Smack! Smack! Modern dentistry boosts love across nations
Our Daily Bread notes a dentist in Atlanta claims advances in orthodontics can eliminate protrusion and spacing of front teeth making anyone kissable. The piece jokes that grandfathers find grandmothers more affectionate, while touting a growing national trend toward “a nation of love” enabled by dental science. It also quotes Memphis Commercial Appeal and Nashville toy-store notes on Christmas usage and toy ads, reflecting light self-mocking tone about Xmas naming and consumer culture.
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Atlanta
Greenie ‘Boro
N. C
Daily News
Memphis
Tenn
Purcell Names Top Assistant In Arkansas Race
Leslie Evitts 9 Benton city attorney will become chief assistant at the attorney general's office effective January 10 announced by Attorney General elect Joe Purcell. Evitts previously served as chief assistant to Bruce Bennett in 1963 64 before leaving for private practice in Benton. John Berryman Pulitzer Prize poet won American verse fellowship and 5000 from the Academy of American Poets as he rests in Dublin during leave from the University of Minnesota.
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Little Rock
Leslie Evitts
Benton City
Joe Purcell
Evitts
Uniiversity of Arkansas Law School
Bruce Bennett
Iafo
Benton
New York
John Berryman
Academy of American Poets
Berryman
Dublin
University of Minnesota
War Claims 77,000 This Year and Will Increase in 1967
Saigon report analyzes 1966 Vietnam war toll and future prospects. U.S. and allied casualties reached about 77,000 in 1966 with a mounting enemy force of roughly 280,000 by year’s end. Ground troops near 380,000. outlook for a decisive victory remains bleak, while Communist losses were far lighter in comparison.
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Peter Arnett
Saigon
South Vietnam
Vietnam
U.S
United States
U.S. Army
Shrikes Ordered Despite Questionable Vietnam Performance
The Navy ordered 6.1 million dollars worth of Shrike air-to-ground missiles, though reports say they have not performed well in Vietnam.Contracts total 6.1 million with 4.4 million to Sperry Rand and 1.7 million to Texas Instruments amid rumors of a Shrike replacement costing 90 to 100 million. The Shrike, in service since 1965, homes on radar beams used by North Vietnamese defenses, but is said to misfire when radar sites flick on and off.
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BEM Price Washington
Navy
Vietnam
Sperry Rand Corp
Bristol, Tenn
Texas Instruments, Inc
Dallas
Tex
Pentagon
Cotton Bale Plan Approved by Farmers in Official Return
Agriculture Department announced official results confirming farmers voted 183,853 in favor to 83,366 against a $1 per bale assessment. The 68 percent approval narrowly surpassed the two thirds required to fund a research and market development program.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Differences Sharp in Government
Washington and Congress show sharp hawk dove splits as 1967 approaches. White House aides tilt toward increased military pressure in Vietnam while seeking peace talks, with Rusk Rostow and most generals hawks and Goldberg Hariman and McNamara doves. Senate leaders urge punishment and force to push talks, while Dirksen calls it a military problem. The president faces a final escalation decision amid rising calls for action.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
White House
Vietnam
Dean Rusk
Walt Rostow
Arthur Goldberg
W. Averell Harriman
Robert $. McNamara
North Vietnam
L. Mendel Rivers
D-S.c
House Armed Services Committee
Hanoi
Haiphong
Senate
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Senate Armed Services Committee
India May Up Marriage Age
New Delhi AP reports India is considering raising the minimum legal age for women to marry from 16 to 21 to slow population growth and curb early marriages. Government officials say the proposal aims to reduce health risks and expand women’s opportunities nationwide.
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New Delhi
India
Cong Breaks Truce With Big Attack Opens Two Day Ceasefire
Saigon reports a large Communist assault and about 40 smaller attacks as a two day truce begins in Vietnam War. A U.S. 101st Airborne unit says a battalion sized force attacked near Kontum City, with air strikes and returning fire continuing. Casualties are described as light and enemy losses unknown. Singer Michael Love of the Beach Boys becomes a father as wife Suzanne gives birth to a girl in California Hospital.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U. S, 101St Airborne Division
Central Highlands
U.S
Airbourne
Kontum City
Tam
Los Angeles
Michael Love
The
Beach Boys
Suzanne
California Hospital
New Year Gift of 365 Days Its Bright New Chance
Inspirational piece reflecting on New Year origins in March and autumnal year starts, with quotes from Zoroaster and Saint Paul. It urges personal renewal as a key gift, noting God as giver and mankind as recipient, and invites readers to spend the coming year with renewed enthusiasm and integrity.
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Saint Pat
Jesus
New Year's Eve Is Best Time for Self Pity and Brooding
AP profile of Dan Greenburg and Marcia Jacobs, authors of How To Make Yourself Miserable, arguing New Year’s Eve thrives on self pity. The piece notes Greenburg’s gloom, party hassles, costly champagne, and single life anxieties, plus Jacobs’ view of misery learned from celebrities and a peek at their best selling works.
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Joy Miller
New York
Dan Greenburg
Greenburg
Marcia Jacobs
Marcia
Dan
Democrats in Mood to Slow Spending
Washington AP reports a sentiment among Democrats to slow spending as they grapple with the Great Society programs. Governors at White Sulphur Springs blamed rapid program pace for voter backlash, while Senate Leader Mansfield advocates a cautious, slowed agenda and review of past actions.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Congressional
Johnson
White Sulphur Springs
W.va
House
Senate
Otto Kerner
Illinois
Holiday Traffic Death Toll Rises Over Holiday Weekend
The nation faces a sharp rise in holiday traffic fatalities with 15 deaths reported by 6 p.m. Friday and a projected 460 to 540 more deaths by Monday midnight. Comparisons show lower nonholiday totals and records set in prior years. Also reported is the death of Hillary Russell Leonard, 43, Meyer 5 Bakery production manager, who died yesterday at lunch and was later taken to Irby Funeral Home in Rector Arkansas.
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National Safety Council
Associated Press
New Mexico
Arizona
Montana
Great Lakes
Hillary Russell Leonard
Meyer 5
Irby Funeral Home
Rector
Ark
U S Offers to Aid Poles in Mutually Beneficial Projects
In Warsaw AP dispatch, the United States proposed financing mutual projects in Poland with much of the $26 million due next year on Polish debt. Ambassador John A. Gronouski presented the proposal to Deputy Foreign Minister Jozef Winiewicz and Foreign Trade Minister Witold Trampolynski. no immediate Polish reaction was reported.
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Warsaw
Poland
United States
U.S
John A. Gronouski
Jozef Winiewicz
Witold Trampolynski
Fallout detected across Japan after China fifth nuclear test
AＰ reports radioactive fallout from China's fifth nuclear test reached Japan today. Government figures show radiation levels are far below the main cloud from Pek ing's third test last May. Analysts require more study to assess the test’s nature, with speculation that hydrogen bomb components were used.
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Tokyo
China
Japan
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