Editorial Favors Random Grand Juries Over Handpicked Ones
The North Las Vegas grand jury term expired after a year of effort and its 48 page report urges faster service and legislative fixes. The editor argues random selection improves accountability while criticizing the old handpicked system and warns against favoritism. The piece defends the random method and rejects returning to prior practices.
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Las Vegas
Grand Jury
The Value of Your Time Across Income Levels
The article argues time has real monetary value tied to income and shows how painting your cottage yourself or hiring help can differ in cost. It compares $5,000 and $30,000 annual incomes, detailing hourly values and a chart for time value across levels, considering eight hours daily, five days weekly, and 50 weeks yearly.
Rockefeller as sole GOP path to defeating Johnson
A political savant argues Nelson Rockefeller is the shrewd top pick for the Republican nomination and likely winner against Lyndon B. Johnson. The writer believes Rockefeller’s strategic campaign could secure the White House, while noting rival candidates Romney and Nixon face obstacles.
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New York
United States
East Coast
Rockefeller
Lyndon B. Johnson
New Yorker
White House
Gov. Romney
Michigan
Romney
Dick Nixon
Denis Elected President of Teamsters Union No. 14
Roland S. Denis was elected president of Teamsters Union No. 14. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson completed a Las Vegas visit addressing the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association convention.
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Roland S. Denis
Teamsters Union No. 14
Lyndon Johnson
Las Vegas
National Rural Electrical Cooperative Association
Castro Faces Oil Hike as Moscow Penalties Grow
The piece details Moscow pressuring Castro through higher oil prices while Cuba, reliant on barter, struggles to meet sugar exports targets. It notes Cuba's trade deficit, droughts and mismanagement hurting crops, and the 1964 sugar pact forcing quotas with the Soviet bloc. It also covers U.S. Egyptian trade extensions and looming Senate actions linked to foreign aid and malnutrition probes led by Kennedy and Clark, with Fulbright in the crossfire.
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Castro
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Kremlin
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Russia
International Sugar Council
Iron Curtain
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Israel
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D-N.m
William Macomber
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Macomber
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UAR
AID
Robert Kennedy
D-N.y
Joseph Clark
D-Pa
South
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Arkansas
Georgia
Kentucky
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Mississippi
Clark
J. William Fulbright
Foreign Relations Committee
Vietnam
Bobby Kennedy
Fulbright
Changes in travel and transport reshape daily life
An interview excerpt quotes Anthony Martin on travel shrinking the world. Denton, Knievel, Ward, Rad e and Grant discuss how taxes and transport have transformed living, from horse and buggy to jets, altering planning and lifestyle in recent decades.
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