Bridgeport Post and Telegram Rates and Publication Details
The Bridgeport publishing house outlines subscription rates for Daily and Sunday editions, with separate prices for regional and out-of-town readers. It notes publication schedule, distribution, and rights of republication via The Associated Press.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Bridgeport Post
Tvedco
Bridgeport Telegram
the Post Publishing Company
Morning
Bridgeport Sunday Post
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Sunday Post
Sun Past
Sun Post
Associated Press
Washington as Guerrilla Tactician Across History
The article argues George Washington used guerrilla tactics learned from Native Americans and honed through colonial warfare. It links Washington’s surprise methods, such as crossing the Delaware on December 24 1776, to modern guerrilla fighting in Vietnam and notes the enduring challenges of such warfare.
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Vietnam
George Washington
Washington
Redskins
Concord
Lexington
Continental Army
Delaware
Trenton
Alleghenies
Whose War Is This President Johnson Sends More Troops
President Johnson orders an additional 10 500 Army and Marine Corps ground troops to South Vietnam amid calls from South Vietnam allying leader Thieu for more personnel. The piece notes total U S military presence, casualties and questions about who bears the burden, while contrasting Johnson's past remarks with current policy.
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Johnson
Marine Corps
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
United States
Vietnam
Kennedy
Thailand
Dalat
U.S
Akron
Suburbs urged to aid urban housing recovery efforts
HUD official urges Bridgeport area suburbs to join metropolitan housing programs offering low and moderate income rentals. He says suburban involvement can improve funding for water and sewer projects and strengthen minority and community ties across the nation.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development
Bridgeport
Judah Gribetz
HUD
Elfun Society of General Electric Co
Connecticut
Gribetz
Graduate Deferments and the Nation’s Defense
The piece argues against broad graduate student draft deferments, warning it would harm higher education and long term manpower. It urges selective exemptions for medical and dental fields while stressing scientists in defense, space, and nuclear advances must not be sidelined and calls for an imaginative plan to enlist graduates in national service.
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Nathan Pusey
Harvard
United States
Michigan reform school uses newspaper reading to boost literacy
American Education highlights Dan Fader at the University of Michigan who implements unconventional teaching at a Michigan reformatory. He has students read newspapers magazines and paperbacks and write about topics they choose, boosting formerly disengaged youths. Motivation helps learning, and meeting learners where they live matters.
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American Education
Michigan
Dan Fader
University of Michigan
Fader
Dago Tech
Trouble Everywhere in Madrid Gauntlet Over Gibraltar
A New York Times report from Madrid says Spain warned the United States to end using Gibraltar as a 6th Fleet base or lose hospitality rights in Spanish ports. The piece notes Spanish pride and commerce as factors in the potential conflict and awaits a final settlement.
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Montreal Star
United States Navy
New York Times
Madrid
Spain
United States
Gibraltar
6Th Fleet
Education expense rules broadened in 1967 tax changes
Sylvia Porter outlines new Treasury liberalizations for education deductions for teachers and professionals. The rules allow deducting expenses for specialty preparation within one's field if not leading to a new trade, with examples and conditions for current employment and certain reclassifications. Real estate profits remain contested, with court decisions evolving in 1967. consult advisers on capital gain versus ordinary income.
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Sylvia Porter
The
Treasury
Oor Meer
Trust Department
Supreme Court
Circuit Courts of Appeals
Comic Dictionary Entry ABSORB
A playful dictionary note defining absorb as to swallow up but not to swallow down. The brief entry uses a comic tone to illustrate the punning sense of the word. It presents a whimsical distinction without extending into broader usage or examples.
National Whirlgig on MacArthur Nuclear Debate in Vietnam
The piece critiques General Wheeler and the Joint Chiefs stance on using nuclear weapons to defend Khe Sanh. It contrasts Senate figures Fulbright and Clark with White House denials, arguing for open policy discussion. It questions administration choices and recalls Truman’s restraint against widening the war.
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Weirlow
Ddsd
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs
Joho
MacAarthur
Wheeler
Khe Sanh
Jelo
Bill Fulbright
Ark
White House
Fulbright
White’ House
George Christian
Johnson
Christian
Lyndon Johnson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Fullbright
Joe Clark
R-Pa
Clark
U.S
Vietnam
Truman
Red China
MacArthur
Smithsonian overlooks many Negro history figures in national narrative
An AP Analysis notes how museums and libraries underrepresent Black achievement from Douglass to Henson and DuSable. It cites attics and trunks as hidden archives, urges ferreting out material, and highlights efforts like the Frederick Douglass Institution and Detroit’s Afro-American Institution to bring Black history to schools.
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Smithsonian
Smithsonian Institution
Eli Whitney
Washington
Frederick Douglass
Douglass
Europe
Admiral Peary
North Pole
Matthew Henson
Pole
Bunker Hill
Peter Salem
Jean DuSable
Chicago
Congress
California
Michigan
Connecticut
Frederick Douglass Institution
District of Columbia
Detroit
Ripon Forum decries LBJ ties to Vietnam war profits
A critical Ripon Forum issue accuses Lyndon Johnson of profiting from Vietnam War contracts in Texas. The piece links Johnson to a web of defense spending, Braniff Airlines stock gains, Brazo-10th Street holdings, Greatamerica, and a coy reference to SMIC. The article questions moderation and calls the publication’s stance one of extreme partisan attack.
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Forum
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Lyndon
LBJ
Fulbright
Schlesinger
Moloch
Vietnam
Johnson
Rocckefeller
Romney
John Kennedy
Dallas
Kennedy
California
Branif Airlines
Johnson Associates
Ripon
Brazo-10th Street
Johnson Family Broadcasting Company
Brazo- 10Th
Greatamerica
Southwestern
Abraham Lincoln
Open Burning Regulation Sparks Connecticut Commentary
The column defends private liberties against a proposed Open Burning rule by the Connecticut Air Pollution Control commission. It recalls Big Ben Harringer and Frederick A Conrad Jr as symbolic victims, contrasts modern regulation with historic fires that shaped the state, and recalls Lafayette Main’s past opposition to statutes.
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Connecticut
Big Ben Barringer
New Milford
Frederick A. Conard, Jr
West Hartford
Alan Olmstead
Connecticut Air Pollution Control Commission
State Capitol
Barringer
Conrad
Lafayette B. Main
General Assembly Judiciary Committee
Lafe
Jean
Nothing Went Right On This Ski Outing
CASPER Wyo May or Milt Coffman Jr. suffered a ski mishap before leaving the parking lot. He slipped from his car, sprained a thumb and scratched his face. The mayor, wearing his hat, took to the slopes and finished the outing with a fall that sprained his knee.
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Casper, Wye
Milt Coffman Jr
Coffman
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Bridgeport ‘Telegram
G. W. — Guerrilla Fighter
Chicago Tribune
Comic Dictionary
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
John Beckler
By Holmes Alexander
Ripon Society, Inc
Ptp
Ayuse
xKipon Forum
Nixon
Reagan
Nutmeg Politics
Connecticut Yankee
By Alan H. Olmstead
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