Too Good to Spoil It and the Lindquist Resignation
The article discusses Emory Lindquist stepping down as Wichita State University president over a clash of aims between promoting culture in higher education and boosters pushing for athletic and commercial gains. Clyde Reed argues for safeguarding scholarship against rising athletic emphasis and warns that unchecked sports fervor harms the university's true goals.
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Wichita State University
Emory Lindquist
Lindquist
Wichita
Clyde Reed
Parsons Sun
Kansas
Distaff Side Recipes Stir Up Appetite and Alarm
A nostalgic newspaper riff catalogs a chorus of sensational recipe ideas and kitchen chaos. It lampoons cookbook supplements with vivid dish names from Yellow Gravy on Fried Toast to Banana Meatloaf and Banana Clam Dip.
Machines Will Take Over Work Says Clarke
Hal Boyle reports Arthur C Clarke predicts drastic shifts in labor in the next century with machines handling 95 percent of current work. He envisions lifelong education and a society where people live to learn rather than perform routine jobs, aided by advancing supercomputers and even engineered apes for household tasks.
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New York
Arthur C. Clarke
Clarke
Pericles
Socrates
Athens
MGM
Kennedy plan to deny Johnson re election sparks party rift
Drew Pearson reports Bobby Kennedy faced opposition from brother Ted Kennedy and Ted Sorensen over challenging an incumbent president. Younger staff urged action, fearing a long wait for another chance if Johnson wins, while strategists warned of Republican gains and intra party friction. The piece notes Vietnam policy roots in Kennedy era and cites Navy delays over the USS New Jersey and a political clash involving Captain Richard Alexander. It also mentions Wallace's third party bid and a Wolff debt bill, plus House figures critiquing Pat Jennings and a San Francisco Chinatown bilingual street sign project.
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Washington
Bobby Kennedy
Teddy
Jfk
Ted Sorenson
White House
Bobby
Lby
Sorenson
Ted
Johnson
New Hampshire
Gene McCarthy
Richard Nixon
Kennedy
California
Jess Unruh
Len Gene McCarthy
McCarthy
Vietnam
Dean Rusk
Robert McNamara
Defense
McGeorg Bundy
Walt Rostow
Kennedy Holdorers
United States
United Uss
New Jersey
South Vietnam
Bay of Pigs
Cuba
Khrushchev
Vienna
Thomas Moorer
Richard Alexander
Alexander
Marc Arnheiter
Admiral Moorer
Capt
Boston
George Wallace
Ezra Tait Benson
Eisenhower
John Birchite
Wallace
House Ways and Means
Wilbur Mills
Lester Wolff
New York
France
Mills
House
DeGaulle
U.S
Pat Jennings
House of Representatives
Congress
Jennings
Longworth
The Needle: Television and Quiet Evenings at Home
Harold Coffin laments loud radios hi fi sets and raucous TV programs urging a man to stay in. He mocks soap operas and bad TV commercials noting their empty appeals while praising television as a remarkable invention that shapes daily living.
Heart Transplant Authority proposed by Applebaum
Art Buchwald reports a humorous proposal by Dr. Heinrich Applebaum for an International Heart Transplant Authority to decide who gains access to scarce donor hearts. The piece uses satire to explore moral, medical, and economic questions surrounding heart transplants and the notion of hearts in politics and society.
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Washington
Heinrich Applebaum
Hartford, Conn
Applebaum
International Monetary Fund
International Heart Transplant Authority
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Yale
Hal Boyle
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Frisco Chinatown
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The
Harold Coffin
Cial
Art Buchwald
Daddy
Garden City Telegram
Telegram Publishing Company
Garden City
Gill Brower
le Roy Allman
John Frazier
Idue Advertising
Hf Telegram
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