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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Sep 02, 1966

Page

5

Pentagon Not Yet Winning Day Says Times Pentagon

The Times of London defense correspondent asserts the United States war in Vietnam is managed from Washington and reveals ongoing civilian and defense industry strains. It notes 12 month funding shifts, a growing force to three million by next year, and widespread shortages and inflation pressures yet unchanged battlefield outcomes.

Times of London New York Times News Service London Times of London Dispatch United States Robert S. McNamara America Asia Viet Nam Washington McNamara Pentagon U.S Defense Defense Department Defense Secretary

Problems Mount On Collectives In Hungary

A visit to Hungary's Lenin Agricultural Production Cooperative shows how a top collective farm operates on 7,600 acres along the Tisza River with 700 workers. It presents progress in hybrid seeds rotation and education, yet wages lag industry, and collective farms bear wide state-like duties amid past upheavals since 1945.

New York Times Tiafoldvar Hungary Lenin Agricultural Production Cooperative Tisza Szolnok

Melancholy Echoes From a Nation’s Legion Convention

The American Legion convention in Washington drew about 100000 spectators for a seven hour parade and over 23000 attendees registered at headquarters. President Johnson attended and spoke as delegates and veterans reflected on aging, changing times, and the Legion’s waning vigor while remaining a social and political force.

Tom Wicker New York Times News Service Washington American Legion Pennsylvania Avenue Washington Post Congress Johnson Memoriial Highway Post Blanco ‘County Tex D. C Villon Legionnaires D’antan Legionnaires Yesteryear Confederate Veterans of America Legion Sons of the Legion Caps

Brown Wins NASA Contract for Nimbus Transmitters

Brown Engineering Company of Huntsville won a $70,000 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center contract to design and manufacture six solid state FM S band television transmitters for Nimbus weather satellites. The six pound units measure 6 by 6 by 4 inches, operate at 1700 megahertz with 2.5 watts output, and replace larger vacuum devices. First two units due in October with the remaining four by January.

Huntsville Brown Engineering Company Nimbus Aerospace and Defense NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Brown Electronic Systems Earth

Baby giants of glass jars drive infant food in bottles

Babies are described as giants in the bottle jar market as infants consume about 3 billion jars of baby food annually. Glass containers account for 40 percent of U.S. shipments, with virtually all processed baby food in glass jars. beer is the only product using more glass containers than baby food.

New York Glass Container Manufacturers Institute U.S GCMI

Gold Stocks Fall in July as U S reserves drop

U S gold stocks fell by 116 million dollars in July in the biggest monthly decline in over a year. The Federal Reserve Board reports France remained the top buyer, converting about 98 million dollars of its dollar holdings, the largest monthly conversion since early 1965, offsetting a 50 million dollar purchase from Canada.

Washington U.S Federal Reserve Board France Canada

U S Bold stocks slide from year-ago levels

At the end of July U S Bold stocks stood at 13413 million dollars, down 556 million from last July. The supply has fallen by 393 million this year, following a 1.5 billion drop in the first seven months of 1965.

U.S

500th Foster Life outdoor drama ends at Bardstown park

The outdoor drama about composer Stephen Collins Foster finished its 500th performance at My Old Kentucky Home State Park near Bardstown, Kentucky, marking a long run for the production.

Frankfort Stephen Collins Foster

Arthur Sylvester Man In The News

The article profiles Arthur Sylvester once Newark Evening News chief and now Pentagon public information chief. Known for caustic critiques of reporters yet valued for widening Pentagon information flow and close ties to Defense Secretary McNamara. Born October 21 1901 in Montclair New Jersey.

New York Times News Service Arthur Sylvester Washington Newark Evening News Pentagon Sylvester Defense Sec Robert S. McNamara Montclair N. J Princeton University

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