War on Poverty program faces youth jobs debate
LA.C. SAYS column discusses President Johnson's billion-dollar plan to recruit 200,000 youths 16 to 21 for schooling and government camp work, expand the Peace Corps domestically, and provide nonfederal jobs for 340,000 youths. It questions feasibility, local impact, and risks of welfare dependence. The piece argues for trained workers and meaningful vocational paths beyond college.
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Sea Breeze Drops Temperatures Along Coastline
A fragment describes late day cool air rolling in from the sea to Long Beach with coastal cloudbank. Temperatures drop to 67 degrees, 20 below the previous day, humidity around 65 percent at midday and a brief shift toward milder conditions before heat returns later.
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Mrs Johnson to witness Saturn I rocket test
Washington announces Mrs Lyndon B Johnson will travel to Huntsville Alabama Tuesday to observe the static test firing of a first stage Saturn I rocket at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
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Roadhog Slain in Johannesburg Shooting Case
A South African report describes Angelo Jardin, 25, fatally shot after an incident that involved a car being run off the road and a confrontation with a man named Jardin. The assailant, fined $250 earlier for related conduct, faces culpable homicide charges following the fatal shooting.
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South Africa
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Angelo Jardin
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Southerner Says Rights Bill Losing Strain in Senate
Sen John Stennis of Mississippi argued on Wednesday that support for the civil rights bill is melting away while backers challenged him to bring the measure to a vote. He blamed limited gains from Negro demonstrations and boycotts. Debates continued with no clear path to cloture as Easter recess approached. Mississippi Sovereignty Commission funded much of the anti integration activity.
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D-Miss
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Joseph Clark
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Stennis
Mississippi
Wiener cybernetics pioneer Norbert Wiener dies in Sweden
Norbert Wiener 69, MIT professor emeritus and father of cybernetics, died Wednesday in Stockholm during a lecture tour. A prodigy, he entered Tufts at 11 and earned multiple degrees by age 18, pioneering feedback control theory linking brain-like memory and decision making.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Wiener
MIT
Royal Academy of Stockholm
Jalius A. Stratton
Wiener
Harvard
Taxi baron Mon tana dies in Buffalo heart attack
John C Montana 70 a Cosa Nostra lieutenant named by Joseph Valachi in Senate crime hearings died of a heart attack in Buffalo New York. He was chairman of Van Dyke Taxi and Transfer Inc. in Buffalo and denied any Mafia ties.
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Joseph Valachi
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Cosa Nostra
Buffalo
N.Y
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Nationwide Crime Syndicate
van Dyke Taxi and Transfer Inc
American baritone Dooley wins Berlin Art Prize 1964
William Dooley of Modesto California, among 12 recipients, earns the Berlin Art Prize as the first American winner for distinguished service in the arts. Robert Davis of Wichita Kansas marks his 107th birthday, tests his eyesight by threading a needle, and notes he has outlived his wife and three children.
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Modesto
Calif
Berlin
Robert Davis
Davis
Wichita
Kan
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