Visitors Pay Off for Conventions in Smaller Cities
An editorial notes that average convention delegates spend about $31 daily in host towns. Southwest Kansas cities struggle with location and facilities but can host district sessions and some statewide groups. The city plans to host the state area convention of the Women’s Division, highlighting the payoff of promoting events like high school reunions to attract visitors.
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Nother City
Hay
Kansas
E State
Chamber of Commerce
Chambers of Commerce
Injustice to Religion Weighs Against Prayer Amendment
A Chicago Tribune op-ed argues that first amendment neutrality protects religion. It cites Edwin H. Tuller Eugene Carson Blake and faith leaders as opposing state backed classroom prayer. It warns that government involvement would threaten religious vitality and liberty.
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Edwin H. Tuller
American Baptist Convention
Eugene Carson Blake
United Presbyterian Church
Tuller
Blake
Memories of the past warm hearts in hard times
New York readers are reminded how memories glow in tough days as a columnist lists retro rituals and slang from earlier decades. The piece contrasts buttonhooks, early rising, escalator rides, and old conveniences with childhood phrases and social norms of bygone America.
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New York
SNP
Gore
Ban on smoking enacted in London theaters by council
London adopt ban after council vote of 77 to 37 prohibiting smoking in 154 move theaters. The proposal came from Conservative Lady Petrie who later confessed she smokes cigars.
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London
London County Council
Lady Petrie
Bonn Acknowledges U S Role in German policy
Drew Pearson reports Johnson urged examining peace avenues with Russia during a Munich interview. The President defended long U S troop presence and Bonn ties while urging German self-critique of relations with Moscow. West German reaction was cool, with officials warning against treating Bonn as a U S satellite.
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Washington
Johnson
Fritz Hagen
Quick Magazine
Munich
United States
Russia
Germany
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Quick
Whits House
East
West Germany
McNamara
Bald
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Federal Republic
South Viet Nam
State Department
Averill Harriman
Bonn
Harriman
Moscow
Marshall Pla
Heinrich Krone
National Defense Council
U. S
Happiness from a fifth grader and a missing parakeet
In Seal Beach California Betty Revere, a fifth grader, pens a paragraph on happiness noting simple joys such as being with family and pets. A parakeet named Doobie is missing from the James Atkinson home at 705 Evans. Children wonder if anyone has seen him. Also reports urge Beatle-cut youths in England to wear hairnets at work after a 17-year-old boy loses his hair in a machine. Household Hint warns removing the ribbon before vacuuming typed lint and crumbs.
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Seal Beach
Calif
Betty Revere
Disneyland
James Atkinson
Evans
Doobie
England
British Safety Council
Policy View: Viet Nam and Castro Shape Foreign Policy
James Marlow argues the two forest points in U S foreign policy are the Viet Nam war and Fidel Castro in Cuba. He notes Republicans and Democrats alike face pressure over Viet Nam and Cuba as rumors of exile plots surface, with Johnson's chances tied to both issues.
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John D. Rockefeller Sr
Viet Nam
Castro Forest
James Marlow
Associated Press
Washington
South
Fidel Castto
Cuba
Castro
Johnson
South Viet Nam
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Asia
Henry Cabot Lodge
United States
Central Intelligence Agency
State Department
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