Music For The Muzhiks Soviet agriculture and Brezhnev plan
The piece outlines Russia’s agricultural struggles through Stalin and Khrushchev’s collective farming, noting peasant discontent and failed incentives. It highlights Brezhnev’s response with a 149 member commission to improve agriculture, proposing small liberalizations and larger garden plots for muzhiks, laments the system’s failures, and compares to American corporate farming incentives.
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Kurushchev
Stalin
KunusHchey
Supreme Soviet
Communist Party
Stain
Kurvusu-Chev
Eonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev ‘Commission
Muzhik
Brezunev Commission
Reapportionment Debate and Media Critique in Washington
Ralph de Toledano criticizes press framing of reapportionment in state legislatures. He notes committee claims about liberals and conservatives, Describes Dirksen and co-chairs Frank Church and B F Sisk, and argues for an informed voter education on one man one vote. He warns against centralizing power and the danger of a rubber-stamp House.
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Washington
America
Committee For Government of the People
Everett Dirksen
Daily Paper Reporter
Dirksep
Frank Church
Pdem
Idaho
B. F. Sisk
Dem
Calif
Committee For Government
Fifteenth Street
Washington, D.C
Mittee
Linto
Dirksen
Boses
Supreme Court
United States
Congress
Political barometers and midterms in changing times
A reflective column argues midterm House elections keep the president sharp by ensuring voter power can shift balance. It weighs longer term changes, proposes four year terms with presidential cycles or a stabilized system, and notes public demand for responsive governance over politician comfort. It also riffs on policy debates, weather control, and cultural shifts.
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Monslwuon
Senate
House of Representatives
U.S
Johnson
Hall
Russia
Lbs
University of Miami mulls retaking exams after cheating ring
Officials at the University of Miami consider forcing all freshmen to retake semester exams upon returning to campus after holidays after a massive cheating ring was uncovered. Examinations in three large survey courses were pilfered and sold, sparking student and parent displeasure. University spokesmen urge honest students to view a second exam as fair, arguing honesty is the only policy for those seeking trusted roles.
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Coral Gables
University of Miami
U of M
Danville
Associated Press
National
Lseasing
Branham Company
Chicago
New York
Atlanta
Detroit
Dallas
St. Louis
Charlotte
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Miami
Minneapolis
New Orleans
Kansas City
Half the truth in Appalachian poverty tale
A reader recalls a Charleston West Virginia headline claiming 20,000 workers were sought as part of the War on Poverty. The note questions the headline’s scope and cautions against believing all reported figures, suggesting skepticism about dramatic readings from distant regions.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Va
GOP builds 20000-strong campaign corps in West Virginia
Republicans gathered in the Capitol plan a swift push to regain influence. They call for 20,000 campaign workers volunteers with no pay to boost efforts against Democrats and their War on Poverty. The piece notes the challenge of finding free labor versus paid operatives and includes satirical asides about politics and public life.
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GOP
West Virginia
Academic Freedom and Strikes at St Johns University
A columnist weighs a prolonged faculty strike at St Johns University New York, arguing responsible academic freedom requires restraint. He condemns picket lines intimidation and union influence, warning a unionized university faculty risks demagogue domination and harms thousands of students. He notes about 10 percent of students boycott in sympathy.
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St. John's University
New York City
St. John’s
Teamsters Union
St. John's
Harry
van Arsdale
Morris Iusevitz
King Stork
King Log
United Federation of College Teachers
De Gaulle And Johnson In A Global Consensus
The prose compares De Gaulle and Lyndon Johnson, arguing that De Gaulle’s method built a unified France through broad inclusion of groups and elites. It questions bloc politics as a path to national unity and suggests LBJ study De Gaulle’s pursuit of a France of the Whole, incorporating military and civilian groups.
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Washington, D. C
Francois Mautiac
de Gaulle
Mariac
France
Johnson
Gaulle
Usajn
Mariee
Mauriac
Academie Francaise
Paris
Europe
LBJ
Philosophers in Red China ordered from libraries to fields
A satirical column notes shifts in Chinese policy forcing philosophers to join peasants in agricultural work, and jokes about safety experts blaming drivers or cars for accidents as part of political humor. The piece also mocks U.S. politics over TV cancelations and agriculture policy, with a quip about a Congress member criticizing British fashion.
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Red
China
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Josey Stalin
Nixrra Kuausuchey
Ukraine
Kurusu- Chev
KnausHcHev
Ralph de Toledano
Orjon
IBJ
Barry Gold
Washington Press Corps
Fesl
Far East
Eph Pottle
London
Fusefoyle
White House
Appalachians
THE
Danville Register
Law School
Russell Kirk
William McBrien
theMusician
Reser
Holmes Alexander
John Chamberlain
Sludgepump
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