Foreign Aid Debate Looms Over Kennedy Budget
The Avalanche-Journal notes Kennedy proposes 4.5 billion dollars for foreign aid, a cut of 420 million from earlier plans, while the farm value of South Plains cotton reaches 390 million. The piece argues waste and limited impact, warning Congress may trim but not end the program as fiscal 1964 requests total about 98.8 billion.
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Yes
Avalanche-Journal
America
South Plains
Kennedy
Clay Committee
Washington
Capitol Hill
Congress
Legislative Branch
Tennyson
Dry First Quarter 1963 Sparks Dreath Talk in Texas
State Climatologist Robert B. Orton reports a dry first quarter across Texas with only Wichita Falls above normal rainfall and March the driest since 1925 at Austin. Dallas Abilene also post their driest three months on record. The piece notes speculation about another long drought era beginning, citing past episodes.
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Robert B. Orton
Austin
Dallas
Abilene
Texas
Walter B. Moore
Texas Almanac
Orton
Odd Phrase Reappears About IRS and Expense Accounts
A fragment mentions the Internal Revenue Service after expense accounts and a traveling man no longer using a swindle sheet, implying changes in accounting language or practices. The sentence is unclear and lacks concrete events or individuals.
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Internal Revenue Service
Robinson Crusoe island scene hints at contentment
The passage reflects on Robinson Crusoe’s idealized happiness on a solitary island in contrast to modern disturbances. It contrasts Dobbin’s faults with a life free from misplaced keys and noisy urban life.
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Obinson Crusoe
Dobbin
Simile: helpless cook as power fails during meal prep
A simile compares a cook's struggle to prepare a meal with a power outage, highlighting helplessness and disruption. The image emphasizes how reliance on electricity stalls routine tasks.
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal's 1963 subscription rates page
The page lists daily and Sunday editions pricing for Morning, Evening and Sunday combined plans, with carrier and mail rates for Lubbock and outlying areas, plus a pledge of allegiance and page citation dated April 4, 1963. It notes association with wire services and names staff.
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South Plains
Lubbock
Avalanche-Journal
Avalanche-Journal Publishing Company, Inc
8Th St
Ave. J. Lubbock
Texas
Texas Daily Press League
Dallas
Associated Prony
United Press International
Parker F. Prouty
Chak. A. Guy
Egg Sete
Mass
United States of America
Lubbock, Tex
Wright Attacks Defense Contract for TFX Fighter
In a House echoing with debate over the $7 billion Defense Department award, Representative Jim Wright denounced the closed matter and the McNamara contract to General Dynamics and Grumman for the TFX fighter, urging scrutiny amid military advice and Congressional pressure.
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Bob Considine
EW York
Jim Wright
Texas
Wilbur
Orville
House of Representatives
Defense
Department
Kipling
Wright
Robert Strange
McNamara
General, Dynamics and Grumman
Sig
Pratt & Whitney
Defense Department
Congress
Capitol Dome
Sen. McClellan
Rudyard Kipling
General Dynamics
Convair Division
Fort Worth
Convair
Boeing
Language grows with man's expanding horizon, Robb says
Inez Robb argues Parkinsons Third Law on language as a tool that expands to fit human progress. She coins Robbs Law: language grows with mans expanding horizon through psychoanalysis space and atomic age terms, noting Freud and Einstein reshaped vocabulary.
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Inez Robb
Fphere
C. Northcote Parkinson
Parkinson
Mortician
Robb’s
Sigmund Freud
Albert Einstein
Robb
Jack Kerouac
Freud
Justices Show Common Touch at Supreme Court
Tourists hear the Supreme Court justices speak plainly while cases unfold. Hugo Black William Douglas Potter Stewart Byron White Warren and Goldberg are described as individual, down to earth yet solemn, with Warren injecting humor and the court maintaining sharp questions and attentive bodies.
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Saint Ashington
Supreme Court
Missouri
Earl Warren
Philadelphia
Tully
Hugo Black
Clay County
Ala
William Douglas
Maine
Minnesota
Potter Stewart
Jackson
Mich
Byron
Whizzer) White
Fort Collins
Colo
Black
Arthur Goldberg
John Harlan
Goldberg
William Brennan
Tom Clark
White
Young Barrett Prettyman
U.S. Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Prettyman
Warren
Harlan
Red Raider football opens spring practice in two-shift session
Tech's spring drills began with a two-shift workout led by Coach Dell Morgan. Twenty-nine players attended, including nine returning varsity players and seven from the 1942 freshman squad. Separate reports listed the roster with positions for tackles guards backs centers and ends among the participants.
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Red Raider
Tech
Dell Morgan
Enda Roy Williams
Ralph Geddie
William Banks
J. E. Branton
Charles Read Jr
Silas Duffey
Delmer Wood
Dick Tadlock
Gerald Crossen
Clyde Hall
Charlie Thompson
Pearson Faces Tough Fight In Canada Election
In Canada, the election centers on whether the country can remain united amid English French divisions and whether a Liberal or Tory government can command stability. Lester B. Pearson is portrayed as sincere and experienced but indecisive, while John Diefenbaker is praised as a strong campaigner and effective salesman. Polls show Liberal leads narrowing as the Social Credit party gains.
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United States
Canada
Diefenbaker
North America
Pearson
Lester B. Pearson
Liberal Party
China
Bay Street
Wall Street
Jeader Pearson
Adilai
Adlai Stevenson
Liberals
Conservatives
Tories
Social Credit Party
Padre Appropriation Bill Advances to Senate
The House approved an Interior Department appropriation of 1.5 million dollars for initial planning and land purchases for Padre Island National Seashore. The bill moved to the Senate as part of a larger supplemental funding measure. Congress had authorized the seashore last year.
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Washington
UPI
Interior Department
Padre Island National Seashore
Senate
House
National Seashore Area
Congress
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Considine’s
Poeing
McClellan Committee
Air Force
Free World
Considine
Tizzy
By Kate Osann
Mrs. Moore
Eloise Wharton
Labbook Morning Avalanche
By Galbraith
Hopesville
Planpton
NG Nee Asee
Ar Lama
Tsa-Rong
Richard Starnes
Ontreal
Starnes
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