Hatfield bill moves toward abolishing draft for volunteer army
The End-The-Draft plan gains attention as Hatfield introduces a broad reform proposing a professional volunteer army. Support spans hawks and doves, aided by Nixon’s prior remarks and Kennedy’s rising influence. While strong support exists, substantial arguments against remain, signaling a thorough debate ahead.
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Hatfield
Vietnam
Nixon
Congress
Edward M. Kennedy
Helena Snow Dump Sets City Record for 22 Inches
Helena Montana endured a two day siege of 22 inches of snowfall overwhelming streets and homes. The Weather Bureau tallied 642000 tons of snow equaling about 29 tons per resident as residents shovel through the storm.
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Helena
Mont
Weather Bureau
Buckley on Wilkins and the Negro movement clash
Roy Wilkins denounces white extremism but questions the new militancy. Roy Innis counters calling for self reliance and greater Negro leadership. The debate touches integration, legal routes, and the risks of voluntary segregation as a path to equality.
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Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Wilkins
Roy Innis
Congress of Racial Equality
Innis
Mr. Wilkins
NAACP
Mr. Innis
CORE
Northwestern University
Wilking
Elijan Muhammad
James Baldwin
Richard Wright
Nature's might dwarfs man in fragile balance
A reflection on Nature's overwhelming power, noting recent disasters in Mississippi and California. The piece argues materialism and human progress pale beside natural forces and urges focus on self improvement to live with the forces beyond control.
Soviet Police State Again Darkens World Outlook
Joseph Alsop argues the Moscow panic over a supposed cosmonaut assassination reflects a broader push toward intensified police control. He links Prague's exile returns, Czechoslovakia’s fragile soviet alignment, and Romania’s power dynamics to a possible invasion and era of repression, warning of a grim future.
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Politburo
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Jan Palach
Prague
Kremlin
Economist
Ota Sik
Writers Union
Eduard Godstruecker
Radio Oltava
Sik- Goldstuecker
Radio
Czech
Zpravy
Adolf Hitler
Romania
Nicholas Ceausescu
Ceausescu
Jakuboszky
Ceasusescu
Middletown Subscriptions Rates and Details
The Journal published by News- Journal Inc lists subscription and delivery options. Rates include per copy 10 cents, Sunday 20 cents, city motor route 70 cents weekly, mail in 7 days 21.00 yearly, outside trading area 30.00, and outside U S 38.00 yearly, all payable in advance. Founded 1857.
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Ares
Weeng
U.S.A
Poverty and Hope in Cities Shift of Wealth Flows Across Regions
Institutional investors in New York heard stark forecasts on urban decline in the Northeast as manufacturing jobs fell in New York City 1956–66 while suburbs rose. Cleveland highlighted progress with housing, a lakefront hotel, and local businesses under the program "Cleveland Now." Meanwhile funds flow toward the South, Southwest, and West, leaving the Northeast with misery.
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U.S
New York City
New York-Hilton
Otto Eckstein
Harvard University
Washington
Kennedy- Johnson
Hubert Humphrey
Southwest
Middle States
Far West
Nixon
Brooklyn
Bedford-Stuyvesant
New York
Harlem
Eckstein
New York State
Carl B. Stokes
Cleveland
Community Housing Corporation
Lake Erie
Holiday Inn
Institutional Investors
America
Rural poverty shifts as farm populations fall and migration grows
The article notes farm population decline from 30.5 million in 1940 to 11.6 million in 1966 and explains how farm consolidation reduced rural poverty from forty percent of farm families in 1959 to twenty-one percent in 1966. It contends poverty is moving to urban areas, with rural blacks migrating to Northeastern cities and facing ghettos with limited job access.
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South
Plains States
West
Eckstein
New York
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San Francisco State College
Black Students’ Union
Dave
Mississippi
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Borowitsky Gate
Josef Stalin
Segoi Kirov
Moscow
the Journal
The
News- Journal, Inc
Breed Et Five
Middletown
Ohio
John Chamberlain
Dennis the Menace
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