Britain May Seek Membership in European Common Market
The British government has voted to pursue membership in the European Common Market. A move long opposed by De Gaulle may now gain traction, signaling economic shifts that could reshape Britain's ties with the United States, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and Commonwealth partners. The plan envisions a Europe united in trade and policy, with other regions seeking similar market blocs by 1975.
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Answers and facts from a curious Q and A page
A quiz style exchange covers a range of trivia. It lists St Domini as patron saint of astronomers, notes Cuba Liberia and Nicaragua fully paid World War I debts to the United States, Finland as current among remaining debtors, confirms sea cucumber as edible with a traditional dish beche demur, explains dwarf mistletoe grows on conifers mainly in the far west, and describes the U S Medical Corps insignia as the caduceus linked to health symbolism from ancient times.
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Radioactive drug offers sharp brain scans and fast decay
A new radiopharmaceutical technetium 98m named Pertscan-99m provides high detail brain scans due to its short half life of six hours, though delivery must be tightly timed as activity drops about 20 percent in two hours. Also new Haloperidal known as Haldol treats agitation and psychosis, including Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, now available for general prescription after years of trials.
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Reading Notes on Books and Club Picks
In a recent Talking About Books column the writer reflects on titles that sparked thought and contemplates a Book-of-the-Month Club offering. Mentions include Making Marriage Work by Judy Garland and Travel on Five Dollars a Day by Lucky Luciano.
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Notable Celebrity Book Pairings Mock Obama Era Celeb Authors
A list of titled works and authors blends political figures, entertainers, and theorists in a satirical catalog. It lampoons crossovers from Frank Sinatra to Fidel Castro, naming Gandhi, Reagan, Kennedy, Nixon, and others in unexpected literary pairings.
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Frank Sinatra
Zsa
Ysa Gabor
Howard Hughes
Richard Nixon
Truman Capote
Mahatma Gandhi
Barry Goldwater
Mecca
George Jessel
Tim Leary
Conrad Milton
Bertrand Russell
Lyndon Johnson
Dwight Eisenhower
Muighefner
J. Edgar Hoover
Cardinal Spellnain
Fennessee Williams
Aquinas
Buher
Norman Vincent Peale
Lincoln
Ronald Reagan
Biloxi
Stokely Carmichael
Norman Mailer
Walt Whitman
America
Lurlene Wallace
George Hamilton
Sistine Chapel
Norman Rockwell
Leningrad
William Buckley
Robert Kennedy
California
Clark Kerr
Howard Johnson
Fidel Castro
Jesse James Was His Name by William A Settle Jr
University of Missouri Press releases Jesse James biography by William A Settle Jr a Tulsa professor. He argues the James brothers were murderous outlaws not folk heroes tracing how their crimes shaped Lincoln era legend with careful research and eyewitness accounts.
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William A. Settle
University of Missouri Press
Harry Truman
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William A. Settle, Jr
University of Tulsa
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Nat Flonig
Free Press ads show a hippie underworld in Los Angeles
A reader notes the Los Angeles Free Press uses back-page Unclassified Ads to lure readers with edgy, illegal and suggestive solicitations. Ads range from LSD book promotions to personal pleas, pusher inquiries, and quirky lines about shared living, revealing a subculture of hipper than average readers in 1960s Los Angeles.
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Columnists shape the paper with diverse viewpoints
The columnists on the wernion pages present diverse opinions reflecting the paper's editorial stance. They weigh in on timely issues, offering contrast to reader letters and reporters while guiding readers toward the paper's newsroom perspective.
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