Representative Opposes Housing Bill Despite Support
In a House debate on the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, a Texas representative explains voting against the bill. He cites a five billion dollar total cost presented as a forty year funding plan and illogical tax increases paired with large future expenditures. He criticizes unexamined provisions and “Christmas Tree” amendments inserted without hearings.
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Savings and
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Almanac Today July 26 1968 notable events and facts
Almanac notes the date July 26 1968 as the 208th day of the year with 158 remaining. It lists historical milestones including Liberia becoming a republic in 1847 and MacArthur’s 1941 appointment, Egypt’s Suez Canal nationalization in 1956, and Detroit race riots ending in 1967 with 36 deaths. It ends with a Shaw quotation on temperance in quarrels.
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Liberia
Africa
Douglas MacArthur
United States
Philippines
Nasser
Egypt
Suez Canal
Detroit
George Bernard Shaw
Curfew Impacts Detroit as Conference Disrupts Students
In Detroit during the American Personnel and Guidance Association convention, city authorities imposed an 8 p.m. curfew and halted liquor sales amid riot threat. A dean of students likened the move to freshman year as student personnel bosses felt the curfew’s effects.
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New York
UPI
American Personnel and Guidance Association
Detroit
JCP Seeks Moscow Talks Amid Shifting Communist Alignments
Japan Communist Party opens talks with the Soviet Union in Moscow to discuss normalization of relations, signaling a shift toward closer ties with the Kremlin. Suslov’s Tokyo meetings and Sino Soviet tensions shaped a path toward collaboration as the LDP strengthens its hold after July elections.
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Tokyo
UPI
Japan Communist Party
JCP
Kremlin
Moscow
Oaty
Mikhail Suslov
Central Committee
China
Soviet Union
Peking
Mao Tse-tung
Jop
U.S
Eisaku Sato
Suslov
International Conference of
Communist Parties
Budapest
Japan
Liberal Democratic Party
LDP
Juan
House of Councillors
Vote Tally Placed for Convention Balloting in Miami
Keep Your Own Vote tallies the ballot for the Miami convention. The table saves the main tally and allows extra voting data to be added in the added starters column for other contenders.
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Miami
Noise New Health Hazard Highlighted By Surgeon General
Surgeon General William H. Steart of the U S Public Health Service opened the first National Conference on Noise as a health hazard and urged treating noise as a health danger rather than a nuisance. He warned people often endure smog and noise due to lack of awareness of health risks.
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Washington
UPI
William H. Steart
U.S. Public Health Service
Stewart
Soviet War Drills Escalate on Western Frontier
Moscow reports intensified Red Army exercises along a 1000 mile western front including the Czech border as antiaircraft units go on full alert. Pravda and New Times blast Czech reformers and Western agents over an alleged anti Marxist system. Obrana Lida counters that East bloc hard liners threaten reforms and warn Czechoslovakia against self sacrifice.
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Moscow
Red Army
Czech
Pravda
News Times
Prague
New Times
Obrana Lida
Czechoslovakia
Bernini Baldachin Over St Peter's Altar Reaches 95 Feet
The World Almanac reports the bronze baldachin over the papal altar in St Peter's, Rome stands 95 feet high. Giovanni Bernini, famed Italian sculptor of the era, also designed the throne of St Peter and the surrounding colonnades.
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St. Peter’s
Rome
World Almanac
Giovanni Bernini
St. Peter
Piazza San Pietro
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