Editorial Parkinsons Law and federal pay growth
The piece notes President Kennedy asks Congress to raise federal salaries to match private sector pay after last year’s $670 million rise plus $144 million in automatic increases. Rep. Karl Wilson reports departments seek more funds for current and new employees amid rising staff totals, with 50 000 federal workers added in the past year and 36 900 planned near term. It cites C Northcote Parkinson on spiraling government spending and bureaucratic expansion.
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Kennedy
Congress
Karl Wilson
House
Wilson
Los Health, Education and Welfare
Interior
Labor
Treasury
General Services
Housing and Home Finance
Electric power contract favors REA cooperative near Pensacola
An REA rural electric cooperative near Pensacola was awarded a $2 million government backed loan to build transmission lines, surpassing Gulf Power Co. in a publicity war over subsidized rates. The REA was formed to serve farmers, but now most U.S. farms are electrified, boosting public contention with private utilities and taxpayer subsidies.
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Pensacola Air Base
Rural Electrification Admnistration
REA
Gulf Power Co
Uie
AUA
San Diego Union
Language Errors and Word Form Questions
The text asks multiple English queries about grammar spelling and etymology. It includes requests to identify wrong forms and provide correct terminology, such as varying phrases and pronunciation hints, with several garbled lines and unclear tokens.
Edward Albee Play Virginia Woolf Deemed Devastating
Sydney Harris praises Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf for courage and imagination in portraying intelligent educated characters in academia and society. He notes the play's anti simplistic targets and its insight that immaturity crosses social lines, though acknowledges some flaws in the playwright's view of fire.
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Mie Minst
Edward Albee
Virginia Woolf
New York
Wright
Contimentary
Albee
Marquis Childs on French doubts about A bombs era
French doubt grows about a national nuclear deterrent under de Gaulle. Valery Giscard d'Estaing is noted as skeptical while France faces rising costs for force de frappe and delivery systems. The piece links NATO dynamics, Anglo American relations, and likely political shifts shaping France’s bid for autonomy in Europe.
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Paris
France
Jose Heatly
Charles de Knulle
Napateon
Pacific
Els
de Gaulle
Valery Giscard d'Hilaing
Force de Frappe
Poll Tax Defense By Dr Russell Kirk on Votes and Legislation
Dr Russell Kirk argues against hasty passage of a poll tax amendment, warning it expands inequality. He favors low, uniform taxes for all voters and supports allowing educated, interested citizens to vote while noting literacy tests and paid voting practices in places like New Mexico. He questions the democracy of universal, identical requirements and suggests flexible state approaches.
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Commonwealth
New Mexico
Kennedy Europe trip may be canceled amid criticism
The writer argues the White House could cancel President Kennedy's planned Europe tour as timing worsens risks and reduces gains. He notes critics say the trip could fail to restore U S initiative after De Gaulle's veto on Britain's Common Market entry and complicate Kennedy's Atlantic Community plan.
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Ain
A& Fawupeaty Fevcr
de Gaulle
Europe
Kennedy
United States
France
Britain
Mr. Kennedy
Atlantic
President Should Stay Home Over Summer Over Turmoil
A letter argues the President should avoid a Europe trip this summer due to mounting racial tension in the United States and unsettled conditions in European capitals. It praises moral persuasion and informal meetings with Southern business owners as more effective than new laws in advancing integration and questions the value of travel during such global upheaval.
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United States
Europe
South
Readers Editor Defends Hoover In Letter To The Daily Review
Herbert Hoover is defended as a humanitarian statesman by Dr J d Robbins in a reader letter. The piece argues that the 1929 downturn stemmed from speculation and policy choices by others, not Hoover alone, and contrasts him with FDR and his programs while praising Hoover’s Belgium relief efforts and salary donation.
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J. d. Robbbins
The
Daily Review
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Abraham Lincoln
Belgium
No Disgrace Editor at Use Hay Ward Council Meet
At the June 4 meeting Council member No Disgrace pressed Mr. Oakes about his opposition to enlarging Chapel of the Chimes Cemetery. He gave unclear reasons for his stance.
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Use
Hayward
Mr. Oakes
Chimes
Language quirks and misspellings in a reader’s letter sample
A jumble of misspellings and pronunciation questions appears in a reader’s letter. It asks about intrusive, misspelled words and a term meaning dead foe, plus notes on flagrant evils, letters to the editor, and cemetery petition history.
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Nhat
Addras
Nansen
Integrationist Editor Declares Self an Integrationist
A veteran former U.S. Marine Cam Rey Donald Johnson Lenry, retired United Presbyterian Church member, proclaims alignment with integration in the face of civil strife. He argues church demographics obscure integration and urges citizens to take sides in the national conflict.
Applauded Editors Praise South County Group
R A Mountford of Castro Valley notes editors congratulate the South County Young Republicans or reformers as they take up a cudgel versus the Birch Society. He mocks the resolution ridiculed by nine voters and questions political labels in this brief cosmopolitan letter from California.
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South County
Repaolean
Doh
Birch Society
Taimess Fa
R.A. Mountford
Castro Valley
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Sydney Harris
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Whitle
Fier
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NATO
Marie Gaude
Wirth
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Adenauer
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Uip
de Caulle
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Russell Kirk
Dr. Kirk
Sen
Barry Goldwater
White House
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Woall
Goldwater
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Adevauer
Ludwig Erhardt
John Profumo
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Herbert W. Young Castro Valicy
Chapel of the
Heinstman Hayward
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