Pressure From Many Sides Textbooks Under Increasing Attack
Two veteran reporters detail growing pressures on public school texts from groups across the political spectrum. They cite cases in Texas Mississippi and California where censors altered or banned materials while noting attacks in 18 states in 1961.
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G. ER. Hodenfield
Washington
Robin Hood
Merry Men
Indiana State Textbook Commission
Robert A. Taft
Kern County
Calif
Grand Jury
Henry Steele Commager
Herbert Agar
Allen Nevins
Kennedy
Courage
Jack Nelson
Gene Roberts Jr
Sen. Taft
Texas
Mississippi
California
Roberts
Raleigh, N.C
News and Observer
Nelson
Atlanta Constitution
New Hair Growth Claim From Texas Lab Firms
A Houston based lab firm asserts a new treatment stops hair loss and grows hair. They offer a 32 day no risk trial to those with remaining hair and require inquiry by mail or email.
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Houston
Texas
Labora
Loesch Laboratory Consultants, Inc
Adv
Liberal allies grow restless over New Frontier plans
In Washington liberals criticize the Senate leadership and urge more aggressive action on New Frontier domestic programs. Senator Joseph Clark attacks the Senate establishment while President Kennedy seeks public support and tax reform.
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Raymond Lahr
Washington
UPI
Congress
Lyndon B. Johnson
Joseph L. Rauh
Americans For Democratic Action
Senate
Rauh
Johnson
Joseph 5. Clark
D-Pa
Kennedy
Dent Kennedy
Jacob K. Javits
N. Y
Clark
American Bankers Association
Association
Javits
Public hearings set on loan shark and redistricting bills
Loan shark and congressional redistricting measures top the Austin agenda as House committees prepare hearings. Senate fights over Gov. Connally appointee Garwood to UT regent continue amid calls for resubmission.
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Austin
Bob Booker Austin
House
Senate
John Connally
W. St. John Garwood
University of Texas
House Banking Committee
Connally
Texas
A. R. Schwartz
Galveston
Garwood
Supreme Court
Liquor Regulations Committee
Jake Johnson
San Antonio
Railroad Commission
Oil Gas and Mining Committee
U S Troops Granted Right To Shoot First In Viet Nam
U S forces will be allowed to fire first under relaxed engagement rules to curb rising American casualties in South Viet Nam. Reports say Huey gunships may engage positively identified guerrillas without waiting to be fired upon, as helicopter losses prompt new policy.
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Saigon
UPS
United States
U.S
South
Viet Nam
Washington
D.C
Khrushchev Denies Soviet Anti Semitism Charges
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev calls claims of anti Semitism in the USSR a crude falsehood and malicious calumny aimed at the Soviet people. He replies to British philosopher Bertrand Russell who cited executions of economic crimes including Jews. The letter was telegraphed from Moscow to London and released Sunday.
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London
UPI
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Khrushchev
Bertram Russell
Cuba
Russell
Soviets Report Tourists Smuggling Goods
The Soviet Nedelya daily said tourists smuggle nylon stockings and other items into the USSR by hiding them in bread and meat. Officials intercepted items include a camera in bread, 10 gold coins in a ham, US dollars in a necktie, 63 pairs of nylons in a rubber ball, and nine watches in a tourist's guitar.
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Moscow
Ussr
Nedelya
U.S
Russians Told About Shipments To India
Pravda reports Soviet military planes are being shipped to India amid border disputes with China. Twelve MIG fighters are to be delivered, six this year and six in 1964, with at least four already shipped. Pravda emphasizes a limited supply and aims to counter China’s protests.
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Moscow
Pravda
India
Red
Soviet Union
China
Poland to lower draft age and extend service years
Warsaw plans to cut the draft age from 20 to 19 and require certain specialists to serve three years instead of two, per the communist party newspaper Trybuna Ludu. The move signals broader changes in conscription policy within Poland.
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Warsaw
Poland
Communist Party
Try‘buna Ludu
Midget craft sinks at dock during Bay study
In Tiburon California a $9000 two man submarine built to study San Francisco Bay marine life sank at the dock while preparing to dive. Pilot Bob Kiwala and ABC reporter Al Mann escaped unharmed. The craft owned by the Interior Department suffered a likely balance fault and will require a full overhaul after 300 prior test dives with no trouble.
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Tiburon
Calif
UPI
San Francisco Bay
American Broadcasting Co
al Mann
Los Angeles
Bob Kiwala
Kiwala
Department of the Interior
Soviet rector denounces Western attacks on Afro-Asian students
Moscow university official Pavel Yerzin says accusations of discrimination at Communist universities are part of a broader propaganda drive. He cites Pravda reporting that colonialists aim to divert African students to imperialist nations, while 2,000 foreign students attend Patrice Lumumba Friendship University in Moscow.
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Moscow
UPI
Pavel Yerzin
Patrice Lumumba
Yerzin
Communist Party
Pravda
Burial Insurance Offered By Mall Ad Promises Easy Terms
An advertisement from Central Security Life Insurance Co advertises burial coverage with no medical exam for ages 40 to 90. It claims low charges abroad and targets students and families, urging readers to mail name address and year of birth to Fort Worth Texas for free information.
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Afril
Bulgaria
Line Legal Reserve
J Life. Insurance
Central Security Life Insurance Co
Dept
West Rosedale
Fort Worth
Texas
New Nuclear Powered Sub Joins Navy Fleet
VALLEJO Calif The nuclear powered submarine Plunger has joined the Navy s atomic fleet. The 278 foot vessel has completed sea trials and is a fast attack submarine armed with tor pedoes. Her skipper is Commander Val M Adams Jr of Amarillo Texas. The Navy now has about 30 nuclear powered submarines in commission including nine equipped to fire Polaris missiles.
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Vallejo
Calif
UPS
Plungjer
Navy
Val M. Adams Jr
Amarillo
Tex
Russians Claim Superior Gyro Compasses Under Pole
Moscow reports Pravda quotes Soviet Navy personnel praising gyro compasses on nuclear submarines as accurate near the North Pole. It contrasts with U S Navy crews who say American compasses give erroneous data near the pole. Leninsky Komsomol’s navigator cites flawless operation beneath Arctic ice and readiness for combat positions.
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Moscow
North Pole
Pravda
U.S. Navy
Communist Party
Leninsky Komsomol
New Healing Substance Halts Itching Piles Fast
New York report describes Bio-Dyne, a new healing substance claimed to shrink hemorrhoids without surgery. It reportedly stops burning and itching quickly and prevents infection, with doctors noting striking improvements over months in long-standing cases. Preparation H suppositories and ointment are advertised as the obtainable forms.
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New York
N. Y
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