Meany Calls Nationalization of Struggling Firms
AFL-CIO President George Meany urged a labor campaign to nationalize any business whose workers are or can strike due to public interest. He warned that removing the right to strike undermines collective bargaining and cited the railroad dispute as a catalyst for his stance. He also pressed for equal apprentice rights for Black workers and housing desegregation, while Humphrey urged eradicating city slums and enforcing law.
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New York
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union
Meany
Congress
Labor
Humphrey
America
Higher Mail Rate Increases Approved By House Panel
The House Post Office committee voted to restore the administration’s postal rate hikes for newspapers magazines and other second class mail. It kept a subcommittee revision raising advertising rates for nonprofit publications while approving eight cent air mail postcards. Net revenue from these changes would exceed postmaster general recommendations by about 36.5 million, mainly from higher air mail rates.
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Washington
House Post Office Committee
Pardon frees Averoff Tossizza under royal clemency
In Athens, former Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff Tossizza was released after King Constantine granted a pardon. The 57 year old had faced a five year term for holding an unauthorized gathering on July 12, amid a military dictatorship. Prime Minister Kollias supported the royal clemency. Evangelo Arvanitakis, also freed, had received eight months for a similar charge.
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Athens
Evangelos Averoff - Tossizza
Constantine
Averoff-Tossizza
Greece
Constantine Kollias
Evangelos Arvanitakis
George Papandreou
Collins Radio lands $1.7 million Minuteman antenna contract
Collins Radio Co received a $1.7 million contract from Boeing to manufacture ultra high frequency antennas for the Minuteman missile program. The deal supports the Minuteman II modernization as it replaces Minuteman I models.
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Collins Radio Co
Boeing Co
Minuteman
Collins
Nixon urges limited pressure to shorten Vietnam War
Former Vice-President Richard M. Nixon advocates using unmassive pressure short of nuclear force to end the Vietnam War. He criticizes gradual escalation and warns of World War III risk if China gains nuclear parity, urging a policy to shorten the war and a shift in U S foreign policy. He praises Johnson politically but calls for stronger ideological leadership and a concrete plan for the future.
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Boston
Mass
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Christian Science Monitor
America
China
United States
U. N
NATO
USIR
Soviet Union
Johnson
White House
Hearing Aug 30 Set For Damage to C R Hippie Pad
Ronald L. Bressler, 19, of 2900 Thirtieth Street SE, Mon day, arraigned in municipal court on a charge of malicious injury to a building. Preliminary hearing ordered for Aug. 30 at 2 p.m. in connection with damage to an apartment at 56% Sixteenth Avenue SW on Aug. 10. Two other youths tied to the incident had cases dismissed last week per the complainant Godfrey Novak.
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Ronald L. Bressler
Bressler
Sixteenth Avenue
Godfrey Novak
Former U S ambassador beaten in Washington robbery
James W. Riddleberger former ambassador to Yugoslavia Greece and Austria was assaulted and robbed of 120 dollars outside his apartment in Washington at about 9 20 p m four men fled with his wallet he was treated at Washington Hospital Center and released
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Washington (Ap
James W. Riddleberger
U.S
Yugoslavia
Greece
Austria
Riddleberger
Washington Hospital Center
British Traitor Named Head of Soviet Space Physics School
Tass reported Bruno Pontecorvo the British scientist who defected with H bomb secrets in 1950 has been appointed head of the new Soviet School of Space Physics in Moscow.
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Moscow
Bruno Pontecorvo
Soviet Union
Tass
Nigeria rebels ready to talk peace amid Biafran drive
Rebel leader Lt. Col. C Odumegwu Ojukwu said peace talks are possible as Nigerian authorities report Biafran forces advancing toward the border and seizing towns about 150 miles from Lagos. Reports from Ore place the movement 100 miles north.
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Lagos
Nigeria
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