Nantucket News Of Insignificant News And Hydrangeas
Russell Baker notes Nantucket happenings that feel trivial yet comforting amid global upheavals. Lobster price, blooming hydrangeas, a new A P store with a widow's walk open on the waterfront, and a failed hydrofoil test mark local life. The piece wryly contrasts distant crises with island quiet.
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Russell Baker
New York Times
Nantucket
Mass
Nantucket Island
de Gaulle
Luci Baines
Nantuckets
E. E. Cummings
Nantucket Summer Talk That Fizzles Into Sleep
The piece riffs on lengthening the airport runway for jet traffic, a rumored lurking shark, a tiny riot that fizzled, fashion woes, and seaside gossip. It weaves locals’ talk about De Gaulle, black power, and summer crowds, concluding with a drowsy catalog of small-town farce and plain resignation.
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de Gaulle
Nantucket
Main Street
Eskimos and Indians relocate to Seattle orientation center
Eskimos and Athabascans facing relocation from Alaska are guided at a Seattle center to urban life. They learn plumbing, shopping, budgeting, and how to use utilities as 301 single men, 96 single women, and 93 families pass through since July 1963. Afterward, many travel to Los Angeles Oakland San Jose Denver Chicago Cleveland or Dallas for employment help, with a quarter failing to adapt in the first crucial year.
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Seattle
Bureau
Far West
Middle West
South
New York
East Coast
Jimmie Owens
Los Angeles
Oakland
San Jose
California
Denver
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Public opinion split over Supreme Court confession ruling
Gallup data show nearly 2 to 1 opposition to the Court's confession ruling among those polled. The poll notes regional divides, with opposition strongest in the Midwest South and West, while education correlates with more favorable views but still leans negative overall. Truman Capote testified about Chicago nurse murders and police fears in questioning suspects.
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George Gallup
Princeton
N. J
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Supreme Court
Midwest
Khabarovsk sheds old police rule for trade growth
In Eastern Siberia's Khabarovsk the secret police grip has faded and the city has emerged as a growing Pacific trade hub with Japan. New hotels and offices rise along Main Street as manpower, housing, and consumer goods shortages transform the region's economy and migration patterns.
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New York Times News
Khabarovsk
U.S.S
Siberia
Kolyma
Amur
Secret Police
Karlmarp Street
Main Street
Lenin Square
Japan
Nakhodka
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University of Alabama
Eleanor Blankenship
Miss Blankenship
Janis Lipscomb
Connie Champion
Brenda Johnson
Delores Taylor
Gallup Poll
Confessions
Truman Capote
Senate
American Institute of Public Opinion
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N.Y. Times
Ministry of Home Affairs
Intourist
Moscow
Sterr’s Housing Project
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Inter City
Grant ST
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Decatur and
Gateway
Lakeside
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