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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1964
Page
3
A reader comments on Kansas Attorney General William Ferguson and his shifting stance on trading stamps redeemable for U S Savings Bonds. The writer questions whether public opinion drives opinions more than the law, notes court action later addressing the issue, and suspects political motives behind the AG's opinions.
Retiring U.S. Weather Bureau chief Francis W. Reichelderfer cautions his successor that weather prediction cannot meet public needs. The December American Heritage Magazine note recalls Kennedy's assassination and Lincoln, with poetry by Emily Dickinson. A mail order house shifts women's fashion pages to spring-summer, and California debuts sunglasses with a built in radio. A New York apartment building adds a rooftop barbecue pit.
Pope Paul VI visits a land scarred by conflict yet hopeful for reconciliation between Jews and Arabs. He observes Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus, notes barriers between Israelis and Arabs, and aims to ease Christian splits with Patriarch Athenagoras. The trip is framed as a step toward broader East West healing.
President Johnson confronts two critical tests as he begins a campaign to stay visible for re election while pushing his programs through a Congress, which critics deem sluggish. The House and Senate party margins are 256 178 and 67 88 respectively, shaping his political strategy.
A fragmented view of party politics notes there are several groups under liberal conservative and reactionary labels. It argues Congress delays action unless crisis public pressure or elections push it, shaping tax cuts civil rights and Johnson Kennedy programs amid a 1983 election year dynamic.
A collection of light anecdotes and facts notes that the average American woman wears about 13 pairs of stockings a year and that many spend nine million hours weekly in beauty shops. It also mentions holiday spending, poetry books, autos in the USSR and US, canned hippo meat, weed identification, mistletoe lore, wrinkle heredity, and quotes from Robert Q. Lewis and Don Marquis.
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