Off Year Campaign Opens on Urban Affairs Fight
The article notes the Kennedy administration and Congress clashing over a new Cabinet level Department of Urban Affairs and Housing. The House Rules Committee blocked the bill 9 to 6, with Republicans and southern Democrats opposing. President Kennedy pivots to push a reorganizing plan and may appoint Robert Weaver as first Secretary, marking a potential curb on his bid for congressional control this fall while signaling a broader campaign agenda including aid programs and trade.
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Congress
Kennedy
White House
House Riles Committee
Department of Urban Affairs and Housing
Rules Committee
House
Senate
Robert Weaver
Weaver
Kennedy Ethics Council Seeks Industry Specific Codes
The Business Ethics Advisory Council reports to President Kennedy on January 16 outlining the difficulty of creating a universal business ethics code. It urges individual enterprises and industry groups to develop tailored methods and practices rather than a single overarching standard.
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Kennedy
White House
Hodges
William C. Decker
Council
Ethics Codes in Business and Enforcement Challenge
Experts note codes cannot supply character and honest men already follow a code. General codes might curb abuses if business leaders enforce them. A proposed path is creating codes so ingrained as to shame violators as outcasts. The council has not yet addressed how to foster enforcement.
Kennedy Sees Growth Push in Economic Report
President Kennedy outlines a path to faster growth and lower unemployment through potential tax cuts, expanded public works spending, and a strengthened unemployment insurance program. The plan seeks 4.5 percent growth with 4 percent unemployment by mid-1963, contingent on congressional action and postwar recession timing.
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United States
Kennedy
Congress
President Kennedy toast to milk as a nutritious diet staple
President Kennedy urged higher dairy consumption after noting 125 billion pounds of dairy products were used nationwide last year. He defended milk against fallout and cholesterol concerns, highlighted rising population and production, and ordered milk served at all White House meals.
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Kennedy
National Conference On Milk and Nutrition
U. S. Public Health Service
Nutrition Board
National Research Council
Association of Milk and Coronary Diseases
White House
Weathered Complaints and Snappy Ads Highlight Wallet Woes
A wary observer notes how credit card use boosts spending while television ads push viewers to spend faster. An old farmer recalls harsher winters as a benchmark, remarking that current cold snaps would have frozen him in the past.
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Old Sorehead
The Maine Chance resort loses money year after year
A finance columnist tours Elizabeth Arden’s Maine Chance resort in Arizona and reveals persistent losses despite high fees from $65 to over $100 per day. With costly staff, luxury meals, and hidden expenses, the operation rarely turns a profit, serving as a warning to would be entrants in the expanding reducing field.
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Phoenix
Amg
Arizona
Maine
Elizabeth Arden
Mamie Eisenhower
Arden Hithetta
Arden
Ev and Charlie Show shapes GOP press conference image
The National Whirligig analyzes the Ev and Charlie Show as a GOP tools for framing policy during Congress. It notes Dirksen and Halleck mix entertainment with strategy, aiming to boost audience size and influence without trivializing serious policy discussions. The breakfast meetings and policy committees echo in the weekly briefing, shaping Republican messaging on Kennedy era programs.
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Charlie Shu
Congress
Everett McKinley Dirksen
Islingis
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Dirksen-Halleck
Dirksen
Halleck
Washington, D.C
Messrs. Dirksen
Senate-House
Charlie
Eisenhower
White House
GOP
Evind Charlie
National Committee
Rep
Wiliam E. Miller
New York
Senate
Thomas H. Kuchel
Calif
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Town
Leverett Saltonstall
Mass
House
Leslie C
Arends
John W. Byrnes
Wis
Charlies B. Hoeven
Iowa
Clarence J. Brown
Ohio
UN appoints Gardiner as Congo mission chief
A tall Cambridge-educated African economist from Ghana named Gardiner is named UN chief representative in the Congo. He succeeds Sture Linner as head of the Congo operation, also taking over as executive secretary for the UN Economic Commission for Africa, with a temporary Congo assignment amid ongoing tensions and past leadership upheavals.
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United Nations
N.Y
Ghana
Congo
Rs 1
Joseph Kasavubu
Con
Robert K-1
Cruise O’brien
Marshjold
Dayal Wasjmat
Explos
Diplo J
Katanga
Patrice Lumumba
Britain
France
N .Go
Antoine Gizenga
Ralph J. Bunche
Rajeshkar Dayal
Sture Linner
Gardiner
Linner
U Thant
Indian Dayal
Dayal
India
Pakistan
Congoles
George Ivan Smith
Brian Urquhart
Elisabethville
Thant
UN Economics Commission For Africa
Mekki Abbas
Sudan
America's Far Right Double Patriots See Monstrous Plot in U S
A six part Associated Press profile depicts the Ultra conservative Hard Right as a loose coalition led by a feared conspiracy. It describes a composite "double patriot" who targets the Council on Foreign Relations, the United Nations, and Earl Warren, urging withdrawal from the UN, cutting foreign aid, breaking with the USSR, and drastic government reforms. It notes diverse groups like John Birch Society and Minutemen, with membership ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions, and highlights potential training for guerrilla action.
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Hammar
Shjeld
Dayal
Ev-E
United States
Bunche
United Nations
Congo
Palestine
Henry T. Alexander
Ghana
Earl Warren
Kennedy
Berlin
Cuba
Katanga
Laos
Korea
Viet Nam
China
Pearl Harbor
Council On Foreign Relations
Soviet Union
State Department
John Birch Society
Robert Welch
Massachusetts
Minute- Men
The
Birchers
Christian Anti-Communist Crusade
National Indignation Council
Christian Council
Minutemen
Minute Men
UAR and Saudi Arabia Near Break in Relations
Cairo sources say a break in diplomatic ties between the United Arab Republic and Saudi Arabia is imminent. Relations have worsened since Syria seceded from the UAR last September. Egypt has blocked Saudi nationals and exchanges insults have intensified via radio.
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Cairo
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Republic
Syria
UAR
Experts Gear Up For New U S Orbit Flight
NASA and contractor teams resume preparations for a Mercury mission with John H Glenn Jr and Scott Carpenter undergoing simulated flights and dress rehearsals as weather delays extend the wait for liftoff. Engineers recheck engines and systems while the crew follows a tight countdown routine and junked fuel for readiness.
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Cape Canaveral
Fia
United States
John H. Glenn, Jr
Project Mercury
Walter C. Williams
Glenn
Navy
Scott M. Carpenter
Glenna
Riverside Presbyterian
Cocoa Beach
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Atlas
NASA
Kennedy Family Cruises Off Florida Coast
President Kennedy his wife Jacqueline and his convalescing father Joseph Kennedy cruised briefly off Palm Beach aboard the yacht Honey Fitz. The hour and forty minute outing offered a view of the Florida home as clouds parted and sunshine returned over the Atlantic.
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Palm Beach
Fla
Atlantic
Florida
Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy
Honey Fitz
Comic Dictionary Credit Card Explains Debt Tool
A humorous note describing a credit card as a device that enables people to accumulate more debts more easily in more places. The entry reflects light satire on consumer finance and borrowing across contexts.
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Lmore
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