Refreshing Candor From Former Kansas Governor Avery for Senate
Former Kansas governor William H. Avery announces Republican bid for U.S. Senate. He calls for United Nations supervised Vietnam ceasefire and peace talks with Viet Cong, plus strong military options if talks fail. He urges halting most foreign aid and a 50 percent cut in space program funding while praising candor and his prior political setbacks.
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Kansas
William H. Avery
U.S. Senate
Vietnam
National Liberation Front
Viet Cong
America
Southeast Asia
Avery
Space Administration
Distaff Platform Parody Spoofs 1948 Election
The piece riffes on Truman era politics with spoof platform ideas from The Peanuts Platform listing whimsical proposals such as 24 hour psych booth service, Beethoven birthday holiday, pizza at every table, happiness for all, and a beam of light on home and cooking books by two women now happily married.
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Snoopy
Lucy
Charlie Brown
Red Baron
Beethoven
Boss Complaints From Office Lies and Laughs
Hal Boyle presents a string of satirical office vignettes about a tired boss, union committee pressure, quirky staff remarks, and humorous misadventures around paper towels, martinis, and a stressed executive. The quips mock office hierarchy and petty grievances in a light column.
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NEW OR
NEW York
Nero
Mabel
Mr. Big
J.P
Union
Greek Dictatorship Wins U.S. Dollars in Tonkin Era
Drew Pearson reports the Johnson administration backed a $12.5 million World Bank loan to the Greek military dictatorship amid a gold market shock. The piece links exemptions for Greece to Litton Industries ties, cites State Department figures, and notes broader Vietnam War debates, plus a CIA warning of Arab communist and Moslem forces allying against Egypt.
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Washington
Johnson
George F. Woods
World Bank
London
United States
Woods
Robert McNamara
Andreas Papandreou
University of Minnesota
California
Center Union
Greece
Andreas
Finland
U. S
Tex Thornton
Litton Industries
Lbj’s
Don Edwards
San Jose
Dan Brewster
State Department
Litton
European Investment Bank
Constantine Thanos
Bank of Greece
Columbia University
Thanos
J. A. Galbraith
McGill University
Toronto
Toronto Globe and Mail
Senator Gruening
CIA
Egypt
Haave
The Need Repor t urges money as balm for social ills
The riot commission dismisses social workers in favor of bankers, arguing reconciliation comes through cash. The piece mocks reliance on money, noting the dollar sign as a sign of the times and ending with a Confucius quip about solving problems with money creating money problems.
Ho Chi Minh cabinet grills Dao Tri on US politics satire
Art Buchwald's spoof shows Hanoi ministers torturing a chained Dao Tri to extract a crash course on US presidential politics. The dialogue covers Kennedy McCarthy Nixon Rockefeller and the Democratic split, ending with the bold question about Harold Stassen. In Dallas, commissioners hire a wolf trapper for nine months at $250 monthly to curb crillers.
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Washington
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh
North Vietnam
Dao Tri
Sen
Robert Kennedy
New York
Johnson
Vietnam
McCarthy
New Hampshire
Kennedy
Dao ‘Tri
Democratic Party
Lena McCarthy
Republican Party
Nixon
Nelson Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Rockefeler
Dao
CIA
Harold Stassen
Dallas, Tex
Dallas County
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Harry S. Truman
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Pily
Hal Boyle
Internal Revenue Service
Myrtle
Drew Pearson
U.S
Gulf of Tonkin
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Ernest Gruening
Alaska
Maddox
Pentagon
Morse
Machinists’ Union
Ela
WES Syndicate
Rerda Cottin
Riot Commission
Confucius
Garden City Telegram
Telegram Publishing Company
Garden City
Bill Brown
le Roy
Allman
Dha Pratt
Edites Advertising Manager
Edites
Guya
Telegram Motor
Art Buchwald
Garden Belle Lumber Inc
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