Litigation Binge Across Danville Sparks Liability Debate
A local businessperson’s outburst signals a rising litigation trend as suit costs surge nationwide. The piece notes a $5 billion injury industry driven by car crashes and a new wave of claims targeting all connected parties from owners to engineers and architects. An Illinois sign accident payout to a shopper led to directing blame at designers rather than the owner. If this trend grows, builders may insure designs and structures for mandated future safety guarantees, raising professional costs.
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Danville
Agonna
Win
Huck Wraliams
Illinois
Those Christian Marxists in the Viet Nam debate
Rev L D Joanson notes Bitty Graham Crusade success in Greenville S C and Dr Graham defends moral U S stance in Viet Nam He rebuts claims by some clergymen and laymen that they are Christian Marxists Saying such a tag equates Jesus with Karl Marx and fights belief in God
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L. D. Joanson
First Baptist Church
Bitty Graham
Greenville
S.C
Jonnson
L. D
Johnson
Graham
White House
Hotmies Alexander
U.S
Viet Nam
U.S. News and World Report
Seminarians
Jesus
Karl Marx
Marx
God
Senate Eyes Packaged Food Rules Sparks Debate
The Senate Commerce Committee reopens Hart’s bill plan to cap size weight and shapes of about 8000 packaged foods to simplify marketing. Proponents argue for FTC and FDA rules. critics warn of stifling mass distribution and higher prices. Dissenting and other notes poke at TV, court, air and book policies with light satire.
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Senate Commerce Committee
Harr
Hart
Federal Trade Commission
Food and Drug Agency
Infallible Cure for Hiccups in Montagu Letter
A Journal of the American Medical Association excerpt relays Dr Ashley Montagu of Princeton New Jersey describing a hiccup cure. Place a metal object in a glass of water and sip slowly while pressing the object’s upper handle against the rim. Montagu asserts the method works in minutes with hundreds tested.
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Journal of the
American Medical Association
Ashley Montagu
Princeton
N.J
Montagu
United Nations fouls its own nest over Rhodesia action
Ralph de Toledano argues the United Nations overstepped sovereignty in the Rhodesia resolution, linking U.N. interventions to a pattern of selective outrage and US complicity. He cites Katanga and Rhodesia, condemning sanctions as illegal and dangerous for global independence. He warns of a precedent that could justify domestic intervention in Africa as a model for other nations.
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United Nations
Rhodesia
San Francisco
U.N
Cain
Soviet Bloc
United States
Katanga
Carl Rowan
United States Information Agency
State Department
Great Britain
Number 10
Downing Street
Africa
Britain
Harold Wilson
America
Dean Rusk
Wilson
New York
Detroit
Los Angeles
Are American newspapers improving or decaying
A columnist commends the daily press, citing Emporia Gazette as a model of vigorous journalism. He notes newspapers have grown serious, readable, and less sensational since 1929, with broader international coverage and a strong watchdog role, despite TV and radio competition.
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Daily Press
Emporia Gazette
America
Gazette
William Allen White
William Lindsay White
Ffor
Randolph- Macon Women’s College
Lynchburg
Virginia
Europe
Latin America
Africa
Chicago Tribune
William L. White
Lyndon Johnson
Chamber of Commerce
John Birch Society
Smiling eggheads note cheer in grim world view
Holmes Alexander cites cheerful signs among academics. At the Midwest Slavic Conference at Ohio State University, a count found 82 communist splinter groups worldwide while the U S maintains 42 defensive treaties. A new book argues Russia’s nuclear bravado faded after Sputnik and Kennedy’s missile gap myth, noting Moscow’s cautious stance amid North Vietnam bombing.
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Washington
D. C
Ohio State University
USA
Ussr
Khrushchev
Suez
North Vietnam
Kremlin
Moscow
Russia
John Kennedy
United States
Debate on Cold War origins and Soviet role
Arnold L. Horelick and Myron Rush of RAND question whether the USSR can still claim to protect communist and anti colonial worlds during Suez and Hungary, up to the Cuban missile crisis. Martin F. Herz argues the US was not the instigator and that Stalin planned a Cold War, while other scholars blame Western missteps and the war economy.
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Tan
Arnold L. Horelick
Myron Rush
RAND
Research and Development Corp
Air Force
Horelick
Rush
Ussr
Suez
Hungary
Russia
Martin F. Herz
USA
D. F. Fleming
Europe
Herz
Foreign Service
State Department
Stalin
Roosevelt
Marx
Lenin
Rhodesia and UN hypocrites in schoolyard politics
John Chamberlain criticizes Rhodesia's white government while blasting the UN Security Council for double standards. He argues the UN harms smaller nations while tolerating big powers, citing oil sanctions, Vietnam, Cuba, and Africa cases to claim global hypocrisy and selective enforcement.
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Ian Smith
New York City
UN Security Council
Rhodesia
Midget Submarines Take On Giant Ocean Jobs
The rise of midget submarines during salvage and exploration gains pace. Alvin locates a 1966 hydrogen bomb in the Mediterranean at 2500 feet, aided by Aluminaut, while CURV executes the lift. The Navy orders six 43-foot subs for rescue duties, and divers pursue wrecks with Asherah and other submersibles.
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Mediterranean
Spain
United States Navy
University of Pennsylvania Museum
National Geographic
Jacques-Yvges Cousteau
Marseille
National Geographic Aid
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