Property Rights In People's Park
In Berkeley, street people and opponents clash over the People's Park takeover. The piece argues strong feelings for private property threaten collectivist aims, noting public disdain for property taken without consent and warning that privately owned spaces could become later targets for similar actions.
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People’s Park
Berkeley
People's Park
Opinion Pollsters Under New Cloud
Opinion poll analysis questions the reliability of surveys in predicting elections. The piece notes polls misread Bradley’s lead before Yorty’s Los Angeles mayoral victory, argues polls reveal opinion movement rather than outcomes, and urges accuracy and honesty from pollsters and funders. It also interjects brief items on politics and culture, including a quip about a Moscow Robinson Crusoe cabbie and references to Ike on the quarter and Vice President Agnew.
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Peiling
Sam Yorty
Los Angeles
Tom Bradley
The
Los Angeles Times
Yorty
Bradley
Mervin Field Organization
Yorty-Bradley
Stalinism revival and Soviet military buildup warned
Barry Goldwater argues the Soviet Union has vastly stepped up military spending and development, citing 4-to-1 spending ratios over five years and a growing ABM and ICBM program. He notes alleged Stalinist repressions and KGB power, urging readers to view defense costs against liberal critics with context.
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Russia
United States
Moscow
Leningrad
Nixon
Soviet Space Center
Tyuratam
Soviet Union
KGB
Stalin
Pyotr Yakir
United Nations
Aets
H. G. Richover
John Pastore
U.S
Defense
Naval Reserve
Navy
Thomas ¥. Connally
Naval Aviation
Germman
Lockheed
Grumman
Morals in California Schools Sparks Broad Debate
The California State Board of Education accepted a report titled Guidelines for Moral Instruction which critiques morality in schools and cites the Navy Marine Corps Moral Leadership program. Critics accuse the committee of right wing bias while the document remains a compilation of quotations and commentary rather than concrete guidelines. The piece notes law and tradition anchor morality in California, cites a 1963 board resolution urging moral awareness, and questions whether the proposal will influence classroom instruction or curb perceived moral decline.
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California State Board of Education
California
Max Rafferty
Navy
Marine Corps
United States
State of
State Board of Education
America
Thomas W. Braden
State Board
Edmund G. Brown
Unwise Defense Skimping Pressures Pentagon Budget
Washington readers see a sharp clash over defense spending as critics call for cuts while warning against eroding national security. A House subcommittee damns procurement while advocates insist high readiness must be kept, citing aging Navy aircraft and costly Grumman contracts under heavy penalties.
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Washington
Pentagon
U.S
House
Herblock
Oliphant
Real Us
Huck's Camp Millennial Scheme in a Satirical Tale
Bill Vaughan sketches Huck Sawyer, a 12 year old eager for summer at Camp Gum Gow Wah, who secretly forms a Democratic Camp chapter. Huck drafts demands to reform the camp, from camper election of counselors to ditching Army surplus tents and Indian nicknames, while denying his real identity to Big Chief Kleen.
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Huck Sawyer
Camp Gun Gon Wahs
Big Chief
Kleen
H. W. Gibson
Huck
Camp Gum Gow Wah
Caimpers
Namie
Gong
Big Caief
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