The Ghetto Remains In The Nation
Johnnie Scott of Watts Los Angeles tells a Senate committee that the ghetto school system crushes minority students unless they fight back. In New York City two centers offer guidance for pregnant girls while desegregation in the South progresses slowly. The ghetto school, mainly Negro, mirrors the slum and traps most students, few escape.
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Tom Wicker
New York Times
Washington
Johnnie Scott
Watts
Los Angeles
Senate
Scott
New York City
Office Regation
South
Old Confederacy
Two Faces Exist In Poverty Fight
McDowell County faces two outcomes of a major antipoverty program. In Shop Hollow and Bottom Creek Hollow parts of Welch see mixed progress with home upgrades and Head Start, while Bottom Creek Hollow lags with sparse participation and uncompleted adult education. Earl Hagerman, once a welfare recipient, now assists the program, inspiring neighbors to follow. The effort, funded at 721000 in its first year, expands through eight centers offering classes and services to thousands of residents.
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Marjorie Hunter
New York Times News
Welch
W. Va
Bottom Creek Hollow
Shop Hollow
Earl Hagerman
Earl
Mary Hagerman
Hagerman
McDowell County
Bottom Creek
West Virginia
Council of Southern Mountains
McDowell
Washington
Office of Economic Opportunity
Whiich
United States Armed Forces Institute
Hollows
1967 Economy Face Slower Growth Than 1966 Economists Say
Economists forecast 1967 will expand but at a slower pace than 1966. Real GNP growth near 4 percent vs over 5 percent this year, with slower business investment, mixed prospects in housing and autos, and continued gains in personal incomes lifting after tax totals.
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U.S
Sylvia Porter
U. S
Viet Nam
The
Hall Syndicate, Inc
Swede Religion Is Falling Into Three Categories
Sweden shows three religious groups: indifferent Lutheran adherents, traditionalists opposing modern life, and devout nonconformist Protestants joined by a growing Catholic minority. The Lutheran church faces staffing shortages, state funding, and rising secularism while Catholics rise from immigration and cultural shifts.
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John Cogley
New Ad Times
York Times News Service
Stockholm
Sweden
John E. Taylor
Taylor
Belleville
Ill
Gunnar Kumlien
Rome
Observer Getting Deconfused About Wars
Washington satire by Russell Baker mocks the Vietnam conflict discourse. The piece lampoons officials and deconfusion experts as a humorously tangled bureaucratic maze while questioning whether Vietnam is a war or not and advising citizens on how to respond.
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Russell Baker
New York Times
Washington
Vietnam
Miss Klem
Klem
Craven
Curlew
Congo
Africa
Moise Tshombe
Thaxter
Mr. Wenlock
Wenlock
Sen. Fullbright
Korea
Asia
Insurance dividends offer fifth option to fund loans
Insurance firms urge policyholders to use the fifth dividend option to borrow against cash value and buy low-premium one-year term insurance equal to the loan. The plan maintains coverage while easing cash needs, with dividends refunds not taxed and not guaranteed.
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Sal Nuccio
New York Times
New York
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