Yorty Plays Turncoat Role in Customs Fight
The editorial rebuts Sam Yorty’s harbor area push for the U S customs house, contrasting his anti downtown stance with his later letter to President Kennedy urging central Los Angeles as the site. It argues the Long Beach harbor site is optimal and criticizes political maneuvering by the mayor amid intercity site battles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harbor Area
Sam Yorty
Los Angeles
Yorty
Jekyll and Hyde
Harbor
U. S. Customhouse
United States Customs House
Los Angeles Harbor Commission
Long Beach
L. A
International Airport
Reeves Field
Terminal Island
L. A. Harbor
223Rd Street
Los Angeles Harbor
General Services Administration
Customs
Congress
223Rd St
GSA
Los Angeles Harbor Board
aAs
Mr. Yorty
Idaho Faces Electing Two U.S. Senators in Fall
Washington dispatch notes Idaho must elect two U.S. senators this fall. It highlights party dynamics, committee assignments, and the impact on Gov. Smylie and Vernon Smith, amid gambling and religious divides. Idaho factions tilt between Democrats and Republicans over senate seats and gubernatorial battles.
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Doris Fleeson
Idaho
U.S
Washington
Henry C. Deershak
Fleeson
Joint Committee
Sea Frank Church
Johrson
Church
Cna Interior
Boise
Jack Hawley
Hawley
Dworshzk
White House
Robert E Smylie
Vernon K. Sith
Smith
Syethern Idaho
Jackie Kennedy Sparks Dander At Ridder Wedding
Washington gossip notes Jackie Kennedy scowls at a Ridder home wedding near McLean Virginia where President Kennedy and Mrs Kennedy attend the reception but not the ceremony. The scene highlights Te Ridder family’s clash over Merrywood estate sale and McNamara’s defense budget cuts.
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Washington
Lackie Kennedy
Wash Reington Social Sesson
Angier Biddle Duke
Robin Chandler Lynn
New York
Ambzssador Duke
Die’s Mixture Smoking
American Tobacco Co
Diplomate Corps
Walter Ridder
Ridder
McLean
Potomac Gorge
Ridders
Ridders’ Hore
Virginia
Strictly Personal Can Breeding Improve Man
The essay questions human breeding as a means to better intelligence or character. It argues against hereditary dominance, noting environment shapes neurotic tendencies and moral development. Cites studies by Raymond B. Cattell and a shift toward environmental factors over biology in family life.
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Sir Julian Hussey
London
Huey
Meno
Harris
Raymond B. Cattell
University of Ilinois
Group Behavior Laboratory
Cattell
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Eves
Town Meeting on Abortion Ethics Sparks Debate
Editor voices shock at a doctor and hospital recommendation to terminate an unborn child due to potential deformity. Argues against life judged by physical fitness and contends the fairness of such criteria, urging broader moral consideration.
Languages in the News and Ethical Questions
A letter discusses place names for Quemoy Matsu and Tak Win and explains their meanings in Janguzze. It also questions eugenics style medical ethics, praising universal rights and criticizing selective preservation of the able, referencing a blind or disabled life in society. The writer, Mrs Keith M. Iowell of 223 Keynote Street, argues against racial or physical perfection as a policy guiding life and death decisions.
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Quemoy
Matsu
Tak Win
Janguzze
Formosa Straits
Taiwan
Heles Keller
Keith M. Iowell
Keynote Street
Coexistence Russian Style and the Call to Free Captives
An opinion piece by Lester L. Poteet argues USIS and the State Department should launch a truth campaign to free captive anti-communists in the Soviet bloc. It urges stronger press advocacy to expose communism and rally support for persecuted peoples.
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Russia
Fatinas
United States
United States Information Service
USIS
Egbert R. Murrow
Out State Department
Washington
Lester L. Poteet
Celorada Place
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San Francisco
Coston
Rman
Samuel Yorty
Committee OF
San Pedro
Drew Pearson
Jackie
Ding
Senator Pell
McNamara
Dan Flood
D-Pa
Defense Department
Flood
Strategic Air Command
Europe
Maxwell Air Force Base
Ala
Pacific Air Force
Navy
Alan Shapely
Marine Corps
The
Pacific
Hawaii
California
Air Force
Nav
MacNarara
Defense
Secretary of Defense
Pearson
Merwan W. Eidoar
Canam Conere
Larry Collins
By Sydney J. Harris
Town Meeting
Golden Gate
Amoy
Charis F. Darting Reobert Strumaes Cerri
Chira
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