Furniture Revolution Driven by Buyers and Southern Growth
A taxi driver and wife enter a furniture store to buy an $800 sofa signaling a broader shift in American retailing. The South leads a seller’s market as manufacturers expand, merge, and attract outside capital amid rising demand and favorable profits.
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Robert Marks
America
J. Smith Young
Furniture Factories Marketing Assn. of
South
Young
High Point
Jack
Schoorbeck Co
Aeee
Eee
Pusniae Co
Lexington
Schoonbeck
Ian Campbell Ness
Kremlin seeks unity among world Communist parties
In Moscow the new Soviet leadership urges restoration of Khrushchev era unity. Izvestia appeals for stronger bloc cohesion without noting China rift. Informants in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Poland praise Khrushchev post ouster as diplomats in Vienna report Kremlin aims to salvage East bloc economic deals amid Western Communist party tensions.
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Kremlin
Nikita Khrushchev
Izvestia
Soviet Union
Red China
Vi- Hungary
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Poland
Khrushchev
Vienna
France
Austria
India
Cuban Bus Cargo Goes Into Water
In dense fog the German freighter Magdeburg and the Japanese Ya Mashiro Maru collided in the Thames Estuary. The Magdeburg carrying 23 British buses for Cuba rolled on its side and about half the buses sank. The Ya Mashiro Maru returned to port with a holed bow. Leyland Motors had sold the buses to Cuba in January.
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Cuba
Thames
Tilbury
Essex
London
Thames Estuary
Britain
Leyland Motors Ltd
Briton Talks With President on U S Britain Relations
AP dispatch reports President Johnson to meet Britain's Labor government foreign secretary in Washington. The talks will shape future U S Britain cooperation and discuss issues from Soviet moves to China's nuclear test and Peking's UN membership debate. Gordon Walker conveyed Britain’s view that Red China should join the UN.
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Johnson
Britain
U.S
Dean Rusk
State Department
Soviet Union
Gordon Walker
Rusk
Peking
China
United Nations
Gor
Goldwater Warns Johnson Drives Nation Toward Socialism
Senator Barry Goldwater accused President Johnson of steering the nation toward socialism by exploiting race and hardship. He urged Tennessee voters in Bristol and London Ky to reject what he called Johnson’s leftward course and urged them to defend constitutional democracy against perceived power grabs.
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Bristol, Tenn
Barry Goldwater
Johnson
America
Ite House
Repub
Arizona
Goldwater
Lyndon John
Astrologers Predict Johnson Victory in India Race
Astrologers in New Delhi forecast a strong showing for Johnson in the political contest. The column cites celestial readings and public sentiment as key factors shaping the expected result.
Cambodia Accused of Bombing Area Strains With U S
The Cambodian Defense Ministry charged three Cambodian air force planes strafed a Vietnamese border area in the Plain of Reeds. Cambodia warned it would sever diplomatic ties with the United States, while Prince Norodom Sihanouk threatened a blow for blow response to further aggression.
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John T. Wheeler
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Defense Ministry
Cambodia
Plain of Reeds
United
Ian
Prince Norodom Sihanouk
United States
South Vietnamese
Herman
Sihanouk
Johnson Heads For Northwest
President Johnson tours the South and East on a campaign swing as Goldwater leads in polls. He speaks in Boston Evansville and Albuquerque and faces heckling in Augusta with chants of We want Barry while urging civility and predicting voters will feel sorry on Election Day. In Macon Georgia he encounters anti Johnson placards.
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Washington
Johnson
Goldwater
Boston
Evansville
Ind
Albuquerque
N.M
Florida
South Carolina
White House
South
Augusta
Barry
Fe P
Macon
Harris Survey Shows Ticket Splitting by Voters
Louis Harris surveys indicate many voters plan cross party lines for president and for Congress or Senate. About one in four would vote Republican for Congress, producing a 55 to 45 Democratic split in congressional races, with crossovers affecting outcomes a week before the election.
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Louis Harris
House of Representatives
U. S. Senate
Congress
Senate
Lyndon Johnson
Barry Goldwater
Johnson
Goldwater
South
House
Mr. Johnson
Johnson Draws Huge Crowd in Columbia Campaign Stop
President Lyndon B. Johnson spoke from the State House steps in Columbia before an estimated 125,000 to 150,000 Democrats. He praised peace through nuclear energy at the Savannah River H bomb plant near Aiken, and lauded South Carolina leaders while noting the crowd’s warmth and support.
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Columbia
S. C
Lyndon B. Johnson
South Carolina
Edgar A. Brown
Barnwell
Robert E. McNair
State House
McEntire Air National Board
J. P. Strom
Johnson
White House
Savannah River
Aiken
Georgia
Barry Goldwater
Donald Russell
Televised Violence Blamed By Senate Subcommittee
A Senate subcommittee reported that televised crime and violence are a direct though not sole cause of juvenile delinquency. It cited expert testimony and research linking viewing to antisocial attitudes, noting the large child audience and the networks' control over programming content.
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Carl P. Leubsdorf
Washington
Senate
Thomas J. Dodd
Dconn
National Association of Broadcasters
Salisbury Man Killed In Viet Nam
1st Lt. Glenn C. Dyer of Salisbury North Carolina was killed in South Viet Nam when his skyraider crashed during a dive bomb run on his first mission with a new squadron. He was 26, a Greensboro native who lived with his parents in Greensboro and attended Greensboro Senior High School and East Carolina College, graduating in 1960. He left Myrtle Beach Air Force Base in June for Viet Nam and was the father of one.
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Air Force
Glenn C. Dyer
Salisbury
N.C
South Viet Nam
A. Dyer
Greensboro
Greensboro Senior High School
East Carolina College
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