Flag symbolism in Moratorium protests sparked mixed responses
Across Iowa cities including Ames Des Moines and Iowa City protesters used 48 star flags or flag imagery to express views on the Vietnam War. In Cedar Rapids a student was arrested for desecrating a flag while others wore or carried flags as symbolic acts. The piece argues for tolerance of differing patriotic expressions during the Moratorium.
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Ames
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids
Coe
Destruction concert shocks Cornell campus audience
A Mt. Vernon Cornell college destruction concert featured novel percussion from chopping a piano, mice effects, paper bag pops, chicken blood sloshing, and a chorus of obscenities. The performers clashed, argued, and hurled aggression as part of a controversial art display.
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Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Call for Reform of Iowa Liquor System by Association Leader
William Miller of Sioux City criticizes the state liquor system saying small communities lack full product lines due to stock policies. He urges the governor to study efficiency, ownership versus rental options, parking in cities, better pay, training for staff, and inventory optimization as an overdue overhaul.
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Iowa Licensed Beverage Association
William Miller
Sioux City
Govenor Ray
State Liquor Commission
Miller
Iowa
William Beardsley
Young Men’s Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Iowa State Nurses Association
Wilhelmina Scott
Council Bluffs
Cedar Rapids
Washington
The People's Forum Pollution Threat
Mrs. Lester Johnson voices alarm about environmental pollution harming land, sea, and air. She urges collective action to curb pollution and preserve health and a livable world for the future.
Bird Brains Letter Plays With War Avian Roles
A reader ridicules Pentagon funding to the University of Mississippi for a study on how birds adapt to war. The piece imagines mynahs dropping bombs and crows signaling battles, with ravens, jays, parrots, vultures, chickens, hawks, doves, and pigeons assigned symbolic wartime duties. The letter ends with a jab about the owl oversight.
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Pentagon
University of Mississippi
Ark
Senate Choosy on Justices in Confirmation Battles
Anthony Lewis notes that the Senate often rejects Supreme Court nominees, citing 19th century data from Joseph P. Harris showing 18 of 72 nominees failed. Examples include Madison’s failed Wolcott and Grants’ uncertain picks, reflecting lasting Senate scrutiny beyond party lines.
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Joseph P. Harris
Senate
Supreme Court
Madison
Connecticut
Alexander Wolcott
Charles Warren
Wolcott
Grant
George H. Williams
Caleb Cushing
Supreme Judicial Court of
Massachusetts
Opposing Haynsworth Hardening Senate Confirmation Debate
The editorial traces historic Senate behavior toward nominees and argues Clem ent Haynsworth lacks the high qualifications for a lifetime Supreme Court seat. It notes past partisanship, warns against ideological rigidity, and asserts the core objection is Haynsworth’s perceived insufficiency rather than moral failing. New York Times Service
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Thurmond
South Carolina
Eastland
Mississippi
Haynsworth
Warren Court
Senate
Harlan
Stewart
Marshall
Rostow’s balance of power concept in Vietnam debate
The piece discusses Rostow and the shift in U S Vietnam policy amid protests. It notes bipartisan flirtation with unilateral withdrawal and the 1968 stance of Kennedy and McCarthy against it. It critiques hopes for negotiated peace through bombing halts and warns against forced coalition government plans for Saigon, citing Burchett’s warning on the Marigold plan as a hoax.
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Haynsworth
Clement Haynsworth
IE Vietnam
Robert Kennedy
Eugene McCarthy
North Vietnam
Nixon
Saigon
Hanoi
NLF
Wilfred Burchett
New York
Burchett
South Vietnam
Asia
Europe
Mediterranean
1914
Vietnam
Korea
Redd Gardner elected president of local breakfast club
Redd Gardner, manager of KCRG radio and television, chosen president of the Business Men's Breakfast club. Other officers named include Kyle Mills as vice president Lars Kolsto as secretary and Robert Armstrong re elected hospital board president. Also noted are events from 1939 to 1969 including a Siamese cat attack in Marion and various civic remarks.
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Redd Gardner
KCRG
Business Men’s Breakfast Club
Kyle Mills
Lars Kolsto
Robert Armstrong
St. Luke’s Methodist Hospital
Robert Yaw
Frank Kepros
Marion
Pepper Plans Hearings on Drug Industry Accountability
Washington Rep Claude Pepper heads a House crime committee preparing a sharp probe of the pharmaceutical sector for fueling drug abuse. Hearings in San Francisco will feature Bates Laboratories and others as a memo reveals a major diversion scheme involving millions of amphetamine pills to Mexico and a San Ysidro broker. A police informer will testify under seal alongside operators of clandestine labs and Gene Myers of Pebble Palace fronting illicit drug activity.
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Ashington
House Crime Committee
Florida
Claude Pepper
San Francisco
Bates Laboratories
Joseph L. Nellis
Nellis
Federal Narcotics Bureau
Bates Laboratories, Inc
Mexico
San Ysidro
Calif
Gene Myers
Bell-McClure Syndicate
Weekend at Nudist Colony Stirs Workplace Jokes
A worker recalls a weekend at a nudist colony and colleagues quiz him on mon ay. The polite butler took his hat and coat, prompting a joke. He notes he could tell it wasn’t the maid, proving the butler’s identity.
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Yale
U.S
Eugene
Coe College
Guy Gil 1939Lette
Clyde Herring
Julius Ives
Eastern Iowa
International Federation of Methodist Women
Pasadena
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