Johnson presses civil rights unity at Austin gathering
Lyndon B Johnson, recovering from a heart attack, urged civil rights leaders to form a foundation and set goals for Congress and the President. He recalled knowing every president since Hoover and warned that knowing what is right is harder than wanting to do right. The symposium adjourned in harmony as he mediated amid Nixon era tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyndon B. Johnson
United States
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
John Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Johnson
Austin
Texas
Nixon
U. S. Senate
Hoover
Senator Soaper Skeptical On October Cost of Living Rise
A collection of opinion snippets mocks rising prices in clothing and living costs while lampooning trends from a flying car to fourth grade medical scouting. Political satire touches on election explanations, population debates, and the bicentennial commercialization.
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Garden of Eden
Zero population growth loom in America says author
The piece argues fertility has fallen below the 2.1 needed to sustain population, with births down 9 percent in 1972. It predicts a shrinking future population, aging demographics, and questions calls for abortion or expansive contraception, urging long range planning around an aging society. The author dismisses doomsday fears of crowding and notes potential shifts toward elderly needs.
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United States
America
National Center For Health Statistics
Paul Ehrlich
Ehrlich
Europe
New Media Protection Act Provokes Journalist Shield Debate
Holmes Alexander argues against Sen Lowell Weicker proposed act, questioning whether protecting reporters would deny rights to others. He cites Farr, Bridge and Weiler as exemplars who faced official rebukes and notes Supreme Court ruling last June upholding lack of guaranteed protection for reporters' sources.
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Washington, D.C
Lowell Weicker
Rconn
William Farr
Peter Bridge
Joseph Weiler
California
New Jersey
Tennessee State Senate
Wage and Price Controls Lose Their Shield?
The piece argues wage and price controls fail to curb inflation and would better be replaced by reducing monopoly union leverage. It cites CPI and WPI trends, argues about indices manipulation, and warns of rising inflation as contracts expire. It also discusses the Weicker privacy bill for reporters and the duty to public knowledge.
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Milton Friedman
Friedman
Weicker
United States
Lowell Weicker
Prison Reform Through Private-Sector Insight
John Chamberlain comments on Tom Wicker and Max Wylie while highlighting David Linowes's prison reform approach. Linowes proposes socio economic audits and rehabilitation as core metrics, drawing lessons from Australia and Attica shops to argue for turning offenders into responsible post adolescent workers.
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Tom Wicker
Max Wylie
Harlem
Charles Manson
Richard Speck
Attica
New York
David Linowes
The
New York Chamber of Commerce
Linowes
Australia
Attica Prison
Upper
New York State
Pinchgut Island
Commonwealth
Shield Law Could Grant Newsmen Overbroad Privilege
Ralph de Toledano argues that early shield bill drafts risk creating an overbroad privilege for newsmen. He cautions that protections extending to outtakes and unpublished material would hinder law enforcement and reduce public access to information, undermining the press’s public right to know.
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Britain
John Armstrong
London
Labor Party
Armstrong
Sydney
Canada
India
China
Soaper
Russell Kirk
John- John Kennedy
Holmes Alexander
Supreme Court
Itina
Pawendary Aoer
Thors
Peron
Gow
William F. Buckley. Jr
Congress
Senator Weicker
U.S
John Chamberlain
Wylie
Ralph de Toledano
Alan Cranston
Dem.-Cal
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Cranston & Company
Cranston
Danville
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