Dropout Dilemma Highlights High School Talent Loss
The piece analyzes NSF data showing top percentile students drop out at high rates, with only a fraction reaching college. It cites Baltimore Sun figures on white and Black adults, causes like lack of interest and economics, and notes federal and city programs to retrain dropouts as draftsmen and technicians.
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New Orleans
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New Haven
New York City
Washington Post
Kennedy
Fixed Tenure in Foreign Service Would Improve Understanding
Ambassador Ellis O. Briggs argues in the Saturday Evening Post that among 56 professional foreign service officers only one has four years in country since World War II. Average tenure is about 17 months, hindering language learning and local grasp. He urges a fixed minimum tenure to balance home ties and abroad effectiveness.
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Ellis O. Briggs
Saturday Evening Post
United States
Government network aims to link 355 cities via 17000 miles of leased wires
The General Services Administration plans a federal civilian network connecting 355 cities with 17000 miles of leased wires to carry voice data facsimile teletypewriter and computer center transmissions. The project aims to save taxpayers seven million dollars in the first year and up to thirty million dollars over time while boosting government communications.
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General Service Administration
Contested Finance Committee Fight Rages in Senate
Packing rejected as Southern senators take charge and Democrats clash with leadership over the Finance Committee. Byrd leads conservatives while the Steering committee blocks liberal additions. Leadership pledges no sidetrack of the tax reform, but the panel aims to rewrite the measure to its liking.
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Democratic
Harry F. Byrd
Finance Committee
Year Ahead Forecasts via Weather Satellites
Weather satellites could enable forecasts up to a year ahead by photographing clouds and measuring air moisture. S. Fred Singer, director of the National Weather Satellite Center, says this method would help forecasters identify atmospheric conditions driving weather trends and project long range predictions.
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S. Fred Singer
National Weather Satellite Center
Thoughts On Time And Treasures From A Pair Of Verses
A compact meditation contrasts time’s flight with the futility of clinging to earthly wealth. It echoes moral cautions from Owen Meredith and a biblical verse about storing treasures and guarding against rust and theft.
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Owen Meredith
National Forest Trails Offer Vast Hiking Reach
Freeman touts 106,830 miles of National Forest trails across 154 forests, enough to support a 50 mile weekly hike for 41 years. Trails span streams, peaks, old growth, and deserts, within half a day’s drive of most families, across regions from New England to the Northwest.
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Kennedy
Orville Freeman
Freeman
New England
Northwest
Southwest
Almanac Today February 20 1963 and notable events
The Almanac notes Wednesday February 20 1963 as the 51st day of the year with 324 to follow. It lists historical milestones on this day including Washington signing the Postal Act in 1792, the Supreme Court ruling federal power above states in 1809, the House voting for repeal of prohibition in 1933, and John Glenn orbiting Earth in 1962.
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Mars
Jupiter
George Washington
U.S
Federal Post Office
U.S. Supreme Court
Senate
House of Representatives
John Glenn
Earth
Monarch of mountains Mont Blanc noted in Q and A
A Q and A asks which peak is called monarch of mountains. The answer identifies Mont Blanc as Western Europe’s highest peak. A second Q asks the latest country to gain independence from Great Britain and answers Jamaica.
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Europe
Great Britain
Jamaica
De Gaulle Dampens Channel Tunnel Plans Amid Common Market Debate
British leaders fear President de Gaulle may block the Channel tunnel project once hailed as feasible since 1802. Proponents emphasize ease of boring through chalk, strong demand from trade growth, and cheaper long-term costs versus bridges, while political risk and delay persist across decades.
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Napoleon
English Channel
New York - New Jersey
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Mont Blanc
London
Basel
Rhine
Britain
France
England
Switzerland
Simplon
St. Gotthard
U.S.S. Long Beach
Mirror Mind Health Q&A on throat lump and relationships
A health Q A explains globus hystericus a throat lump caused by emotional tension with no physical harm. It also notes relationship boredom arises from changing beliefs and unmet needs and suggests renewing shared interests through perception and new goals.
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John T. Bickmore
Dayton
Ohio
Oklahoma House bids free textbooks for all including governor
The Oklahoma House pushes free textbooks for all students and even a guide for Governor Bellmon on school bloc relations. The Sooner Cynic mocks Bellmon for non political appointments and notes his advantage in long waiting games as legislature faces pay cuts to three dollars and thirty three cents in May.
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Bellman
Bellmon
Italian leader Saragat predicts Western unity endures
Giuseppe Saragat, head of the Italian Social Democratic party, tells President Kennedy at the White House that the Western alliance will survive and that Britain will join the Common Market. He cautions that de Gaulle overestimated European unity and cites Germany’s pro British stance as evidence. He urges patience and NATO solidarity as Kennedy plans Europe tour.
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Social Democratic Party
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Hans Schroeder
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Adenauer
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David Dubinsky
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Mussolini
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Miami
United Italian-American Labor Council of
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England
Hugh Gaitskell
Wilson as Labour leader may shift UK politics
Washington previews Harold Wilson’s elevation to head the British Labour Party. It notes the left wing’s anti-American stance and fraught expectations for US-UK cooperation, while warning that true leadership requires compromise and that Wilson may either fail or transform Labour.
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Harold Wilson
Labor Party
Hugh Gaitskell
Gaitskell
Wilson
England
Atlantic
Labor
Harold Macmillan
London
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