A Look Back at the 1960s Political Ferment and Restraint
The piece reflects on the 1960s as a era of rising dissent from Lyndon Johnson to Kent State, noting the Cuban missile crisis and Watts riots. It argues recent quiet is a shift toward restrained maturity and slower change, contrasting postwar normalcy with evolving national mood. Includes a Biblical verse citation.
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Korea
United States
Russia
Watts
Johnson
Cambodia
Kent State
Daniel Moynihan
Cooling not calmness on campuses and war politics
In Time magazine framing, the era of loud protests shifts to a quiet despondent mood. The piece notes campus silence and disillusion, with war opposition fading into moral revulsion, while advocacy cools into introspection and self knowledge.
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Washington
America
Congress Faces Turbulent Pre Election Battle On Nixon
The piece notes many Democrats seek the presidency while Congress debates major issues like the SST wage controls welfare reform and public health care. It warns that a contentious session could hinder Nixon if he fails to rally public support amid rising inflation and war fatigue.
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Pennsylvania Avenue
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Nixon
Sens
Ed Muskie
George McGovern
Harold Hughes
Fred Harris
William Proxmire
Birch Bayh
Henry Jackson
Walter Mondale
Hubert Humphrey
Ted Kennedy
Muskie
McGovern
Reorganization Tough Job Aims at Streamlining Federal Regulators
The President's Advisory Council urges a new functional framework merging agencies like the ICC CAB FPC SEC FTC and reshaping review into a 15 judge administrative court to cut delays. A single administrator would head most agencies five-year terms, preserving FCC independence.
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Civil Aeronautics Board
Federal Maritime Commission
Securities and Exchange Commission
Federal Power Commission
Federal Trade Communication Commission
United States
U. S. Courts of Appeals
Federal Communications Commission
Middletown Newspaper Subscription Rates Listed
The Journal provides subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions. Rates appear for in city motor routes, trading area mail, and outside trading area, with annual and international options.
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First Ave
Middletown
Ohio
Sy News
Beperbay
USA
Chaff From The Staff Readers Mock Editorial Requests
A Montana editor lampoons reader desires with a cheeky list of what average subscribers would want in a newspaper. The piece riffs on front page exposes, tax cheat guides, wedding photos, bar pictures, car woes, and letters to the editor as a satirical survey.
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Montana
Agnew Manners Debate Draws Lippman Critique
Walter Lippmann argues in a Newsweek essay that the Code of Good Manners underpins the U S political system and that Vice President Agnew’s rhetoric risks splitting the nation. The piece contrasts civility with protests led by Abbie Hoffman and Berkeley radicals, noting Agnew’s framing of opponents as outsiders.
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Smithsonian
Newsweek
Lippman
Agnew
Parsons
Aquarius
Norman Mailer
Calcutta
Abbie Hoffman
LBJ
Lippmann
William Kunstler
Huey Newton
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