Is Not Just Finding Gold That Counts
A House discussion notes the scarcity of profitable gold under $35 an ounce and foresees possible cost cuts via atomic ore processing. Rep. Craig Hosmer cites a 407.8 million ounce U.S. supply, yet current tech and ore quality limit commercial viability. The piece links gold outflow to policy and notes a Feb 21 vote to remove gold reserve cover, with party splits in California.
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Craig Hosmer
Long Beach
Bureau of Mines
U.S
Hosmer
House of Representatives
Livermore
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co
House
Johnson
California
Lyrics and residuals debate in pop music culture
A critical essay argues for royalties for musicians from residuals on records radio and jukeboxes. It critiques banal lyrics and obscenity while defending composers and performers including Stan Kenton and others. The piece notes even great tunes would suffer from typical lyrics and supports artist compensation.
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Stan Kenton
Beethoven
Editorial on justice and narcotics law enforcement in Tulsa and Long Beach
A reader letter from Gaylord Jasperson in St. Beach contests citizens’ rights to disobey laws, urging judges to enforce narcotics statutes. Ethel Caswell Caswell of Long Beach recalls cockfighting and compares public sentiment on animal cruelty to human prize fighting deaths, urging concern for brain injuries.
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U.S
Charles E. Wyzarski Jr
Mary Neisswepder
Mehit
Hint on Attitude of Congress in Race Riot Revamp
Washington lawmakers are quietly rehearsing their response to the Presidential commission’s race riot recommendations. The panel’s actions last week jolted Capitol Hill and signaled a heated political showdown ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Presidential Commission
Capitol Hill
Hospital naming dispute exposes race split in Congress
Drew Pearson reports on a Jackson Mississippi veterans hospital naming fight pitting Rankin against Evers. Northern Democrats back Evers while Southern Democrats push Rankin, with Republicans wavering to avoid alienating the Negro vote. The House Rules Committee deadlocks the bill, illustrating the race relations hurdle in major city policy. Pat and Jerry Brown debate Vietnam pacifism on television, prompting a casual family remark on Jerry’s performance.
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Tom Abernathy
D-Miss
John Rankin
Congress
Jonathan Hingham
DLY
Medgar Evers
Mississippi
NAACP
House Rules Committee
John McCormack
Evers
Olin Teague
Texas
Veterans Committee
Rankin Hospital
Bill Calmer
Rules Committee
Rankin
Johnson
Veterans Hospital
House
H. Allen Smith
Calif
John BH
Anderson, Ill
David Martin
Neb
James Hquillen
Tenn
Delbert Latta
Ohio
Journey into the Whirl Wind by Eugenia Ginzburg
The memoir details Eugenia Ginzburg’s arrest in 1937 during the Stalin terror and eighteen years in Soviet prisons and labor camps. It portrays survival and courage, offering a stark, unvarnished account of life under the terror and its denunciation.
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Vassily Aksyonov
Moscow
Whitewash and Black Power in the Civil Disorders Report
Washington Star Service criticizes the President's Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders for an unbalanced six volume, 250000 word study. It praises housing analysis and police criticism but rejects unrealistically broad recommendations and labels the 1967 riot review as a whitewash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lyndon Johnson
President's Advisory Commission On
Ghetto Report Critique Says Commission Deflects Blame
The piece rebukes a commission for blaming white racism while ignoring Black self-determination. It argues government programs and judges fail to protect rights, while rioters act as passive agents. It questions proposed welfare schemes costing about 150 billion and asks who benefits.
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Commission
Whitey
Melvin Jackson on Civil Rights and Education
Melvin Jackson, a zoology major in Los Angeles, argues civic equality for Black Americans and critiques social obstacles. He calls for a national mobilization by government and citizens to remove barriers and achieve practical, full citizenship.
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Melvin Jackson
Los Angeles
French cartoonist fined for de Gaulle ashtray drawings
The piece notes a French cartoonist fined over depictions of President de Gaulle on ashtrays, highlighting French fussiness about ashtray imagery. It then mentions a typographical error labeling US experts and observes sharp monthly rises in exports and experts, implying rising activity in both areas.
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Lyndon
de Gaulle
Jedst
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