SNCC Shifts From Black Power Push to Economic Focus
SNCC will move from Carmichael era black power posturing to traditional political organizing with emphasis on economic power. H. Rap Brown replaces Carmichael as chairman, promising programmatic planning, anti draft stance, and a mass action approach, aided by Ralph Featherstone and Dr. Charles Hamilton.
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Atlanta
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Stokely Carmichael
Carmichael
SNCC
H. Rap Brown
Alabama
Brown
Washington
Central Committee
Black Power
Mississippi
Ralph Featherstone
Philadelphia
Miss
Featherstone
Lowndes County
Charles Hamilton
Lincoln University
Oxford
Hamilton
Money's Worth Presidential Group Calls for Crime Research
Sylvia Porter reports on a commission urging better crime research funding to curb rising costs. The piece notes current spending is tiny, with 21 billion annual crime costs and only 27 million spent on research, plus calls for treatment over incarceration and targeted prevention to reduce future crimes.
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Commission On Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice
Congress
Picayune
Defense Department
Laff a Day Card Game Tale of Quiet Bluff and Overruff
In a bridge hand Peggy and Charley debate a quiet rule of thumb as North is Peggy's husband and South a skilled player. East wins the ace, returns hearts, West ruffs, and East overruffs to set the diamond trick.
Peggy Solomon Wins First National Bridge Title in 1942
Peggy Solomon clinched her first national bridge championship in 1942 and has ten national titles to her credit. Her husband Charles, a veteran bridge player of over 30 years, presides over the World Bridge Federation. The piece recalls Charley once pulled the wrong card in a crowded gallery and notes that no disgrace attaches to such missteps.
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Peggy Solomon
Charles
World Bridge Federation
Peggy
Charley
Hearts Hand Drama and Madrid Tavern Crash
In a bridge discussion South explains a line involving ace of trumps and a diamond discard to East while North notes a ducked heart opening could win. Separately in Madrid Daniel Perez was struck by a car crashing into a tavern doorway, breaking his leg in three places.
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South
East
North
Madrid
UPI
Daniel Perez
Theavern
Perez
Catholic Membership Rises, Nuns and Seminarians Decline
The 1967 Catholic Directory shows U S membership up 1.3 percent to 46,864,910 while the number of sisters falls 4,750 to 176,671 and seminary enrollment drops 6 percent to 45,379. Priests rise to 59,892, the highest on record, with college and high school enrollments up and elementary school enrollment down 122,000 to 4,369,000.
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New York
UPI
United States
R. J. Kenedy & Sons
America
U.S
Riverside club seeks Bloody River road name change
In Cincinnati the Riverside civic and welfare club urged city council to rename River Road Bloody River Road after a deadly auto crash killed three youths on the road. The club’s safety campaign failed days earlier. Britain’s Wales minister announced a bill to ease Welsh language restrictions at Anglesey Eisteddfod amid longstanding language demands.
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Road End
Cincinnati
Riverside Civic and Welfare Club
River Road
Anglesey
Wales
Britain
Cledwyn ‘Hughes
Harold Wilsort
Welsh Nationalist Party
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Port Jervis
Beatnik
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Gee
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