Thoughts for Today on Pride and Humility
A brief selection of proverbs and quotes on pride and humility. Proverbs warns that pride leads to a fall, while a humble spirit with the poor is better. Chesterton adds that one sermon against pride would suffice, reflecting on pride's folly.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ostriches Among Us Students Visit Charlotte on Desegregation Lessons
Four Boston students spent three days in Charlotte examining school integration amid clashes and political opposition. Boston leaders Kerrigan and Booe dismissed the visit as propaganda and social experimentation, while urging adherence to court rulings and constitutional guarantees of equal protection. The piece suggests adults hinder progress but acknowledges potential insights from both cities.
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Boston
Charlotte
John Kerrigan
Kerrigan
William Booe
Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board
Booe
Caspar Weinberger
Federal Energy Administration
Food and Drug Administration
Kansas
FDA
Rogers
Morton
Yosemite Park
Universal Studios
Henry Reuss
D-Wis
John Dingell
Dmich
Rangers
General Services Administration
Federal Information Center
Mis Point editorial critiques High Point middle class view
Greensboro editoriary writer argues a Greensboro piece on police probes judges High Point, calling it wishy washy. It notes High Point’s affluent and unaffluent split, yet cites growth of professionals and Grover Jones on local vigor amid border county and non county seat issues. The piece warns against narcissistic regional views.
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Mis Point
Re *Reensboro
High Point
Grover Jones
Jones
Projecting the News The Ailing Pan Am
The Pan American World Airways annual meeting warned stockholders of a potential $65 million net annual loss and the need for outside help to pay bills in coming months amid debt, fuel costs, and foreign competition. A CAB subsidy bid faces opposition. a Pan Am TWA merger is proposed as a remedy, with broader calls for airline pricing and policy re-evaluation.
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Pan Am
William T. Seawell
Seawell
Thomas O'Hanlon
Fortune Magazine
Pan American
Mid- Manhattan
Civil Aeronautics Board
Juan Trippe
Pan Americans
William Proximize
D-Wis
CAB
Congress
TWA
U.S
Twelve Word Clause Lets Government Pay Higher Rail Freight
Washington roundup reports a hidden 12 word clause in a railroad bill would limit low government freight rates to wartime only, costing taxpayers about 250 million annually. The piece traces White House handling, GAO findings, Pentagon and GSA concerns, and related spending cuts and misuses.
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Washington
White House
Pentagon
Ford
Congress
General Accounting Office
GAO
U.S. Treasury
Defense
Bill Clements
Roy Ash
Clements
General Services Administration
GSA
Dwight Ink
Ash
Defense Department
Prediction of Conservative Coalition Trouble in 1974
Ford tours the nation urging support for two parties while warning against movement toward a one party system. The piece traces the rise and power of the Conservative Coalition through seniority and guile, noting past shifts and forecasting about 35 GOP losses in 1974, signaling trouble for the coalition.
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Ford
Adlai Stevenson
Walter Lippmann
The
New York Times
Dwight Eisenhower
Eisenhower
George Wallace
Massachusetts
Silvio Conte
New York
Hugh Carey
Ramsey Clark
George Meany
Congress
Congressional Quarterly
Barry Goldwater
Johnson
Great Society
G.O.P
Humphrey
Senate
House
Washington
Congress Chooses Morals Over Might In Key Compromises
The article argues Congress favored principle over force in two deals: delaying a Turkey arms embargo tied to Cyprus ceasefire breaches and demanding a minimum annual Soviet emigration in exchange for trade concessions. It criticizes the administration for destabilizing actions in Chile and Greece and urges a return to core American values.
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Congress
Turkey
Cyprus
U.S
Russia
Israel
NATO
Mediterranean
Chile
Soviet Union
America
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Leonid Brezhnev
CIA
Allende
Greece