Defense strategy questions morality in Cross case
The chief defense attorney plans to frame James C. Cross Jr. trial around the morals of the American youth, suggesting trials for Shirley Ann Stark and Susan Rigsby alongside the accused. Officials discuss pre trial information control, rights, and public pressure as juries face questions of sanity and guilt in a brutal crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James C. Cross, Jr
Perry Jones
Austin
Shirley Ann Stark
Susan Rigsby
Houston
Percy Foreman
Texas
Cross
Homer Garrison
Department of Public Safety
Co Okateat
Lrie
Kennedy era Cabinet under fire over Secretary of State Rusk
The piece reviews Arthur Schlesinger’s claims that Kennedy distrusted Dean Rusk and questions why a President would keep a diplomat in the role. It notes Johnson’s reliance on McNamara and Robert Kennedy, comparing past and present Cabinet dynamics and whether a Secretary of State can lead effectively today.
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Kennedy
Arthur Schlesinger
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Schlesinger
Mr. Kennedy
Prose
Johnson
Robert McNamara
McNamara
Robert Kennedy
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr
Life Magazine
State Department
State
Washington
Corps
Secretary of State
Congress
Department of Ennui
Department of Agriculture
Ill Wind and Like It In Mortuary Costs
The article notes rising public awareness of funeral costs and cites Jessica Mitford and a Wall Street Journal survey. It observes more people donating bodies to medical and dental schools due to lower costs and ongoing supply for dissection. It echoes the adage about ill winds and goodwill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessica Mitford
The
Wall Street Journal
John Heywood
Alice
Potomac
Crisis in Mississippi shapes 1968 Democratic delegation
Washington reports that Mississippi moderates face building a new state Democratic party without White House or Democratic National Committee support. They risk collapse between white and black racism, with the 1968 convention delegation at stake under a 1964 rule mandating racial integration.
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Washington
Mississippi
White House
Democratic National Committee
Johnson
Best Girls Are Ladies
Andrew Tully comments on the fight over women rights and ads that may discriminate by sex. He notes figures such as Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr and Kathryn Clarenbach urging change and argues against equality momentum with ironic tone. He contrasts gender roles and calls women a troublesome group in a dismissive, satirical voice.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Kathryn Clarenbach
Wisconsin Commission
Nancy Roman
Joe
Post Office Department
Clarenbach
Dames
Tough Issues Loom Over Mississippi Democratic Dilemma
The piece discusses job bias against white non dropouts seeking work in submarine yards and expands into a analysis of Mississippi politics. It centers on the Mississippi Democratic Conference and SNICK led moderates seeking national recognition amid fear of MFDP delegation seating at the 1968 convention.
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Washington
New London
MFDP
Mississippi
Ross Barnett
Jackson
Miss
National Democratic Party
Claude Ramsey
Young Democratic
Robert Gaston
Rusk’s boredom plan stuns Washington satire
Richard Starnes lampoons Dean Rusk proposing a Department of Ennui to quash crises with dull prose. He imagines cranking out pedestrian, crisis-smothering policy to nullify alarms while critics note Rusk’s unexciting method as strategic theater.
Japan sues for peace with conditional surrender plan
From Washington to London and Guam reports show Japan seeking peace while maintaining imperial throne. Soviet forces push 106 miles into Manchuria as Third Fleet claims air superiority with heavy carrier strikes.
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London
Japan
Guam
Third Fleet
Honshu
Editorial Attacks Rising Federal Wage Proposal
The El Paso Times criticizes a House Labor Subcommittee led by Rep James Roosevelt for proposing a 50 cent hourly wage increase to 1.75. The piece argues inflation will rise, production costs climb and employment fall, urging negotiateable wages between management and labor with minimal federal interference.
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House Labor
James Roosevelt
California
Washington
Congress
Rep. Roosevelt
el Paso Times
Texas Panhandle water project spans 322 miles and 11 cities
The Meredith Lake Sanford Dam project in Potter, Moore and Hutchinson Counties creates a 20 mile lake with 1 408 000 acre feet of water and a 322 mile pipeline to 11 cities Amarillo Borger Brownfield Lamesa Levelland Lubbock O Donnell Pampa Plainview Slaton Tahoka funds 18 million dollars cover construction with flood control wildlife allocations to be borne separately recreation expected for 1 500 000 visitors yearly once complete
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Texas Panhandle
Sanford
Meredith Lake
U.S. Reclamation Bureau
Potter
Moore
Hutchinson
Amarillo
Borger
Brownfield
Lamesa
Levelland
Lubbock
O’donnell
Pampa
Plainview
Slaton
Tahoka
Texas
Dallas Morning News
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James Cross Jr
Garrison
Travis County
Tom Black
George Phifer
Clint Peoples
Supreme Court
David Everett
U.S
Rowland Evans
Robert Novak
Andrew Tully
ART Buchwald
Edger Beav
Dan
Robertson
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Radical Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
SNICK
Uncle Tom
Aaron Henry
Charles Evers
Medgar Evers
NAACP
Mississippi Democratic Conference
Don Ellinger
Ellinger
Democratic Conference
James O. Eastland
John Stennis
Judiciary Committee
Eastland
LBJ
Stennis
Mr. Johnson
Lenanis
Tougaloo College
Heidelberg
Evans
Richard Starnes
Department of Ennus
Berlin
George Romney
Big Daddy
Bogalusa
Thomas’ E Dewey
China
Ennui
Gwen Cafritz
W. Somerset Maugham
Arthur Gold
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