Beauty Before Numbers in Democratic Procedures and Moscow’s Highway Plan
The piece criticizes hearings on urban ghettos and a climate favoring increased spending. It cites Moscow’s 68 mile bypass highway around the capital as a border measure to curb growth, aiming to move people inland and “beautify” the city. It proposes a beauty-building race with officials to deter nuclear testing.
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Biarcorr
Moscow
Kremlin
Ural Mountain
Urals
Leningrad-Moscow- Volgograd
Laptsmo Johnson
Avatt
Interior
Governors Seek Democratic Course Change Before 1968 Nominatio
Democratic governors at the White Sulphur Springs gathering express concern over the Johnson administration and the Great Society. Warren Hearnes urges a new ticket if Johnson won’t alter course while Mutus Goowiy Jr. questions HEW authority and education policies.
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White Sulphur Springs
Great Society
Jonnson
Warren E. Hearnes
Missouri
Mutus E. Goowiy, Jr
Virginia
HEW Department
Flight Insurance A Hazard in Air Sabotage Debate
The Canadian Air Line Pilots Association argues trip insurance fuels aircraft sabotage, citing 11 of 18 suspected crashes since 1949 linked to such policies. They urge bans to prevent crashes, while noting implications for buyers' needs and broader accident coverage.
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Canadian Air Line Pilots Association
Committee On Justice of the Canadian Commons
Canada
Mexico
United States
Quebec
Ansert Guay
Rules Query in Littlest Basketball League
A rules issue arises over constructing a center by stacking players three high in the Littlest Basketball League. The piece also notes concerns about safe driving and a press of topics from Lyndon Johnson's budget to the moon landing schedule.
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Lyndon Johnson
National Council of Churches calls for US Vietnam ceasefire
In Miami the National Council of Churches urged a ceasefire in Vietnam under UN supervision and a phased US troop withdrawal replaced by international peacekeeping forces. The piece satirically questions Johnson and policy, suggesting UN led world governance. It riffs on Barbados and Thant as future peacekeepers and mocks US budgeting for such a plan.
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Miami
General Assembly
National Council of Churches
United States
Vietnam
United Nations
National Council
Johnson
League of Nations
Hitler
Ho Chi Minh
Barbados
Soviet Russia
Britain
Lesotho
Malta
North Vietnam
China
Russia
George Romney
U Thant
Thant
Thant— Ray
Marshal Thant
South Viettnam
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Rusk
State Department
New
York
Bliss Attack Divides GOP Leaders Over 1968 Strategy
Ralph de Toledano reports on Ray Bliss’s critical remarks about Republican leadership, highlighting tensions between liberal and conservative factions as 40 of 47 freshmen oppose old leadership. The piece warns Bliss’s stance could fracture unity and hinder 1968 GOP prospects, isolating him within the party.
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Ray Bliss
OPC
Ripon
Eisenhower
Mr. Bliss
GOP
Bliss
Overseas ‘Press Club
New York
Ripon Forum
Republican Coordinating Committee
Capitol Hill
Republican Party
de Gaulle
France
Bob Wilson
California
Congressional Campaign Committee
Thruston Morton
Senate
Wilson
House of Representatives
GOF
Washington
Tthey
Johnson
Charles Goodell
House
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
Yellow Socks
Jin Congress
Remembrance of a West Virginian Bride and Family Legacy
A reflective piece honors a woman born in 1878, recounting her wedding in Trinity Church and the Carolina era portraits of kin. It links a family saga to Civil War figures, West Virginia roots, and a lifelong thread of public service and sacrifice. The narrative blends personal memory with national history, noting ties to Stonewall Jackson, D Hunter Holmes McGuire, and a grandfather who met Lincoln.
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Washington, D. C
Enogh
Winchester
Virginia
John
Shenandoah Donne
Valley Academy
Tulie
Trinity Church
Eden
Morning News
Mymother
Union Cavalry
D. Hunter Holmes McGuire
Westirginia
Stonewall Jackson
Hunter McGuire
Stonewall
Cousi
Mudwall Jackson
Wheeling
Union
Jacob Beeson Blair
Commonwealth of Virginia
White House
Lincoln
Narodnik echoes in U.S. nihilism warned by writer
John Chamberlain argues a modern U S nihilism mirrors pre revolutionary Russia. He cites Governor Romney’s remarks on 4000 Michigan college students performing remedial work as Narodnik allies and warns that without constructive aims the movement risks chaos, likening it to Leninist tactics and a broader social contagion.
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Russia
Kerensky
Lenin
United States
George Romney
National Association of Manfacturers
New York
Michigan
Operations Crossroads
Peace Corps
U.S
Narodniks
U. S
Europe
Butler
Parison
America
Lee
Harvey Oswald
Marx
University of California At Berkeley
Navy
CYA
General Hersey
San Francisco Bay Area
Guy Hal
Communist Party
F.B.I
New Orleans
Scannell’ Butler
Information Council of the Americans
Havana
Ed Butler
Armed Services
Leo Harevey Oswald
Fair Play For
Cuba
Oxwald
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Wauter Reuther
Robert F. Kennedy
THE
Danville Register
Danville
Associated Press
Branham Company
Chicago
Atlanta
Detroit
Dallas
St. Louis
Charlotte
Minneapolis
Kansas City
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Soaper
Russell Kirk
New York Stock Exchange
Junior
Tlinois Gas Company
GEASE
Ralph de Toledano
Welson Mocke
Feller
Ripon Society
Holmes Alexander
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
John Chamberlain
Romney
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