High Costs of Politics Demand Best Vigilance
President Johnsons fundraising drives for the 1966 campaign rely on a President's Club with $1000 entries offering briefings, handshakes, and receptions. The effort follows revelations about senator Dodd accumulating over $100,000 via questionable privilege. Democrats aim to raise $6 million by November to liquidate 1964 debt and fund current races, a plan likely to keep LBJ traveling and entertaining as part of the political money machinery.
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Johnson
Democratic Party
Dodd
White House
Houston
John F. Kennedy
Richard Maguire
LBJ
Europe’s rising population and changing role in world power
Europe faces a shifting demographic and economic position as population grows toward 600 million by century’s end while the world total nears six billion. The U S leads in science spending and patent wealth, with Europe lagging in brain drain and unified policy. Barriers to movement and unity hinder Europe’s ability to translate potential into influence this century.
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Europe
Soviet Union
U. S
U.ss.r
Science Magazine
Western
Protecting Privacy Faces Court and Congress Debate
Congress weighs new privacy safeguards amid Supreme Court rulings while acknowledging pervasive data collection from birth to death. debates focus on limits to private snooping, including wiretaps, corporate spying, and government access as officials urge a clear ban.
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Congress
Justice Department
Nicholas Deb. Katzenbach
Senate
Suppressing Reports in Auto Safety Debate
DREW PEARSON examines the auto industry push to block government rules on accident safety. He details the Johnson administration bill, the Senate inquiry by Warren Magnuson, and the issue of reports not admissible in court. He cites HEW suppression of accident data, costly reports, and industry influence. He notes Rep. Moss and the silence of United Auto Workers and casualty insurers on testifying.
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U. S
General Motors Corp
Senate
Ralph Nadar
Try
House Commerce Committee
Warren Magnuson
D-Wash
Commerce Committee
Secretary of Commerce
John T. Connor
General Motors
United States
Johnson
Health, Education, and Welfare Department
Ralph Nader
Phil Lee
Reuther
University of Minnesota
Ryan
John Moss
D-Calif
HEW
Goldstein
George Washington University
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
Casualty Insurance People
North Carolina’s elder physician Dr. C D Thompson turns 91
Dr. C D Thompson, likely the oldest active North Carolina physician, leaves High Point for Lynchburg to celebrate his 91st birthday with son Ted and wife Sunni. A lifelong general practitioner, he has practiced since 1900 after medical training at the University of Tennessee. He recalls delivering thousands of babies, riding horseback and later the family car, and still maintains a limited home practice.
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Sunni
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University of the South
Gaston County
Gastonia
Stanly
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Lincoln County
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Lexington
High Point
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Thompsons
Thompson
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Virginia
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New South
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North Carolina Medical Society
Dr. Bulla
Randolph
Willenbar Terrace
Medical Society of
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