Independent Press Telegram Editorial Masthead
The Independent Press Telegram lists Herman H Ridder publisher Daniel H Ridder co publisher Samuel C Cameron general manager Bernard J Ridder Jr business manager Walter H Polak assistant to the publisher William W Broom editor Malcolm Epley associate editor L A Collins Sr editorial columnist Dor Obs editorial page editor Miles E Lines executive editor Sterling Bemis managing editor Everett Hosking Sunday editor.
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Herman H. Ridder
Daniel H. Ridder
Samuel C. Cameron
Bernard J. Ridder Jr
Walter H. Polak
William W. Broom
Malcolm Epley
L. A. Collins, Sr
Dor Obs
Miles E. Lines
Sterling Bemis
Everett Hosking
Chicago Police Tone Versus National Uniform Standards
The piece argues that police uniforms and attitudes vary widely across cities and warns against generalizing Chicago officers as representative. It notes Mayor Daley's influence on departmental culture and questions whether Chicago over reacted during convention week. It highlights California’s community relations divisions aimed at better police outreach with minorities and dissenters.
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Chicago
Bull Connor
Alabama
Mayor Daley
California
Long Beach
Sakharov Sees Freedom Values Clash Amid Cold War Tensions
In Moscow the physicist Andrei Sakharov warns the world is on the brink of disaster due to bureaucratized dogmatism that suppresses debate. He urges Soviet and U.S. leaders to end rivalry and support liberal reforms as brave Moscow dissenters persist despite grim prospects.
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Andrei D. Sakharov
Soviet Union
United States
Sakharov
Alexander Dubcek
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Moscow
Some Party mock convention sets out with absurd agenda
A humorous spoof describes Some Party planning a three ballot convention with instant ballots and a Nobody VP, proposing a one minute and thirty two second first day and a mail ballot process while urging delegates to stay home and flush money away. The piece ends with a reporter praising the party for a sensible convention.
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Lassie
Barely
Three L.A. County Supervisors Face Mandatory Retirement
In Los Angeles, three of five County Board of Supervisors must retire under a 70-year rule. Burton Chace and Frank Bonelli will reach mandatory retirement in the 1970s, with Ernest Debs also facing limits. The shift could alter power dynamics as incumbents with long tenure weigh future moves and potential reforms to retirement rules.
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County Board of Supervisors
Burton W. Chace
Long Beach
Chace
Beach
Frank G. Bonelli
Bonelli
Los Angeles
Chace, Bonelli
Kenneth Hahn
Hahn
Warren M. Dorn
Democrats at Least Aren't Turning Back
CHICAGO The Democratic Party's nominee Vice President Hubert Humphrey will run in November as leader of a party that moved into the mood and momentum of the last half of the 20th century. It is a party that acted with significant momentum.
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Chicago
Democratic Party
Hubert Humphrey
McGill Views Shifting Deep South Politics and Youth Protests
The piece notes a split in the Democratic Party over peace planks, Georgia walkouts, and the rise of revolutionary youth groups. It cites Julian Bond’s emergence, potential party realignments toward George Wallace or a new party, and the expanding political voice of Black and Spanish-speaking Americans amid 1960s upheaval.
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Deep South
Hilton Hotel
Columbia University
Pentagon
Georgia
Julian Bond
Democratic Party
Congress
George Wallace
Senator Goldwater
Nominees and the 1968 Party Conventions
The piece contrasts Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon as parallel paths to the presidential race. Both rose from troubled backgrounds, began in Congress, and moved toward the center. Each faced vice presidential frustrations, ran without California and New York backing, and aimed to win key industrial and northeastern states amid ongoing violence near the conventions.
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Chicago
Hubert Humphrey
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Humphrey
Congress
Ike
LBJ
California
New York
Johnson
Daley
Hubert
Illinois
Michigan
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Texas
Mississippi
Atlantic
Editor's Notebook on Conventions and 1968 Race Shifts
The piece analyzes GOP and Democratic conventions amid social unrest and shifting coalitions. It discusses Nixon's appeal to the old guard and Wallace’s Dixie challenge, Humphrey’s Muskie ticket, and how city unrest and Vietnam could tilt voters in November.
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Nixon
Humphrey
Vietnam
Paris
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Ralph McGill
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U Vietnam
Miami Beach
Biscayne Bay
Miami
By Bill Broom
Agnew
Dixie
Old Guard
Big City
Sen. McCarthy
FDR
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America
Muskie
Wallace
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