Church Response to Social Change Prompts Flexible Reform
A survey notes churches increasingly tailor responses to evolving social conditions both in cities and towns. Urban renewal shifts congregations as stable families move away, demanding outreach to new participants and resources. In villages mergers are proposed to sustain church life amid minister shortages. A Dutch student’s skull drilling rumor reframes marijuana as a morbid curiosity.
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America
Ben Mohr Herbster
United Church of Christ
France President De Gaulle Hints Gold Standard Return
The French leader proposes exclusive gold use in global trade a move critics say would reverse decades of economic practice. The idea risks deflationary shock and would likely weaken currency, with observers noting no major trading nation seeks a gold return. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell plans 32 hour work week legislation as labor debate intensifies.
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de Gaulle
France
Adam Clayton Powell
McNamara faces grilling over defense budget
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara confronts House and Senate Armed Services committees amid Republican concern that the 49 billion dollar Pentagon plan is inadequate. Critics urge at least six billion more, citing cuts to missiles, bombers, air defense, manpower reductions, and stalled anti missalear programs.
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Defense
Robert McNamara
House
Senate Armed Services Committees
McNamara
Mendel Rivers
Richard Russell
Senate Group
Senate
John Tower
Texas
Tower
U. S
Europe
Asia
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Defense Department
Atomic Energy Commission
Rep. Rivers
Congress
Rivers
Louisiana
Edward Hebert
Hebert
Quick Factual Facts From History and Science
Oysters were viewed as a meal prelude by ancient Greeks. Panama hats originate in Ecuador. If Earth's temperature dropped 200 C, the atmosphere would liquefy. Bolivia imports tin cans yet leads world tin production. Bone china includes about 60 percent powdered bone. Smokers discard about a quarter of each cigarette. The ostrich is the largest living bird.
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Bolivia
Lindsay May Tilt New York City Mayoral Race
A potential John Lindsay run for mayor could threaten Mayor Gob Wagner as Republicans seek to regain Albany control. The piece notes Rockefeller's influence, factional splits, and a possible 1966 gubernatorial bid by Rockefeller while Lindsay weighs a bid to blunt Wagner and reshape New York politics.
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Bob Wagner
New York
Pauline
John Lindsay
Gob Wagner
Lindsay
Wagner
Nelson Rockefeller
Rocky
New York City
Rockefeller
Zaretski
Travia
Albany
Jack English
Nassau County
Peter Crotty
Erie
Senate
Javits
House of Representatives
New York Cty
Puerto Rico
Harlem
Upper West Side
Bobby Kennedy
Johnson says US will not let Vietnam war widen
The article traces President Johnson’s Vietnam policy from 1964 through 1965, noting his insistence on limited actions after PT boat attacks and his warning against wider war. It describes Congress backing him, multiple bombing raids, and guerrilla attacks, including the Feb 10 strike and Johnson’s evolving public stance.
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Johnson
Congress
Gulf of Tonkin
Isue
Southeast Asia
United States
Giow
United Staes
Syracuse University
Viet Nam
U.S
North Viet Nam
Goldgram urged as new world currency by Argentinian originator
A debate over a global monetary unit called the goldgram surfaces with its Argentinian originator pushing adoption to boost international trade while critics warn it could ease foreign borrowing.
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New World Monetary Unit
Goldgram
New Manchester Bridge Company authorized to span Miami River
Diary notes report the Ohio legislature creating the Manchester Bridge Company in Butler County to build a toll bridge across the Great Miami near Abner Enoch's mills. Officials include Abner Enoch, George L. Wrenn, Samuel Lucas, and others from Peastown Manchester and Middletown. Toll rates are set for pedestrians animals vehicles and livestock with exemptions for troops election attendees worshippers and funeral processions. Construction bids already proceeding with bids from John Bandon and from Thomas McGreevy and Francis J. Tytus.
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Miami River
Peasttown
Ohio
Manchester Bridge Company
Butler County
Great Miami
Abner Enoch
George L. Wrenn
Samuel Lucas
Francis J. Tytus
Jacob Banker
William Barcalow
Jacob Leibee
Solomon Banker
Manchester
Middletown
United States
U. S
John Bandon
Thomas McGreevy
Manchester Bridge
End the Draft or Keep It A Political Trap
Paul Harvey notes next April the Defense Secretary will decide on the draft. He argues the draft serves political aims, supports marriage rates, and sustains economic activity, while urging transparency about targeting regimentation rather than security. He cites Lt General Hershey and Britain’s 1957 to 1960 end as contrasts, and Wisconsin Senator Nelson calls for abolition as fair and economical.
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Defense
McNamara
Lewis Hershey
Britain
Wisconsin
Gaylord Nelson
Nelson
Defense Department
Draft fairness debate cited by Nelson and sociologists
Draft critics including Nelson argue 42 percent of eligible youths do not serve while sociologists warn the draft disrupts careers and raises teen marriage rates. UC sociologist Judson Landis links draft threat to delayed schooling and postgraduate study for deferrals, contrasting with views on forced labor under dictatorship.
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Nelson
University of California
Judson Landis
Training draftees a poor investment with high attrition
A columnist argues that money spent on drafting and training draftees yields little long term value, noting that 97 of every 100 leave the service after completing two years, signaling massive wastage of resources.
Draft policy eyed for later date amid costs
The piece notes the chance President Johnson may end the draft at a favorable moment but predicts April will bring economic concerns to the fore. It criticizes 4,000 draft boards for low monthly output and quotes Rep. Tom Curtis comparing peacetime conscription unfavorably to a productive Great Society.
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Johnson
Tom Curtis
Missouri
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