Oak Hill rehabilitation plan moves forward in Cedar Rapids
City council and urban renewal board endorse continuing Oak Hill rehab despite relocation challenges. The $6 million package relies on a city one third share of costs with a $150,000 pool item, potentially restricted to project-area patrons. Officials urge open access to pool and warn against segregation rules undermining renewal goals.
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City Council
Urban Renewal Board
Oak Hill
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Clarinda
United Nations
Clyde Parker
Parker
Forum Letter Highlights Premature Justice and Civic Judgment
A Cedar Rapids reader laments pre trial public scrutiny and urges courts, not media, to determine guilt. The letter warns against trial by press and notes social and employer actions against the accused while stressing the need for fair justice. Illinois Democrats pick William M Clark over Shriver and Stevenson for the Senate race.
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Cedar Rapids
People’s Forum
Llinois
William Clark
Everett Dirksen
United States Senate
Sargent Shriver
Adlai Stevenson III
Iinois
Washington
Ol’ Ev
Cedar Rapids Faces 1958 Construction Boom and Safety Notes
Gazette survey shows a 20 million construction year with projects totaling about 19.7 million across public buildings roads and sewers. Fire Chief Jesse Hunter cites 1957 fire losses at a low since 1949, per capita losses at a 1946 low, while Roosevelt hotel remodel nears completion and expands banquet space.
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Cedar Rapids
Jesse Hunter
Roosevelt
Midwest
Iowa
Department of Public Safety
Conservation officers gather in Montrose for bird stocking talk
Nineteen conservation officers from Eastern Iowa attended a one day session at the Montrose hotel. F T Schwab chief of the division of fish and game spoke on the bird stocking program. Ittamar Ben Avi of Jerusalem Palestinian speaker and Hebrew publisher was guest on Zionist movement and Palestine situation.
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Iowa
Montrose Hotel
F. T. Schwab
Fish and Game
State Conservation Commission
Ittamar Ben Avi
Jerusalem
Palestine
Ben Avi
U.S
Mac's Successor Faces Nuke-Arms Heat
Marquis Childs reports on the pressure for expanding nuclear arms as Robert S. McNamara nears departure and Clark Clifford prepares to lead. The piece notes the roles of the Atomic Energy Commission and Rickover, and highlights McNamara's calm amid calls for more submarines and broader defense spending.
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Mac
Ashington
Roberts
McNamara
Soviet Union
Joint
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
Atomic Energy Commission
Congressional
Adm
Hyman G. Rickover
Promi
Pentagon
Clark Clifford
McNamara Reflections and ABM Debate in 1966 Commencement
In 1966 at Chatham College McNamara quoted Plato and Kafka among others in a commencement speech while noting his Berkeley minor in philosophy. The piece discusses his seven-year tenure, resisting armament lobbies, and the ongoing arms spending struggle amid Vietnam tensions and campaign rhetoric. A Rouault drawing in his Pentagon office symbolizes deeper complexity in his character.
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Chatham College
Pittsburgh
Plato
St. John of the Cross
Simore de Beauvoir
Karl Marx
Kafka
Berkeley
McNamara
Childs
Romney's Sudden Exit Shakes Republican Strategy
Romney acknowledges failure to win the presidential bid and moves to exit the race to blunt Nixon's lead and aid Nelson Rockefeller. Romney’s decision follows weak New Hampshire showings, a poor crowd reaction, and a last strategic meeting in Boston with aides as Rockefeller’s position shifts.
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Ee N.H
George Romney
Romney
Richard M. Nixon
Nelson Rockefeller
Nixon
Msae
Rockefeller
Republican Party
New Hampshire
White House
New York
Detroit
William Johnson
Leonard Hall
Boston
John Beckett
University of New Hampshire
Return of a Defeated U S A Force Sparks Home Upset Warning
C L Sulzberger argues a U S loss in Vietnam could shake American credibility and trigger domestic upheaval. He warns of a fractured society facing racial tensions, antiwar distrust, and potential revolutionary violence at home should U S forces be humiliated abroad.
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South Vietnam
Peregrine Worsthorne
U.S
London
Daily and Sunday Telegraph
Asia
Europe
Cutzsercer
Washington
France
Vietnam
America
Algeria
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Eedur Rapids Gazette
Mentary
William Who
Russia
George Clark
Marquis Childs
T. S. Eliot
Little Gidding
Washington Post
James Reston
Rouault
Armed Service
Rocky
Evans
Novak
C. L. Sulzberger
New York Times News Service
Aris
U.s.’S
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