raid on December 2 with teachers and students injured.
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Warsaw
Poland
PAP
Hanoi
Tu Ky
U.S
News Behind the News on U Thant and Viet Nam War
A harsh critique of U Thant and Newsweek revelations about Washington’s role in Viet Nam peace efforts. The piece mocks Thant’s diplomacy, warns of his credibility, and recalls Johnson’s response while predicting further spin in the peace process. It contrasts wartime actions with calls to halt bombing.
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U Thant
United Nations
Peking
Hanoi
Washington
Viet Nam
Thant
Newsweek Magazine
United States
Lyndon Johnson
Dean Rusk
Newsweek
Johnson and Rusk
Johnson
St. Germaine U
Ivy
U ‘Thant
North
Tokyo
Berlin
Diplomatic Analysts See Hardening Soviet Viet Nam Line
Moscow observers say Soviet rhetoric on Vietnam has hardened, signaling possible abandonment of peace hopes. They note a shift back to harsh demands for U.S. withdrawal and total Communist victory, while some dismiss any real policy change and cite secrecy in backchannel talks.
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Vietnam
Moscow
Viet Nam
Kremlin
North Viet Nam
Red China
Hanoi
China
Soviet Union
United States
Peking
George Brown
Andrei A. Gromyko
Brown
Gromyko
United Nations
U.S
The Ghetto Debate Seen Through An Impressive Wall
A columnist portrays Senate hearings on urban ghettos as a clash of ideals and obstruction. Rockefeller urges subsidies and private urban renewal while warning against federal overreach, and Wilkins and Kennedy face hostile scrutiny. The piece lambasts liberal politics while accepting limited reform as the likely path forward.
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Bob Kennedy
Wilkins
Harlem
Europe
Phemocratic
David Rockefeller
Chase Manhattan Bank
Navy Pilot Lost Arm After Viet Nam Flak Hit
Cmdr Wynn F. Foster recounts July Viet Nam raid when a 57mm shell tore off his right arm. He ejected, parachuted to sea, survived aboard a destroyer, and had his arm amputated after being taken to his carrier. Foster earned Silver Star and multiple medals. being fitted with an artificial arm in Oakland.
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Norfolk
Wynn F. Foster
Foster
Viet Nam
Naval Aviation Safety Center
Norfolk Naval Air Station
Cmdr
J.B. McDaniel
United States
Navy
Korea
Oakland
Calif
Naval Hospital
Japanese Ad Campaign to End Vietnam War Spurs Alarm
Morihiro Matsuda, a 49 year old Tokyo businessman, funded a 20,000 word ad campaign in the Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Daily News claiming he could end the Vietnam War. He says he would burn himself if he failed, has spent about 63,888 on ads, and now has only 1,250 left after selling his properties. His plan envisions US universities invited for 100 days and a general meeting of scholars with families of POWs under his leadership. The Chicago papers carried 10 and 5 pages of his ads respectively.
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Tokyo
Morihiro Matsuda
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Daily News
Viet Nam
Matsuda
New York Times
Times of London
United States
Sun-Times
Daily News
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Imperfect Society
By Holmes
Alexander
Senator Ribicoff
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Rockefeller
Roy Wilkins
NAACP
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