Maddox Pledge Promises Peace in Georgia Inauguration
Gov. Lester Maddox vows a peaceful, nonviolent administration with a focus on reapportionment, a constitutional convention, and task forces on education mental health highways and law enforcement. He calls for unity and runoff elections while denouncing extremism and violence.
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Maddox
Georgia
Tlanta
Lester Maddox
Howard
Bo” Callaway
General Assembly
Snowball Stops Freight Train in Keyport Incident
In Keyport New York a teenager threw a snowball at a freight train hitting the engineer William Carroll in the face. He triggered the emergency brake causing the train to stop and a coupling to break, taking 45 minutes to repair. The youth fled the scene.
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Keyport
N.Y
UPI
William Carroll
France to recover 389 Vietnam War dead for monument
Paris reports a second mission to Vietnam to recover bodies of French soldiers killed in Indo China war ending in 1954 and to assess building a monument for unknown soldiers. The first mission returned with 389 bodies.
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Paris
France
Vietnam
Merging Commerce and Labor Departments Surprises Nation
President Johnson proposed merging the commerce and labor departments into the department of business and labor. The idea drew swift opposition from industry and unions, with critics calling the plan unworkable and potentially harmful to stability and job programs. The move would redefine cabinet representation and could affect anti poverty programs and the Office of Economic Opportunity. AFL-CIO officials said they would study the proposal.
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Washington
Jonson
Commerce and Labor Departments
Deal
England
Arch Saab
Booth
Miles
Beachy Head
U.S
Chamber of Com- England
Merce
Labor Department
Department of Commerce
Department of Labor
Johnson
Office of Economic Opportunity
Departments of Transportation
of Housing and Urban Development
Congress
Department of Commerce and Labor
Commerce
Labor
Department of Business and Labor
Organized Labor
Afl-Cio
Alfred Follows Clerk's Order In Office Debacle
Alfred the janitor followed a clerk's instruction to burn a malfunctioning calculator after it failed. The device was destroyed and the company spent 1200 on a replacement. The incident is noted alongside a TV listing for Sex In The Sixties on Channel 9.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Alfred
Fred
ABC Stage 67
Channel 9
Michigan Hopes Pickle Be Official State Vegetable
Michigan lawmaker Quincy Hoffman proposes naming the pickle’s prepickled parent the official state vegetable. He argues Michigan is the nation’s leading pickle packing state and cites the plant as a prestige symbol alongside other state icons.
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Lansing
Mich
Quincy Hoffman
Michigan
Johnson's State of the Union on Vietnam Proposals Meet Skepticism
President Johnson urged slow pressure and patience to end Vietnam, proposing East West trade and a Soviet consular treaty. Senate leaders and critics voiced doubt, with Dirksen insisting more risk and critics like Hartke demanding escalation and bombing cessation. Thurmond projected thousands more American deaths and backed intensified air and sea power.
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Washington
Johnson
Vietnam
Doves
Hawks
Senate
Everett Dirksen
Dirksen
Soviet Union
U.S
Fulbright
Vance Hartke
D-End
Strom Thurmond
R-S.c
Armed Services Committee
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Ralph Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Martin Luther King
Abernathy
Commerce, Labor Departments
Jenneys
Zantrel
Polynosic
Pickle's
Prestige Plant
Harry Kelly
Richard Russell
D-Ga
Senate Armed Services Committee
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Landenberger
Espey
DR. Pipkin
Optometrists
Third Street
Dial
Battar
Soma
Dad
Penney
Cory
Bast Carecan
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