States' rights amendments seen as unlikely to pass soon
Legal and political experts contend the so called states' rights amendments face slim odds in 1964. The National Legislative Conference wavering, opposition from the American Bar Association and Attorneys General, and Archibald Cox warning the plan would bypass Congress.
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U.S
American Bar Association
National Association of Attorneys General
National Legislative Conference
Congress
Court of the Union
U.S. Supreme Court
Archibald Cox
Washington
Cox
Boyle’s law and airline stewardess fashion
A lighthearted note on Boyle’s law causing airline stewardesses to find their skirts tighten at altitude. The column also mentions that American hostesses report no problem, and suggests men notice changes in waistlines after meals.
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Viet Nam
Boyle
America
Judicial Conference asks controls on judges outside roles
Federal judges may not serve as officers directors or employees of for profit corporations. The Judicial Conference, led by the Chief Justice, adopted a policy prohibiting such roles to avoid conflicts of interest. The resolutions are guidance, not law, yet practiced by most judges.
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New York
Congress
Judicial Conference of the
United States
Washington
Circuit Courts of Appeals
Supreme Court
Soviet bid to sell farm goods to Russia explored by Benson tale
Washington Report recounts a 1955 slip by Ezra Benson suggesting the United States considered selling farm products to the Soviet Union. The episode involved talks between Dulles and Gromyko, amid Cold War tensions, with Kennedy era caution over public opinion and political risk shaping potential wheat and fats deals.
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Charles C. Gridley
Soviet Russia
Department of Agriculture
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Kremlin
Washington
United States
Ezra Tait Benson
Moorehead
Minnesota
Benson
Gromyko
United Nations Assembly
Henry Cabot Lodge
U.N
Lodge
Andrei A. Gromyko
Ussr
Richard M. Nixon
White House
Russia
U. S
John Foster Dulles
Geneva
Stalin
Moscow
Dulles
Congress
Soviet Union
Bellmon Declines Holiday For State Workers Over Fair
Oklahoma Governor Bellmon refuses to declare a holiday to let state employees attend the Oklahoma City fair. Democrats claim the decision helped them stay in office four years. Officials note many parents have teens entering pie eating contests, boosting fair crowds.
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Bellmon
Oklahoma City
Tito's U S aid to Yugoslavia questioned at Belgrade talks
Roscoe Drummond argues during the Belgrade Inter-Parliamentary Union session that U S aid totaling two and a half billion dollars over 15 years yielded dividends. He credits Tito's break with Stalin and Yugoslavia's independence with Western economic gains and warns against ending normal trade relations.
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Belgrade
Josip Broz Tito
Washington
Kennedy
United States
Yugoslavia
Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Congress
U. S
Tito
Russia
Western
Europe
Cominform
Soviet Union
Mirror Mind Color Vision and Asthma Study Findings
The piece notes that boys show better performance in masculine interests while color blindness is more common among boys. color vision defect affects about 6 percent of boys and 0.5 percent of girls in a 10 000 child study reported by World Medical News. It also cites the Denver Asthma Research Center on parental influence and treatment outcomes with 80 percent cure rates in optimized hospital care. Dr Green Williams counters the view that mental illness differs from other illnesses and discusses professional avoidance of mentally ill patients.
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World Medical News
Denver Asthma Research Center
Green Williams
Children’s Hospital
Boston
Atlantic-Little, Brown
Williams
Almanac Today October 3 1968 historic notes
The entry marks October 3 1968 with a full moon and planetary views. It notes Thomas Wolfe born in 1900 and lists historical events: Rebecca Felton's Senate appointment in 1922 as first woman in the U S Senate. Mussolini era invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. Khrushchev showdown at a Paris summit in 1960 over U2 flights.
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Thomas Wolfe
Rebecca Felton
U. S. Senate
Italy
Benito Mussolin
Ethiopia
Nikita
Paris
Eisenhower
Russia
Kennedy popularity of Maryland race crisis collapses in Cambridge
In Cambridge Maryland volunteers face violent reaction as they seek moderate solutions to racial strife. Polls show Kennedy would lose Dorchester County today and Maryland overall, with unemployment and depopulation fueling unrest. Bishop Lord urges bi racial church action to push justice and freedom.
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Cambridge
Kennedy
Bobby Kennedy
Dorchester
Maryland
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
Burke Marshall
Gloria Richardson
Student Nonviolent Action Committee
John Wesley Lord
Washington
Grace Methodist Church
America
Stockpile Waste In Eisenhower Era Draws Senate Fire
A Senate subcommittee report criticizes the 9 billion stockpile for excessive purchases and political favoritism. It urges broader presidential disposal powers to curb profits, noting lengthy delays allow industry lobbying and suggesting Kennedy’s 1962 concerns about excess profits.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
Ike
Uncle Sam
U.S
Senate Armed Forces
Executive Department
Congress
Capitol Hill
Kennedy
Youth Ambassadors raise cotton for trip funds
A Youth Ambassadors club harvests cotton to finance a Mexico trip. Local figures Tom Cullen Francis Azlin and Lt M P Cling appear in state Elks association fall meeting plans. Jim Clower a 15 year old 4 H member from Faxon receives 150 dollars from Lawton Chamber of Commerce for a National Dairy Show trip.
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Youth Ambassadors Club
Mexico
Tom Cullen
Francis Azlin
M. P. Cling
State Elks Association
Jim Clower
Faxon
Lawton Chamber of Commerce
Waterloo
Iowa
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Emmett Meraz
Lawton
Comanche County
Oklahoma College For Women
Onda Harris
Ethel Fenwick
Jane Dilling
Eleanor Conwood
Mary Stannard
National Livestock and Meat Board of Chicago
M. A. Hanna Co
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George M. Humphrey
Hanna
Hanna Smelting
Arthur S. Flemming
F Eisenhower
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Missouri
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