Need To Read Eisenhower Farewell With Full Context
San Diego Union reprints a guest editorial arguing the July 17 1961 farewell address warned against excesses in any sector not a blanket attack on the military or business. It emphasizes the need to balance armed strength with liberty and warns against a scientific elite capturing policy.
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United States
Eisenhower
Hisenhower
Crisia
Congress
Wisenhower
San Diego
Tax Burden Grows As Americans Work Longer Hours
Tax Foundation data show the average American needs 2 hours 34 minutes of an eight hour day in 1968 to cover tax obligations. This is 8 minutes more than last year and 16 minutes more than 1966, while housing, food, transportation, clothing, medical costs and recreation consume the rest of the workday. SACRAMENTO UNION
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Tax Foundation, Inc
Sacramento Union
Scientific Symphony of Team Creativity in American Progress
Washington views the American industrial complex as building a modern cathedral through team driven innovation. Apollo 10 and advances in chemistry electronics and microbiology illustrate collective genius surpassing individual fame. The piece urges connecting younger generations to this collaborative civiliation and its grand projects.
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Washington
Eli Whitneys
Samuel Breeze Morses
The Past Is Prologue and The Dialogue of Change
A discourse on long held disciplines in music and science, linking Bach and Beethoven to modern pedagogy. It notes how learning today mirrors a grand symphony from tools of the past and envisions future worlds with new instruments and ideas. A Washington diplomat reflects on history while a cab driver quips that progress has yet to come.
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Vrilz Kreisler
Jascha Hetteta
Beethoven
William Harvey
Copernicus
Newton
Washington
California Delegation in Washington Figures Named
Representatives in Washington include U S Senator Alan Cranston Democrat California and U S Senator George Murphy Republican California. Also listed are Congressman George P Miller Democrat 8th District including San Leandro Castro Valley San Lorenzo Livermore Amador Valley North Hayward Alameda East Oakland and Congressman Don Edwards Democrat Sun District covering South Hayward Union City Fremont Newark and parts of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.
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Alan Cranston
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Washington
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George Murphy
George P. Miller
House
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Castro Valley
San Lorenzo
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Alameda
East Oakland
Don Edwards
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Union City
Fremont
Newark
Santa Clara
San Mateo
Proposed Security Bill Sparks Liberal Panic in Senate
A Senate judiciary committee study focuses on a major internal security bill aiming to modernize and reform the 1950 act. Critics fear a central security office and a potential new super-snooper agency, while supporters praise reforms and caution against alarmist rhetoric. The bill would not override FBI or CIA duties, with a path through House and Senate debates ahead.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Central Security Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Central Intelligence Agency
House
Senate
Otepka
Dyson argues ABMs can aid disarmament talks and boost treaty enforcement
British born Princeton physicist Kreeman J. Dyson tells the Senate Armed Services Committee that anti missile defenses may strengthen disarmament prospects by reducing risk of concealed weapons under a treaty. He cites Spartan fallout concerns and compares Russian SS 9 and U S Poseidon missiles while noting safeguards and strategic implications for U S and Soviet positions.
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Washington
Kreeman J. Dyson
Nixon
Senate Armed Services Committee
Dyson
Princeton University
Institute For Advanced Studies
RAF Bomber Command
Russia
U.S
Cnnttel and Disarmament Agency
United States
Dyon
Jayson
Igee
Kosygin
Kremlin
Gordon J. McDonald
University of California At
Edward M. Kennedy
Abram Chayes
Jerome B. Wiesner
Rand Corporation
Richard Latter
Pentagon
Defense Science Board
U.S. Minneman
Murphy Shocks Senate With Unanimous Consent Move
Senator George Murphy California used unanimous consent to direct a farm labor bill to agriculture committee, bypassing Labor and Public Welfare. The move drew criticism for violating unwritten Senate norms, as the bill aimed to curb strikes while growers opposed tighter rights for farm workers under NLR Act.
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Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee
Murphy
California
Ile Hill
Committee On Agriculture and Forestry
Senate
Labor Committee
Harvard Weekend Erupts Over Sit-In and Campus Tension
Marquis Childs reports at Harvard amid Memorial Day calm as a campus sit-in ends after a 4 am police action in University Hall. The scene on Cambridge Common includes a Disabled American Veterans veteran challenging students and a backdrop of Civil War monument inscriptions.
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University Hall
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Disabled American Veterans
Disabled American Veterans of Massachusetts
Cambridge
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